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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Youth Without Youth—Sony Pictures Classics (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 01, 2008
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 3.5/5
Extras: 3/5
Hollywood confuses me sometimes. When I was growing up names like Coppola, Forman, Lean, Spielberg, and Kubrick meant a lot to moviegoers. These days it doesn't seem to matter any more. I've seen picture after picture relocated to small venues and limited releases despite heavyweight directors and storytellers attached. Take a look at last year's Best Picture nominees for example. How many of those films were even opened wide upon initial release? But how many films that probably lower your IQ at an alarming rate are opened wide every week. I guess the mighty dollar is still king and art and great storytelling is something now reserved for straight to video fare. I remember when the opposite was true.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Orphanage—New Line (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  May 01, 2008
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 5/5
Extras: 2.5/5
It is honestly a RARE treat when Hollywood delivers a solid, mature horror film. It could be one of the rarest things we see on film today. New Line has delivered just that with The Orphanage. This movie just seems to do everything right. Mood, tension, terror, production, acting, script; all of the elements are just dead on. They didn't rely on gore or gimmicks to create an underlying tension that keeps you locked on from start to finish and the eerie photography and stunning sound design will have you at an unease that I find a rare commodity in this genre today. Why can't all ghost stories be half as good as this?
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Audio Video News
Apple's iTunes: Movies The Same Day as DVD
SV Staff  |  May 01, 2008
iTune's users rejoice! No longer will you have to wait to download movies to your iPod! Just announced:  Apple has signed agreements with many major studios to allow simultaneous availability of their movies on the same day that the DVDs hit...
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Audio Video News
Warner Green Lights Speedy VOD
SV Staff  |  May 01, 2008
Don't look now, but one of the windows just got a little smaller. You know - the windows. The time lag between the theatrical release of a movie, and its other releases. How many times have you heard Uncle Ernie say, "Why the heck should I...
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Audio Video News
12 Angry Men
SV Staff  |  May 01, 2008
Without question, the Internet has made life better. It is much easier to look at satellite photos of your neighbor's pool, buy drugs without a prescription, and send checks for $25,000 so the bank in Nigeria will send you a check for $55...
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Audio Video News
iTunes, DVD Are Now Day-and-Date Equals
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 01, 2008
Apple has struck a deal with Hollywood to give iTunes the same release window as brick-and-mortar stores. The same day a movie hits Wal-Mart or Blockbuster on disc, it'll also appear in the iTunes store as a download.
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Audio Video News
Blu-ray Won!!! Yay???
SV Staff  |  May 01, 2008
The consumer electronics industry breathed a collective sigh of relief when the war between HD DVD and Blu-ray was won by Blu-ray. Another surrender ceremony was recently completed as Paramount announced that they are abandoning the HD DVD format...
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Other Tech
Is Your TV Already Obsolete?
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Apr 30, 2008

When your TV suddenly stops working at midnight on February 17, 2009, blame Vice President Dick Cheney. Back in 2005, the Senate's vote on a spending bill that included $1.5 billion to help people buy digital-TV converter boxes was deadlocked 50-50, so Cheney flew back from the Middle East to cast the tiebreaker.

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Panasonic's New Blu-ray Player Steps Up to 1.1
Rob Sabin  |  Apr 30, 2008

Now that Blu-ray Disc has vanquished HD DVD after a nearly 2-year battle in the marketplace, the dust has finally settled - right into the eyes of everyone who put off buying a high-def disc player. Understandably, many of these dawdlers will be squinting first at the more affordable Blu-ray prospects in the entry-level $400-to-$500 range.

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Audio Video News
Sharp: Thin, Wireless and X-rated!
SV Staff  |  Apr 30, 2008
Think you can't have a flat-panel TV because you can't get the wiring from your components to your TV? Is lack of running an HDMI cable keeping your Blu-ray player blue? Today, Sharp announced, "Yes!" or probably more accurately, "Hai!" to wireless...
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