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Boston Acoustics + iPhone = Duo-i Plus
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SV Staff • Posted: Sep 17, 2009 • 0 comments
Boston Acoustics is adding iPhone support to its Duo-i iPod dock. The new Duo-i Plus is "Works with iPhone" certified, so it can play music on iPhones as well as iPods. Granted, the auxiliary audio inputs on the original Duo-i could play music on...
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Pioneer Kuro Goes Euro with 2008 Lineup
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SV Staff • Posted: Apr 08, 2008 • 0 comments
European fans of Pioneer's Kuro line of HDTVs will be eager to study the company's recently released breakdown of its upcoming line. With a full complement of LCDs, front projectors and familiar plasmas for the continent in 2008, Pioneer is doing a...
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Samsung Profits Not-So-Sunny
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SV Staff • Posted: Dec 10, 2008 • 0 comments
Obviously, more and more companies are going to face problems, in these "challenging economic times." Samsung is the latest to weigh in with disappointing numbers. The world's largest memory-chip and LCD manufacturer has said that...
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CEDIA: LG launches Netflix-enabled, price-cut Blu-ray player
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SV Staff • Posted: Sep 03, 2008 • 0 comments
I've mentioned the LG BD300 previously, when talking about Netflix's streaming video service. Blu-ray player with support for Netflix content, like the Roku Netflix player (currently available) and the Xbox 360 (available through a free interface...
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Best Buy breaks sales records with UK opening
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SV Staff • Posted: May 06, 2010 • 0 comments
Best Buy opened its first store in the United Kingdom last weekend, and it was met with record-breaking sales. The store opened in Thurrock, a borough in Essex County, and according to Best Buy CEO Paul Antoniadis, it was the largest opening...
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Get your Oscars on in New York City
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SV Staff • Posted: Feb 22, 2010 • 0 comments
[Pictured, clockwise from top center: Obidiah Stane, Bruce Wayne, (possibly) Clint Barton, Lucius Fox, and Harry from Mama Mia. Yes, four out of five of this year's best actor nominees have been or are rumored to be main characters in comic book...
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Compact Disc: 44.1k, or 45rpm?
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SV Staff • Posted: May 09, 2008 • 0 comments
Did you miss the Futuresonic 2008 Festival this year? If so, you also missed Aleks Kolkowski's seminar during the Urban Festival of Art, Music, and Ideas. Mr. Kolkowski is using a vintage record cutting lathe to create 45rpm records on your own...
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CES 2009: Samsung Blu-ray Sound Bar
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SV Staff • Posted: Jan 09, 2009 • 0 comments
When I asked Samsung to demonstrate their HT-BD8200, the world’s first sound bar to incorporate a Blu-ray player, someone came rushing over saying, "Don’t touch that!" They finally conceded and allowed me to film a bit of video of...
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Black Friday Predictions
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SV Staff • Posted: Sep 22, 2008 • 0 comments
Wouldn't you love to be able to see into the future? To be able to predict what the stock market will do tomorrow, who will win the next Superbowl, or just to see when the best time to buy a TV might be? The folks at Dealnews (that's a hint right...
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New Products - Apr. 2002
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SV Staff • Posted: Apr 01, 2002 • 0 comments

Harman Kardon You'll feel surrounded by surround sound choices with Harman Kardon's AVR 520. The receiver decodes Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1- and 6.1-channel soundtracks, including DTS-ES Discrete. You'll need an outboard amp if you have one or two back surround speakers, though, as there are only five powered channels, rated to deliver 75 watts each into 8 ohms.

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