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Audio Video News
DTV Audio Glitches
SV Staff  |  Aug 12, 2008
While no one can complain about the visual advantages of digital TV, the audio department is hearing plenty of complaints. The Dolby Digital standard does provide 'CD-quality' sound in the home, but other audio problems are plaguing the new format....
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Audio Video News
Integrated Digital TV's on the Rise
SV Staff  |  Aug 12, 2008
Set-top boxes, your days are numbered. That's according to a new study from IMS Research. Integrated digital TVs (iDTVs) will replace set-top boxes, with shipments of iDTV expected to hit 143 million by 2013. Japan has already seen the decline in...
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Bookshelf Speaker Reviews
BG Z-62 Speaker System
Mark Fleischmann  |  Aug 12, 2008
On a different planar.

Recorded music is a cozy conspiracy between conventional speaker technology and listening expectations. Most speakers are made of cones and domes, so we’ve gotten used to their particular dispersion patterns and regard them as a normal part of music. The first experience of planar speakers, like BG’s Z-62, can come as a shock to the listener who’s never heard a planar tweeter before.

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Audio Video News
CEA Mulls 3D Video Standard
Mark Fleischmann  |  Aug 12, 2008
The Consumer Electronics Association is putting its considerable standard-setting might behind an effort to bring 3D video into the home.
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Audio Video News
Deep Tracks - Universal's Lost Tunes
SV Staff  |  Aug 11, 2008
Imagine finding all the deep tracks, random recordings that you loved but the general public never got, or even just a beloved favorite that's too old for the mainstream sites to carry. Now, imagine finding them without copy-protection. Wanna...
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Redbelt—Sony Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Aug 11, 2008
Video: 4/5
Audio: 3.75/5
Extras: 3/5
Set on the westside of the Los Angeles fight world, a scene inhabited by bouncers, cage fighters, cops and special forces types, "Redbelt" is the story of Mike Terry, a Jiu-jitsu master who has avoided the prize fighting circuit, choosing to instead pursue a life of honor and education by operating a self-defense studio with a samurai's code. Terry and his wife Sondra struggle to keep the business running to make ends meet. An accident on a dark, rainy night, between an off duty officer and a distraught lawyer puts in motion a series of events that will change Terry's life dramatically introducing him to a world of promoters and movie star Chet Frank. In order to pay off his debts and regain his honor, Terry must step into the ring for the first time in his life.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Street Kings—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Aug 11, 2008
Video: 4.25/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3.75/5
A veteran cop finds himself ensnared in a deadly web of conspiracy and betrayal. Reeves stars as Tom Ludlow, a hard-nosed detective with a talent for delivering brutal street justice. When evidence implicates him in the murder of a fellow officer, the violence around Ludlow explodes as he realizes his own life is in danger and he can trust no one.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Nim’s Island—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Aug 11, 2008
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4.25/5
Extras: 3.5/5
Nim Rusoe lives on a deserted island with her scientist father Jack and her best friends: Selkie, a sea lion; Fred, a bearded dragon lizard; and Galileo, a plucky pelican. But when Jack goes missing at sea and the island is "invaded," Nim reaches out via e-mail to the adventurous author of her favorite books, and together, each discovers what it takes to truly become the hero of your own life story.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Miami Vice: The Director’s Cut—Universal (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Aug 11, 2008
Video: 4.25/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3.75/5
When detectives Ricardo Tubbs and Sonny Crockett are asked to investigate the brutal murders of two federal agents, they find themselves pulled into the lethal world of drug traffickers.
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Audio Video News
Blockbuster Busting Out Blu-ray
SV Staff  |  Aug 11, 2008
Blockbuster is taking aggressive steps to push Blu-ray and download services. While known as a DVD rental giant, Blockbuster is busting out of the mold. The stores are pushing Blu-ray with software and hardware displays and kiosks in a joint...
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