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Marantz Introduces Wireless Network Receivers
HT Staff  |  Jul 18, 2013
Marantz today announced that it is adding two models to its M-CR Series of wireless network receivers. The M-CR510 and M-CR610 support internet radio, music streaming services, and content from home networks, mobile devices and other sources. Both models are available now at $599 and $699, respectively.

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3D Blu-ray Player ReviewsBlu-ray Player Reviews
Samsung BD-F5900 Blu-ray 3D Player
David Vaughn  |  Jul 18, 2013
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Price: $150 At A Glance: Unique design • Middling Web browser with built-in Wi-Fi • Extremely loud disc loading

Every year a new generation of Blu-ray players hits the market from the major electronics manufacturers. While 3D was the last big advancement to hit the streets, the latest rage is 4K upconversion in the flagship players, but you won’t find that on the budget-friendly Samsung BD-F5900. What you will get for $150 is a 3D-capable player with a plethora of streaming options, a built-in Web browser, and Wi-Fi capability. With all these goodies, is there a reason to pay more for a Blu-ray player? Read on and see…

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New Products
JVC intros new LED/LCD TVs
Brent Butterworth  |  Jul 18, 2013
AmTRAN Video Corp., the company now producing TVs under the JVC brand, has announced four new JVC flat-panel TVs in sizes ranging from 42 to 55 inches, at prices ranging from $799 to $999. All feature a slim bezel design and edge-lit LED backlighting with local dimming.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews3D Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Monsters, Inc.
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jul 18, 2013
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James P. “Sulley” Sullivan is the pride of Monsters, Inc., the power company for Monstropolis. As Sulley and the other Monster scarers pass through doors leading into children’s bedrooms, the energy generated by kids’ screams is captured and stored. Sulley is the champion scarer, and Mike Wazowski is his coach, right-hand monster, and best pal.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Argo
Corey Gunnestad  |  Jul 18, 2013
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In early November 1979, a mob of hostile Iranian extremists stormed the U.S. embassy and took 52 American hostages and held them captive for 444 days. Seconds before the Iranians seized control of the embassy, six American officials managed to escape and find refuge at the residence of a Canadian ambassador. When the absence of the six Americans is discovered, an intense search for them ensues. Once found, they will almost certainly be executed publicly as spies.
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Audio Video News
Amazon AutoRips LPs
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 18, 2013
7113ama.jpgLongtime Amazon customers may already be surprised to find CD purchases from years and years ago appearing in their Amazon Cloud Players. Their eyebrows are set to move even higher now that Amazon is extending the courtesy to LP purchases. Buy an AutoRip-eligible disc—analog or digital—from the online retailer, boot up the Cloud Player, and there it is. If your computer or tablet of choice lacks a disc drive, as increasingly many do, you’re also free to download a free 256-kbps AutoRipped copy. The feature is available to U.S. customers only, for titles displaying the AutoRip logo.
Audio Video News
RIP: Amar Bose, Founder of Bose Corp.
HT Staff  |  Jul 17, 2013
Amar G. Bose, the MIT-educated electrical engineer who founded Bose Corp. in 1964 and built it into a private multi-billion-dollar empire spanning home, personal, professional, and automotive audio products, died Friday July 12. He was 83.
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Subwoofer Reviews
Review: Kreisel Sound DXD-12012 subwoofer
Brent Butterworth  |  Jul 16, 2013

On Monday, when I reviewed the NXG NX-BAS-500 subwoofer, I recallled a time 20+ years ago when the only companies that made really good subwoofers were M&K and Velodyne. The "K" in M&K stood for Kreisel-Ken Kreisel, to be specific.

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This Week
This Week in Music, July 16, 2013: What were once (Dixie) Chicks are now (Court Yard) Hounds
Ken Richardson  |  Jul 16, 2013

Court Yard Hounds: Amelita

New release (Columbia; tour dates)
Photo by James Minchin

It’s instructive to remember that Emily Robison and Martie Maguire helped co-found the Dixie Chicks in 1989, a full 6 years before Natalie Maines was invited to join. Oh, and of course, Emily and Martie are sisters. Clearly, they have a bond that won’t break, and they use it to their musical advantage on Amelita, the engaging follow-up to their 2000 self-titled debut as Court Yard Hounds.

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This Week
This Week in Movies & TV, July 16, 2013: Civil Rights & Civilization
Josef Krebs  |  Jul 16, 2013

42

42 is so schmaltzy, clean-cut, clean-living, and well brought up that it makes sentimental 1940s-made baseball biopics with Jimmy Stewart (The Stratton Story) or Gary Cooper (The Pride of the Yankees) seem positively cynical and bawdy in comparison.

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