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Boxed Set of the Month: Jane's Addiction
SV Staff  |  Apr 30, 2009
I'm not the world's biggest fan of Jane's Addiction (far from it), but the Limited Edition of A Cabinet of Curiosities (Rhino) is so compelling visually that it draws me in, like C.S. Lewis's wardrobe. As such, it's a lock...
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Audio Video News
Audyssey Labs introduces 10-channel surround
SV Staff  |  Apr 30, 2009
Yesterday, Audyssey Labs announced DSX, a new technology designed to add extra channels to a 5.1 or 7.1 surround-sound system. DSX, or Dynamic Surround Expansion, adds two front height-channel speakers, just as Dolby’s new Pro Logic IIz technology...
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Premiere Design
Sonic Utopia
Scott Wilkinson  |  Apr 30, 2009

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.

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Audio Video News
WHDI Wireless HD Coming
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 30, 2009
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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Other Tech
Theo and Walt: Genius You Can Sit On
John Sciacca  |  Apr 29, 2009
When two titans of industry join forces, you expect the results to be something special.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The X-Men Trilogy—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Apr 29, 2009
Video: 4.25/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 4/5
The "X-Men Trilogy" includes "X-Men", "X2: X-Men United" and "X3: The Last Stand".
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Uninvited—Dreamworks (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Apr 29, 2009
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4.5/5
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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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Wrestler—Fox Searchlight (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Apr 29, 2009
Video: 4/5
Audio: 3.5/5
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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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Tango and Cash—Warner Bros (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Apr 29, 2009
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4/5
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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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Talking Lives: Extended Cut—Warner Bros (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Apr 29, 2009
Video: 3/5
Audio: 4.5/5
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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