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Audio Video News
The Shire goes green with Bag End Minima One amp
SV Staff  |  May 19, 2009
I know, it's the second Lord of the Rings reference in a week, but this one was just begging for it. Bag End Loudspeaker Systems has announced that its Minima One amplifier has become greener and minima-er, thanks to its new smaller size and lower...
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Audio Video News
Congress May Fund DTV Repeaters
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 19, 2009
Maine's Republican senators, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, have introduced a bill that would fund digital repeater transmitters in areas where DTV reception is weak.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
Glenn Kenny  |  May 18, 2009
20th Century Fox
Movie •½Disc ••••
Robert Wise's original 1951 film of The Day the Earth Stood Still may be an acknowledged classi
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Music Reviews
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It's Blitz!
Rob O'Connor  |  May 18, 2009
Dress Up/DGC/Interscope
Music ••• Sound •••
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' third studio album is another major advancement in the Manhattan-hatched trio's so
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Audio Video News
The IMAX experience: More than a name
SV Staff  |  May 18, 2009
Last week, IMAX generated a lot of buzz among the tech blogs. It wasn't because of the release of Star Trek on the very-big screen, but because of an argument about what constitutes "IMAX." Comedian Aziz Ansari (you may have seen him on Parks &...
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Audio Video News
Will add-on height channel decoders ever emerge?
SV Staff  |  May 18, 2009
Sound & Vision reader Lee Carroll brings up a great point that I completely overlooked in my two articles about Dolby Pro Logic IIz height channel technology. Having recently bought a new receiver, Lee asks, "Don't the merits of this...
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Premiere Design
Sound All Around
Scott Wilkinson  |  May 18, 2009

Sometimes in this blog, I like to profile new and unusual technologies that may&#151;or may not&#151;actually perform well. Sony's <A href="http://www.sony.net/Fun/design/activity/product/sountina_01.html">NSA-PF1 Sountina</A> speaker is just such a product. I have no idea how it performs since I've never heard it in action and I know no one who has, but the technology is certainly intriguing.

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Audio Video News
This is one way to get satellite TV in your car
SV Staff  |  May 18, 2009
  We love DIY projects here at S&V so I could barely contain my excitement when I saw that someone had taken the time to fit a full-sized Direct TV dish into a clapped out old Volkswagen Jetta Diesel. I tried to hunt down the owner of...
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Projector Reviews
Sony BRAVIA VPL-VW70 SXRD Projector
Thomas J. Norton  |  May 18, 2009
Price: $8,000 At A Glance: Superb contrast and black levels • Excellent color • Unique adjustments

It should be obvious that the cost of a great home theater projector keeps coming down. At $8,000, Sony’s new VPL-VW70 includes many features that distinguished its earlier, more expensive designs, improves on them in some important respects (particularly black levels), and brings a few new wrinkles of its own to the party.

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The large, relatively heavy Sony is easily the looker of this group. If you replaced its lens with a laser cannon and added a bridge bubble on top, its curvy, sci-fi-inspired shape wouldn’t be out of place swooping overhead at the beginning of Galaxy Quest II: The Wrath of Melmac.

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Projector Reviews
JVC DLA-HD350 D-ILA Projector
Thomas J. Norton  |  May 18, 2009
Price: $4,500 At A Glance: Excellent black level and shadow detail • • Bright, crisp image • Oversaturated color

We’re no strangers to JVC projectors around the Home Theater campfire. We’ve reviewed several of their models over the past few years. I’ve been using a DLA-RS1 as a reference since 2007. It isn’t perfect—no projector is—but it does a lot right, and I’m not the only one who says so. At $6,000 when it first came out, it was one of the players that redefined value in the home projector game.

We’re now two generations of JVC projectors beyond that, and things keep getting better. For 2009, JVC offers the DLA-HD350 and the DLA-HD750, plus two exact equivalents from its pro division. We reviewed the $7,500 DLA-HD750 in our April 2009 issue and it’s a current Top Pick.

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