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Parasound Solves Domestic Problems with "Architectural" Loudspeakers
HT Staff  |  Sep 20, 2000  |  0 comments
Home theater fans almost universally agree that multichannel sound is great, but not all agree on how best to achieve it. Most find that incorporating five large box speakers---plus subwoofer and all the necessary cabling---into a typical home is difficult at best, and a point of contention that can strain even the most solid domestic relationships.
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Parasound Updates AVC-2500 and HCA-2205A
HT Staff  |  Aug 31, 2000  |  0 comments
San Francisco-based Parasound, long noted for making great-sounding products at affordable prices, has announced updates for two of its most highly regarded home theater products, the AVC-2500 preamp/processor and the HCA-2205A power amp.
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Parrot's Zikmu Speakers Have Style, NXT
SV Staff  |  Jan 03, 2009  |  0 comments
Parrot loves Bluetooth, so they teamed up with Phillippe Starck to create a pair of NXT-powered speakers to play nice with your WiFi and iPod-like devices. The oddly-named Zikmu speakers claim 100 W of output from two NXT panels sitting atop some...
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Patent Suit Hits Blu-ray
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 25, 2007  |  0 comments
Blu-ray has reached another milestone. The infant format has attracted its first patent lawsuit, reports GameSpot.
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Patent Troll Menaces DTV Standard
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 31, 2007  |  0 comments
Proving that no good deed goes unpunished, cable operators and television networks may have to pay out huge amounts of money to a private company if they want to go on delivering digital television in the government-approved DTV standard.
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Paul Allen Working to Revive Cinerama
 |  Jun 04, 2000  |  0 comments

Like the 1959 Cadillac convertible, Cinerama was one of the peak expressions of 1950s excess. With three synchronized projectors casting overlapping images on a curved screen 96 feet wide, the format was the era's ultimate form of cinematic entertainment and the precursor to today's IMAX.

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Paul Barton Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
SV Staff  |  Oct 22, 2018  |  0 comments
Paul Barton, noted Canadian speaker designer and founder/chief designer of PSB Speakers, was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award on Saturday at the Toronto Audio Fest.
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Pay the Musicians, Already
Mark Fleischmann  |  Nov 02, 2017  |  2 comments
Republicans and Democrats may not agree on much, but at least one member of each party would like to see musicians get paid royalties on musical works produced before 1972.
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PBS Chihuly Special Launches HDTV; Bodes Well for Future
Barry Willis  |  Nov 14, 1998  |  0 comments

High-definition television will be synonymous with high-quality programming, if the nation's <A HREF="http://www.pbs.org/">Public Broadcasting Service</A> has anything to do with it. Last week, PBS launched its new age of HDTV with <I>Chihuly Over Venice</I>, a 90-minute documentary about Seattle glass artist Dale Chihuly. The beautifully filmed and expertly edited piece, assembled from 100 hours of raw footage, follows Chihuly and a crew of fellow artists through Italy, Ireland, Finland, and Mexico as they work with local glassblowers, creating sculptures and large-scale chandeliers for public places.

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PBS Demonstrates Enhanced Digital TV and Data Broadcasting
Jon Iverson  |  Oct 31, 1999  |  0 comments

Is the world ready for interactive television? The <A HREF="http://www.pbs.org">Public Broadcasting Service</A> (PBS) apparently thinks so. Last week PBS, along with several of its member stations, LG Electronics, and <A HREF="http://www.lgerca.com">LG Electronics Research Center of America</A> (LGERCA), began demonstrating "enhanced digital television and data broadcasting" to their viewers as part of PBS Digital Week 2.0.

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PBS Series on Recorded Music Kicks Off Monday
SV Staff  |  Nov 11, 2016  |  0 comments
The first episode of Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music, the last project produced by legendary music producer Sir George Martin who passed away on March 8, airs on PBS channels at 10 p.m. ET, Monday (November 14).
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PC Video or TV Computing?
Jon Iverson  |  Aug 15, 1999  |  0 comments

Last week, <A HREF="http://www.net-tv.net">NetTV</A>, which markets progressive-scan digital televisions and set-top boxes with integrated DVD-ROM players, announced that the company's High-Resolution DVD and digital television will be showcased at the DVD PRO Conference & Exhibition, to be held later this week in San Francisco. NetTV claims it is building digital-entertainment systems that combine progressive-scan video with Dolby Digital 5.1-channel audio. The company's products include the ExtremeDVD digital entertainment set-top box and DTV Series digital televisions (29, 34, and 38 inches).

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Pearl Jam's "Backspacer" to hit record stores and "Rock Band" simultaneously
SV Staff  |  Aug 03, 2009  |  0 comments
Pearl Jam seems to love Rock Band. Last spring, the band released the entirety of its debut album Ten as downloadable content for the game. In September, the band is taking it a step further by releasing its newest album, Backspacer, as Rock Band...
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Pearl Jam’s Gigaton Comes to Apple TV in Dolby Vision and Atmos
Al Griffin  |  Apr 24, 2020  |  0 comments
Gigaton, the late-March release from 90s grunge-rock kings Pearl Jam and the band’s first album since 2013’s Lightning Bolt, was to be preceded by a one-night-only showing of the Gigaton Theatrical Listening Experience at select Dolby Atmos theaters around the world. But then, you know, the theaters closed and Pearl Jam was forced to cancel the screenings.
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Peel Smart Remote App Adds Streaming Video
SV Staff  |  Nov 19, 2015  |  0 comments
Peel, maker of the Peel Smart Remote app that turns an iOS or Android smartphone into a universal remote control, has announced a revamped version of its Android app that provides access to Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube and allows users to switch back and forth between traditional linear TV and streaming services.
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