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Surround Processor Reviews
Integra DTC-9.8 A/V Processor
Kris Deering  |  Apr 07, 2008
Next-generation audio/video controller.

Integra raised a lot of eyebrows when it announced the new DTC-9.8 A/V processor at CEDIA last year. Not only was this the first pre/pro on the market to offer decoding of the next-gen audio codecs from Dolby and DTS, it also boasts Silicon Optix video processing and highly sophisticated Audyssey room correction. And its $1,600 price point was almost unheard of in the separates market.

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Audio Video News
Consumers Won't Trash Analog TVs
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 07, 2008
Will all those lead-filled analog TVs end up on the trash heap, where they'll pollute ground water? Not so, says the Consumer Electronics Association. A new study shows most of the obsolete sets will find loving new homes.
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The Custom Installer: The Little Cable That Can
John Sciacca  |  Apr 06, 2008

Like most S&V readers, I was excited by January's feature story called "50 Greatest A/V Innovations." How could any red-blooded techie not be sucked in by a title like that? But, as with all lists, this one included and excluded some choices that were debatable - and I'm going to weigh in on one of the biggest omissions.

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Other Tech
Pioneer Stands By Its Plasma
Brent Butterworth  |  Apr 06, 2008

Rumors that Pioneer would end production of plasma TV panels and begin buying them from other companies raised eyebrows in the electronics industry this week. But according to Russ Johnston, Pioneer's executive vice president of product planning and marketing, those who see Pioneer's move as a bellwether of plasma's demise will have to save their schadenfreude for another day.

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Audio Video News
Mitsubishi 2008 Line Show
Scott Wilkinson  |  Apr 06, 2008

Last week, Mitsubishi invited its dealers and members of the press to see this year's TVs at the Hyatt Regency in Huntington Beach, California. Front and center were the company's laser-illuminated DLP rear-pros, first unveiled at CES last January. Dubbed LaserVue, these sets are intended to rekindle the flagging RPTV market with twice the color range of today's HDTVs and larger screen sizes than any reasonably priced flat panel.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVD Review: No Country for Old Men
Marc Horowitz  |  Apr 05, 2008
Miramax
Movie ••••½Picture •••• Sound •••• Extras •••

With his bad haircut and the 1,000-mile stare fr

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVD Review: Michael Clayton
Ken Korman  |  Apr 05, 2008
Warner
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The corporate-malfeasance thriller may

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Reference DVD Review: 3:10 to Yuma, and DVD Review: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Ken Korman  |  Apr 05, 2008
3:10 to Yuma Lionsgate
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Reference DVD Review: This Sporting Life
Sol Louis Siegel  |  Apr 05, 2008
The Criterion Collection
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Lindsay Anderson

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVD Review: Across the Universe
Ken Korman  |  Apr 05, 2008
Sony
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A movie musical based on the brilliant and beloved Be

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