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Audio Video Revolution Contest Enter to win a $2,742 Home Theater System from NAD Electronics and PSB Speakers! Click below to enter to win today... http://www.avrev.com/audiorevolutioncontest Integra DTR-10.5 Home Theater Receiver Reviewed I have always pushed my receivers and AV preamps to the limit in terms of inputs. Having almost every modern videogame system imaginable, an HD PVR, a DVD player, a few VCRs, an Onkyo Nettunes receiver, a DAT player, a High-8 video camera and a Sirius Satellite receiver, among others, as source components, I have yet to find a receiver or AV preamp that fully accepts every single input I throw at it without compromising somewhere. That is, until I discovered Integra¹s top-of-the-line $3,800 DTR-10.5 receiver. The connection possibilities are almost endless and the amount of sound formats and technologies on the DTR-10.5 are unbelievable. From the high-quality 192 kHz/24-bit DACs to almost every DTS and Dolby Digital format known to man and with Integra¹s Nettunes Internet radio music server playback capabilities built in, I believe this 7.1-capable receiver with THX®Surround EX and THX®Certified Ultra2 can be the core of a $10,000 to $30,000 home theater system. Integra has endeared itself to the ever-growing and very important custom installer market with their new "Build To Order" concept (anyone can try it out with no obligation). Much like a fast food restaurant that prides itself on not making your food until you place your order, Integra allows you to custom order your DTR-10.5 online, using a very slick interface. The back panel of a base model DTR-10.5 is listed on the screen and the user can add or remove cards from the back panel at the click of a button, much like customizing options on a computer at Apple.com or Dell.com. As the different cards are selected, the picture onscreen updates and you can see where the cards will be added. This proved to be very valuable to me even before my finished receiver arrived, as I was able to know in advance what my DTR-10.5 would look like. This allowed me to arrange my AV cabinet accordingly to have the cleanest cabling set-up possible when I added the DTR-10.5. Click below to read more... http://www.revolutionhometheater.com/equip/integradtr10_5/index.html Check out the AVR review archive here... http://www.avrev.com/equip/equipmain.shtml Richard Gray's Power Company: Have you received your FREE A/V System Evaluation from Richard Gray's Power Company yet? Not happy with the performance of your audio and video components? How's your power? Send Richard Gray's Power Company a profile of your audio/video system and they can recommend the most ideal placement of Richard Gray's Power Company products with your equipment to maximum performance benefits. Find out how your power is today. Click here and fill out a form for your free system evaluation: http://www.avrev.com/splashpage/rgpc_evaluate.html Revolution Home Theater Feature Film Reviews Fantastic Four Reviewed By Bill Warren Rating: Three stars It's baffling to try to understand the reasoning that led 20th Century-Fox to hire Tim Story as the director of what they clearly hoped would be a "tentpole" movie - a film so successful that it supports the studio's other product. Story directed the pretty good "Barbershop" and the badly-received "Taxi." But little else. Did Fox simply run out of possible directors? Were they working their way through the DGA catalog alphabetically? Story doesn't do a bad job with "Fantastic Four" - he hardly seems to do a job at all. The movie is very simple, very straightforward, very unimaginative. It's not that there is anything especially objectionable, and it's not that the movie lacks the required extravagant action sequences that enliven all superhero movies. It's that there's no life in the telling, little energy in the scenes. The cast is acceptable, with Jessica Alba (TV's "Dark Angel," here very blonde) and Chris Evans much better than that. The special effects are state-of-the-art; in depicting the Human Torch, they're even better. Click below to read the full review... http://www.revolutionhometheater.com/movies/revs/fantasticfour.shtml Sonos Music Digital System The Sonos(tm) Digital Music System lets you play all your digital music, all over your house and control it from the palm of your hand. All you need is a Sonos(tm) ZonePlayer and speakers in the rooms of your choice and the Sonos Controller in hand to access your digital music. It's the only multi-room digital music system that liberates the music stored on your PC so you can listen to it wherever you want. Click below to learn more and read the reviews... http://www.sonos.com/us/landing/all_lp2.htm Revolution Home Theater Featured DVD Reviews Read Two More Comic Book Adaptation DVD Reviews on RHT... X-Men 1.5 "X-Men" was an engrossing big-screen experience that was previously released on DVD in 2000 (it had opened theatrically earlier in the year) in a very well-made edition that was nevertheless somewhat sparse in the special features department. Now we have "X-Men 1.5," a double-disc special edition that has a DTS 5.1 sound option for audiophiles and director audio commentary and literally hours of behind-the-scenes material for "X-Men"-philes. In the near-future world of "X-Men," approximately one in 10 children born has some form of mutation that usually manifests itself in adolescence. The mutants usually (though not always) look like normal human beings but have some very peculiar abilities, which fascinate some and horrify others. U.S. Senator Kelley (Bruce Davison) wants all mutants registered and rounded up. Click below to read the full review... http://www.audiorevolution.com/dvd/revs/xmen2.shtml Spider-Man 2 I'm going to just come right out and say it. I hated the original "Spider-Man" movie. I am not a comic book fan per se, but I grew up as a kid looking forward to this movie as a result of owning a few "Spider-Man" audio books and also the live action sequences from the PBS show "The Electric Company." As countless bad CGI-driven superhero films came and went, from "Godzilla" to "The Hulk," I feared that there would be a lame plot for "Spider-Man," relying heavily on CGI. I was right as I yawned along to the slow story and countless scenes of Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) swinging across seemingly impossible expanses between buildings, defying logic and physics. Audiences still ate it up and it cleaned house at the box office. When it came time for the DVD release of "Spider-Man," home theater fans snapped it up, too, only to find that the transfer was about as bad as the movie. Then came "Spider-Man 2." Everything that was wrong with the first movie was seemingly corrected this time out. Click below to read the full review... http://www.avrev.com/dvd/revs/spiderman2.html Check out our DVD review archive. Click below... http://www.revolutionhometheater.com/dvd/main.shtml Meridian Leader in Digital Home Theater Technology, Adds Powerful New Room Correction System First to identify jitter, first to offer an audiophile CD player, and first with a digital surround processor, Meridian Audio is the acknowledged leader in digital home theater technology. In a ground-breaking new upgrade to their flagship 861 processor, Version 4 adds unique Meridian Room Correction, automatically measuring room resonances and controlling them with powerful DSP. 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