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Waddya Want?
Scott Wilkinson  |  Jun 09, 2008  |  First Published: Jun 10, 2008

A couple of weeks ago, I got an e-mail from Bogeun Chung, general manager of the LCD TV product-planning team at LG's headquarters in Seoul, Korea. He wrote that he would be passing through L.A. with one of his engineers on Monday, June 9, and asked if we could meet at Grayscale Studio, the video-testing facility for <I>UAV</I> and <I>Home Theater</I>. I value any personal contact with manufacturer representatives, so I quickly agreed. Little did I know how interesting that meeting would turn out to be...

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Other Tech
15 Must-Have A/V Tools
John Sciacca  |  Jun 09, 2008

Having the right set of tools makes any job easier: everything from wall-mounting your new flat panel TV (see Step By Step: How to Mount a Flat-Panel TV) to adding some in-wall speakers (see

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Lions for Lambs
Brandon Grafius  |  Jun 09, 2008
United Artists/MGM
Movie •• Picture •••½Sound •••½Extras ••

Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, and

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24: Season 1
Mike Mettler  |  Jun 09, 2008
20th Century Fox
Movie ••••½Picture ••••½Sound ••••½Extras ••••

With Season 7

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Enchanted
Josef Krebs  |  Jun 09, 2008
Disney Blu-ray Disc
Movie ••••½Picture •••• Sound •••• Extras ••••½

In this inspired homage

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I Am Legend and I, Robot
Josef Krebs  |  Jun 09, 2008
Warner Blu-ray Disc
Movie ••• Picture •••• Sound ••••½Extras •••

If he isn't fighting hordes of hu

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S&V: I Love You, Scarlet
Rob Sabin  |  Jun 09, 2008
The Short Form
$2,600 ($3,199 list) / LGUSA.COM / 800-243-0000
Snapshot
A very good picture and sexy styling add up to a solid recommendation for LG's new LCD
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Step Into Liquid—Lionsgate (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Jun 09, 2008
Video: 3.5/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 2.5/5
Step into Liquid is one of those films that can just blow you away with the things that people can do. To me surfing is one of those sports that is full of breathtaking beauty and awe. The film is basically a documentary on what surfing is and the way it is done by those around the world. You see big wave surfing (and I mean BIG waves), pipeline surfing and creative surfing (take the Great Lakes for example). But the underlying theme is that the experience is really the same no matter where you're from or how you do it.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Recruit—Touchstone Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Jun 09, 2008
Video: 3.75/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 2.75/5
Farrell plays a M.I.T. graduate who is recruited by the CIA to become one of their spies. Pacino is brilliant as the recruiter as well as the school's lead instructor. This is the first film that the CIA has actually consulted on with regards to their training program and according to their liaison it's pretty accurate. Farrell's character shows promise throughout the entire school but also finds himself emotionally involved with one of the students. This becomes his Achilles heel and eventual undoing. Or so he thinks. After being kicked out of the school he finds that his dismissal was a front to place him as a deep undercover operative. But the target ends up being the same girl he was falling for in school who is actually a mole that the CIA is onto.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Men In Black—Columbia Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Jun 09, 2008
Video: 3.75/5
Audio: 4/5
Extras: 3.75/5
I can't count how many times Men In Black was released on DVD in one form or the other, but based on this presentation we shouldn't see it released on Blu-ray again. Sony has brought their popular sci-fi catalog favorite to the new format but surprisingly they didn't opt for the sequel as well. I'm not going to get into a big descriptor of the plot since I don't think there are many out there that have missed this one but I will say this film is just as much fun now as it was when it was first released.
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