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There you have it, HDMI over UWB. Time to get creative with your setups!

Discussing the old school DVD’s that still sound and look great in the era of Blu-Ray and HD-DVD technology.

Say what you will about Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace, but there’s no doubting that it’s one of the best sounding films of all time on DVD. In my opinion, it is THE BEST. By now the film looks a little outdated, grainy in places and just fuzzy and washed out in others despite being certified by THX, but the sound more than makes up for it.

The subsequent…
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Discussing the old school DVD’s that still sound and look great in the era of Blu-Ray and HD-DVD technology.

Mr. And Mrs. Smith will likely be remembered more for being the film that put Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie on the road to saving the world, one Cambodian child at a time, than being an enjoyable action-comedy film. Though despite all the media buzz over the film prior to its release, it actually turned out to be a financial and critical success, unlike Gigli, a film tha…
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Ars Technica asks today “Is Plasma Doomed?” Citing the fact that LCD’s now overlap with plasma in terms of size and (arguably) picture quality, along with the fact that certain manufacturers are stopping plasma development and production to shift to LCD’s, the author suggests that “Plasma vs. LCD” is comparable to the apocryphal “Beta vs. VHS” battle.

Anyway, interesting observation that plasma is getting clobbered, but personally, I can’t see i…
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Watch your back if you own an “Avdeco” branded component and TV shelf with glass shelves:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=713200

Discussing the old school DVD’s that still sound and look great in the era of Blu-Ray and HD-DVD technology.

No matter what happens to Mel Gibson after his infamous arrest and anti-Semitic tirade, one can’t deny that he’s made and starred in some powerful films throughout his career. Braveheart, We Were Soldiers, Signs, Passion of the Christ… the list goes on. However, one of my favorite Gibson movies has always been The Patriot.

Basically an update of Braveheart< ...
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A CNet article from Austrailia explains that PC Blu-Ray drives aren’t able to play Blu-Ray movies released by studios as there aren’t PC video cards or chipsets capable of handling HDCP.

Not good.

Now – Boing Boing and Slashdot appear to have made the inference that the PS3 won’t be able to play them either. Spurious speculation? Or another nail in Sony’s coffin?

Discussing the old school DVD’s that still sound and look great in the era of Blu-Ray and HD-DVD technology.

The submarine film is tough to improve upon. With classics such as Das Boot, The Hunt for Red October, and even Crimson Tide, the submarine film genre is chock-full of movies with intense drama and claustrophobic action.

But then again, for every highly revered submarine film, there is a Below and Down Periscope.

So where does Jonathan M…
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