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Music Reviews
All Dolled up and someplace to go
Jaan Uhelszki  |  May 19, 2009
Atco/Rhino
Music •••½ Sound •••½
Rarely has a reunion been as successful as the 2004 reconstitution of the New York Dolls.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
True Blood - The Complete First Season (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  May 19, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/trueblood.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) is a sweet and innocent waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana, who has the ability to read minds. When we first meet her, she has difficulty tuning out her various customers and their crude thoughts, but when Bill Compton enters the restaurant one night, she's instantly attracted to him for one reason&#151;she can't hear his thoughts because he's a vampire, and for once in her life, she can get through a date without knowing how badly the guy wants to sleep with her.

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Audio Video News
The Shire goes green with Bag End Minima One amp
SV Staff  |  May 19, 2009
I know, it's the second Lord of the Rings reference in a week, but this one was just begging for it. Bag End Loudspeaker Systems has announced that its Minima One amplifier has become greener and minima-er, thanks to its new smaller size and lower...
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Audio Video News
Congress May Fund DTV Repeaters
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 19, 2009
Maine's Republican senators, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, have introduced a bill that would fund digital repeater transmitters in areas where DTV reception is weak.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
Glenn Kenny  |  May 18, 2009
20th Century Fox
Movie •½ Disc ••••
Robert Wise's original 1951 film of The Day the Earth Stood Still may be an acknowledged classi
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Music Reviews
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It's Blitz!
Rob O'Connor  |  May 18, 2009
Dress Up/DGC/Interscope
Music ••• Sound •••
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' third studio album is another major advancement in the Manhattan-hatched trio's so
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Audio Video News
The IMAX experience: More than a name
SV Staff  |  May 18, 2009
Last week, IMAX generated a lot of buzz among the tech blogs. It wasn't because of the release of Star Trek on the very-big screen, but because of an argument about what constitutes "IMAX." Comedian Aziz Ansari (you may have seen him on Parks &...
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Audio Video News
Will add-on height channel decoders ever emerge?
SV Staff  |  May 18, 2009
Sound & Vision reader Lee Carroll brings up a great point that I completely overlooked in my two articles about Dolby Pro Logic IIz height channel technology. Having recently bought a new receiver, Lee asks, "Don't the merits of this...
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Premiere Design
Sound All Around
Scott Wilkinson  |  May 18, 2009

Sometimes in this blog, I like to profile new and unusual technologies that may&#151;or may not&#151;actually perform well. Sony's <A href="http://www.sony.net/Fun/design/activity/product/sountina_01.html">NSA-PF1 Sountina</A> speaker is just such a product. I have no idea how it performs since I've never heard it in action and I know no one who has, but the technology is certainly intriguing.

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Audio Video News
This is one way to get satellite TV in your car
SV Staff  |  May 18, 2009
  We love DIY projects here at S&V so I could barely contain my excitement when I saw that someone had taken the time to fit a full-sized Direct TV dish into a clapped out old Volkswagen Jetta Diesel. I tried to hunt down the owner of...
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