Entertainment

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In pictures I took and videos I didn’t
Primus: Sailing the Seas of Surround
Give a hand to Primus’s Les Claypool, who dives into the 5.1 arena and emerges as a captain of all channels.
Steely Dan’s Planet D’Sound Quality
SQ Logic: Our favorite audiophile-centric recording duo wax poetically on the necessary elements of great recordings.

What's New

Tracking Surround

Universal's first classical SACDs: Dvorak, New Year’s Concert 2002, Wagner, Gluck, Beethoven, Mozart. Also on SACD: Vivaldi, Bach, Mendelssohn/Shostakovich, Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. And on DVD-A: Bach, Mozart, Stravinsky, Ravel, Haydn, D. Scarlatti, Be?
- By Robert Ripps
- Posted April 10, 2003
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Multichannel Music Report Card (2003)

It's time once again for DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD to face the music.
- By Michael Gaughn, Ken Richardson, David Ranada And James K. Wilcox
- Posted March 26, 2003
Coming into early 2003, the biggest news about the two high-resolution multichannel audio formats, DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD, might be that they're both still hanging in there.
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A Night at the Movies

S&V picks our favorite theaters.
- By Jamie Sorcher
- Posted March 26, 2003
If you consider today's monstrous megaplexes and their too-salty popcorn to be cinematic sacrilege, take heart.
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Jam Transmissions

Phish is back with a vengeance.
- By Andrew Nash
- Posted March 11, 2003
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Art for Rock's Sake
- By Ken Richardson
- Posted March 11, 2003
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Making the Cut

MovieMask and the Directors Guild square off over who should have the right to alter movies.
- By Michael Antonoff
- Posted February 24, 2003
To address concerns over violence, sex, and profanity in popular films, a number of companies have emerged that create "sanitized" versions of VHS tapes or DVDs for a fee.
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Tracking Surround

Universal's first pop/jazz SACDs: Diana Krall, Natalie Cole, Andrea Bocelli, James Horner, Ryan Adams, Bon Jovi, Al Jarreau. Also on SACD: Tierney Sutton, Tony Bennett, Big Brother & the Holding Company. And on DVD-A: Linda Ronstadt, Neil Young, Crosby & ?
- By Ken Richardson
- Posted February 24, 2003
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Northwest Passages

Reviews of the new Audioslave and Pearl Jam CDs.
- By Ken Richardson
- Posted February 12, 2003
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S&V Entertainment Awards

The Best of 2002 on CD & DVD
- By Ken Richardson And Josef Krebs
- Posted January 28, 2003
That's right, the women are smarter! At least the three women of Sleater-Kinney and the star of Amélie are, because they've taken the No. 1 spots in our annual S&V Entertainment Awards. Of course, from Gabriel to the Boss, the boys who made our list of the best CDs of 2002 aren't softies.
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Multichannel Wish List

24 albums we'd love to hear in surround
- By S&v Staff
- Posted December 19, 2002
This magazine has been a constant, vocal, and, above all, passionate supporter of DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD since they were first introduced. And we want to do everything we can to make sure these multichannel audio formats not just survive but thrive.But we haven't always been thrilled with the releases during these critical first years.
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S&V Picks

The Latest in Holiday Cheer
- By S&v Staff
- Posted December 3, 2002
Maybe This Christmas, Various Artists Here's one of the best various-artist collections in years, focusing on new names like Coldplay, Phantom Planet, and Bright Eyes.
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The King of Swing

He's already ruled the box office—now go behind the scenes as Spider-Man swings to your home on DVD.
- By Jamie Sorcher
- Posted November 4, 2002
(Movie Images Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.)
"This, like any story worth telling, is all about a girl," Peter Parker tells us at the beginning of Spider-Man-not what you'd expect to hear from a superhero. But, as delighted audiences soon discovered, Spider-Man doesn't play by the rules.

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