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Imagine a World without Writers
Mark Fleischmann  |  Nov 07, 2007
What would happen if David Letterman came onstage to do his opening monologue but nothing came out of his mouth? What if the stars of the silver screen had to improvise all their dialogue--would someone like Tom Cruise even have a career? Now you may have an inkling of what TV and screenwriters contribute to popular entertainment. And that's why the strike of the Writers Guild of America matters. They're looking for a bigger cut of burgeoning DVD revenues and growing Internet revenues. Peopling the picket lines in New York this week were Seth Myers, the Weekend Update coanchor and head writer of Saturday Night Live, and his predecessor Tina Fey, now of 30 Rock. The most recent SNL telecast included a hilarious skit with Fred Armisen posing as an overpaid studio executive. Jay Leno has contributed a sound bite supporting his writers and Letterman describes the producers as "cowards, cutthroats, and weasels." But Jon Stewart of The Daily Show is really putting his money where his mouth is. He is personally paying the salaries of his writers for the duration of the strike. These folks know on which side their bread is buttered.
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Lighting Control: Beyond the Basics
Steve Faber  |  Nov 07, 2007
Everyone's home features lighting control to some extent. Maybe you've taken a step up and can control the level of a light or two with dimmers, but that's about as far as many people get.
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Audio Video News
Bell'O Honors Holland Dozier Holland
Mark Fleischmann  |  Nov 06, 2007
Bell'O International has honored the formidable Motown songwriting team of Holland Dozier Holland with the first annual "Take a Bow, Take a Seat" award.
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Other Tech
Audio Design Associates SWAN Structured Wiring Audio Network
John Sciacca  |  Nov 05, 2007

Audio Design Associates might be unfamiliar to Sound & Vision readers, but this 30-year-old, New York-based company has a well-earned reputation as a top player in the custom market. In fact, it pioneered bidirectional control in 1989. And ADA's president, Albert Langella, is the first-ever recipient of CEDIA's Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Sharp Aquos LC-52D64U 52-inch LCD HDTV
Rob Sabin  |  Nov 05, 2007
Sharp Aquos LC-53D64U 52-inch LCD HDTV 74000370470 Sharp LC-53D64U If LCD TVs are the hot item these days, so-called "thin-bezel" LCDs must be on fire.
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Other Tech
Gadget Gary: Audio-Technica AT-LP2D-USB LP-to-MP3 Converter
Gary Dell'Abate  |  Nov 05, 2007

When I moved into my new house earlier this year, I had hopes of setting up some of my more antiquated gear. One of the pieces is a Technics turntable - state of the art, circa 1985. When people (er, guys) see it, they start waxing poetic about their vinyl LP collections and how, "one day," they're going to get another turntable.

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Installations: A Higher Power
John Sciacca  |  Nov 05, 2007

Cathedrals are almost preternaturally quiet havens where even the softest whispers, shuffling in the pews, or footsteps across marble floors can seem blasphemously loud.

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DIY Reader Home Theater: Once Was Not Enough
Bill Yung  |  Nov 05, 2007

<I>A reader finds home theater inspiration in his first theater, giving him the craving to upgrade.</I>

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Audio Video News
Your MP3 Player Is Ringing...
SV Staff  |  Nov 05, 2007
You've gotta give it to Samsung. After all, anyone trying to come out with an iPod killer has a steep slope ahead. Samsung has officially launched the P2, a sleek, flash-based media player that delivers music, movies and pictures. The Nano-like P2...
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Blu-ray Player Reviews
Sony BDP-S300, Samsung BD-P1200, and Panasonic DMP-BD10A Blu-ray Players
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Nov 05, 2007  |  First Published: Oct 05, 2007
3 More BD 4 U: Three second-gen Blu-ray players.

Hot on the heels of the first, and almost universally lame, generation of Blu-ray players, here's generation II. In the case of two of these players, the big news is a substantial reduction in price. Both are less than half of their predecessors. In the case of the other, the news is its fancy HQV processing, the same that's found in the excellent Toshiba HD-XA2. I have to admit, I get a certain amount of perverse amusement mentioning HD DVD in a Blu-ray review (and vice-versa).

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