For the last 30 years, French speaker maker <A href="http://www.focal-fr.com/">Focal</A> has been pushing the envelope of design and manufacturing to achieve the ultimate in sonic reproduction. Nowhere is that more evident than in its flagship <A href="http://www.grande-utopia-em.com/">Grande Utopia EM</A>, the third generation of this technological tour de force.
Wireless HD has been a slow train coming. But a new chipset may finally bring it to HDTVs, Blu-ray players, transmitter/receiver kits, and other products.
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Extras: 2.5/5 Following the suspicious death of their mother, sisters Anna and Alex become entangled in a deadly battle of wills when their father becomes engaged to Rachel, their mother's former caretaker. As the two sisters investigate Rachel's questionable past, they are confronted with ghostly visions, terrifying nightmares and deadly consequences.
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Extras: 3.5/5 Mickey Rourke gives the performance of a lifetime as pro wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson, a former superstar now paying the price for twenty years of grueling punishment in and out of the ring. But he's about to risk everything to prove he has one more match left in him: a re-staging of his famous Madison Square Garden bout against "The Ayatollah."
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Extras: .5/5 Ray Tango and Gabe Cash are rival L.A. policemen with one thing in common: each thinks he is the best. Team them and they're like oil and water. But frame them for a crime and they're like a match and kerosene. Unjustly jailed among lowlifes they put behind bars, the two stage a prison breakout that's a breathless rush of weapons and wisecracks then roar after the shadowy crime lord who set them up. "Tango & Cash" are out to clear their names. Join them and feel the rush.
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Extras: 2.5/5 For 20 years an elusive serial killer has assumed his victims’ identities. But now there's a breakthrough: Scott is assigned to the case and it's her job to know what makes a killer tick. But somehow this killer knows even more about Scott.
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Extras: 4.5/5 Welcome to "Sin City." This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark. Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home. Crooked cops. Sexy dames. Desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge. Others lust after redemption. And then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.
Do consumers have a right to copy DVDs? That's the central question of a lawsuit pitting the Motion Picture Association of America against RealNetworks, which introduced a DVD copying application called RealDVD last fall, only to see sales suspended a month later. The case came to trial last week in San Francisco and seems to be throwing off new controversies every day.