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Exclusive review: Quantum of Solace is a Blu-ray blockbuster, but Bond’s package could be better | Home Cinema Choice
There’s no doubt about it. Kids are influenced by movies, but not always in the way you expect. While watching the Blu-ray of Quantum of Solace with my son (click the link above to read the resulting [...]

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Home Cinema Choice 166 now on sale

The latest issue of Home Cinema Choice is on sale and even if I say so myself, it’s a  corker. There’s no shortage of interesting reviews, plus coverage from CES 2009 and (ironically) my in-depth preview (sic) of Pioneer’s next generation of Kuro picture processing technology, codenamed Fuga. This, [...]

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Shiver me timbers! The animated piratical story-within-a-story spin-off from the upcoming Watchmen movie, Tales of the Black Freighter, will be released on Blu-ray March 24 with BD Live features that might actually be worth looking at. In addition to exclusive live-action Watchmen footage not featured in the theatrical cut of the movie, the disc will [...]

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It’s no secret that Sony ran an X-Files division back in the Nineties, charged with looking for possible avenues of paranormal product development, including extra sensory perception, remote viewing and Qi (metabolic) energy. Now I’m beginning to wonder if rival Panasonic has its own crystal ball division. Why else would it have ordered the families [...]

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Japanese financial experts predict Pioneer about to bail out of TV business, Kuro can’t compete | Home Cinema Choice

If this news turns out to be accurate, and I have no reason to suspect it won’t, then it’s a bit of a heart-breaker. Pioneer has been pushing the envelope in TV picture quality since its early [...]

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