Mike Mettler

Music Reviews
Steven Wilson: Insurgentes
Mike Mettler  |  Feb 25, 2009
K-Scope
Music ••••½ DVD-Audio Mix ••••• Extras ••••½
The once and future king of surround has done it again - or,
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Lost in the Blu
Mike Mettler  |  Dec 07, 2008
Buena Vista
Movie ••••½ Picture ••••• Sound ••••• Extras ••••½
TV's benchmark for A/V quali
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Other Tech
BackTalk: Jewel
Mike Mettler  |  Dec 07, 2008
I have to borrow a line from your song "Intuition" and ask: Are you still "just a simple girl in a high-tech digital world"? A little bit, yeah [chuckles].
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Other Tech
Back Talk: Paul Ben-Victor
Mike Mettler  |  Oct 26, 2008

Walk me through your recent HDTV buying experience. I found myself attracted to the LCD. Two of my very good friends - Dave Rodriguez, who's directed two upcoming films that I'm in, and John Barr, the director of photography on those films - they're plasma guys.

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Other Tech
Editor-in-Chief Mike Mettler's Top 50 Albums of All Time
Mike Mettler  |  Oct 26, 2008

As I noted in one of the five entries I wrote for our Top 50 Albums of All Time list (actually, I also penned three of the uncredited entries for albums 41-50 - see if you can guess which ones once our master list posts), I became an audio journalist to extol the virtues of great-sounding recordings.

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Other Tech
Talkin’ DVD Politics with Tom Smothers
Mike Mettler  |  Oct 09, 2008

I find it interesting that you chose to start releasing The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour on DVD (Time Life) with a collection of the best episodes from Season 3 (1968-69). That's the season we got fired from CBS. I was very, very, very reluctant to put this show out on home video.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Season 1
Mike Mettler  |  Oct 02, 2008
Warner
Movie •••½ Picture •••• Sound •••• Extras •••½
Can a great TV drama have an endoskeleton
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Other Tech
Lisa Loeb Takes Us to Camp Vinyl
Mike Mettler  |  Sep 30, 2008

You've always been a bit of a hi-fi geek, haven't you? I have. On prom night, my boyfriend and I checked out stereo speakers at an all-night speaker sale. It was a big deal back then, a ritual - you had to get the perfect speakers, and set your room up a certain way.

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Other Tech
Rooftop of Dreams
Mike Mettler  |  Sep 29, 2008

Ah, sweet home Chicago. I remember partaking in a number of great local traditions when I used to call the Windy City my backyard: Going to Buddy Guy's Legends club for a late night of tasty blues. Seeing the Chicago River dyed green for St. Patrick's Day. Taking in a Chicago Cubs game in the bleachers at Wrigley Field.

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BackTalk: Julie Benz from 'Dexter'
Mike Mettler  |  Sep 25, 2008

The opening-credits sequence for Dexter is an absolute wonder to watch and listen to on DVD, wouldn't you agree?Oh, yes. Those opening credits are brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. They're creepy; they're cool. Everything that the show is gets encapsulated in those opening credits. A certain genius was at work when they were put together.

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