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SV Staff  |  Dec 17, 2015
The Rock and Roll Hall has announced its short list of 2016 inductees: Cheap Trick, Chicago, Deep Purple, N.W.A., and Steve Miller will be recognized at the 31st Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on Friday, April 8, 2016.
SV Staff  |  Dec 17, 2015
Yamaha’s iconic DSP-A1 was named one of the year’s best products in the December 1998 issue of Stereo Review, predecessor to Sound & Vision.
SV Staff  |  Dec 17, 2015
Technology truly is reaching all corners of our lives…and even beyond.
SV Staff  |  Dec 17, 2015
Sennheiser announced plans to offer an updated version of its flagship HD 800 headphone in January.
SV Staff  |  Dec 16, 2015
Sandy Gross, audio innovator and founder of GoldenEar Technology, is making a rare appearance New York City's Stereo Exchange on Saturday.
Rob Sabin  |  Dec 15, 2015
If you're the owner of a new Denon A/V receiver awaiting the long-promised firmware update for DTS:X object-based surround sound, your wait is, well, still not over. But in what amounts to an invitation to the party, the company has now announced specific dates for the roll-out of that firmware for three 2015 models.

Mark Fleischmann  |  Dec 15, 2015
Would a tablet computer benefit from height-enhanced Dolby Atmos surround sound? Lenovo customers are about to find out with a new series of Yoga Tab 3 models. Technically, what they offer is “virtual Atmos.” The top model, a 10.1-inch Android 5.0 tablet ($499), also boasts a 70-inch video projector that rotates 180 degrees. It delivers “virtual Atmos” through four built-in JBL speakers as well as through headphones. Two other Yoga Tab 3s, with 10-inch ($199) and 8-inch ($169) screens, deliver Atmos through headphones only.
SV Staff  |  Dec 15, 2015
Panasonic’s DMR-UBZ1 Ultra HD Blu-ray player went on sale in Japan last month.

Will you buy an Ultra HD Blu-ray player? That’s the question we posed in last week’s poll—a question inspired by John Sciacca’s Connected Life blog, Ultra HD Blu-ray Is Coming…but Do you Care?”

SV Staff  |  Dec 14, 2015
Wireworld Cable Technology announced plans to demonstrate a system designed to reveal how headphone cables affect sound quality.
Michael Antonoff  |  Dec 14, 2015
Successive Thursday night offerings in December of live musicals to the home were as different as could be: The Wiz featured a big cast and attracted an audience of millions through its broadcast on NBC; Daddy Long Legs was performed by two actors and seen by thousands via the Internet. Yet it was Daddy that made history as the first off-Broadway show streamed live from New York.
Mark Fleischmann  |  Dec 11, 2015
Barely a week after the FCC approved its merger with DirecTV, AT&T lost no time in offering new bundles exploiting the new entity’s many talents. “We’re going to deliver more TV and entertainment choices to more screens—when and where our customers want it,” said an executive.
SV Staff  |  Dec 11, 2015
Emotiva Audio has previewed what the company is calling its most ambitious new product lineup ever in advance of their showing at CES 2016.

SV Staff  |  Dec 11, 2015
Recognizing that voice control will play an increasingly larger role in audio/video and smart home technology as we move into the future, Sensory, a Silicon Valley technology company specializing in voice technologies, has announced a collaboration with Philips to create a “best-in-class” suite of speech recognition technologies.
SV Staff  |  Dec 11, 2015
Klipsch has added an in-ear Bluetooth headphone to its R6 in-ear series, introduced in 2014 and recently expanded.
SV Staff  |  Dec 10, 2015
Eight in 10 American homes (81 percent) now have broadband Internet service, a three-fold increase over the number of homes (26 percent) that had a high-speed connection a decade ago, according to a new study from Leichtman Research Group, Inc. (LRG).

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