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DVD REVIEWS: Wire in the Blood: Seasons 1 & 2
Rad Bennett  |  Oct 02, 2005  |  0 comments
Koch Vision
Series ••½ Picture/Sound •••• Extras ••
Dr.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVD REVIEWS: Downfall
Sol Louis Siegel  |  Oct 02, 2005  |  0 comments
Sony
Movie ••½ Picture/Sound •••• Extras ••
In this impressive dramatization of the fall of Berlin in 1945, Hitler
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVD REVIEWS: The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
Ken Korman  |  Oct 02, 2005  |  0 comments
Warner
Movie ••½ Picture/Sound •••• Extras ••
The acid test for any movie-related documentary in 2005 is clear: Do
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVD REVIEWS: Alexander: Director’s Cut
Ken Korman  |  Oct 02, 2005  |  0 comments
Warner
Movie ••½ Picture/Sound •••• Extras ••
The "Director's Cut" of Alexander actually
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVDs: Reference Disc
Al Griffin  |  Oct 02, 2005  |  0 comments

The original xXx achieved almost lyrical heights of excess through its digitally enhanced, over-the-top action sequences.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVDs: Cops, Dicks, and Cons
Josef Krebs  |  Oct 02, 2005  |  0 comments

From the late 1960s through the early '70s, Americans saw the crumbling of the old morality, which gave way to the new twin blights of urban decay and bad hair. If this golden age of anti-heroes and the stars who played them is your bag - if you take your detectives tough, your streets mean, and your realism gritty - then you'll want to add some of these movies to your collection.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVDs: La Différence
Josef Krebs  |  Oct 02, 2005  |  0 comments

"She ... the meaning of my life is she," crooned Charles Aznavour in his tribute to les femmes back in the early 1970s, when male French filmmakers were still inspired by that unfathomable sphinx: woman. French cinema doesn't have the same power today, and equality has normalized relations between the sexes (somewhat).

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Audio Video News
Congress Hoists Broadcast Flag
 |  Oct 02, 2005  |  0 comments

Twenty members of Congress signed a letter sent to House of Representatives Internet and commerce panel chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) requesting that a federal law be drafted to legalize the use of the broadcast flag. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the members of Congress who signed the letter argue the broadcast flag is necessary to safeguard digital content from Internet piracy.

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Tower Speaker Reviews
Genesis 7.1c Speaker system
Steven Stone  |  Oct 02, 2005  |  1 comments

When I reviewed the Genesis 6.1 speaker system I liked it so much I still use it as my reference in my upstairs home theater system. Now Genesis has a new, smaller speaker called the Genesis 7.1c that shares much of the G6.1's technology—and a level of performance that can equal its more expensive sibling in most conventional home theater situations, and in some environments even better it.

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Accessory Reviews
APC S15 Battery Backup Power Conditioner
Thomas J. Norton  |  Oct 02, 2005  |  0 comments

Power conditioning has long been an assumed requirement for the best audio-video systems. And there's no shortage of manufacturers lining up to supply the perceived need. Need line filtering, surge and spike protection, and multiple outlets? Ding! There are dozens of choices, some more effective than others. Need a device that will not only clean up your power line, but also maintain 120 volts when your power company is straining to keep up with demand? Ding! The field narrows, but there are products out there that will do that, too. Need battery backup in case of a partial or complete power failure? Bzzzt! Wrong question. Until recently, you'd have to look for that in the computer department of you're nearby electronics supermarket.

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