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The IMAX Experience: Watchmen, Part 2
SV Staff  |  Mar 16, 2009
[Note: This follow-up story has spoilers.] Last week, I watched Watchmen at an inexpensive cineplex in North Jersey. Great movie, faithful adaptation, substandard equipment. Hey, the tickets were $6.50, and around here that's a bargain. ...
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Onkyo's new receiver does Dolby Pro Logic IIz
SV Staff  |  Mar 13, 2009
If you have been craving sweet vertical sound field action from a full-fledged 7.2 system then you should get ready to send Onkyo a St. Patrick's day card. Their new TX-SR607 receiver supports Dolby Pro Logic IIz. It's, as press release...
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Sandy Gross leaving Definitive Technology
SV Staff  |  Mar 11, 2009
After a career spanning nearly four decades, Definitive Technology co-founder and president Sandy Gross is retiring. He will work his last day at the company on March 31, after which Executive Vice President Dave Peet and Vice President of...
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Apple's new iPod Shuffle for earbud lovers only
SV Staff  |  Mar 11, 2009
This morning, with little more than a press release, Apple dropped a new $80, 4 GB iPod shuffle that's smaller than a single AA battery and has neither buttons nor a display. That means the controls are left up to some buttons built into the...
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K-Rock drops rock. Opie & Anthony also K-O'd.
SV Staff  |  Mar 10, 2009
Bad news for O&A fans and worse news for rock & roll fans. Longtime NYC rock station K-Rock is switching its format from Rock to Top 40, and has fired Opie & Anthony from its line-up. Tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time, 92.3 WXRK...
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B&W&E Street: Steve Van Zandt is a B&W Fellow
SV Staff  |  Mar 10, 2009
Audio company Bowers & Wilkins has just announced that Steve Van Zandt is the newest Fellow in the company's Society of Sound. Van Zandt is a longtime member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, as well as a solo artist and actor (best known for...
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"April Showers" brings 4K digital filmmaking
SV Staff  |  Mar 09, 2009
Indie filmmaking is becoming more and more high-tech. This is evidenced in April Showers, one of the very first feature-length motion pictures to be filmed entirely in 4K digital photography. April Showers is a account of a school shooting,...
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I Watch the Watchmen
SV Staff  |  Mar 09, 2009
[Note: this review is spoiler-free, and major plot points outside of the very beginning of the film are not mentioned.] I'm a comic book fan, and for the last few years I've been anticipating the Watchmen movie with a mixture of hope and...
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"30 Rock" gives "Hendersons" Netflix boost
SV Staff  |  Mar 06, 2009
 Those of you who watched last night's hilarious episode of 30 Rock know that the gang learned some very valuable lessons from the 1987 John Lithgow classic, Harry and the Hendersons. That show is used pretty regularly for product...
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Dish Network terminates 10 retailers
SV Staff  |  Mar 05, 2009
In a rather short press release issued this morning, Dish Network announced that it has terminated 10 retailers across 7 states and Puerto Rico. The company believes that the ten retailers have "engaged in illegal activity including fraud and...
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