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"Thriller" in surround. NOT!
SV Staff  |  Dec 07, 2007
Here we don't go again: According to a report on Billboard.com, Epic/Legacy will release a 25th-anniversary edition of Michael Jackson's Thriller on February 12. (Actually, last year was the 25th birthday of this 1982 album, although it did make...
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Ab Fab Prefab
Adrienne Maxwell  |  Dec 07, 2007
Technology and green living converge in the LivingHome.
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Audio Video News
Holiday CE Sales Growth Slowing
Mark Fleischmann  |  Dec 07, 2007
Consumer electronics products saw a six percent sales increase during the week after Thanksgiving. Why isn't this good news for the industry? Because it marks the first time growth has been measured in mere single digits since NPD started tracking data six years ago. In contrast, 2006 saw a 12 percent hike in dollar volume, and in 2005 it was 15 percent.
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Other Tech
Gadget Gary: Baba Booey's Holiday Wish List
Gary Dell'Abate  |  Dec 06, 2007

The guys at S&V asked me to put together my holiday wish list. So, in no particular order, here goes:

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Audio Video News
"300" Conquers High-Def Awards
SV Staff  |  Dec 06, 2007
So says the headline of a press release we received about the first annual High-Def Disc Awards, presented primarily by the weekly B2B trade publication Home Media Magazine. Specifically, 300 won two different awards for its two different...
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A/V Veteran
A DVD, A Tree, and BSG
Thomas J. Norton  |  Dec 06, 2007

Judging from the DVD section in my local Costco, the hot items to put under the Christmas spruce this year are boxed sets of a television series. Not just single seasons, but the whole magilla. You can get everything from the <I>X-Files</I>, complete with a Sing Along (the writers are on strike, but not the songwriters), to <I>24</I>, with a Day Timer (11:00PM: Whip terrorists’ butts; 11:59PM: Leave on hiatus).

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Audio Video News
Blockbuster Struggles for Survival
Mark Fleischmann  |  Dec 06, 2007
Blockbuster is taking serious punches and hanging on the ropes. First one of the two stores in my neighborhood closed (always a bad sign). Then came the announcement that earnings had slid from $5.5 billion in 2006 to $1.2 billion in the first three quarters of this year--ouch. Now along comes CEO Jim Keynes with a rescue plan.
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Yamaha RX-V1800 A/V Receiver
Michael Trei  |  Dec 05, 2007
Yamaha RX-V1800 A/V receiver 27108928463 Yamaha RX-V1800 Designing a new A/V receiver must feel a bit like trying to hit the ducks at a carnival shooting gallery as they zip across your line of fire.
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Other Tech
Installations: Meeting the Criterion
Rob Medich  |  Dec 05, 2007

Except for the color bursting from the reception-area movie posters - The Double Life of Veronique, Black Orpheus, and the Beastie Boys Video Anthology among them - the Criterion Collection's new Park Avenue South headquarters in Manhattan are styled in the same palette as many of the films that the company painstakingly restores and releases on DVD: black and white, with profound gray area

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Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Dec 05, 2007
Onkyo TX-SR605 receiver 751398007583 Onkyo TX-SR605 The question I get asked the most often: "Which speakers should I buy?" My answer is frustratingly subjective: Buy whatever sounds best to you.
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