Thankfully, the power button on the remote puts the player in a standby mode so it will play nicely in a remote location via IR extenders.

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" He makes it look far more costly, he says, by working in a highly stylized and theatrical mode -- soundstage settings, for example, "instead of weeks on location in the deserts of Morocco.

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