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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Dan in Real Life
Rad Bennett  |  Jul 30, 2008
Touchstone
Movie ••• Picture •••½Sound •••½Extras •••

Steve Carell is Dan, who writes an a

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
4 by Agnes Varda
Josef Krebs  |  Jul 30, 2008
The Criterion Collection
Movie •••• Picture •••• Sound ••• Extras ••••

A self-taught independent filmmaker, Agnes

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Ice Storm; Lust, Caution
Sol Louis Siegel  |  Jul 30, 2008
Criterion
Movie •••½Picture •••• Sound •••• Extras ••••
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Other Tech
We Give a Critical Eye to 'High Definition Glasses.'
John Sciacca  |  Jul 30, 2008
The Short Form
$19.99 ($52.94 as tested) / HDWRAPAROUNDS.COM / 866-262-2403
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Audio Video News
Another One Bites the Dust
SV Staff  |  Jul 30, 2008
The TiVo webstore has a glaring omission. The popular Series3 unit is AWOL. The Series2 is chugging along, and the TiVo HD is prominent, but the Series3 is gone and labeled "Out of Stock." Retailers still have inventory ($593 at Amazon)...
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Audio Video News
The (almost) $12,000 surround sound processor
SV Staff  |  Jul 30, 2008
Halcro, in case you haven't heard, makes some of the most bad-ass hi-fi gear on the planet. In a world gone mad for iPods and earbuds, Halcro is perfecting the art of really, really excellent componentry.  It's also really, really expensive...
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Audio Video News
New Meridian Projector Announced
Scott Wilkinson  |  Jul 30, 2008

If you thought 1080p is as good as it gets, think again. Long known for its reference-quality audio products, Meridian has announced a new video projector with <I>five times</I> the resolution of 1080p. Dubbed the 810 Reference Video Projector, this 140-pound behemoth uses three D-ILA panels, each with a resolution of 4096x2400 for a total of nearly 10 megapixels.

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Audio Video News
Yahoo Music DRM Keys Go Poof
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 30, 2008
If you paid for downloads from the Yahoo Music Store, your purchases are in big trubs. The store will close on September 30, 2008, taking its digital rights management encryption keys with it.
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Audio Video News
Meridian demos $185K 10-megapixel projector
SV Staff  |  Jul 30, 2008
Last Tuesday, high-end audio/video company Meridian put on what was surely one of the most dazzling home video demos ever. The demo, which took place at Stewart Filmscreen's Torrance, CA, headquarters, featured Meridian's new 10-megapixel video...
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The Big Picture
THX Tech Training
Scott Wilkinson  |  Jul 30, 2008

My blog is a bit later than usual this week, but I've been pretty busy. Tom Norton and I are taking the newly developed video-technician training course offered by THX at the company's headquarters in San Rafael, California, just north of San Francisco in Marin County. Tuesday was the first of three full days of instruction and hands-on lab work, after which some of us went out to dinner and caught Hugh Masekela's set at Yoshi's, a famous jazz spot in Oakland. After a wrong turn by Laurie Fincham, THX's brilliant but directionally challenged chief scientist&#151;thanks for the grand tour of San Francisco, Laurie!&#151;I just got back to my room.

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