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No more sick touchpanels!
SV Staff  |  Apr 30, 2008
Don't you hate it when people come over to your house and they get their grubby hands all over your perfectly clean touchscreens? Or if they grab your brand new iTouch and start. . . touching!!! I mean, you don't know where their hands have been!...
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LG's Scarlet Letters
SV Staff  |  Apr 30, 2008
Steamy, glamorous ads, billboards, and web-based trailers have been teasing for weeks about a sultry new TV series called, Scarlet. Finally, the big secret behind the meaning of Scarlet has been revealed. Scarlet isn't a new series airing on...
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HD Radio - The Other White Meat
SV Staff  |  Apr 30, 2008
First, let's get the uncomfortably "truthy" stuff out of the way. HD Radio doesn't have anything to do with HDTV, and it doesn't really have anything to do with "High Definition" in general. Instead, think of HD as being...
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Paramount Resumes Blu Releases
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 30, 2008
Remember the HD DVD release of Bee Movie, the one that never happened? Well, Jerry Seinfeld's animated comedy will instead make its high-def debut on Blu-ray on May 20, one of several titles in Paramount's interrupted but now resumed Blu program.
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AT&T's U-verse: Shhhh... Be Vewy, Vewy Quiet
SV Staff  |  Apr 30, 2008
Yo. Come here. No, closer. I gotta deal for you, but we can't let anyone know about. No really, I'm serious. Step into my office-in that back alley. Here's the deal. AT&T is launching its new U-verse television service, perhaps in your very own...
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There Will Be Blu
SV Staff  |  Apr 29, 2008
Paramount Studios made it official today. It is going Blu. Because HD DVD has about as much future as a snowball in hell, Paramount has dropped its exclusive support of the HD DVD format, and will start releasing flicks in the Blu-ray format. That...
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Hey Buster, You Got Game?
SV Staff  |  Apr 29, 2008
True story: a guy walks into a Blockbuster wearing a NetFlix T-shirt, and the clerk shoots him dead. Just kidding. But it's been a long time since Blockbuster's profits from VHS rentals impressed Wall Street. What with that Interweb thing, it's...
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Are YOU a Slacker?
SV Staff  |  Apr 29, 2008
Hey! What the hell's the matter with you? Why aren't you slacking off? Stop working so hard, and kick back and listen to some tunes. And for true slackitude, go to Slacker.com. It's an intuitively adaptive Internet radio service that learns what...
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Fred Manteghian Blog
Real Men of Genius
Fred Manteghian  |  Apr 29, 2008

One of the myriad benefits we can enjoy now with the end of the high definition disc format war is the elimination of competition that threatened to drive down prices of hardware and software. Imagine what would happen if cars came in different colors. What a mess.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
First Sunday—Columbia Pictures (Blu-ray)
Kris Deering  |  Apr 29, 2008
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 3/5
Extras: 2.5/5
When the first trailers hit for Ice Cube's new comedy, I somehow thought this might be a new addition to the Friday series. That is definitely not the case, though the films do have some slight resemblances. In the beginning I thought this one was actually borrowing a bit too much from the themes and setups of Friday but once the story really got rolling things settled out a bit. I'm not going to lie; this one stumbles a lot out of the gate. My wife and I weren't clicking with the rather forced comedy early on in the film, but if you give this one a chance it makes up for it in the second and third act and actually turns out to be a fun film with a good heart. The comedy can be a bit hit or miss at times since some of the jokes are a bit forced, but overall we had a good time with it.
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