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Listen Up: "Les Misérables" hits the Silver Screen
Leslie Shapiro  |  Dec 31, 2012

The much-anticipated film adaptation of London and Broadway's smash hit, "Les Misérables" debuted last week with a fresh new approach to film-making. Unlike typical musicals, "Les Mis" didn't use a pre-recorded vocal score, but instead, the actors sang live on the set.

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Streaming Device Reviews
Samsung Smart Hub Streaming Platform
Barb Gonzalez  |  Dec 31, 2012
Barb Gonzalez uses and abuses the Smart Hub streaming platform Samsung builds into many of its TVs and Blu-ray players. Just how smart is this hub and is it all that it's cracked up to be?
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Projector Reviews
Review: ViewSonic Pro9000 LED/Laser Hybrid Projector
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Dec 30, 2012

Can I like the idea of a thing, better than the thing? This is the question I'm pondering as I write up this admittedly cool LED/laser hybrid projector from ViewSonic. Instead of UHP lamps or even "regular" LEDs, the Pro9000 adds a laser to the mix, because ... well because it's cool, right?

While it gets an "A" on the technology front, its performance grade is notably lower.

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Out Of The Blu
Samsara, Sleepwalk with Me, Hard Core Logo
Chris Chiarella  |  Dec 29, 2012
A 65mm/8K marvel dazzles the senses, then we check out a new take on the well-worn romantic comedy genre, and an enduring faux rockumentary. (No, not Spinal Tap.)
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Sweepstakes
A Holiday Surprise from Sonos to Malvin
Ariel Bitran  |  Dec 28, 2012
Congratulations to Malvin Richardson from Durham, North Carolina on winning the Sonos Ultimate Gift of Music Sweepstakes.
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AV Receiver Reviews
Yamaha RX-A1020 A/V Receiver
Mark Fleischmann  |  Dec 28, 2012

Audio Performance
Video Performance
Features
Ergonomics
Value
Price: $1,200 At A Glance: Top-flight build quality • Clean and detailed sound • Second-zone HDMI

Sing me a song. Come on, it will cheer me up. Hey, that’s good. Can you sing while juggling? Here’s the fruit bowl, let’s see what you can do. Wow, that was great. Now do the singing and juggling while standing on one foot. That was amazing! Can you sing and juggle while hopping on one foot? Incredible, although I must say the hopping affected your vibrato a little. Now let me see you sing, juggle, and hop on one foot while rotating—hey, where are you going? You were just starting to amuse me.

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3D Blu-ray Player Reviews
Samsung BD-E6500 Blu-ray 3D Player
David Vaughn  |  Dec 28, 2012
David Vaughn runs Samsung's top-of-the-line 3D Blu-ray player through the ringer with stunning IMAX footage from The Dark Knight Rises. But is it up for the challenge?
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Tech2
2012 in Review
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Dec 27, 2012

If the weather, calendar, and bevy of "PLEASEGIVEMEANOSCAR" movies didn't give it away, surely the title of this article does: 2012 is pretty much history.

In the pages of Sound+Vision (both the digital and analog variety), we've covered some interesting trends, products, news, and more.

So here are some highlights and lowlights, some contrast and brightness, some tweeters and some woofers, some increasingly lame metaphors, some... well, you get the point.

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Audio Video News
Lutron 2012 Excellence Awards
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Dec 27, 2012
For the past nine years, Lutron Electronics has brought together a number of editors and writers in the industry to review and judge a towering stack of anonymous submissions from dealers vying to win one of the lighting control company’s annual Excellence Awards. This year, six writers/editors plus myself were locked in a room at Lutron’s Residential & Commercial Experience Center in Irvine, California, and told we couldn’t leave until—after much discussion, arguing, hair-pulling, and some brutal name-calling—we had collectively decided which projects were the most amazingly cool, excellently conceived, and beautifully implemented in their categories.
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SmartStream
Year-End Review: 2012 Streaming Video Innovations
Barb Gonzalez  |  Dec 27, 2012
2012 was a banner year for innovation in streaming media—innovations that are changing the home theater experience.
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