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Flat screens are the hot item in video displays, and Thomas J. Norton reviews one of the hottest screens available, the Fujitsu Plasmavision SlimScreen P50XHA10U high-definition plasma. TJN notes, "The new Fujitsu goes for just under $11,000 and may well represent the state of the art in 50" plasma displays."

For our movie review this week, Michael Metzger explains why he has such a problem with San Peckinpah's controverial Straw Dogs. MM writes that this Dustin Hoffman vehicle hints that Peckinpah was "not the ironist he posed as, and exploited the very violence he claimed to despise."