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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Edge of Darkness—Warner Bros.(Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 11, 2010
Movie: 3.5
Picture/Sound: 4/4.5
Extras: 4
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Saving Private Ryan—Dreamworks (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 11, 2010
Movie: 5
Picture/Sound: 5/5
Extras: 3.5
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Daybreakers—Lionsgate (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 11, 2010
Movie: 3.5
Picture/Sound: 4/4
Extras: 3.5
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Audio Video News
LG bundles Xbox 360s with 3D HDTVs in Korea
SV Staff  |  May 11, 2010
3D console gaming is finally picking up some momentum, at least in Korea. According to LG's Flickr, the company is now bundling Xbox 360s with the 3D-capable LX9500 HDTV, specifically to highlight 3D gaming on the Xbox 360. Over 1,000 stores...
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Audio Video News
Movie Gallery Chain to Close
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 11, 2010
Movie Gallery is going to close, subtracting another 1906 video and game rental stores from the American landscape.
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Audio Video News
Kaleidescape goes Blu!
SV Staff  |  May 11, 2010
Kaleidescape announced this morning that they have developed a Blu-ray solution to their popular movie server system that will begin shipping next week. The new M500 player ($3995) will playback AND import Blu-ray content to the server. To appease...
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Premiere Design
Kaleidescape M-Class Blu-ray Server System
Scott Wilkinson  |  May 11, 2010

As an A/V enthusiast, you might well be familiar with <A href="http://www.kaleidescape.com">Kaleidescape</A>, a California-based maker of high-end movie servers. <I>UAV</I> hasn't covered its products lately because we are dedicated to high def, and they have been limited to serving DVDs&#151;until now. The company today announced the introduction of full support for Blu-ray with its new M-Class architecture.

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Audio Video News
A blast from Radio Shack's past
SV Staff  |  May 10, 2010
I stumbled upon this site today, and I just had to share it. Since I was a kid, I remember going through the Radio Shack catalog and its hundreds of pages of components and electronics. My father kept a huge stack of them in the attic, and going...
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Audio Video News
Psycho gets 5.1 Psurround on Blu-ray October 19
SV Staff  |  May 10, 2010
One of the most iconic thrillers of all time is finally getting a surround mix. After decades of languishing in mono, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho is hitting Blu-ray with a DTS HD 5.1 soundtrack. The release commemorates the 50th anniversary of...
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Saving Private Ryan
David Vaughn  |  May 10, 2010
Over the years, Hollywood has portrayed war in different ways. John Wayne appealed to our patriotism, and Oliver Stone exposed its seedier aspects, but Steven Spielberg recreated it with every horrific detail intact. The Oscar-winning director places you in the middle of the action as our young men storm Omaha beach.

This is the fourth movie to receive Paramount's Sapphire Series treatment, and the results are spectacular. The DTS-HD MA 5.1 soundtrack is essentially a 169-minute demo, and the cinematography has never looked better.

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