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Marshall Headphones Debut November 15th
SV Staff  |  Oct 21, 2010
There's no shortage of headphones options out there at the moment, but starting on November 15th, legendary amp-maker Marshall will be entering the fray. There isn't a lot to talk about yet, since details on the familiar-looking cans is...
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Premiere Design
MSB 32/384 DAC, Disc Transport, ADC, and Monoblock
Scott Wilkinson  |  Oct 21, 2010
MSB Technology made a splash at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest last weekend with several new digital-audio products that can handle resolutions up to 32 bits and sampling rates as high as 384kHz. Also on hand was the company's newest monoblock power amp.
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Audio Video News
CEA Invites Consumers to Join
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 21, 2010
The Consumer Electronics Association, the CE industry's leading trade group, is inviting consumers to join. Until this point CEA members have been mainly manufacturers and industry insiders.
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Audio Video News
Netflix reports Q3 numbers: 16.9 million subscribers
SV Staff  |  Oct 20, 2010
Netflix has released its Q3 2010 numbers, and they show that the rent-by-mail, video streaming service is growing fast. At the end of the quarter, Netflix has 16.9 million subscribers, up 52% over the 11.1 million subscribers it had at the end of...
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Winter’s Bone—Lionsgate (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Oct 20, 2010
Video: 4/5
Audio: 3.5/5
Extras: 2.5/5
Seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth. Based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Moulin Rouge—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Oct 20, 2010
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3.5/5
Set in a Paris nightclub that caters to society's decadent elite, the exhilarating "Moulin Rouge" follows the story of the ill-fated love affair between a stunning courtesan and a struggling young writer.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Rocky Horror Picture Show—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Oct 20, 2010
Video: 3.5/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 4.5/5
Fasten your garter belt and come up to the lab and see what's on the slab! It's "The Rocky Horror Picture Show Special Edition", a screamingly funny, sinfully twisted salute to sci-fi, horror, B-movies and rock music, all rolled into one deliciously decadent morsel. And now there's even more to make you shiver with antici...pation: two additional musical numbers, "Once In A While" and "Superheroes", never seen theatrically or available on video! The madcap, musical mayhem begins when rain-soaked Brad and Janet take refuge in the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite mad scientist from outer space who is about to unveil his greatest creation - and have a bit of fun with his reluctant guests!
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Predators—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Oct 20, 2010
Video: 5/5
Audio: 5/5
Extras: 3.5/5
Adrien Brody stars as Royce, a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who come to realize they've been brought together on an alien planet... as prey. With the notable exception of a disgraced physician, they are all cold-blooded killers - mercenaries, Yakuza, convicts, death squad members - human "predators" that are now being systematically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien "Predators".
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Oct 20, 2010
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3.5/5
In this dazzling adaptation of Shakespeare's classic love story, Leonardo DiCaprio stars opposite Claire Danes. They light up the screen as the original star-crossed lovers against a thumping soundtrack and a boldly imagined modern-day setting.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
High Tension (Switchblade Romance)—Lionsgate (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Oct 20, 2010
Video: 3.5/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3/5
"High Tension" is an intense game of murder and survival, which will rattle viewers to their core. Maria and Alexia are classmates and best friends. Hoping to prepare for their college exams in peace and quiet, they decide to spend a weekend in the country at Alexia's parents secluded farmhouse. But in the dead of night, a stranger knocks on the front door. And with the first swing of his knife, the girls' idyllic weekend turns into an endless night of horror.
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