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Appleseed—Geneon
Aimee Giron  |  Oct 18, 2005
Video: 5
Audio: 5
Extras: 3
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Million Dollar Baby—Warner Brothers
Tony DeCarlo  |  Oct 18, 2005
Video: 4
Audio: 4
Extras: 2
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A Very Long Engagement—Warner Brothers
Ryan Vincent  |  Oct 18, 2005
Video: 4
Audio: 4
Extras: 3
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The Aviator—Warner
Amy Carter  |  Oct 18, 2005
Bad Obsession
The Aviator delivers on DVD.
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Rocky Mountain High-Fi
Thomas J. Norton  |  Oct 17, 2005

<I>Ah, fall in the Rockies. Crisp weather. Clear blue skies. Hi-Fi.</I>

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Audio Video News
Apple Announces Video iPod
 |  Oct 16, 2005

Last week Apple concurrently announced a new iPod digital music player that can play digital video as well as audio, and iTunes 6.0, which enables users to purchase and download music videos and TV shows from the iTunes Music Store (iTMS.

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Other Tech
Working with a Pro
Rob Medich  |  Oct 15, 2005

Guy walks into a Tweeter (no, this isn't a dirty joke) and asks if they can design a multiroom entertainment system for the house he's building. So an installer visits the construction site and comes up with a plan. But then the guy blows him off, taking the installer's ideas and having his own electrician do the work instead.

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Working with a Pro Page 2
Rob Medich  |  Oct 15, 2005

Guy walks into a Tweeter (no, this isn't a dirty joke) and asks if they can design a multiroom entertainment system for the house he's building. So an installer visits the construction site and comes up with a plan. But then the guy blows him off, taking the installer's ideas and having his own electrician do the work instead.

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Custom Installation Equipment Reviews
SkipJam iMedia
Chris Chiarella  |  Oct 15, 2005  |  First Published: Oct 30, 2005
Any signal, anywhere? Yeah, pretty much.
Increasing droves of con-sumers are installing networks in their homes to accomplish boring feats such as sharing printers or perhaps more diverting applications like music sharing. But, not until I reviewed the offerings from SkipJam did I fully understand how much entertainment a home network can provide. SkipJam has designed a platform-agnostic networking system in which a single wholehouse configuration can work seamlessly with an existing CAT-5 (Ethernet), Wi-Fi, coaxial cable, or power-line network—or any combination of these different standards. You will need a properly functioning network in place, independent of the SkipJam installation. But, if you want to add one more location wirelessly, for example, it's no problem.
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Yamaha YSP-1 Digital Sound Projector
John Higgins  |  Oct 15, 2005  |  First Published: Oct 30, 2005
Bouncing off the walls.

In a time when housing prices are rising at an exponential rate, making affordable square footage scarce, one of the major challenges to having a home theater system is space. The home-theater-in-a-box phenomenon has attacked this problem by packaging smaller, matched speakers together with a receiver, but there's still the issue of finding space for proper speaker placement and the messy wiring that follows. Yamaha offers the YSP-1 Digital Sound Projector to alleviate this problem.

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