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Review: Dish Network ViP 922 Slingloaded DVR
Kevin James  |  Dec 03, 2010  |  1 comments

It’s been more than a decade since the first TiVo digital video recorder (DVR) revolutionized the way many of us watch TV. While almost all cable companies now offer some degree of DVR capability, it’s really been the satellite and telco TV service providers — as well as TiVo itself — that have pushed DVR innovation, offering features like access to online content.

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Custom Installation How-To
Review: Dish Network ViP 922 Slingloaded DVR Page 4
Kevin James  |  Dec 03, 2010  |  0 comments

It's been more than a decade since the first TiVo digital video recorder (DVR) revolutionized the way many of us watch TV. While almost all cable companies now offer some degree of DVR capability, it's really been the satellite and telco TV service providers - as well as TiVo itself - that have pushed DVR innovation, offering features like access to online content.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Shrek: The Whole Story—Dreamworks Animation (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 03, 2010  |  0 comments
Video: 5/5
Audio: 5/5
Extras: 4/5
Relive every moment of Shrek's incredible journey from the hilarious beginning to the magical and heartwarming Final Chapter. All four discs feature hours of all-new extras and the brand new, limited-edition "Donkey's Christmas Shrektakular". A hilarious holiday program that is a perfect holiday treat for the whole family, "Donkey's Christmas Shrektakular" will be available for a limited time only and features all your favorite characters as they perform classic holiday songs with Shrek-ized lyrics, as well as "Shrek's Yule Log," featuring over 25 uproarious character appearances in front of a crackling virtual fireplace.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Inception—Warner Bros Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 03, 2010  |  0 comments
Video: 5/5
Audio: 5/5
Extras: 4/5
Dom Cobb is the best there is at extraction: stealing valuable secrets inside the subconscious during the mind's vulnerable dream state. His skill has made him a coveted player in industrial espionage but also has made him a fugitive and cost him dearly. Now he may get a second chance if he can do the impossible: inception, planting an idea rather than stealing one. If they succeed, Cobb and his team could pull off the perfect crime. But no planning or expertise can prepare them for a dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy only Cobb could have seen coming.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Knight and Day—20th Century Fox (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Dec 03, 2010  |  0 comments
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3.5/5
Tom Cruise is a covert agent sent on a mission he was never meant to complete, and Cameron Diaz is a woman caught between the agent and those he claims set him up. As their globetrotting adventure erupts into a maze of double-crosses, close escapes and false identities, they come to realize all they can count on is each other.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Nanny McPhee Returns—Universal (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Dec 03, 2010  |  0 comments
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 2/5
When Nanny McPhee appears at the farmhouse door of a busy young mother, Isabel Green, she discovers that Mrs. Green's children are in an all0out household war with their two spoiled city cousins. Relying on everything from a flying motorcycle and statue that comes to life, to tree-climbing piglet an and elephant that turns up in the oddest places, Nanny McPhee uses her magic to show the children five valuable lessons, the most important of which is learning how to get along.
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Custom Installation Equipment ReviewsCustom Installation How-ToHome Movie Theaters
Kaleidescape's DVD Movie Server
Kim Wilson  |  Dec 03, 2010  |  1 comments

Ever wish you could afford a Kaleidescape system? Well, now it's more affordable than ever before to bring their intuitive and comprehensive products into you living room with the introduction of Cinema One, a stand-alone DVD Movie Server, which is their first offering to a broader audience and features kid-friendly operation.

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Audio Video News
Kaleidescape System Breaks $5k barrier!
SV Staff  |  Dec 03, 2010  |  0 comments
The Kaleidescape system has always been filled with The Awesome. But with Great Awesome also came Great Expense. Today, joining that elite club of Kaleidescape system owenership just got a whole lot easier on your credit line. They announced that...
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Audio Video News
iPad Your Dish
Mark Fleischmann  |  Dec 03, 2010  |  0 comments
Hardly a week goes by without an announcement by some cable or satellite service that it now supports one internet connected portable device or another. The latest happy couple are the Dish Network and the iPad.
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Premiere Design
Constellation Hercules Monoblock Power Amp
Scott Wilkinson  |  Dec 02, 2010  |  1 comments
Founded in 2009, one of the newest kids on the audiophile block is California-based Constellation Audio. Not that its principal players are newbies by any means—in fact, Constellation has assembled a "dream team" of engineers and designers to create unparalleled audio products, among the first of which is the Hercules monoblock power amp.
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