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Hitachi 42HDT52 Plasma Television
Joel Brinkley  |  Dec 11, 2005

Remember the day when plasma televisions were unadorned monitors? You had to connect it to a VCR to watch conventional television, and of course HDTV required another outboard tuner box. Any sound would have to come from your own sound system. Plasmas had no speakers or amplification of any kind. Just a screen and a picture. With no features to speak of, these plasmas had remote controls that offered four or five buttons, and that's all. And for that you paid $8,000 or more.

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Audio Video News
DVD Sales Peaking
 |  Dec 11, 2005

The next generation disc format probably can't happen soon enough for Hollywood. Worldwide movie sales on DVD are likely to be reaching their peak, according to a recent report by In-Stat. Online rentals, computer downloads, video-on-demand services and even HDTV were cited as factors.

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Fred Manteghian Blog
Goo Goo Walls
Fred Manteghian  |  Dec 11, 2005

Looking for home theater on the cheap? The 1280x720 <A HREF="http://www.infocushome.com/amer/eng/products/screenplay/sp5000.asp" TARGET="NEW"> <b> InFocus ScreenPlay 5000 </b></A> LCD projector can be had at Costco for $999. Follow the directions glued to the box and they’ll mail you a 72” screen as well. Not that the guy in front of me in the checkout line was going to bother with a screen. Last year he bought his first projector and just painted his basement wall white. This second InFocus projector was for his kid (click <u>here</u> to download adoption papers).

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Fred Manteghian Blog
Don’t Buy an Xbox 360!
Fred Manteghian  |  Dec 10, 2005

That’s right, don’t buy an Xbox 360, especially if you live in Connecticut. This just out – the models being distributed in Connecticut are defective <i>and</i> Microsoft’s warranty has a special Connecticut exclusion clause which invokes double secret arbitration as the consumer’s only remedy in the case of a defect, odds of which are, I’m told off the record, in the very high 90th percentile.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVDs: Boxer Shorts
 |  Dec 09, 2005

Alfred Hitchcock The Masterpiece Collection (Universal, 15 DVDs, $120) Saboteur, Shadow of a Doubt, Rope, Rear Window, The Trouble with Harry, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds, Marnie, Torn Curtain, Topaz, Frenzy, Family P

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Other Tech
Taking iCommand
 |  Dec 09, 2005

Most of us would have our hands full just getting a whole-house audio/video system installed. Imagine taking on that task while starring in a Broadway play, directing your first feature film, and supervising the renovation of a 3,000-square-foot apartment.

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Cream DVD-Vs, Eric Clapton DualDisc
Parke Puterbaugh  |  Dec 09, 2005

Nearly four decades passed between Cream's 1968 swansong at London's premier venue and the band's reunion shows this year on the same stage.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVD REVIEWS: Wallace & Gromit
Rad Bennett  |  Dec 09, 2005
DreamWorks
Movie •••• Picture/Sound •••• Extras •••
To coincide with the theatrical release of Wallace & Gromit's first feature, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit<
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVD REVIEWS: Last Days
Marc Horowitz  |  Dec 09, 2005
Warner
Movie •••• Picture/Sound •••• Extras •••
Writer/director Gus Van Sant re-imagines the end of
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVD REVIEWS: Battlestar Galactica
Brandon Grafius  |  Dec 09, 2005
Universal
Series •••½ Picture/Sound •••• Extras •••½
A sneak attack from the Cylons nearly wipes out hu
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