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"Avatar" DVDs not playing on some Blu-ray players
SV Staff  |  Apr 26, 2010  |  0 comments
DRM measures may be preventing some Avatar DVDs from playing on Blu-ray players, according to The Consumerist. Based on first-hand consumer reports on Amazon.com, several DVD players simply aren't playing Avatar correctly. Users have noted...
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"Because Sound Matters": DVD-Audio?
SV Staff  |  Aug 06, 2007  |  0 comments
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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"Bioshock 2 Special Edition" comes with vinyl
SV Staff  |  Nov 19, 2009  |  0 comments
2K Games has just unveiled the contents of its upcoming Bioshock 2 Special Edition release, and it has something for the audiophiles. Along with a soundtrack CD, 3 posters, and an art book, it comes with the orchestral score of the original Bioshock...
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"Coraline," yes. 3-D, no.
SV Staff  |  Feb 27, 2009  |  0 comments
I haven't had much use for 3-D. But with the advent of RealD — and since I am, after all, the entertainment editor of this magazine — I figured it was high time for me to check out the latest state of the 3-D art. And what better film to do...
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"Journey to the Center" in 3-D Blu
SV Staff  |  Sep 19, 2008  |  0 comments
Did you see Brendan Fraser in 3-D this summer? Journey to the Center of the Earth was in select theaters and IMAX theaters in 3-D, in addition to a widespread 2-D release. Missed it?  This remake of the classic Jules Verne tale is coming to...
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"Magic": Early Vinyl Gets the Grammy?
SV Staff  |  Aug 24, 2007  |  0 comments
Hot on the heels of my Bruce Springsteen post last week comes word that his new album with the E Street Band, due October 2 on CD, will appear on LP a full week earlier, on September 25. Why? Because the cutoff date for albums to be eligible for...
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"No Taste for High-Quality Audio"?
SV Staff  |  Sep 13, 2007  |  0 comments
Been meaning to post this link for some time now . . . Fans of DVD-Audio, SACD, surround sound, and so forth are hereby encouraged to check out No Taste for High-Quality Audio, published recently in the British newspaper The Guardian. It's a...
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"Open Market" Play Anywhere DRM For Movies
SV Staff  |  Aug 27, 2008  |  0 comments
Expect exciting news about online movie retailers soon. Open Market has been accepted by almost all the major movie studios and many retailers as a way to make download movies accessible to more users, and protect the studios against illegal...
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"Resistance" to 3D: Futile?
SV Staff  |  Aug 03, 2010  |  0 comments
Maybe you saw Inception. Maybe you loved those three-dimensional-looking images. Maybe you realized — and appreciated — that those images weren't actually in 3D.Director Christopher Nolan (at right in photo, with Leonardo DiCaprio) digs good...
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"Scrubs" on ABC in HD, Just in Time
SV Staff  |  Jul 18, 2008  |  0 comments
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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