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E-Onkyo music service becomes first to offer Dolby TrueHD 5.1 audio

Looking for something a little more than your average online music store has to offer? Then you may soon want to give Onkyo's somewhat niche e-onkyo service some consideration. It's set to be the first store to offer music in Dolby TrueHD 5.1 -- something that will initially be limited to just 100 albums (heavy on the classical, from the looks of things) and require a compatible Onkyo receiver. Those downloads will also only be available in Japan initially (where they're rolling out on May 30th), but Dolby says they'll be available "elsewhere in the world" sometime this fall. Not surprisingly, that new option will demand a bit of a premium as well, with albums starting at ¥3,000 (or about $35) and singles setting you back ¥400 (or $5).

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CHKDSK is changing how it works (step 1 of 1) 56 percent completed...

PC users of a certain age will be all too familiar with defragging and disk checking, normally as a last-ditch attempt to reinvigorate a flagging or faulty system. Fast-forward to 2012, and Microsoft is reassessing the role of the whole NTFS health model for the modern world (well, Windows 8 at least). It turns out that these days actual corruptions are rare, but people still like to run chkdsk just in case -- or out of habit. In the old approach, health check was either happy or unhappy, and the machine was taken offline for as long as was needed to fix. Even with optimization and improvements in later versions, the galloping sizes of hard drives has swallowed up much of the benefit. In the redesigned model there are four states: healthy, spot verification needed, scan needed and spot fix needed. In any of these states, the system remains online, with the user deciding when to restart if a fix is needed. The reboot process should also be much quicker, with the spot fix already targeted. Advanced users can go a stage further and invoke the spot fix while still online for sections of the disk not in use. The proof, of course, is in the pudding, but anything that involves less death-staring at a disk check is a good thing in our book. Hit the source for a blow-by-blow breakdown.

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Track 8 Music Player Brings Microsoft?s Beautiful Metro Design to iPad [Video]

People tend think of Macs as the "creative" computer and Windows as the "business" computer, but those lines have blurred for years. System administrators figured out how to support iPhones for enterprise email; Windows Phone looks great from a design perspective; and have you noticed that Apple doesn't even ship a basic image editor anymore, and yet Microsoft remembers to include MS Paint? More »

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MasterCard introduces PayPass Wallet Services, Online and API at CTIA 2012

MasterCard's PayPass is certainly one of the bigger players in the contactless payment scene. But, simply putting a few thousand branded payment terminals in stores across the nation isn't enough. The next step is expanding that empire, not only in terms of locations and handsets, but by turning the phone into just an accessory in a larger ecosystem. PayPass Wallet Services is a new umbrella product that includes an online payment system, a branded service and an API that allows developers to integrate PayPass into their own proprietary offerings. Simply put, PayPass is no longer a product, but a platform. The service remembers not only credit cards, but shipping addresses and other identifying info that streamlines the shopping process, while the API means that others can build value added offerings around PayPass. There's even a dedicated Android app.

The company is hoping to have the system ready for a broad roll out by the third quarter of the year. When that time comes, a pile of partners have pledged to support it in various ways. The names on that list should ring at least a few bells: Intel, Barnes & Noble, Newegg, MLB and American Airlines. It all seems pretty impressive (though, we'll reserve judgement till we get to try it out). Your move, Google.

Zachary Lutz contributed to this report

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Emily VanCamp Covers Lucky, Hates Stoners

Beautiful Revenge star Emily VanCamp covers the new issue of Lucky ... but don't even think about getting lucky with her if you're some lazy dude.

"I'll tell you one thing I don't want [in a man]," the actress says in the June issue. "A guy who sits around and plays video games and smokes pot."

VanCamp does reveal she's attracted to a paternal kind of guy.

"I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they're immediately wanting to be a parent or not," the 25-year-old says.

"It's important to me that a man is good at taking care of people."

If any non-stoner, potential dads-of-the-year are interested, they should know that VanCamp is unwittingly becoming a celebrity gossip stable.

"It's so great to have all this stuff happen to you," she says of her success.

"But to all of a sudden have photographers snapping photos of you, it's a big change. You know, I see pictures of myself I had no idea were being taken. I'm generally very aware of what's going on around me. I really don't know where they hide."

Speaking of shady people hiding things ... follow the link for Revenge spoilers!

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Start your week with a special edition of the Greatest Android Podcast in the World!

Missed our special Galaxy S III podcast from London last Thursday? Fear not -- now's the time to get caught up on all the facts, figures and opinions on Samsung's latest and greatest Android smartphone. Live (and in person!) from old London town, Alex and Phil cover everything from specs to design to software to woodchucks, in a very special edition of the Android Central Podcast. If you're looking to get caught up on everything there is to know about the Galaxy S III, there's no better place to do it.

The Android Central Podcast is your weekly peek into the world of Android, where we break down the news that really matters, and explain what's just a bunch of hype. Plus, we answer your e-mails and voicemails. You don't want to miss it. Check out the Android Central Podcast.

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