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We had a lot of fun doing our all surround sound episode last week, but Sam from Jersey wrote in to tell us we'd made a terrible error: "You missed the best audio BluRay out there in your top list, AC/DC Live At Donington. I know it's a concert and not a "movie" but it's the benchmark disc I use when I checked my speaker placement." Thanks for the heads up, Sam!

How do you find release dates for Blu-ray disks? We explain on the show, and tell Joel what we found out about Finding Nemo from Pixar!

Our producer Roger (and Robert) are all over Stargate Universe. Robert's also watching a lot of NASCAR and, Star Wars: The Clone Wars?!?

Robert's been obsessed with Katamari Forever, a new HD version of the classic game that runs on the PS3!

A lot of our favorite road trip films (Thelma and Louise, Peewee's Big Adventure, The Blues Brothers) aren't on Blu-Ray yet… find out our favorites that are in the video!

The new Blu-ray releases for October 13, 2009 include: Adoration, American Violet, The Craft , Drag Me to Hell, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas (last week we saw the 1965 animated classic, this week we have 2000's version with Jim Carrey.), Kong: Return to the Jungle, Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, Natural Born Killers: The Director’s Cut, The Proposal, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut and Wolf.

Lots of folks have been asking about Nvidia's Ion, essentially a GPU for the Intel's low power Atom CPU. The folks over at Puget Systems were kind enough to loan us one of their Echo I HTPC boxes with a Blu-ray drive inside… watch the video to find out it did with 1080p video!

Robet's been hands on testing LG's SL90 Series! It's not just thing, it's got an awesome toddler proof tempered glass sheet in front of the LCD screen. Are ultra-thin HDTVs the next big thing? Yes… find out what they'll cost and if there's any compromise in performance in the video!

Can putting your speakers too close to your HDTV damage it? You're right, Nathan, speaker magnets did weird things to CRTs! Watch the video to find out the answer!

Bill asks, "Are we reaching or have we reached the point when speeding up the refresh or pixel switching rates is irrelevant, insofar as the content we are obtaining is not as fast as the panels?" Robert's got the answer in the video!