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Dress Your Gear Email Glitch -- Resubmit!
SV Staff  |  Oct 27, 2008
For those who tried to enter our Dress Your Gear for Halloween contest over the weekend, an email glitch may have prevented delivery of your entries. So try again!Specifically, our email address soundandvision@hfmus.com seemed to be not...
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AV Receiver Reviews
Yamaha RX-V463 A/V Receiver
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 27, 2008
Price: $350 Highlights: Five channels times 105 watts • HDMI with high-resolution PCM • Includes Yamaha’s YPAO auto setup

Home Theater Out of the Box

Why would anyone buy a budget receiver and satellite/subwoofer speakers instead of a simpler home theater in a box system? To the uninitiated, the HTIB seems like a no-brainer. It spares the consumer the rigors of equipment matching and sometimes even throws in a disc drive.

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Audio Video News
Lala Offers Two Ways to Buy Music
user  |  Oct 27, 2008
Downloads and streaming are nothing new. But lala.com offers both with an unusual angle on streaming. Instead of paying an all-you-can-eat subscription fee, you can pay 10 cents for the right to stream a song indefinitely. If that's not convenient, you can also pay to download it in the conventional way.
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Totem Tribe theater speakers with Storm subwoofer
Michael Trei  |  Oct 26, 2008
The Short Form
$7,000 (as tested) / TOTEMACOUSTIC.COM / 514-259-1062
Snapshot
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Other Tech
Back Talk: Paul Ben-Victor
Mike Mettler  |  Oct 26, 2008

Walk me through your recent HDTV buying experience. I found myself attracted to the LCD. Two of my very good friends - Dave Rodriguez, who's directed two upcoming films that I'm in, and John Barr, the director of photography on those films - they're plasma guys.

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Other Tech
Editor-in-Chief Mike Mettler's Top 50 Albums of All Time
Mike Mettler  |  Oct 26, 2008

As I noted in one of the five entries I wrote for our Top 50 Albums of All Time list (actually, I also penned three of the uncredited entries for albums 41-50 - see if you can guess which ones once our master list posts), I became an audio journalist to extol the virtues of great-sounding recordings.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Casino Royale—Collector's Edition Casino Royale—Collector's Edition
David Vaughn  |  Oct 25, 2008

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/casinoroyale.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Before he can be licensed to kill, James Bond (Daniel Craig) must earn his stripes. With two quick professional assassinations, he is elevated to "00" status and M (Judi Dench) sends him on his first mission that takes him to Madagascar, the Bahamas, and eventually Montenegro to face Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), a ruthless terrorist financier, in high-stakes poker game at the Casino Royale.

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Audio Video News
The New Black
SV Staff  |  Oct 24, 2008
Henry Ford famously said that customers could buy a Model T in any color, as long as it was black. The equally famous reason, probably apocryphal, was that he chose black because it dried faster than other colors, and that let him crank up the...
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
A Christmas Story—25th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition A Christmas Story—25th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition
David Vaughn  |  Oct 24, 2008

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/achristmasstory.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Taking place in Indiana in the 1940s, the story centers on Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) and his one wish for Christmas&#151;a genuine Red Ryder 200-Shot Carbine Action Air Rifle. Unfortunately, whenever he expresses this wish, he's greeted with, "You'll shoot your eye out!" Will Ralphie get his wish? If so, is his vision safe?

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Incredible Hulk
David Vaughn  |  Oct 24, 2008

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/incrediblehulk.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Scientist Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) scours the Earth for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: The Hulk. But military mastermind General Ross (William Hurt) wants to control this power and will stop at nothing to capture Bruce to obtain the secret contained in his blood. In desperation, the general unleashes a nightmarish beast of aggression whose powers match the Hulk's own: the Abomination (Tim Roth).

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