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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Varsity Blues—Paramount Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Sep 30, 2009
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4.25/5
Extras: 3/5
At first, backup quarterback Jonathan "Mox" Moxon is nowhere close to being a football star. He's perfectly content to stay on the bench and out of the win-at-all-cost strategies of coach Bud Kilmer. But when the starting quarterback is injured, Mox is in the game...and in direct conflict with his hotheaded coach and girlfriend. Soon everyone in Mox's football-crazed community will realize there's not just a new star quarterback in town, there's a new kind of hero.
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Audio Video News
HD Deals: Act I of 'Fable II'
SV Staff  |  Sep 30, 2009
Microsoft is offering Xbox live users a rare opportunity to download what we'd like to call "a giant game demo" for Fable II. It might take a while to download, but might be worth checking out before buying the game. More HD and...
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Audio Video News
Lady GaGa launches her own line of headphones
SV Staff  |  Sep 30, 2009
Lady Gaga, Dr. Dre, Interscope chairman Jimmy Iovine, and Monster Cable CEO Noel Lee held a joint press conference earlier today announcing the launch of Monster's new "Heartbeats by Lady Gaga" in-ear headphones. Like Monster Cable's previous...
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BD Burner, Poor Vision, Ambient Light
Scott Wilkinson  |  Sep 30, 2009
Burning Desire
I have a pretty fancy home-theater system, and I use DirecTV as my broadcast source. I would love to be able to burn widescreen HDTV shows to a DVD. My first choice is to burn DVDs in widescreen high def. My second choice would be to burn DVDs in widescreen, even if not high def. At this time, is there a good high-def DVD burner I could buy? Price is not an issue.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Wizard of Oz - 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition (Blu-ray) The Wizard of Oz - 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Sep 29, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/woz.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Adapted from L. Frank Baum's timeless children's tale, Dorothy (Judy Garland) and her dog Toto are caught in a tornado and end up in the Land of Oz. In order to return home to Kansas, she must follow the yellow brick road to visit the Wizard of Oz (Frank Morgan). Along the way she meets the Scarecrow (Ray Bolger) who wishes for a brain, the Tinman (Jack Haley) who's longing for a heart, and the Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr) in search of some courage.

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Audio Video News
Panasonic 3D Plasma TV
Scott Wilkinson  |  Sep 29, 2009

At the CEDIA Expo earlier this month, we saw a demo of Panasonic's 3D Blu-ray system on a 103-inch plasma. It was mighty impressive, but few consumers are going to buy that behemoth, even at it's recently reduced price of $50,000. Fortunately, they won't have to.

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Audio Video News
HD Deals: Dynaudio Contour S 5.4 Speaker
SV Staff  |  Sep 29, 2009
We have to thank one of the members of the forum for this find. Here's a used Dynaudio Contour S 5.4 Maple speaker for $3300.00. More HD and gadget deals* after the jump. Polk Audio RM6750 5.1 Channel Home Theater Speaker System (Set of...
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Audio Video News
Specimen Little Horns are actually big horns
SV Staff  |  Sep 29, 2009
It's hard to say much about custom audio gear makers Specimen's Little Horn speakers, other than that they're big horns. Each speaker consists of a 36-inch-tall fiberglass horn mounted on an 8-inch plywood cube. Almost four feet tall isn't exactly...
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Audio Video News
MIT explains OLEDs using a pickle
SV Staff  |  Sep 29, 2009
The headline makes it sound crazy, but after watching the video from MIT, it makes complete sense. Professor, Vladimir Bulovic does a delicious demonstration of how OLEDs are simply organic substrates sandwiched between electrodes....
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Premiere Design
Aesthetic Functionality
Scott Wilkinson  |  Sep 29, 2009

In most high-quality A/V products, form follows function, but in the case of the Gramophone speaker from Swedish maker <A href="http://www.aesthesis.se">Aesthesis</A>, form and function are intertwined, arising together during four years of development. Standing nearly four feet tall, this hand-made, carbon-fiber speaker makes a bold design statement while offering impressive specs.

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