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Sony STR-DA5200ES AV Receiver
Fred Manteghian  |  Jul 29, 2007

Ah, technology. Too bad automobiles can't keep up with home theater electronics, or we'd all be driving around in Hummers that get 200 miles to the gallon, emit pure oxygen and absorb all that heat coming off Al Gore. Sony's new receiver is the latest example of more for less. The STR-DA5200ES is feature packed, though perhaps not to the gills. And since we've segued from cars to fish, you should know now that, for the price, this receiver is better than a fair catch.

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Sony Targets End Caps, Costco Cuts the Cheese
Fred Manteghian  |  Jul 27, 2007

Target, a store known for its own line of overpriced Choxie chocolates (promoted with admittedly cool ads), has "struck a deal" with Sony to feature Blu-ray players on end-caps this coming holiday season. And I don't mean Labor Day. The deal is significant as much for what it doesn't say as for what it does.

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Audio Video News
Sony's New ES Receivers
 |  Jul 27, 2007

It's already been a hectic week for new product announcements, with Samsung and Denon unveiling a lot of new gear. But Sony was at this week too announcing three new AVRs with next-gen audio decoding and a host of other hot features related to streaming audio and networking.

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Huge Heap O' High-Def Releases
Shane Buettner  |  Jul 27, 2007

In the last week or two the huge announcements on HD releases for this fall just haven't stopped coming. Sam Peckinpah's classic Western, <I>The Wild Bunch</I> hitting Blu-ray and HD DVD in September was just the beginning.

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Audio Video News
Cable-DVR Adoption Surges
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 27, 2007
More than half of cable subscribers will have digital video recorders by 2010, according to a (rather expensive) study by the Carmel Group.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVD Review: Deadwood
Mike Mettler  |  Jul 26, 2007

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVD Review: The Hustler
Ken Korman  |  Jul 26, 2007

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVD Review: Black Snake Moan
Ken Korman  |  Jul 26, 2007

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Audio Video News
Samsung Bows Combi Player And 3rd Gen Blu-ray Players
 |  Jul 26, 2007

Samsung this week made official its plans to introduce two new, 3rd generation Blu-ray Disc players as well is its highly anticipated <I>Duo HD</I> combi player, which will play both Blu-ray and HD DVD discs.

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Audio Video News
The Simpsons Movie: D'oh!nuts!
SV Staff  |  Jul 26, 2007
Yes, at long last, The Simpsons Movie opens tomorrow. And as one of its writer/producers, Al Jean, says in the July 27 issue of Entertainment Weekly: "As an event, I think it'll be somewhere between Sgt. Pepper's the album and Sgt. Pepper's...
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