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Amazon has a well deserved reputation as a (generally) excellent retailer and purveyor of leading edge business models. Their new movie download server – Amazon Unbox – however, is according to Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing, rife with awfulness.

From a software client that borders on malware, to TOC’s that sign away your right to your purchased content, the service is plaugued by the typically heavy handed legal stylings of the MPAA.
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Nintendo’s Japanese conferences have announced some Wii details; more than likely they will not change with today’s US conference, but here’s what we know so far:

* Wii will retail for $250 and release on Nov. 19th. Will include a pack-in game (been a while since we’ve seen that) – Wii Sports.

* The system will include a web browser, digital photo viewing and a connection to news and weather ‘channels’. Hopefully what the ‘channels’ are will be clarified soon.

* Virtual Console…
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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.

With the recent news of MGM green-lighting Terminator 4 as a future tent-pole release in the near future, I thought it would be appropriate to go back and revisit Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines on DVD.

The Terminator and T2: Judgment Day were sci-fi/action marvels anchored by James Cameron’s expansive imagination and eye for detail. While …
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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 By now the film looks a little outdated, grainy in places and just fuzzy and washed out in others despite being certified by THX, but the sound more than makes up for it.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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