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Sirius XM Saved by the Bell
SV Staff  |  Feb 17, 2009  |  0 comments
Howard Stern can sigh with relief. His home on Sirius XM satellite radio is safe, at least for now. Liberty Media Corp., parent company of DirecTV, has stepped up to the plate to save the floundering radio service.  In a corporate game of...
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DTV Day, Sort Of . . .
SV Staff  |  Feb 17, 2009  |  0 comments
The hot mess that was the transition to digital TV was supposed to happen today. At midnight. Some stations went ahead and pulled the plug - it was their option, and for many stations, it was too expensive to keep both analog and digital...
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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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Hulu Dumped from Boxee and TV.com
SV Staff  |  Feb 19, 2009  |  0 comments
 Just as viewing opportunities come, they go just a quickly. Hulu, with content from NBC and Fox, has pulled all of its streaming goodness from Boxee and TV.com. From the Hulu blog: "Our mission to make media dramatically easier and...
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Panasonic Plasma - 103-inch Air Hockey Table?
SV Staff  |  Feb 19, 2009  |  0 comments
If you can afford a 103-inch plasma display, I guess you can afford to turn it into a gaming table. Using an overlay designed by U-Touch, the display has multi-touch capability, so you can make it a virtual hockey table.What other applications...
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DTV Transition is well . . Transitioning
SV Staff  |  Feb 19, 2009  |  0 comments
February 17th has come and gone. Some stations switched, and guess what? People have survived just fine. The FCC set up call centers ( 1-888-CALL-FCC) that were equipped to handle 100,000 calls per day to help people with the switch to digital...
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DTV Transition Leads to Stand-Off Between Police and drunken 70 Year-Old
SV Staff  |  Feb 20, 2009  |  0 comments
Plenty of jokes have been made about what old people were going to do once the DTV transition messed with their normal TV-watching, but things got serious on Wednesday when a 70 year-old Missouri man shot up his own TV and got into a small...
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LG might stop making plasmas
SV Staff  |  Feb 27, 2009  |  0 comments
It's getting mighty depressing around here for plasma fans. Pioneer is gone, Vizio is gone, and now there are reports that LG is thinking about closing shop on its PDP operation. Of course, nothing is set in stone yet, but the decision is...
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"Coraline," yes. 3-D, no.
SV Staff  |  Feb 27, 2009  |  0 comments
I haven't had much use for 3-D. But with the advent of RealD — and since I am, after all, the entertainment editor of this magazine — I figured it was high time for me to check out the latest state of the 3-D art. And what better film to do...
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The Beatles. Rock Band. 09-09-09.
SV Staff  |  Mar 05, 2009  |  0 comments
Just received the official press release this morning. Here it is, in its entirety: Apple Corps Ltd., MTV, and Harmonix announce The Beatles: Rock Band, worldwide release set for 9/9/09 New York, NY - March 5, 2009 - Apple Corps Ltd., Harmonix,...
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