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SACD in the Car: It's Too Late, Sony?
SV Staff  |  Jul 31, 2007  | 
That's right, if you've been waiting to play that multichannel Tapestry in the car, now you can finally do it. A full six years after the dawn of surround SACDs, Sony has introduced the first car SACD player, the MEX-DV2000 (above, $280). I...
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The Gray Lady Is Behind the Times
SV Staff  |  Jul 31, 2007  | 
Extra! "The multichannel sound available for homes has arrived for the car." So says a teaser on the front page of the Automobiles section in this Sunday's edition of The New York Times. This must be news indeed to engineer Elliot...
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Michelangelo Antonioni dies at 94
SV Staff  |  Jul 31, 2007  | 
It was with shock that within hours of learning, belatedly, of the death of one of my two closest cinematic heroes — Ingmar Bergman — I now hear of the passing of the other. What a week this has been, and it’s still only Tuesday. A generation of...
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Dave Davies, Kinks, Sinead, and more - from Koch
SV Staff  |  Jul 31, 2007  | 
No, not that Koch. I'm talkin' Koch the record label, which seems to be especially frisky these days. Yeah, Koch the distributor - which has been around for nearly 20 years - is the main claim to fame for parent company Koch Entertainment. But the...
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AC/DC: Dirty Deeds Done Digital
SV Staff  |  Aug 01, 2007  | 
Hell's bells! AC/DC is at last offering its entire back catalog for sale online. However . . . for those about to click, we advise you: Catch No. 1: It's not on iTunes. It's only on Verizon Wireless (at least until March 2008). Catch No. 2: It's...
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Michelangelo Antonioni 1912 – 2007
SV Staff  |  Aug 02, 2007  | 
"All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks." "Hollywood is like being nowhere...
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Cops N' Bloggers
SV Staff  |  Aug 06, 2007  | 
Saw the last U.S. show of this first leg of the Police's '07/'08 tour at Giants Stadium last night. Having never caught them back during their heyday, this was a must-see gig. (Geez, did I really pay THAT MUCH [take a guess] for these tickets back...
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"Because Sound Matters": DVD-Audio?
SV Staff  |  Aug 06, 2007  | 
Perhaps you noticed the phrase that has been touting, among other things, the Neil Young Archives/Performance Series: "Because Sound Matters." It refers to the fact that each CD+DVD title includes 96-kHz/24-bit "high-resolution...
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Hazy, Hot, and Humid? Merry Christmas!
SV Staff  |  Aug 08, 2007  | 
What a day : NJ train late, NYC subways halted, temperature headed to 97º, humidity already at 5,000%. By the time I melted in to work today (having walked/sweated 20 blocks, my chestnuts long since roasted), I wasn't merely ready to let it snow....
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Swingin' at the Vineyard with Pete Farrelly
SV Staff  |  Aug 08, 2007  | 
Of all the directors I've ever talked to, no two have ever taken the same approach to watching movies at home - which isn't too surprising, since each has had an extremely idiosyncratic approach to making movies.   Pete, with his son Bob...
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David Gilmour on Blu-ray and HD DVD
SV Staff  |  Aug 09, 2007  | 
Hot on the heels of the big Led Zeppelin announcement (see my post below) comes word that David Gilmour's imminent DVD, Remember That Night: Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Columbia), will also be available on both Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD. Each of...
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Purple Fudge
SV Staff  |  Aug 09, 2007  | 
How's this for a double bill - Vanilla Fudge and Deep Purple at Radio City Music Hall on Tuesday night (8/7). Or, to be more specific, the original Vanilla Fudge and Deep Purple Mark 8. Either way, it was a must-do event. Local Long Island boys...
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Ingmar, Michelangelo . . . and Merv
SV Staff  |  Aug 13, 2007  | 
The answer is: Dying within two weeks of each other, these three titans influenced visual media immeasurably. Who were Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Merv Griffin? That's correct for $1,000! Ah yes, in the Arts & Entertainment...
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Van Halen: Tourin' with the Diamond!
SV Staff  |  Aug 13, 2007  | 
"Diamond" David Lee Roth, that is - and to (cleanly) quote the T-shirt that Stella McCartney wore to her Dad's solo induction into the Roll & Roll Hall of Fame: About F---ing Time! Yes, the big Van Halen tour was announced just a...
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UMG Joins EMI in Nixing DRM
SV Staff  |  Aug 14, 2007  | 
As a follow-up to Ken Pohlmann's story on Apple and EMI vs. DRM: The Universal Music Group has announced that it, too, will begin selling its catalog online without Digital Rights Management. However, Universal won't be making its entire catalog...
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