S&V Holiday Picks
Things to do when you're not reading Sound & Vision
Editied by Michael Gaughn

Boxes in Brief: DVD
The way things have been lately, it seems like everyone could use a good cheering up. So this year, we’re focusing on DVDs that will give us a winter of bliss and a season of good thrill. The movies and TV series cover the best of all kinds of tastes, with emphasis on some serious escapism.
— Josef Krebs

Boxes in Brief: CD
In recent issues, we have already covered the folk collection Washington Square Memoirs (September), Miles Davis’s The Complete “In a Silent Way” Sessions (October), and Buffalo Springfield’s Box Set (October). But we have not yet begun to box.
— Ken Richardson

Tracking Surround
The fear you hear when you cue up many multichannel titles on DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD is the ir-rational fear of the center channel. But there are exceptions.
— Robert Ripps