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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Feb 15, 2010
Movie: 3
Picture/Sound: 1.5/2.5
Extras: 2
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Walk the Line—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Feb 15, 2010
Movie: 4
Picture/Sound: 4.25/4.5
Extras: 3.5
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Magnolia—New Line (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Feb 15, 2010
Movie: 4.5
Picture/Sound: 4/4
Extras: 3.5
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Cliffhanger—Tri-Star (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Feb 15, 2010
Movie: 3.5
Picture/Sound: 4/4.5
Extras: 4
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Box—Warner Bros. (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Feb 15, 2010
Movie: 4
Picture/Sound: 3.5/4
Extras: 3.5
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
A Serious Man—Universal Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Feb 15, 2010
Movie: 3.5
Picture/Sound: 5/4.5
Extras: 3
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Audio Video News
LEGO hits "Toy Story," "Prince of Persia"
SV Staff  |  Feb 14, 2010
LEGO's no stranger to marketing, but this one managed to surprise me. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is coming to LEGO later this year. Based on the upcoming movie (which is based on the 2003 video game), the LEGO series will include various...
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Audio Video News
Hasbro previews "Iron Man 2" toys, still no word on its TV network project with Discovery
SV Staff  |  Feb 13, 2010
Toy Fair 2010 is in town this weekend. The trade show opens its doors on Sunday, but toy manufacturer Hasbro kicked things off a day early with its Collectors' Day event. If you wanted a sneak peek at some of the biggest toys of the coming year,...
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Audio Video News
Asimov's "Foundation" coming in 3D
SV Staff  |  Feb 12, 2010
If you like Isaac Asimov, I have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that Asimov's classic Foundation trilogy is headed for the silver screen as a 3D film. The bad news is that it'll be directed by the man behind the 1998...
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The Big Picture
Panasonic's Black Eye
Scott Wilkinson  |  Feb 12, 2010

It's been a bad week for Panasonic. A report of suddenly rising black levels in its 2008 and '09 plasmas gained some serious traction throughout the A/V community over the past few days, even though it's been brewing since July 31, 2009, when AVS Forum member Orta (who I assume is male) <A href="http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1167339">posted that his TC-P50G10 doubled its black level literally overnight, with measurements to prove it</A>. As you might imagine, this led to a flurry of concern, to which Panasonic finally responded with this official statement:

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