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LCD Turbocharger
Brent Butterworth  |  Sep 25, 2008

Most video display demos aren't terribly convincing. First, the manufacturer spends 15 minutes telling you about his whiz-bang new technology. Next, he turns on the display and shows you pictures of flowers, vegetables, and Japanese girls in bikinis.

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Audio Video News
Slinging in HD - Slingbox PRO-HD
SV Staff  |  Sep 25, 2008
The next generation of Sling Media's Slingbox just hit the stores and online retailers. The Slingbox PRO-HD will stream HD content, from almost any source: over the air, cable, satellite, or DVR. It slings the signal to a computer in your house....
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Visitor—Anchor Bay (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Sep 25, 2008
Video: 3.75/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 2.5/5
Sixty-two-year-old Walter Vale is sleepwalking through his life. Having lost his passion for teaching and writing, he fills the void by unsuccessfully trying to learn to play classical piano. When his college sends him to Manhattan to attend a conference, Walter is surprised to find a young couple has taken up residence in his apartment. Victims of a real estate scam, Tarek, a Syrian man, and Zainab, his Senegalese girlfriend, have nowhere else to go. In the first of a series of tests of the heart, Walter reluctantly allows the couple to stay with him. Touched by his kindness, Tarek, a talented musician, insists on teaching the aging academic to play the African drum.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Leatherheads—Universal (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Sep 25, 2008
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4.25/5
Extras: 2.5/5
Dodge Connelly is a brash and handsome gridiron giant who is equally comfortable leading his team in a barroom brawl or charging for a touchdown in a packed stadium. But when Connelly's team loses their sponsor and the entire league appears set to collapse, the quick-thinking jock attempts a creative late-game comeback. If Connelly can convince former college football star and decorated war hero Carter Rutherford to join the team, there may be hope for the ill-fated team after all.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
88 Minutes—Tri Star (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Sep 25, 2008
Video: 3.25/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3/5
Al Pacino plays university professor Jack Gramm, who occasionally assists the FBI in matters of forensic psychiatry. His recent testimony against a freshly convicted criminal seems to be the reason he has gotten a scary phone call informing him he will die in 88 minutes.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Risky Business—Warner Bros. (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Sep 25, 2008
Video: 3/5
Audio: 3.75/5
Extras: 3.75/5
High school senior is tired of being Mr. All-American and facing such traumatic decisions as which Ivy League college to attend. His life gets turned around when he meets a sexy call girl who transforms his house into a brothel while his parents are away.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Adventures of Robin Hood—Warner Bros. (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Sep 25, 2008
Video: 3.5/5
Audio: 2.5/5
Extras: 3.5/5
A classic tale of Sherwood Forest. Errol Flynn is eternally charming as Robin, defender of the poor, tries to rid England of Prince John's tyranny and gain the hand of the lovely Maid Marian, in this rousing family adventure.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Kill Bill Vlolume 1 & 2
David Vaughn  |  Sep 25, 2008

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/kbvol1.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Uma Thurman is The Bride ready for her big day at the altar. But her boss Bill (David Carradine) has other plans, and she finds herself left for dead with a bullet in her head. When she comes out of a four-year coma, she has vengeance on her mind and takes on Bill's deadly squad of international assassins.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Deception
David Vaughn  |  Sep 25, 2008

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/deception.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Ewan McGregor stars as Jonathan McQuarry, a workaholic accountant who discovers there's more to life when a charismatic lawyer (Hugh Jackman) introduces him to "The List"—a decadent, sexual playground for New York's power elite. Jonathan gets more than he bargained for when he meets "S" (Michelle Williams) and falls for her, breaking all the rules of the sex club in the process.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Run Fatboy Run
David Vaughn  |  Sep 25, 2008

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/fatboy.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Minutes before his wedding, Dennis Doyle (Simon Pegg) leaves his pregnant fianc&#233;, Libby (Thandie Newton), at the altar. Five years later, he realizes he made the biggest mistake of his life and wants her back. Unfortunately, Libby has moved on and is dating Whit (Hank Azaria), a super-successful financial manager with a great personality and even better abs. Dennis, on the other hand, is overweight and employed as a security guard at a London mall. In order to prove his worth to Libby, Dennis decides to enter the same London Marathon that Whit has been training for&#151;the big difference is that Dennis has only three weeks to prepare for the grueling 26-mile race.

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