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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
James Bond Blu-ray Volume One & Two
David Vaughn  |  Oct 24, 2008

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/bond1.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>His name is Bond, James Bond, Ian Flemming's immortal action hero who has graced the silver screen for over 45 years. Everyone has their favorite Bond&#151;is it Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, George Lazenby, or Daniel Craig, the latest actor to prefer his martinis shaken, not stirred?

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Young Frankenstein
David Vaughn  |  Oct 24, 2008

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/youngfrankenstein.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Summoned to his late grandfather's castle in Transylvania, young Dr. Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) soon discovers the scientist's step-by-step manual explaining how to bring a corpse to life. Aided by his loyal assistants, beautiful Inga (Teri Garr) and ghastly Igor (Marty Feldman)&#151;who insists his name is pronounced "eye-gore"&#151;things don't work out so well when he reanimates a body using an abnormal brain.

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Audio Video News
Audi Drives Toward HD
SV Staff  |  Oct 24, 2008
It’s easy to get blinded by all the i-this or i-that bling. Blu-ray is cool and that steals lots of headlines. And it’s easy to oogle the latest big-screen whatever. But let’s not forget that good, old-fashioned radio is still chugging along.I know...
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Audio Video News
2008: A Very Good Year
SV Staff  |  Oct 24, 2008
Business is bad. The market is tanking. Instead of retiring at age 65, you’ll have to work until 95. But at least more and more of us can watch Knight Rider in high-def. That’s what market researchers at iSuppli are saying (the high-def part).In...
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Audio Video News
Streaming Samsung
SV Staff  |  Oct 24, 2008
Netflix is a company on the move. They've already become the world’s largest online movie rental service, and they're fast sewing up their leadership in online streaming.Hard on the heels of their announcement that LG will offer Netflix...
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Audio Video News
Fade to Black
SV Staff  |  Oct 24, 2008
According to the folks over at TVPredictions.com — whose jobs are, apparently, to predict things about TV — the February 17 switchover to digital TV will be the best thing to ever happen to American society since the invention of the TV. In...
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Audio Video News
Samsung BD Players to Deliver Netflix Movies
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 24, 2008
Samsung Blu-ray players are learning some new tricks. The BD-P2550 and BD-P2500 will stream movies rented from Netflix's online service. And the first of those two models will also stream music from Pandora Radio.
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Audio Video News
Hard Times
SV Staff  |  Oct 24, 2008
Hey buddy, can you spare a nickel? Better yet, how about $700 billion? Everyone is feeling the pain these days, even Sony Corporation.The electronics giant issued a revised earnings report, and the news was not good. Consumer demand is slowing so...
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Marc Horowitz  |  Oct 23, 2008
Paramount
Movie ••• Picture ••••½Sound •••• Extras ••••½

For what will (probably) be the la

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Music Reviews
AC/DC: Black Ice; Metallica: Death Magnetic
Jeff Perlah  |  Oct 23, 2008
Columbia
Music •••• Sound •••½
Review
Warner
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