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Bookshelf Speaker Reviews
JBL ES20 Speaker System
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 15, 2008
Looking like a winner right out of the box.

Producing loudspeakers at mass-market prices is a thankless task. It takes the resources of a big company like Harman International to do it right. I’ve determined in one review after another that JBL has long been a budget-speaker champ. You could even call me a JBL fan. But I was still surprised when I took the ES20 loudspeaker out of its box. Its tapered non-rectangular form announced that this was no low-end junk-in-a-box speaker, even at $399 per pair. And the surprises didn’t end there. This is the first budget speaker I’ve reviewed that boasts a super-tweeter in addition to the usual tweeter and woofer.

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Blu-ray Player Reviews
Shades of Blu
Kris Deering  |  Sep 15, 2008
Introduction
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Audio Video News
AT&T Bows Free U-verse DVRs
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 15, 2008
Customers of AT&T's U-verse will be offered free Total Home DVRs at no extra charge over the cost of their subscriptions.
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Other Tech
Ask Theo: Design Discipline (and the lack thereof)
Theo Kalomirakis  |  Sep 14, 2008

Ten years ago, when home theater was just becoming the hot trend in new-home construction, I came up with an inexpensive, ready-to-assemble theater design for a large corporation in the housing-supplies business. Our target was the builder of homes for the average American family.

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Other Tech
The House That Jim Built, Part 3
James K. Willcox  |  Sep 14, 2008

Has it really been 2 years since I last wrote about my efforts to install the A/V and networking systems in the new addition to my home?

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
88 Minutes
David Vaughn  |  Sep 12, 2008  |  First Published: Sep 13, 2008

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/88minutes.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Dr. Jack Gramm (Al Pacino), a Seattle-based forensic psychiatrist, receives a phone call telling him he has 88 minutes left to live. He must use all his skills to narrow the field of possible suspects and find his killer before it's too late.

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Kim Wilson Blog
To Serve Man
uavKim Wilson  |  Sep 12, 2008

What really stood out at this year's CEDIA in Denver was the number of companies showing media servers. They have certainly grown in popularity, especially within the custom-installation world. Not that many years ago, media servers were the exception, and now they are the norm for those ultra-high-end, multi-zone, music/video systems. As high-resolution downloadable media (audio and video) become more available, then media servers are likely to be our main, if not our only, source device.

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Audio Video News
Toshiba's Sexy Little Pocket Pico Projector
SV Staff  |  Sep 12, 2008
Tiny LED projectors aren't on everyone's wish list, but you gotta admit, this is a sexy little projector. The Toshiba LED pocket projector debuted at Europe's IFA 2008 show. This little specimen weighs in at a scant 100 grams, and measures just 10...
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Love Guru—Paramount Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Sep 12, 2008
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 3.5/5
Myers plays an American raised in India by gurus (Tugginmypudha & Satchabigknoba) and returns to the U.S. in order to break into the self-help business. His unorthodox methods are put to the test when he must settle the romantic troubles and subsequent professional skid of a star hockey player, whose wife left him for a rival athlete Jacques Grande.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Iron Man—Paramount Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Sep 12, 2008
Video:4.25 /5
Audio: 5/5
Extras: 4.5/5
When jet-setting genius-industrialist Tony Stark is captured in enemy territory, he builds a high-tech suit of armor to escape. Now, he's on a mission to save the world as a hero who's built, not born, to be unlike any other.
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