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The Rookie
 |  Mar 12, 2008

When high-school baseball coach Jim Morris (Dennis Quaid) was looking for a way to inspire his perennially losing team to win, he decided to issue a challenge they couldn't refuse. If they made it to the district playoffs, he would try out for a major-league baseball team. Fortunately for Morris, his team fulfilled their part of the bargain, and he went to the tryout in which his fast ball was clocked at 98 mph! It wasn't long before Jim found himself pitching for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays as a 35-year-old rookie. The best part of the story is that it actually happened in 1999.

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Audio Video News
Panasonic Colors Your World
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 12, 2008
Panasonic showed off two distinct approaches to flat-panel color reproduction yesterday at a New York press event. This was just one facet of a sweeping presentation that covered new LCD as well as plasma lines, all rebranded with the name Viera, much of which will reach the market in a "critical mass" slated for April.
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Audio Video News
Too Many HD Channels, or Not Enough?
SV Staff  |  Mar 11, 2008
Is there an HDTV owner in America who thinks there's a glut of HD channels and content to watch? Probably not. Well, maybe one. His name is Michael Angelakis, and he's the chief financial officer of Comcast. At a conference Monday, he told the...
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Audio Video News
Painful DVD to Blu-ray Transition Can't Top Game Biz Cycles
SV Staff  |  Mar 11, 2008
Format transitions are tough. That's a concept with which video gamers are intimately familiar, so when gamers and game executives hear news about the movie business that suggests even though sales of Blu-ray discs will triple in 2008, DVD sales...
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Audio Video News
Panasonic Puts Rear-Projection Sets in Rearview Mirror
SV Staff  |  Mar 11, 2008
In a press briefing touting the virtues of its expanded line of Viera plasma and LCD televisions, Panasonic indicated that it's quietly exiting the rear-projection television business. "We're out of that market," Panasonic spokesman Jeff...
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Audio Video News
We Can't See Microsoft and Logitech in Harmony
SV Staff  |  Mar 11, 2008
Good thing this rumor doesn't have legs. If it did, we'd have to break them. Since early January, reports have surfaced that Microsoft is interested in acquiring peripheral-maker Logitech for close to $10 billion. Finally, Logitech chairman...
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Audio Video News
Home Theater vs. Movie Theater
SV Staff  |  Mar 11, 2008
We don't know about your family, but ever since we set up our big-screen HDTV and surround-sound speakers a couple years ago, we've been to the movies exactly . . . once. There's something about enjoying a film with all settings (picture quality,...
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Audio Video News
Movie Downloads Still Half-Baked
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 11, 2008
Like a Perdue Oven Stuffer Roaster with an unpopped plastic thermometer, downloads are still a half-baked method of movie delivery, according to a recent survey.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Ice Age
 |  Mar 10, 2008

Unlikely heroes Manfred, Sid, Diego, and Scrat join together to return an infant boy to his father before the coming ice age dooms them all. These brave souls, however, are not human. Manny is a wooly mammoth, Sid is a sloth, Diego is a saber-toothed tiger, and Scrat—one of the funniest creatures ever created—is a tiny saber-toothed squirrel who just wants to protect his precious acorn.

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Fred Manteghian Blog
My Only Friend, the "N"
Fred Manteghian  |  Mar 10, 2008

I just installed one of the new line of wireless 'N' routers (802.11n draft resolution), the <a href="http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=377018" target="new">Belkin Vision N1</a>. The computer industry is, for the most part, not quite as psychotically frenetic with their product introductions as the consumer electronics industry, so this went fairly smoothly. No HDMI teeth mashing, no video muting, no loud buzz when you switch to DTS.

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