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New Blu-rays for November 6, 2012: Sunset Boulevard, Ready for its Close-Up

Remastered classics from Billy Wilder, Francis Ford Coppola, Akira Kurosawa, and more
- By Josef Krebs
- Posted November 6, 2012
Sunset Boulevard
After having his latest screenplay rejected by the studios, screenwriter-on-the-skids Joe Gillis (William Holden), chased by a pair of repo men, pulls into an open garage in what seems to be an abandoned, run-down mansion.

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Jazz Classics get the High Resolution Treatment from Blue Note and HDtracks

Classic releases from John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Horace Silver, and Larry Young, remastered from the original analog sources.
- By Michael Berk
- Posted July 26, 2012
If you're a fan of Blue Note's classic releases of the '50s and '60s — and frankly, what jazz aficionado isn't? — and you're a discerning digitally inclined audiophile, you're in luck! Blue Note/EMI, through our friends at HDtracks, is releasing six classics of the period in glorious 96kHz/24bit and 192kHz/24bit remasters from the original analog masters.

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Marantz announces new receivers, amps, more
- By sandv blog
- Posted July 21, 2010
Marantz has just unveiled its 2010 line of A/V products, and they run the full gamut of A/V receivers, amplifiers, Blu-ray Disc players, and even an SACD player.
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Beatles remasters: "Listen"
- By sandv blog
- Posted April 9, 2009
Verlyn Klinkenborg has done it again. Bitstream browsers will recall that, one week ago, I linked to his New York Times editorial on Maurice Jarre.

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Beatles CDs remastered. Finally.
- By sandv blog
- Posted April 7, 2009
That's right, the press release just arrived this morning at 9 o'clock on the dot. Here it is, in full. And stay tuned to our Bitstream blog in the coming days because, after I've had some time to mull over the press release myself, I'll be firing off a post or two on What They Got Right and What They Got Wrong.

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