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Outdoor Speakers Discounted
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 26, 2010  | 
Thinking of buying some outdoor speakers? Then look at the Boston Acoustics Voyager and Voyager Rock, which will be sold for 20 percent off through July 31, 2010. You can buy from a participating dealer or from the Boston Acoustics website.
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EyeTV HD records TV and streams it to the iPad
SV Staff  |  May 25, 2010  | 
It's been less than two months since the release of the iPad and already there's an iPad-specific Slingbox-style device available. The Elgado EyeTV HD is a set-top box that can capture 1080i video over a component connection and send it to a...
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BB to Offer Same-Day Streaming
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 25, 2010  | 
Best Buy's newly acquired CinemaNow will stream movies on the same date as their DVD release.
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Street Fighter comes to HDTVs
SV Staff  |  May 24, 2010  | 
Marvel-licensed HDTVs were nerdy enough, but this is just over the top. Roundtable Concepts, the company behind the Marvel Comics HDTVs, is now offering a series of Super Street Fighter IV HDTVs. The new screens are based on Capcom's hit...
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Acura disses audiphiles with new commercial
SV Staff  |  May 24, 2010  | 
Acura has started showing commercials questioning the nature of luxury, taking pot shots at audiophiles in the process. The commercial shows various luxury items, including an expensive tube amplifier, with the owners weakly trying to justify...
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Cable Ops Hit on Fiber Claims
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 24, 2010  | 
You've probably seen those TV ads from cable operators claiming that their systems are fiber optic. The National Advertising Division of the Better Business Bureau has noticed that too--and the watchdog group is demanding that cable ops stop making such claims.
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Google TV Coming This Fall
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 21, 2010  | 
Sony and Logitech will be the first manufacturers to produce Google TV devices, it was announced yesterday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. And the Dish Network will be the first video provider to feature Google TV.
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iPad now outputs Netflix to HDTVs
SV Staff  |  May 20, 2010  | 
The iPad is barely a few weeks old and already it's seeing significant software updates. The Netflix Watch Instantly app for the iPad is getting a major new feature that could change how you use your iPad. The newly released version of the...
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Vancouver: Valhalla for Vintage Audio
SV Staff  |  May 20, 2010  | 
Aficionados of antique audio gear will want to make sure they're in the Vancouver area in mid-June, when Surrey, BC, vintage audio dealer Innovative Audio hosts its third annual Garage Sale: a huge gathering where the company and many...
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Google TV brings the internet, apps to your home theater
SV Staff  |  May 20, 2010  | 
  You have to go out of your way these days to find a TV maker that isn't already cramming proprietary web apps into their displays and devices, but Google has changed the game a bit with today's announcement of their new 10-foot...
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FCC Unleashes Selectable Output Control
user  |  May 20, 2010  | 
This is another one of those bad news, good news stories. The bad news is that the Federal Communications Commission has caved in to the movie industry's demand to disable the component video interface on high-def devices. The good news is that the studios can use this so-called selectable output control only under very specific circumstances, to protect fresh video on demand titles.
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Toshiba working on headache-free 3D glasses
SV Staff  |  May 19, 2010  | 
Active shutter glasses are useful for displaying 3D video because they get rid of the "ghosting" that can appear with passive glasses. Active glasses work by using liquid crystal lenses to rapidly switch on and off between the two eyes, ensuring...
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Network DVRs Sprout
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 19, 2010  | 
Cablevision's network DVR, long delayed by court battles with the entertainment industry, finally reached some homes in April, having cleared its final legal hurdles.
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Skype now on Panasonic HDTVs
SV Staff  |  May 18, 2010  | 
We're heading into Back to the Future Part 2 territory 5 years early. Panasonic has just announced that Skype is coming to VieraCast-equipped HDTVs, with support for video-chat. While the Skype software is free and Skype-to-Skype calls can be...
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Dizzy Satellite May Thwart Cable
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 18, 2010  | 
Talk about lost in space. Intelsat, a communications company, says it has lost control of one of its satellites. The rogue satellite is likely to drift into the path of another satellite, possibly interfering with the latter's ability to transmit cable and satellite TV programming to the United States.
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