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CEDIA 2012
CEDIA Expo 2012: An Incomplete Account of Some Trends
Michael Berk  |  Sep 12, 2012

The real story of CEDIA Expo 2012, in my opinion, was the way in which the traditional forces of custom integration and installation continue to respond to the flood of ever-more-capable products coming out of the consumer electronics sector, from wireless video and audio to cheap-and-cheerful iOS and Android propelled appliances.

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This Week
New Movies for September 11, 2012: Who's the Fairest of Them All?
Josef Krebs  |  Sep 11, 2012

Snow White and the Huntsman

"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?" Snow White - at least in terms of this Blu-ray disc. The film itself is sometimes exciting and engaging, sometimes draggy, but where sound and vision is concerned, it's reference quality.

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Media Server Reviews
NAS Drives to Store Your Media Libraries
Barb Gonzalez  |  Sep 11, 2012
It was a steadily growing progression. The more I streamed movies and music to my media players and home theater, the more movies and music I downloaded. My movie folder was stuffed with high-definition videos. There were more songs than I could listen to in a month. My media libraries had grown to hundreds of gigabytes and were slowing down my computer.
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Vintage Gear
Sennheiser HD414
Steve Guttenberg  |  Sep 11, 2012
The Sennheiser HD414 was a game changer in 1968. In those days hi-fi headphones were all big and bulky, closed-back designs, and the compact HD414 was the industry’s first “open aire,” on-ear (supra-aural) headphone. It looked, felt and sounded like nothing else and forecast the future direction of headphone sound.
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This Week
New Music For September 11, 2012: Sixties Redux with the Monkees, the Velvets - and the Beatles
Mark Smotroff  |  Sep 11, 2012

Magical Mystery Cure

The really big news from overseas is that - FINALLY - The Beatles' legendary Magical Mystery Tour film extravaganza is being reissued with a proper remastering and a deluxe box set treatment.

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CEDIA 2012
CEDIA Expo 2012: Compact and Portable Audio
Brent Butterworth  |  Sep 11, 2012

The CEDIA Expo is supposed to be a showcase for custom home theater, multiroom sound, and home automation, but this year a lot of manufacturers didn’t seem to have read the rules. Instead of focusing on in-wall speakers or 12-channel amplifiers, they showcased wireless audio systems, desktop systems, and even headphones.

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CEDIA 2012
CEDIA Expo 2012: A Runco Projector Deluge in Indy
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Sep 10, 2012

Runco unveiled several new projectors at CEDIA, all of them sporting some big brightness figures.

How big? Well in one case they’re claiming 94 foot-Lamberts. That’s LED LCD territory.

Get your wallet home equity line of credit ready.

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CEDIA Expo 2012: Kaleidescape Pairs with Leonard Maltin
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Sep 10, 2012

Kaleidescape has paired up with storied movie critic Leonard Maltin to offer their customers a specialized list of movies hand-picked by the man himself.

Even if you don’t have a Kaleidescape system, they’ve posted video interviews with Maltin on YouTube about the movies.

All the info and one of the videos after the jump.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Corey Gunnestad  |  Sep 10, 2012
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Long before Batman had the Joker, the world’s greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, had an evil nemesis who was every bit his equal in intelligence and powers of perception; the yin to his yang, so to speak. Professor James Moriarty was a precursor to the Bond villain and a blueprint for every criminal mastermind to come. In the previous Sherlock Holmes film, he was a mysterious and sinister presence concealed in darkness. For A Game of Shadows, he comes to the forefront to challenge the master detective to a game to the death and is played with relish by Jared Harris.
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CinemaStyle
Conceal Your TV
Jamie Sorcher  |  Sep 10, 2012
Today’s flat panels are beautiful to look at whether turned on or off, but there are times when you just want to conceal—not reveal—your TV. Blending your big screen into a room environment doesn’t have to be a design dilemma; in fact, it’s easier than ever with these options.
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