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...like everything except gasoline, they just keep getting cheaper. Newcomer Apex Digital beat all the big names into the sub-$100-player market and did it with a worthy machine. Not only does the AD-500 play CDs and DVDs, but it can read your MP3 music files from disc too. www.apexdigitalinc.com...
...sets fall into two categories: too comprehensive or not comprehensive enough. Count this four-disc companion to the PBS music documentary among the latter. Sixty-eight tracks is plenty for an individual act but a mere freshman introduction to American roots music. With limited breadth, the curatorial choices are critical. There's not a false step on the Country and Blues discs, with room for both the obvious (B.B. King, Hank Williams) and the exuberantly obscure (Whistler's Jug Band?). But while the Cajun, Tejano and Native American selections are individually clever, their close proximity emphasizes similarity rather than...
...common engine, but it has had problems. In a sternly worded report last December, the NTSB warned that the CF6 engines presented a potentially "catastrophic" threat. The NTSB recommended to the FAA that it take action, including a review of the design of the engine's high pressure turbine disc because of a number of dangerous incidents in the past few years...
...that has changed with Invincible. To be sure, there is much to both like and dislike about the disc, Jackson’s first studio release of totally brand-new material since 1991’s Dangerous. But for the first time since Thriller, the erstwhile King shows that he’s capable of breaking the mold once again. The King is dead. Long live the King...
...allows commercial-free viewing. It also incorporates some features normally found on computers. A FireWire port links the machine with most digital video cameras and, for simple movie editing, I found it a lot easier than using my PC. And as is true with straight DVD players, searching a disc is a lot less aggravating than searching a tape. One button brings up the menu that allows you to see exactly what's on the disc and from there it's easy to get to that scene of Uncle Ted splitting his pants at my sister's wedding. For home...