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There’s nothing wrong with the Mitsubishi LT-46244 that a massive discount wouldn’t cure. It isn’t a bad TV, though it’s nowhere near good enough to justify its $2500 price tag.

Our judges rated its overall image quality as good, with a performance score of 77, which ranks fourth among the nine 46- and 47-inch HDTV sets we tested contemporaneously and is only 3.6 points behind the top-performing Samsung LN46A550. On the other hand, you can buy nearly two Samsungs for the price of one Mitsubishi.

I found some of the images a bit light and pale, with occasional reddish skin tones (though far less pronounced than with the LG 47LBX Opus). More troubling was a moire pattern in Mission Impossible III’s Vatican wall–something I didn’t expect to see from a Blu-ray disc screening on a 1080p set. Other judges noted some excess brightness and blur.

Dozens of devastated gamers have swamped the official GTA forums with complaints of repeated freezing when playing the much-hyped Grand Theft Auto IV. Most of the complaints are from PS3 users, though some Xbox 360s are also involved.

An Australian gamer was the first to post, stating: “I got GTA on Sunday and it freezes and I have to restart the console it happens every hour or so, I thought it may be a dodgy disc, so I took the disc back to the shop and got a new one.”

The post continues to say that the second disc also froze after just 40 minutes. One regular Xbox 360 user said that the problem comes from Rockstar programming the game so that it has no loading times. This overloads a console’s cache.
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Gary Dourdan was arrested in Palm Springs for an alleged possession of ‘a virtual pharmacy’s worth’ of prescription medication and a number of illegal drugs.

Dourdan, 41, was asleep inside his vehicle which was parked on the wrong side of the road and with the interior light on.

The arresting officer described the actor as ‘disoriented’ and appeared to be under the influence of a banned substance and alcohol.
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Bruce Pitts has saved the life of Blanche Roberts who had been pinned under the body of her 77-year-old dead husband. Blanche was pinned under her husband for at least two days before being discovered.

Pitts, a newspaper carrier, became concerned after seeing the Roberts’ papers build up in the mailbox. Pitts went into the home to check to see if the couple was home and found Mrs. Roberts.

Blanche was taken to the hopspital but her medical condition has not been released. Funeral arrangements are pending for Fred Roberts.
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