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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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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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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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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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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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TiVo. HD. $299. Any Questions?
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 31, 2007  | 
TiVo HD isn't the first high-def-capable or digital cable ready product from the world's winningest DVR brand. That would be the Series3. But the new model is the first HD-capable TiVo to sell for $299.
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The Miller Brothers Band
SV Staff  |  Jul 30, 2007  | 
"He better stop doing that blues shit." So sneered a fairly svelte brunette seated in front of me during the classic-rock two-fer show I saw at PNC in NJ this past Friday (7/27): the Doobie Brothers and the Steve Miller Band. In this case, "he"...
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Ingmar Bergman 1918–2007
SV Staff  |  Jul 30, 2007  | 
Liv Ullmann, Julia Dufvenius, and Ingmar Bergman during the shooting of Saraband "No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul."— Ingmar Bergman14...
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Four Words: Led Zep, High Def
SV Staff  |  Jul 30, 2007  | 
Good news, bad news . . . It's a safe bet that you've heard about this in general already, since the story broke on Friday. (That's what I get for taking the day off! See complete press release below.) But the big news is that Led Zeppelin's...
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Will DTV Transition Go Off the Rails?
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 30, 2007  | 
"Train wreck" and "digital disaster" were just a few of the words being flung at the DTV transition in Congress last week. Analog television broadcasting is scheduled to end on February 18, 2009. And elected representatives are fretting that some analog-TV viewers may not have gotten the memo. Since those who watch also vote, they deem this a problem.
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Sony's New ES Receivers
 |  Jul 27, 2007  | 

It's already been a hectic week for new product announcements, with Samsung and Denon unveiling a lot of new gear. But Sony was at this week too announcing three new AVRs with next-gen audio decoding and a host of other hot features related to streaming audio and networking.

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Cable-DVR Adoption Surges
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 27, 2007  | 
More than half of cable subscribers will have digital video recorders by 2010, according to a (rather expensive) study by the Carmel Group.
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Samsung Bows Combi Player And 3rd Gen Blu-ray Players
 |  Jul 26, 2007  | 

Samsung this week made official its plans to introduce two new, 3rd generation Blu-ray Disc players as well is its highly anticipated <I>Duo HD</I> combi player, which will play both Blu-ray and HD DVD discs.

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The Simpsons Movie: D'oh!nuts!
SV Staff  |  Jul 26, 2007  | 
Yes, at long last, The Simpsons Movie opens tomorrow. And as one of its writer/producers, Al Jean, says in the July 27 issue of Entertainment Weekly: "As an event, I think it'll be somewhere between Sgt. Pepper's the album and Sgt. Pepper's...
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Surround Scoop: Genesis Box 2
SV Staff  |  Jul 26, 2007  | 
That's right, you read it here first: The next installment in Rhino's boxed-set series of the complete Genesis studio recordings has been scheduled for October 23, according to a label spokesperson. That date "could move," however. As...
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