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REVIEW: Buffy the Vampire Slayer ‘Season 8 Motion Comic’

REVIEW: As a long time Buffy fan, I tried reading the original "Buffy" comic book when it hit the stands a few years back, but couldn't get past the "lifeless" version of Buffy sans the original actors, fun music, and dramatic moments. Even though I read a lot of comic...
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REVIEW: Music Computing StudioBLADE Keyboard Production Station

REVIEW: While the concept of a music keyboard with a computer inside isn't entirely new, the folks at Austin, Texas start-up Music Computing think they might have invented the new sweet spot in bridging the gap between the notebook and controller crowd and the people who won't use anything other...
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DiscWatcher Blu-ray movie review: Prince of Persia – The Sands of Time

REVIEW: It's always fun when all the summer movies start to hit Blu-ray, DVD, and pay-per-view earlier and earlier each year. Used to be, I would have to wait practically until Christmas to see the movies I skipped going to the big-screen theaters to see during "blockbuster" season. Last month...
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DiscWatcher – Watching Films at Home: New Movies on Disc August 2010

REVIEW: If you're like me, you might be one of the growing ranks of folks who have given up going to the "big screen" movie theatres in favor of stay-at-home movie watching, replete with a Blu-ray player, full surround sound and a large 1080p DLP or other TV. These days...
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Summer TV: Getting Swamped by The Glades

REVIEW: I'm usually not too excited by the Summer crop of new cable TV programs but since this past season of network TV was perhaps one of the worst ever (thank god for "Chuck" and the limping along - pun intended - "House"), I've been more than mildly surprised by...
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Why ABC’s remake of V ‘The Visitors’ lost me at hello

REVIEW: Well. I'm pretty much the target audience for any science fiction show, having been born and raised on SF films (my parents took me to see 2001: A Space Odyssey at the Cinerama dome at age 6), and TV. I enjoyed the original "V" series with the mall hair,...
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Review: Open Labs NeKo XXL Gen5 DAW Keyboard Workstation

REVIEW: I'm a big fan of Open Labs' music workstation instruments, so I was pretty excited when they announced the rebirth of their XXL model this spring, which was not available last October 2008 when I bought the NeKo TSE (previously reviewed for Music Industry Newswire). The XXL is not...
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Review: Open Labs NeKo TSE Keyboard Workstation

REVIEW: The concept of the so-called workstation keyboard is certainly not new; with a wide range of current such products on the market from big guns like Korg, Roland and Yamaha, stretching back in time to the Korg M-1. These products seek to fill the needs of the "one keyboard...
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Review: IK Multimedia SampleMoog

REVIEW: I've been a fan of the late (and sadly missed) Bob Moog's various sound creation inventions since the mid 1970s. I first saw one of his theremins at a Southern California museum and while the rest of my family perused the other modern art; I spent most of the...
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Music Review: Peter Frampton ‘Fingerprints’ (2006)

REVIEW: I was pretty excited to hear about the new disc "Fingerprints" (A&M/New Door/UMe) from Peter Frampton, a seminal guitar god from the '70s who became enormously famous for his "Frampton Comes Alive" album and for his formant-tube guitar "talk box" sound on that record 30 years ago. I hadn't...
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