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'Weatherproof' TVs Brave Our Elements
Brent Butterworth  |  Apr 10, 2008
"Weatherproof" TVs brave our elements PAN320 Pantel PAN320 When it comes to pure decadence, no technology delivers like LCD.
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A/V Veteran
Tech on Trek
Thomas J. Norton  |  Apr 10, 2008

I can't say I'm as big a <I>Star Trek</I> fan as some. I love the stories and characters, but I'm not into the minutiae. I don't know which deck sickbay is on, couldn't tell you the date the first Enterprise was launched (actually it was Stardate 1814, if you can believe Wikipedia), and don't know a word of Klingon.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Hidalgo (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Apr 10, 2008

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/410hidalgo.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Famed horseman Frank T. Hopkins (Viggo Mortenson) enters a grueling competition—"The Ocean of Fire"—with his mustang Hidalgo. Together, they must not only survive a 3000-mile race across the Arabian desert, but they must also prevail over competitors who will stop at nothing to win.

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Audio Video News
PS3 to Decode DTS-HD
Scott Wilkinson  |  Apr 10, 2008

PlayStation 3 owners rejoice! Today, Sony announced that the next system-software update for the PS3 (version 2.30), scheduled for release next week, will add the ability to decode DTS-HD Master Audio and High Resolution in their entirety. Up to now, the PS3 has only been able to extract the "core" DTS data from these formats, eliminating the benefit offered by their higher resolution.

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Audio Video News
PS3 Audio Update Guilts Gamers
SV Staff  |  Apr 10, 2008
More than ten million owners of Sony's PlayStation 3 will get a firmware update on April 15 that may make them feel ashamed of their home audio setup. The new software includes a codec from DTS that delivers DTS-HD Master Audio, which supports...
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Audio Video News
TBS Wakes Up to True HD
SV Staff  |  Apr 10, 2008
It happens every spring. Birds chirp, flowers bloom, and high-definition broadcasts of Major League Baseball games show up on TV - on TBS HD, to be precise. The season started a couple weeks ago, just about the same time that Sound & Vision...
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Audio Video News
Would You Buy a Blockbuster Box?
SV Staff  |  Apr 10, 2008
Blockbuster is firing on all cylinders in an attempt to bring movies into your living room every possible way. The company is so eager to please that its backing all movie delivery strategies - even conflicting ones. Its latest effort? A...
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Audio Video News
Labels Team Up with MySpace
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 10, 2008
The latest heavy-hitting entry to the music-downloading scene is MySpace Music. It's a joint effort that brings together three of the four of the major record labels with the social networking site owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
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Revel's Salon2: A Super-Speaker Model
Brent Butterworth  |  Apr 09, 2008

Since speaker manufacturers typically replace a particular model in their line after 3 years, you could say that 1 human year equals about 25 speaker years. That means Revel's original Salon lasted to the ripe old age of 200 - or 8 years to you and me. The engineers behind the Salon didn't want to create a new model just for the sake of creating a new model.

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Other Tech
The 411 on 7.1 Surround
Doug Newcomb  |  Apr 09, 2008

A home theater is nothing without a first-rate surround setup, and a 7.1-channel system can give you the most compelling sound experience that today's technology can offer. But having the right receiver and the right number of speakers doesn't mean you'll magically get the most out of your system.

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