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7.1 From Day 1
Brent Butterworth  |  Mar 01, 2011

Home theater enthusiasts have had seven speakers in their systems for a decade now, but only now is Hollywood finally catching up. Last Saturday, Dolby Laboratories feted the release of the Megamind Blu-ray Disc, which it says is the first movie released in 7.1-channel sound in theaters and on Blu-ray. A screening of the Blu-ray Disc in the company's technically unassailable theater was preceded by a discussion with Erik Aadahl, one of the movie's two supervising sound editors.

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It's here: Bambi 2
SV Staff  |  Mar 02, 2011
That's "2" as in Disney's Second Screen technology, introduced on the 1942 animated classic's Blu-ray debut, which was unveiled yesterday in a Diamond Edition. Yes, confusingly, there are...
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The Rolling Stones Catalog Comes to HDTracks.
Stan Horaczek  |  Mar 03, 2011

It was kind of a big deal with The Beatles finally made their way onto the ever-growing digital music behemoth that is iTunes, but we find this news just as, um, satisfying. Starting this week, 27 Stones records will be finding their way onto the audiophile music service, HDTracks.com. The tracks have been pulled from remasters that were originally created for and released on SACD in the early 2000s.

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Pioneer's New Receivers Really Love Apple
Brent Butterworth  |  Mar 08, 2011

DVD, say your prayers. Blu-ray Disc, better get your affairs in order. Judging from the new A/V receivers Pioneer introduced on Monday at the W Hotel in San Francisco, one could easily conclude that the old "hard" media formats have pretty much played out.

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"Source Code," "Super," "Win Win" at SXSW
Ken Richardson  |  Mar 15, 2011

Why does Jake Gyllenhaal suddenly find himself on a commuter train headed to Chicago? And why is Michelle Monaghan so interested in him?

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Time Warner's new iPad app escalates the battle for the small screen
Michael Berk  |  Mar 17, 2011

Time Warner's new TWCable TV app for the iPad (which lets TWC internet and cable service subscribers stream content to their tablets over their home WiFi ) became the most-downloaded piece of software in the iTunes st

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Bob Geldof at SXSW: Best. Keynote. Ever.
Ken Richardson  |  Mar 17, 2011

 

Maybe not exactly ever, but it sure seemed that way. After all, unlike recent "keynotes" at the SXSW Music Festival - which have tended to be mere Q&As with an onstage interviewer - Bob Geldof's talk this morning was an actual keynote speech. And an enthralling one at that.

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Samsung goes mobile with the Galaxy Player; Microsoft's Zune bows out.
Michael Berk  |  Mar 18, 2011

 

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SXSW Interactive: MOG to stream in car
Ken Richardson  |  Mar 19, 2011

Seth_priebatschMOG has indeed announced that it will be the first music-streamin

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"The Beaver." Seriously. At SXSW.
Ken Richardson  |  Mar 19, 2011

In her latest film, director/co-star Jodie Foster has Mel Gibson speaking almost exclusively in a Cockney accent - the "voice" of a beaver puppet.

Is this the recipe for a train wreck?

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Mitsubishi to exit LCD TV market
Michael Berk  |  Mar 21, 2011

As noted by HDGuru over the weekend, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America has confirmed that it will indeed "exit the LCD-TV market entirely" by the end of 2011, concentrating from here on out on its consumer rear-projection televisions (including its highly regarded

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Dynamic Range Day 2011
Michael Berk  |  Mar 22, 2011

 

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Cover Flow: Whither the iPad Album?
Michael Berk  |  Mar 23, 2011

 

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Beautiful nostalgia...for CRTs
Michael Berk  |  Mar 24, 2011

Via adafruit...Berlin-based photographer Stephan Tillmans has a new show up, Luminant Point Arrays, consisting entirely of photographs capturing CRTs as they're shut off.

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Met, MoMA display the guitar as (and in) art
Michael Berk  |  Mar 24, 2011

Since it appeared in the seventeenth century, the guitar has been a work of visual art in its own right, as well as a powerful influence on artists in other media.

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