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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Family Guy Something, Something, Something, Dark Side—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
 |  Dec 27, 2009
Movie: 2.5
Picture/Sound: 4.5/3.5
Extras: 3
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Extract—Miramax Films (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 27, 2009
Movie: 3
Picture/Sound: 2.5/3.5
Extras: 2.5
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
500 Days of Summer—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 27, 2009
Movie: 3.5
Picture/Sound: 4/4
Extras: 3.5
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs—Columbia Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 27, 2009
Movie: 2.5
Picture/Sound: 4.5/4.25
Extras: 3
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
District 9—Tri Star Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 27, 2009
Movie: 5
Picture/Sound: 5/5
Extras: 3.5
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Family Guy – Something, Something, Something, Darkside (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Dec 24, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/famguy.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT><i>May the laughs be with you as (Chris) Skywalker joins forces with (Peter) Solo and Princess (Lois) Leia to battle (Stewie) Vader and his Imperial minions. A host of new characters come along for the wild ride, including Mort Goldman as Lando Calrissian, Chris' boss Carl as Yoda, and the Giant Chicken as the nefarious Boba Fett.</i>

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Audio Video News
Grocery-store Blu-ray players for Xmas!
SV Staff  |  Dec 24, 2009
How do you know a consumer electronics technology has hit the big time? When you can buy it in the grocery store. While running last-minute Christmas Eve errands in the western suburbs of Houston with my Dad, I noticed Sylvania Blu-ray players near...
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Premiere Design
Totally Tubular
Scott Wilkinson  |  Dec 24, 2009

Many audiophiles love vacuum tube-based components for their warm analog sound. <A href="http://www.einstein-audio.de">Einstein Audio</A> of Germany understands this well, as demonstrated by the introduction of The Tube MKII 2-channel preamp at CES next month.

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Home Theater Geeks Podcast
Podcast 1: Tomlinson Holman
Scott Wilkinson  |  Dec 23, 2009  |  First Published: Dec 24, 2009
Tomlinson Holman (the "TH" in THX) talks about his distinguished audio career at Advent and Lucasfilm, the early history of THX, 10.2-channel audio, his current work at Audyssey and USC, and more.

Run Time: 1:00:36

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
District 9
David Vaughn  |  Dec 23, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/d9.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>In the early 1980s, an alien spaceship hovers over the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, and shows no signs of life. After waiting six months for contact, the government decides to cut into the vessel to see what's inside, and it finds the alien crew starving and malnourished. The local authorities set up a refugee camp for the aliens, and over the span of nearly 30 years, their numbers grow to over 1.8 million. Now what?

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