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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Rundown
David Vaughn  |  Feb 02, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/rundown.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, stars as Beck, a bounty hunter sent to the Amazon jungle to fetch Travis (Seann William Scott), the son of his wealthy boss. With a $250,000 bounty on his head, Travis is Beck's meal ticket to his dream of opening his own restaurant.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Space Buddies
David Vaughn  |  Feb 02, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/spacebuddies.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>After stowing away on a school field trip to witness the test launch of a spacecraft, the Buddies&#151;a group of dog friends featured in several other movies&#151;sneak aboard to explore the ship, but disaster strikes when they are rocketed into space.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Friday the 13th
David Vaughn  |  Feb 02, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/friday13.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>In 1958 at the Crystal Lake kids camp, young Jason Voorhees drowned due to the inattention of the camp counselors. Shortly following the drowning, two camp counselors mysteriously died in a double homicide resulting in the camps closure. Twenty two years later, the owner of the property thinks enough time has passed and a new generation of kids should enjoy the beautiful setting&#151;boy was he wrong!

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
David Vaughn  |  Feb 02, 2009

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/vicky.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) venture to Barcelona for a summer holiday when they meet a charming man, Juan Antonio Gonzalo (Javier Bardem), a local painter who offers to act as a tour guide&#151;among other things. A love triangle develops, and to further complicate matters, Juan's ex-wife Maria (Penlope Cruz) enters the picture.

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Audio Video News
Xbox 360 HDMI Fix Coming at 2:00am
SV Staff  |  Feb 02, 2009
Xbox 360 has had a problem ever since NXE went live - the HDMI outputs haven't worked. Not for NXE, any other games or even movies or streaming.  Sucks for you, right?Luckily, Microsoft has finally admitted that it's a problem on...
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Audio Video News
7 More Unfortunate TV Broadcast Mix-ups
SV Staff  |  Feb 02, 2009
By now, you've heard about the porny interlude that Super Bowl viewers got in Tucson, but it certainly wasn't the first time something like that has happened. Here are a few more situations where viewers got more than they expected....
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Audio Video News
HDTV Super Bowl Sales
SV Staff  |  Feb 02, 2009
Did you, or didn't you?The Consumer Electronics Association predicted that nearly 2.6 million HDTVs were sold specifically for Super Bowl XLIII.  They said that for the fourth year in a row the big game is the number one reason folks go...
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AV Receiver Reviews
Onkyo TX-SR806 A/V Receiver
Mark Fleischmann  |  Feb 02, 2009
Price: $1,099 At A Glance: Onkyo’s first THX Ultra2 Plus–certified AVR • New THX and Audyssey algorithms • Five HDMI 1.3 inputs • Faroudja DCDi video

With Two Secret Sauces

When I compare the Onkyo TX-SR806 receiver with last year’s Onkyo crop, I see incremental but significant improvements. The most notable ones are licensed technologies from THX and Audyssey (more on them soon). But when I compare this product with the earliest A/V receivers (and in the process, look back on myself as I was then), I actually get dizzy.

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Audio Video News
Netflix Might Start Streming HBO Content for a Price
SV Staff  |  Feb 02, 2009
According to Hacking Netflix, users (not me, sadly) are getting e-mail surveys asking if they would be willing to pay an extra $10 a month to watch a selection of movies and original shows from HBO. It goes on to list most of the network's most...
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HDTV Tech
Your Digital TV To-Do List
Peter Putman  |  Feb 02, 2009
How time flies. It seems like we’ve been talking about the transition to digital terrestrial television broadcasting forever—waiting for stations to light up the transmitters, watching as more and more high-definition programming appeared on our TV screens, and shopping for a new flat-screen HDTV for our family rooms.
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