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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
South Park: The Complete Twelfth Season
David Vaughn  |  Mar 04, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/southpark.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>In the twelfth season, the boys from <i>South Park</i> follow the presidential election from the primaries through the new president-elect's acceptance speech, they help Britney Spears disfigure her body, and try to get the country of Canada back to work when it strikes for more money. The best episode during the season is "Elementary School Musical," when Stan realizes he'll lose Wendy forever unless he adopts the latest fad hitting the school&#151;singing (think <i>High School Musical</i>).

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Cadillac Records
David Vaughn  |  Mar 04, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/cadillac.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>This is the true story about Leonard Chess (Adrien Brody) and Chess Records, home to some of America's greatest musical legends, including Chuck Berry (Mos Def), Etta James (Beyonc&#233; Knowles), Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright), Little Walter (Columbus Short), and Willie Dixon (Cedric The Entertainer) &#151;all members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Primal Fear
David Vaughn  |  Mar 04, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/primal.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Ambitious and famed defense lawyer Martin Vail (Richard Gere) volunteers his services to Aaron Stampler (Edward Norton), a Kentucky teenager charged with the murder of a Chicago archbishop. Vail uncovers evidence that the archbishop was involved in a corrupt land scheme and may have molested young parishioners. The case is further complicated by a psychologist's diagnosis that Stampler suffers from multiple personality disorder.

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Audio Video News
Sony 2009 Open House
Thomas J. Norton  |  Mar 04, 2009
Every year, Sony holds a late-winter Open House (aka line show). As in years past, it was located at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas. The current financial situation, not to mention bad weather back east, kept most of the consumer-electronics press at home, but I was there from sunny southern California, camera in hand, to bring you the latest scoop.
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Blu-ray Player Reviews
Sony BDP-S5000ES Blu-ray Player
Kris Deering  |  Mar 04, 2009
Price: $2,000 At A Glance: BD-Live, storage included • Outstanding build quality • Great DVD playback • Full advanced audio decoding • Limited HD video processing • Average load times

Elevating the Blu-ray Standard?

Sony’s Elevated Standard (ES) products have long been at the respected upper end of the company’s product line. I remember Sony’s early ES DVD players were the cat’s meow in terms of solid video performance and features. If you wanted reference-quality DVD playback early on in the format, you wanted an ES player. Now Sony has delivered two ES branded Blu-ray players. For this review, I’m going to look at its new flagship, the BDP-S5000ES.

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Audio Video News
Virgin sacrifice: all U.S. stores to close
SV Staff  |  Mar 04, 2009
Another chain bites the dust. The Virgin Entertainment Group has announced that it will be shutting down all six of its remaining Virgin Megastores. Instead of simply packing up, it seems that Virgin will be moving its Megastore assets into real...
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Audio Video News
Kaleidescape's new Mini System offers a more compact way to serve up your DVDs and albums
SV Staff  |  Mar 04, 2009
Two years ago, we reviewed the Kaleidescape Movie & Music Server, a rack-mounted home theater beast that could store all of your albums and DVDs on its hard drives. It was big and expensive, but did its job really well, to the extent that we gave...
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Audio Video News
Circuit's Loss Is Best Buy's Gain
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 04, 2009
One door closes and another opens. Where will Circuit City customers take their business after the mega-chain's swan dive? To Best Buy, 55 percent of them told NPD Group researchers.
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Music Reviews
U2: No Line on the Horizon
Brett Milano  |  Mar 03, 2009
Interscope
Music •••• Sound •••••
If you read the album title a certain way, No Line on the Horizon sounds pretty funny: Wouldn't that be the
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Audio Video News
LG is sticking with plasma
SV Staff  |  Mar 03, 2009
Speculation about LG abandoning plasma screen technology seems to be unfounded, according to a statement the company released last week and reaffirmed by John Taylor, LG Electronics USA's Vice President of Public Affairs. The release reaffirms...
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