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"Scrubs" on ABC in HD, Just in Time
SV Staff  |  Jul 18, 2008
Scrubs has moved from SD on NBC to HD on ABC. Alphabet soup aside, all those letters might not matter much if rumors are true that this is the last season for the comedy.  Scrubs was on NBC in standard def, surrounded by HD shows for way too...
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Audio Video News
YouTube Boobtube TiVo-fest
SV Staff  |  Jul 18, 2008
Although we announced back in March that this was coming, it's finally official. Just announced - YouTube videos will be available on your TV through your TiVo. Broadband-connected TiVo Series3 and TiVo HD DVRs can access millions of videos hosted...
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Audio Video News
Sony's New Blu Hits the Street
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 18, 2008
Sony is now shipping the BDP-S350, a next-generation Blu-ray player that is far slimmer than its predecessor and even comes in a much smaller box. It uses a third less packing material, and what it does use is biodegradable paper. And due to the lightness of both the product and its packaging, shipping it will involve 43 percent less diesel use and other carbon emissions. Proof, were any needed, that I'll do anything for a novel lead.
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Other Tech
BackTalk: Tom Scholz of Boston
Mike Mettler  |  Jul 17, 2008

Why did you decide to remaster the Boston Greatest Hits CD (Epic/Legacy)? For one thing, the other Greatest Hits CD [from 1997] was horrible-sounding - not as bad as Third Stage [chuckles], but it was an older CD, back from the days when Pro Tools was still a fledgling thing, and a lot of that mastering was done in 1

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Michael Clayton
Josef Krebs  |  Jul 17, 2008
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest—Warner Bros. (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Jul 17, 2008
Video: 3.75/5
Audio: 2.5/5
Extras: 3.25/5
A nice rest in a state mental hospital beats a stretch in the pen right? Randle P. McMurphy, a free-spirited con with lightning in his veins and glib on his tongue, fakes insanity and moves in with what he calls the "nuts." Immediately his contagious sense of disorder runs up against numbing routine. No way should guys pickled on sedatives shuffle around in bathrobes when the World Series is on. This means war! On one side is McMurphy. On the other is soft-spoken Nurse Ratched, among the most coldly monstrous villains in film history. At stake is the fate of every patient on the ward. Based on Ken Kesey's acclaimed bestseller One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest swept all five major 1975 Academy Awards.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
21—Columbia Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Jul 17, 2008
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4.25/5
Extras: 3/5
Inspired by the true story of MIT students who mastered the art of card counting and took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings. Looking for a way to pay for tuition, Ben Campbell finds himself quietly recruited by MIT's most gifted students in a daring plot to break Vegas. With the help of a brilliant statistics professor and armed with fake IDs, intelligence and a complicated system of counting cards, Ben and his friends succeed in breaking the impenetrable casinos. Now, his challenge is keeping the numbers straight and staying one step ahead of the casinos before it all spirals out of control.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
In The Line of Fire—Columbia Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Jul 17, 2008
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 3.75/5
Extras: 3/5
Eastwood stars as Frank Horrigan, a veteran Secret Service agent haunted by his failure to protect John F. Kennedy from assassination. Thirty years later, he gets a chance to redeem himself when a brilliant psychopath threatens to kill the current president and take Horrigan with him. Taunting him by phone and tantalizing him with clues, the assassin lures Horrigan into an electrifying battle of wits and will that only one man can survive.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Ruins—Dreamworks Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Jul 17, 2008
Video: 4/5
Audio: 4.25/5
Extras: 3/5
Based on the terrifying best-seller by Scott Smith, The Ruins follows a group of friends who become entangled in a brutal struggle for survival after visiting a remote archaeological dig in the Mexican jungle where they discover something deadly living among the ruins.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Doomsday—Universal (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Jul 17, 2008
Video: 5/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Extras: 3/5
From the director of The Descent comes an action-packed thrill-ride through the beating heart of hell! To save humanity from an epidemic, an elite fighting unit must battle to find a cure in a post-apocalyptic zone controlled by a society of murderous renegades. Loaded with ferocious fights and high-octane chases, Doomsday grabs you right from the start, and doesn't let go till its explosive end!
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