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InFocus sold to holding company for $39 million
SV Staff  |  Apr 15, 2009  | 
InFocus, one of the big names in digital projectors, has announced that it will be acquired by the Image Holdings Corporation. IHC will buy all outstanding shares at $0.95 per share, totaling around $39 million. Both InFocus' president Bob...
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JBL and Roxy fuse forces, foment fashion
SV Staff  |  Apr 15, 2009  | 
Audio company JBL and clothing makers Roxy have announced a partnership to produce a line of fashion-minded portable audio equipment. Next month, the companies will release a series of Roxy-branded ear buds and headphones targeted at...
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Circuit City Assets to Be Acquired
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 15, 2009  | 
The contents of Circuit City's coffin are likely to be snapped up by a sharp-eyed operator called Systemax.
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Blockbuster on Life Support
Scott Wilkinson  |  Apr 14, 2009  | 
After denying it was considering bankruptcy, Blockbuster is closer than ever to calling it quits. According to a recent story in the Wall Street Journal, auditors from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP said in a financial filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that they had "substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern."
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4K Coming to a Theater Near You
Scott Wilkinson  |  Apr 13, 2009  | 

At the recent Showest trade show for the commercial-cinema industry, one the most important announcements was a $315M deal between Sony and AMC, one of the country's largest movie-theater chains, to install Sony 4K SXRD digital-cinema projectors for all 4628 screens in its 309 theaters over the next few years. Currently, AMC has 150 Sony 4K projectors in 11 theaters.

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Will Sony License Movies to YouTube?
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 13, 2009  | 
YouTube is talking to Sony Pictures about the possibility of licensing full-length movies for viewing through the popular website. While this would not be the first time YouTube has licensed content, it would be the first time major motion pictures have been approved for free YouTubing.
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iTunes Ditches DRM
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 10, 2009  | 
Apple will eliminate digital rights management from all songs sold through iTunes.
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Grooveshark lets you stream almost any song
SV Staff  |  Apr 09, 2009  | 
Music just got more expensive on just about every MP3 site in the game, so I certainly won't be surprised when more sites pop up offering tunes for free. Grooveshark is simple: Type in the name of the song you want to stream and two clicks...
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Get a free HD audio album at HDtracks
SV Staff  |  Apr 09, 2009  | 
High-definition audio site HDtracks.com is offering a free downloadable sample album of HD music to anyone interested. The HDtracks 96/24 Ultimate Download Experience is a 5-track collection of classical, jazz, and blues music in 96-kHz/24-bit FLAC...
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Digeo Moxi HD DVR gets Rhapsody, PlayOn, more
SV Staff  |  Apr 09, 2009  | 
Digeo has announced that it is adding several new features to its Moxi HD DVR, making the box even more of a competitor against the current king of the ring, Tivo. (See our test report on the Moxi in the current April/May print issue.) With a...
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Beatles remasters: "Listen"
SV Staff  |  Apr 09, 2009  | 
Verlyn Klinkenborg has done it again. Bitstream browsers will recall that, one week ago, I linked to his New York Times editorial on Maurice Jarre. Now, in today's paper, he has submitted a similarly rhapsodic piece on the coming CD remasters...
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Beatles CD Reissues Announced
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 09, 2009  | 
The Beatles catalogue will be reissued on CD on September 9, the same day the band will make its videogame debut in Rock Band. Unfortunately, the announcement said nothing about when the Fab Four's masterworks will be legally issued for the first time as downloads.
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Best Buy Recalls LCD TVs
Scott Wilkinson  |  Apr 08, 2009  | 
Best Buy is voluntarily recalling one model of its house-brand Insignia LCD TV, the 26-inch IS-LCDTV26, 13,300 of which were sold from August 2005 through June 2006.
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Blockbuster in danger of busting
SV Staff  |  Apr 07, 2009  | 
Yesterday, Blockbuster disclosed that it might not be able to stay in business. This comes only a week after the company revealed that it had a recently-amended $250 million revolving loan that matures in September of next year. The loan relies on...
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Beatles CDs remastered. Finally.
SV Staff  |  Apr 07, 2009  | 
That's right, the press release just arrived this morning at 9 o'clock on the dot. Here it is, in full. And stay tuned to our Bitstream blog in the coming days because, after I've had some time to mull over the press release myself,...
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