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Audio Video News
Dear Santa: Give Me Cheaper Blu-ray
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 26, 2009
Blu-ray player prices may be down but they'll have to sink further before some consumers are prepared to invest, according to a study by Retrovo.
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Audio Video News
Netflix finally coming to the PS3
SV Staff  |  Oct 26, 2009
It's been a long time coming, but the Playstation 3 is finally getting streaming Netflix support. Netflix's Watch Instantly library has been available on the Xbox 360 (and the Roku Player, and a handful of HDTVs and Blu-ray players) for quite some...
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Audio Video News
PS3 finally getting official Netflix streaming
SV Staff  |  Oct 26, 2009
It's almost time to rejoice, Sony fanboys. Sony has officially announced that Netflix content will be coming to the PS3 later this year. Unfortunately, it looks like you're going to have to jump through a few hoops to get at big red's...
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Contact (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Oct 25, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/contact.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) has fixed her gaze on the sky her whole life. When her SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project is canceled by the US Government, she goes in search of private funding and receives it from a secretive multimillionaire, S.A. Hadden (John Hurt). One night, she and her scientific team receive a signal from space that includes the blueprints of a mysterious machine. What does it do?

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Audio Video News
HD Deals: Huge Cable Sale
SV Staff  |  Oct 23, 2009
Thanks to mzpro5 in our forum, we found this deal on cables from Cables on Demand. Check out the site from now until Oct. 31 and get 30% an assortment of cables. If you find a great deal make sure you post it in our forum for all our users to see....
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Premiere Design
Let There Be LET
Scott Wilkinson  |  Oct 23, 2009

Transducers&#151;devices that convert one form of energy into another&#151;are among the most mature technologies in the audio world. The most common musical transducers are microphones, which convert the mechanical energy of acoustic sound waves into electrical signals, and speakers, which do exactly the opposite. Both have been around for a century or so, and despite a few innovations and variations, they haven't changed much in all that time.

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Premiere Design
Spontaneous Playback
Scott Wilkinson  |  Oct 23, 2009

Live music is quite different from the visual arts. For example, every time a musician plays a given song, it is unique, with inevitable variations from one performance to the next. As Joni Mitchell once noted, no one ever asked Van Gogh to paint <I>The Starry Night</I> again. But many musicians are expected to play certain songs at every concert, and these songs sound different every time. On the other hand, recorded music is more like a painting&#151;once it's in the can, it sounds exactly the same every time it's played.

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Audio Video News
Best Buy's Blus Get Netflix
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 23, 2009
Netflix movie streaming is getting into Best Buy's Insignia-brand Blu-ray players.
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Acoustic Energy Radiance 1
 |  Oct 22, 2009
Key Features
$4,400 Acoustic Energy
• Radiance 1 ($1,200/pair) 51?4-in aluminum-co
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Contact—Warner Bros. (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Oct 22, 2009
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3.5/5
At the Forest Ridge Mall, head of security Ronnie Barnhardt patrols his jurisdiction with an iron fist. The master of his domain, he combats skateboarders, shoplifters and the occasional unruly customer while dreaming of the day when he can swap his flashlight for a badge and a gun. Ronnie's delusions of grandeur are put to the test when the mall is struck by a flasher. Driven by his personal duty to protect and serve the mall and its patrons, Ronnie seizes the opportunity to showcase his underappreciated law enforcement talents on a grand scale, hoping his solution of this crime will earn him a coveted spot at the police academy and the heart of his elusive dream girl Brandi, the hot makeup counter clerk who won't give him the time of day. But his single-minded pursuit of glory launches a turf war with the equally competitive Detective Harrison of the Conway Police, and Ronnie is confronted with the challenge of not only catching the flasher, but getting him before the real cops do.
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