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zeebox App May Change the Way We Watch TV
Barb Gonzalez  |  Mar 27, 2013
The zeebox app is both interactive social TV and a second screen experience that may change the way you watch TV.
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Headphone Reviews
Review: Velodyne vTrue Studio Headphones
Michael Berk  |  Mar 27, 2013

As Brent Butterworth reminded everyone earlier in the week, subwoofer specialists Velodyne impressed us quite a bit last year with their first headphone effort, the in-ear vPulse.

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Elements of a Home Theater: All the Pieces You’ll Need to Bring it Together
Rob Sabin  |  Mar 27, 2013
Putting together a home theater can seem like a daunting task. So many pieces to think through and connect up! But if you care enough to do your homework and educate yourself, you’ll find it’s not as complicated as it looks. Here’s what goes into your typical viewing room.

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Headphone Reviews
Review: 808 headphones
Brent Butterworth  |  Mar 27, 2013

The 808 headphones prove I'm way hipper than any of our West Coast headphone testing panel, who range from 10 to almost 20 years younger than me. "You can tell from the name it's targeted to hip-hop fans," I told them.

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Bookshelf Speaker Reviews
Clash of the Minispeakers
Brent Butterworth  |  Mar 26, 2013

For decades, the minispeaker has been a touchstone for audio enthusiasts. Because you can get a respectable pair of minis for a few hundred dollars, the mini is where most audiophiles start their journey into sound.

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This Week
This Week in Movies & TV, March 26, 2013: Presidents, Popes, & Prisoners
Josef Krebs  |  Mar 26, 2013

Lincoln

January 1865, with the American Civil War in its fourth year, two months after Abraham Lincoln's re-election, there is much to be done, a nation to be remade in a new form.

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Bookshelf Speaker Reviews
Paradigm Atom Monitor 7 Bookshelf Speaker
Brent Butterworth  |  Mar 26, 2013
The Monitor series of speakers from Paradigm is now in its seventh generation. It's always been the company's most affordable line, but it's always been designed in the same no-nonsense, engineering-focused style as the company's other speakers. The Atom Monitor 7 ($398/pr) is no exception.
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Bookshelf Speaker Reviews
Polk Audio RTiA1 Bookshelf Speaker
Brent Butterworth  |  Mar 26, 2013

“Really?” I blurted out loud when I opened the RTiA1’s box to find a substantial, beautifully made minispeaker with curved sides and a higher level of fit’n’finish than that found on any of the other speakers in this group (the Monitor Bronze BX1 perhaps excepted). I even double-checked the price, doubting that Polk could sell such a nice-looking speaker for less than $400 a pair, especially $325 a pair (or even less online).

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Bookshelf Speaker Reviews
Music Hall Marimba Bookshelf Speaker
Brent Butterworth  |  Mar 26, 2013

The Marimba ($349/pr) is the first speaker ever offered under the Music Hall brand, known for affordable turntables and audiophile electronics. Clearly, the sound was the focus; the Marimba's black ash vinyl wrap finish won't win any design awards. The 1-inch silk-dome tweeter and 5.25-inch, polypropylene-cone woofer are mounted in a rear-ported, 11-inch-high cabinet.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
In the Mood for Love
Fred Kaplan  |  Mar 26, 2013
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Wong Kar-wai, the greatest living Hong Kong filmmaker, is a weaver of smoldering dreams, and In the Mood for Love is his masterpiece. He may be the most intense practitioner of pure cinema. Very little happens in this film, but his brash colors (like something out of a Matisse painting), arch compositions (long shots at slightly off angles, slow tracking shots signifying the passage of time and the ache of waiting), and use of music (a languorous, longing string motif) sow a hypnotic tension and a charged passion (though its beautiful lead actors, Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung, barely touch each other and show not a smidgen of bare skin).
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