The RevolutionHomeTheater.com Email Newsletter Revolution Home Theater March Contest Enter to Win a $4,000 Krell Showcase Preamp/Processor! Click below to enter... http://www.revolutionhometheater.com/rhtcontest
Audio Video Revolution Contest Enter to win an Energy act6 speaker set at Audio Video Revolution. Click below to enter to win today... http://www.avrev.com/audiorevolutioncontest Marantz RC9500 Universal Learning Remote Reviewed Like many Audio Video Revolution readers, I have a table adjacent to the main seat in my theater room completely covered with various remotes to run my AV system. For years, this situation has been acceptable because, barring the morning after a big night out on the town, I can manipulate my system by grabbing one remote after another to fire up my gear. This has long been a safety mechanism that prevents my roommates from using (or abusing) my gear, as they can�t figure out how to start it up even if I left them alone for a week with a stack of NetFlix movies six inches high. The problem is that I personally have the whole remote routine down, but I am getting to the point where I want to let others use my system from time to time. However, none of them can figure out the system and often leave it in worse shape than when I left them alone at the helm. So how do I solve such a perplexing issue? I need a universal remote to consolidate my seven remotes and simplify the knowledge of a home theater nerd into a press of a button. I could just get a cheap learning remote with rubber buttons that probably won�t describe exactly all the functions represented on my other remotes, but why not improve the whole experience? Why not add color graphics, macros to automate tasks and fully personalize it to my taste? Enter the Marantz 9500 universal remote and not a moment too soon. Click below to read the review... http://www.avrev.com/equip/marantzrc9500/ Read more remote reviews below... http://www.avrev.com/equip/remotes.html Check out the AVR review archives... http://www.avrev.com/equip/equipmain.shtml Revolution Home Theater Film Reviews Ring Two Reviewed by Bill Warren Rating: Three Stars For this first sequel to the American version of �The Ring� (2002), DreamWorks has imported Hideo Nakata, the director of the Japanese version and some of its plentiful sequels/prequels. But screenwriter Ehren Kruger has tamed the weirdest elements of those movies, which were partly what made the film so popular overseas, and why it was remade here. The movie has been tamed down into an interesting but standard American horror movie, where each plot turn logically connects to the next, where villains are obvious and heroes endowed with almost a golden glow. Explanations for the spooky stuff are simpler, more like you�d see in an okay horror movie made for television. Even the American �The Ring� reduced the strangeness; Nakata�s films had their own mythology unrelated to American legends of ghosts, even unrelated to Japanese supernatural traditions. A videotape that kills you a week after you watched it? That idea came from the bright minds of the filmmakers, not out of a book on ghosts and superstitions. There was no obvious link between the long-haired ghost child (called Samara in the American version), videotapes and the need to murder innocent victims. But there was an emotional thread that tied them all together. Click below to read the full review... http://www.revolutionhometheater.com/movies/revs/ringtwo.shtml PurePower: It's like plugging into Niagara Falls The only way to ensure your A/V system meets spec and is protected at all times is to de-couple it from the local utility power with a PurePower AC Regenerator. Conventional power conditioners merely filter the noise, protect against surges, and in some cases regulate voltage. PurePower connects you to a new, stable power source, off the power grid, as though you were hooked up to the cleanest power station in North America. Even if the inbound voltage is zero, PurePower keeps your system operating perfectly with its built-in back-up battery system. Perfect voltage sinewave, total freedom from line noise, distortion, surges, and sags. Click below to learn more... http://www.avrev.com/splashpage/audiophileaps.html Introducing the completely redesigned RBH MC Series Mark II Designed for both audio and home theater enthusiasts, the MC Series features RBH's proprietary aluminum cone technology; the same technology in their flagship products. Because of the inherent stiffness, low mass and self-damping properties found in aluminum, these advanced drivers deliver crisp, clear sound with the immediacy and accuracy needed to deliver the realism of today's high-definition music and movies. Computer optimized crossover networks allow smooth integration between drivers while increasing power handling and minimizing distortion. To learn more click below... http://www.avrev.com/splashpage/rbh1004.html Welcome to Rotel... Exceptional Sound. No Exceptions! Rotel manufactures some of the best value electronics available today. From home theater components to two channel stereo to custom installation products, our more than 40 years experience combined with our Balanced Design engineering philosophy allow us to produce outstanding quality products at very affordable prices. Don�t take our word for it though. Visit our web site and see what audio critics from around the world say about Rotel. Then, go see your authorized Rotel dealer for a demonstration. Click below to visit Rotel today... http://www.avrev.com/splashpage/rotel.html Revolution Home Theater Featured DVD Reviews Read Two More DreamWorks DVD Reviews on RHT... Shrek One of the biggest financial hits of 2001, "Shrek" took many by surprise. "Antz," the previous computer-animation outing from Pacific Data Images (PDI) and DreamWorks, was better than expected, but "Shrek" is a whole heck of a lot better than that. Bright, sassy and funny, at times it's also genuinely moving. Partly a sendup of fairy tales, partly an effective fairy tale itself, "Shrek" has something for everyone (including numerous gross-out jokes). However, it's unlike the Pixar/Disney films in that it isn't aimed simultaneously at everyone; the jokes at the expense of fairy tales (largely the Disney versions of those fairy tales) are for adults, while the slapstick is largely for kids. But it's a combination that worked wonders at the boxoffice. Shrek is voiced by Mike Myers... Click below to read the full review... http://www.avrev.com/dvd/revs/shrek.shtml Gladiator Giant jars of blazing oil slam into trees, inundating the warriors below with liquid fire. War machines fire arrows the size of spears, shishkabobbing men in fur cloaks. Gladiators dressed as minotaurs slam spiked balls into the heads of their opponents. Men on foot are forced to battle armor-clad charioteers. Tigers leap from beneath the floor of the Colosseum in ancient Rome and claw at our desperate hero. And 'Gladiator' is great fun between the astonishing action as well. Directed by Ridley Scott ('Alien,' 'Blade Runner'), 'Gladiator' is the first big-scale Hollywood epic about ancient Rome since THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE in 1964 -- and the two cover exactly the same period of Roman history, though this is more a coincidence than anything else. The story of 'Gladiator' extends from just prior to the death of the great emperor Marcus Aurelius... Click below to read the full review... http://www.avrev.com/dvd/revs/gladiator.shtml Check out our DVD review archive. 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