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SmartStream
New Netflix Profiles Provide Personalized Recommendations
Barb Gonzalez  |  Aug 08, 2013
It's easier to find the titles you want to watch with the newly added Netflix Profiles feature. Find out how it works and which devices are compatible.
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Sweepstakes
Jason is Serious about Sound
Ariel Bitran  |  Aug 08, 2013  |  First Published: Aug 09, 2013
Congratulations to Jason Baugh of Hollywood, Florida on winning the Griffin Twenty Integrated Amplifier Sweepstakes. He's happy about his prize, I think.
Song From My Soundtrack
David Chesky and "The Girl From Ipanema" by Antonio Carlos Jobim
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Aug 06, 2013

David Chesky is a jazz, classical, and opera composer, co-founder of Chesky Records and HDTracks, and vocal proponent of high-resolution audio. Here he picks a song from his soundtrack.

I think the one song that is six degrees of separation for me would be "The Girl From Ipanema" by Antonio Carlos Jobim.

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This Week
This Week in Movies & TV, August 6, 2013: E.T. Killed Home
Josef Krebs  |  Aug 06, 2013

Oblivion

Based on director Joseph Kosinski's acclaimed graphic novel, Oblivion is set in the post-apocalyptic future in which an invading alien army is beaten but only through the use of nuclear weapons that leave the planet uninhabitable.

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This Week
This Week in Music, August 6, 2013: The last days of the Civil Wars
Ken Richardson  |  Aug 06, 2013

The Civil Wars: The Civil Wars

New release (Sensibility/Columbia)
Photo by Allister Ann

From great suffering comes great art. So they say.

Need more proof? Just spin the self-titled set from the Civil Wars. It’s the follow-up to their acclaimed 2011 debut, Barton Hollow. There will be no follow-up to this album, however. As The New York Times has reported, Joy Williams and John Paul White aren’t talking to each other.

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Vote
What would you like to see in the new Sound&Vision?
HT Staff  |  Aug 06, 2013
Regular readers of Home Theater and Sound+Vision know by now that these two magazines will be merged into one new Sound&Vision beginning with the October issue. We welcome your input as we work on mapping out an editorial plan, which will no doubt evolve as we move forward. The multiple choice questions below are merely a starting point so we encourage you to leave specific comments. Thanks in advance for sharing your insights with us.—The Editors
What would you like to see in the new Sound&Vision?
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Sweepstakes
Bob from Napa Wins Wireless Speakers
Ariel Bitran  |  Aug 06, 2013  |  First Published: Aug 07, 2013
Congratulations to Bob McClenahan of Napa, California on winning the Monitor Airstream WS100 wireless desktop speaker system. Seems Bob has quite the seductive set-up. Along with his new speakers are Audeze LCD2 headphones powered by an ALO PanAm and PassPort and a 27" iMac with a Thunderbolt Display. Thanks for sharing!
Remotely Possible
HDBaseT: The Best New Technology You Won’t Use (For a While, Anyway)
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Aug 05, 2013
The promise of HDBaseT is clear and compelling. With one, standard, off-the-shelf – relatively inexpensive – Cat5e/6 LAN cable, you can send full HD (3D and 2K or 4K) uncompressed video and audio (up to 10.2 Gbps), 100 Mbps Ethernet communication, various protocol control signals (RS232, for example), and up to 100W of power from one AV device to another up to 100 m (328 ft) away. (The HDBaseT Alliance refers to this set of features as “5Play”.) That means if you’re hooking up an HDBaseT-enabled flat-panel TV mounted on the wall to an HDBaseT-enabled AVR in a cabinet located in the back of the room, there’s no long, bulky HDMI cable (or HDMI extender baluns) to deal with (or spend the money on). No need for a repeater cable or wireless device to pass IR or RS232 control commands. And no separate Cat5e/6 cable to connect your TV or BD player to the internet via your home LAN. In my opinion, though, the most exciting part is that many components with integrated HDBaseT technology, including most TVs, won’t need an AC cord to plug into an outlet in the wall. It’ll get all the power it needs over that one, humble Cat5e or Cat 6 cable thanks to the magic of HDBaseT’s “5Play” technology.

Awesome, right? Absolutely…just not yet...

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Power Amplifier Reviews
Review: Job 225 stereo amplifier
Brent Butterworth  |  Aug 05, 2013

"You test … amplifiers?" the lovely brunette MBA said to me from across the couch in the lobby of a hipster L.A. hotel. Sadly, my reply - "There are people who care about this stuff!" - didn't convince her of the value of my work. On some level, though, I'm in sympathy with her sentiment. While I do, on occasion, test amplifiers, I'm really a speaker and headphone reviewer.

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Headphone Reviews
Review: Beats New Studio
Brent Butterworth  |  Aug 04, 2013

Has there ever been a headphone brand so controversial as Beats? It's undeniably popular; just walk around any downtown or airport in any industrialized country and you're almost sure to see a set. Yet audio enthusiasts-including the ones at Sound & Vision-often deride Beats' sound quality.

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