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Height-Enhanced Surround Hits the Street
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 12, 2009
Onkyo's TX-SR607 surround receiver ($599) is the first from any manufacturer to include Dolby Pro Logic IIz, the new height-enhanced surround mode from Dolby Laboratories.
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Music Reviews
Buddy & Julie Miller: Written in Chalk
Billy Altman  |  Mar 11, 2009
New West
Music •••• Sound ••••
They've sung and played on each other's albums since the early 1990s, but Written in Chalk is only the seco
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Clint + Angelina = Clintgelina?
Ken Korman  |  Mar 11, 2009
Universal
Movie ••• Picture •••• Sound •••½Extras ••½
All movies directed by Clint Eastwood ar
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Audio Video News
Sandy Gross leaving Definitive Technology
SV Staff  |  Mar 11, 2009
After a career spanning nearly four decades, Definitive Technology co-founder and president Sandy Gross is retiring. He will work his last day at the company on March 31, after which Executive Vice President Dave Peet and Vice President of...
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Audio Video News
Apple's new iPod Shuffle for earbud lovers only
SV Staff  |  Mar 11, 2009
This morning, with little more than a press release, Apple dropped a new $80, 4 GB iPod shuffle that's smaller than a single AA battery and has neither buttons nor a display. That means the controls are left up to some buttons built into the...
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Ears On
Is Your Cable Operator Remapping?
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 11, 2009
As a broadcast-basic cable subscriber, I'm entitled to receive unencrypted cable channels through my Sharp LCD HDTV's QAM tuner, including the HD-capable digital versions of the New York area's over-the-air stations. Imagine my dismay when the local Fox and CW affiliates abruptly disappeared from the digital channel lineup a couple of months ago. Going back to their wishy-washy 4:3 analog versions was downright painful.
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Music Reviews
Morrissey: Years of Refusal
Rob O'Connor  |  Mar 10, 2009
Attack/Lost Highway
Music •••• Sound ••••
Okay, one of the labels involved with releasing this new Morrissey album is the alt-country leader Lost Highway,
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Music Reviews
From Boston with heartache
Brett Milano  |  Mar 10, 2009
Spill
Music ••• Sound •••
There's a certain kind of female singer/songwriter that seems to flourish in New England: thoughtful, emotionally intense, a
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Custom Installation Equipment ReviewsCustom Installation How-ToHome Movie Theaters
240Hz VIZIO
Kim Wilson  |  Mar 10, 2009

VIZIO, well known for high value, low-cost LCD and plasma TVs, is now at the forefront of the latest TV technologies with the integration of a 240Hz Refresh Rate and Scanning Backlight in their 42-inch SV421XVT and 47-inch SV471XVT LCD flat panel TVs. Coupled with a Mega Dynamic Contrast Ratio of 50,000:1 these TVs provide a contrast ratio that rivals the performance of plasma displays. The 240Hz refresh rate virtually eliminates motion blur from fast-action movie sequences and video games.

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Custom Installation How-ToHome Movie Theaters
High End on the High Seas
Kim Wilson Photography:Trent Bell  |  Mar 10, 2009

Themed theaters allow the homeowner to retreat into a sanctuary of sorts. This month's Nautilus Theater even transports you to another time, when hearty sea farthing men (and a woman on occasion) spent months on the ocean in small wooden ships. However, they were never as technologically decked out as this.

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