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Samsung PN50A550 Plasma HDTV
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jul 07, 2008  |  First Published: Aug 07, 2008
The right size, the right price, the right controls.

Video experts and video reviewers can be a cantankerous bunch. We’re always engaged in a tug of war with manufacturers about what we’d like to see in new HDTVs. We aren’t often successful, not necessarily because the manufacturers are stubborn (OK, sometimes they are), but because they’re more concerned than we are about the realities of the wider marketplace. We couldn’t care less about floodlight-worthy light output, a remote that will also start your car, or a little jig the TV plays when you turn it on or off. But we’re sticklers for good blacks, natural-looking detail, and accurate color.

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LCD TV Reviews
LG 42LG60 LCD HDTV
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jul 07, 2008
A face in the crowd?

Korea-based LG, which absorbed Zenith a few years back, is one of the world’s largest flat-panel HDTV manufacturers. The company is working on some exciting new stuff, including plasmas that meet the new THX video specifications. LG will also produce LCDs that employ local dimming, a technique that improves the black level and contrast of LCD sets. Some of these models will be in stores by the time you read this, or by the fall season.

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Audio Video News
Most Returned Products Work
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 07, 2008
Two-thirds of consumer electronic products returned to retailers are in working order. Another 27 percent are returned due to buyer's remorse. Only five percent are actually defective. This giant disconnect between expectation and reality emerged in a report by the research firm Accenture, in a study entitled Big Trouble with "No Trouble Found" Returns.
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Other Tech
Why Buy Blu-ray Now?
Kevin James  |  Jul 06, 2008

You have to feel a little bit sorry for Blu-ray Disc. Despite winning the high-def format war, few are showing it much love. The month after Toshiba pulled the plug on HD DVD, Blu-ray sales plummeted by 40%.

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Custom Installation How-To
Niveus Media Rainier Edition 500HD Media Center PC system
Al Griffin  |  Jul 06, 2008
The Short Form
$7,697 (as tested) / NIVEUSMEDIA.COM / 866-258-2929
Snapshot
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Other Tech
BackTalk: Tim Kring & Jesse Alexander of Heroes
Mike Mettler  |  Jul 06, 2008

What makes the release of Heroes: Season 2 on DVD and Blu-ray Disc worth our time, attention, and dollars?

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Other Tech
Track One: Opening Doors with Ray Manzarek
Mike Mettler  |  Jul 04, 2008

Are you happy with how Eagle Vision's Classic Albums DVD of The Doors turned out? I think it's great. Somebody said to me, "Gee, you guys are still willing to talk about it." And I said, "Well, of course. We loved making the first album. We had a lot of fun." Why?

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Scorpion King—Universal (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Jul 04, 2008
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4.25/5
Extras: 3.25/5
In an ancient time predating the pyramids, the evil King Memnon is using the psychic powers of his sorceress Cassandra to predict his great victories. In a last ditch effort to stop Memnon from taking over the world, the leaders of the remaining free tribes hire the assassin Mathayus to kill the sorceress. But Mathayus ends up getting much more than he bargained for.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Sex and Death 101—Anchor Bay (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Jul 04, 2008
Video: 3.25/5
Audio: 3/5
Extras: 2/5
Less than two weeks before his wedding, good-guy Roderick Blank receives a mysterious email listing every girl he's ever had sex with and the 70+ names of everyone he ever will have sex with. But as Roderick begins enjoying all the strippers, porn stars, stewardesses and celebrity lesbians on the list, he discovers that his ultimate date with destiny may lay with the serial killer known as “Death Nell”. Is the luckiest man in the world now doomed to face the final position of the Karma Sutra?
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Point Break—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Jul 04, 2008
Video: 3.5/5
Audio: 4.25/5
Extras: 2.75/5
Young FBI agent Johnny Utah goes undercover at the suggestion of his partner to learn if a group of wild surfers is actually a gang of bank robbers. He soon comes under the dangerous spell of the surfers' charismatic leader, Bohdi, a mystical mastermind who'll do absolutely anything for a thrill - and expects his followers to do the same.
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