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POTUS iPhone App
SV Staff  |  Feb 19, 2009  |  0 comments
Not that POTUS, but the band The Presidents of the United States of America have a very interesting iPhone app.  For just $3, you can get a complete boxset-worth of material, including unreleased tracks and rare images. The tracks are...
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Pow! Classic Batman Gets Blu-ray Boost
SV Staff  |  Mar 26, 2008  |  0 comments
Quick, to the Batcave! Fox Home Entertainment wants you to enjoy a souped-up Blu-ray version of the original Batman movie in the privacy of your home theater weeks before Warner's newer Batman Begins shows up in Blu-ray and The Dark Knight appears...
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Powell: Content is King
Barry Willis  |  May 04, 2003  |  0 comments

The key to growth for digital television is a broad array of readily available content, according to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Michael Powell.

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Power to the People
 |  Jan 02, 2000  |  0 comments

Last week, Audio Line Source announced a new product it calls Richard Gray's Power Company. ALS claims the Power Company reinvents power by delivering high current on demand via a "reactive electronic interface device," that it is the only product of its kind on the market, and that an entire system can be plugged into it.

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PowerdomeVELVET Heavenly Projector
SV Staff  |  Sep 30, 2008  |  0 comments
Sure, some HDTVs are boasting dynamic contrast ratios of 500,000:1. Be prepared to be humbled. Lens giant Carl Zeiss has developed a projector that blasts that number into the stratosphere. The new powerdomeVELVET Planetarium Projector has a...
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PowerDVD Player Now Supports 4K Blu-ray with HDR
SV Staff  |  Apr 11, 2017  |  3 comments
Taiwan-based CyberLink today released the latest version of its popular PowerDVD movie and media player for Windows PCs.
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PowerPC Chips Intended to Fuel Interactive Television
 |  Mar 26, 2000  |  1 comments

Last week, <A HREF="http://www.chips.ibm.com">IBM</A> announced a family of chips that it hopes will accelerate the transformation of TV sets into fully interactive, two-way information appliances. IBM says it is combining high-speed PowerPC processors and other television set-top box (STB) components onto a single "system-on-a-chip" that will give STB makers "significant benefits in system performance, price, and design." IBM claims that the chips will also help drive new capabilities for electronic program guides, Web browsing, and interactive applications such as home banking, e-commerce, and information retrieval.

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Powers Join to Make Next-Gen Flat Displays
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 23, 2008  |  0 comments
The Japanese government is bringing together several major TV makers--including Toshiba, Panasonic, Sharp, and Sony--in a joint effort to mass-produce next-generation OEL displays.
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Pre-CEDIA New Products
Ultimate AV Staff  |  Aug 23, 2004  |  First Published: Aug 24, 2004  |  0 comments

The annual CEDIA convention is only three weeks away, and equipment makers are generating plenty of pre-show excitement with new product announcements.

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Preserving a Famous Face
Barry Willis  |  Aug 29, 1999  |  0 comments

California's Assembly Appropriations Committee has unanimously voted in favor of legislation that will treat celebrities' images as copyrighted property. SB 209, nicknamed "the Astaire Bill," was passed 30-1 by the state's Senate on April 5, and will now move to the full Assembly for a final vote.

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PreShow: The Coolest yet Creepiest Free Movie App Launching on Kickstarter
Leslie Shapiro  |  Mar 25, 2019  |  1 comments
“Attend first-run movies in theaters...FREE!” That’s the Kickstarter headline that caught my eye. Who doesn’t love free movies? However, what lengths will you go through to get those free movie theater tickets? PreShow is a new app launching on Kickstarter by the founder of MoviePass. If funded and launched, the PreShow app will play 15-20 minutes of advertisements in exchange for one free movie ticket credit. How they ensure that you watch the ads is completely freaking me out.

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Presidential First
SV Staff  |  Jan 14, 2009  |  0 comments
History is being made. For the first time, an official presidential portrait was taken with a digital camera instead of film.The portrait of the soon-to-be prez was shot by the new White House photog Pete Souza on a Canon EOS 5D Mark II...
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Press Day at CES - Something Wickedly Good Comes this Way
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Jan 05, 2005  |  0 comments
The day before the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) officially opens, members of the press are "treated" to an exhaustive lineup of press conferences. Some are good, some are awful, and very few are worth waking up before the sun rises. On the other hand, every now and then you find a nugget of golden information that makes all the coffee and pastries you can cram in your stomach worth wile.
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Pretty as a Picture
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Oct 07, 2005  |  0 comments
Panasonic, the self-proclaimed leader in plasma TV, doesn't like the way the company's plasma TVs look. It's not that they don't like the picture quality - ask Panasonic people and they'll give you umpteen reasons why they think images on their plasma TVs look stunning - but, flat as plasma TVs are (I believe the old phrase "flat as a pancake" will soon be replaced by "flat as a plasma TV"), Panasonic knows some folks just can't be satisfied. (They won't be happy until we have wall-paper televisions.)
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Preview: 2010 Jaguar XJ B&W audio system
SV Staff  |  Dec 03, 2009  |  0 comments
The folks at Jaguar are spreading their wings. In March 2008, the British automaker shed its ties with Ford, and once again became an independent company, with a vow to restore luster to the marque. On Wednesday, I attended a Jaguar event at...
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