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Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 05, 2009  | 
Will Blockbuster Inc. be the next new face on the bankruptcy soup line?
Thomas J. Norton  |  Mar 04, 2009  | 
Every year, Sony holds a late-winter Open House (aka line show). As in years past, it was located at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas. The current financial situation, not to mention bad weather back east, kept most of the consumer-electronics press at home, but I was there from sunny southern California, camera in hand, to bring you the latest scoop.
SV Staff  |  Mar 04, 2009  | 
Another chain bites the dust. The Virgin Entertainment Group has announced that it will be shutting down all six of its remaining Virgin Megastores. Instead of simply packing up, it seems that Virgin will be moving its Megastore assets into real...
SV Staff  |  Mar 04, 2009  | 
Two years ago, we reviewed the Kaleidescape Movie & Music Server, a rack-mounted home theater beast that could store all of your albums and DVDs on its hard drives. It was big and expensive, but did its job really well, to the extent that we gave...
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 04, 2009  | 
One door closes and another opens. Where will Circuit City customers take their business after the mega-chain's swan dive? To Best Buy, 55 percent of them told NPD Group researchers.
SV Staff  |  Mar 03, 2009  | 
Speculation about LG abandoning plasma screen technology seems to be unfounded, according to a statement the company released last week and reaffirmed by John Taylor, LG Electronics USA's Vice President of Public Affairs. The release reaffirms...
SV Staff  |  Mar 03, 2009  | 
Watchmen is shaping up to be one of the biggest movies of the season, and it's almost certainly going to be one of the biggest to hit IMAX. This Friday, the film hits both the big screen and the bigger screen, and if you choose to see it on the...
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 03, 2009  | 
Is price gouging on patents inflating the prices of DTVs? A lobbying group says DTV patent holders are imposing onerous terms when licensing their technologies to competing manufacturers. And the Federal Communications Commission has promised to investigate.
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 03, 2009  | 
The US Senate last Friday voted to ban any reinstatement of the so-called Fairness Doctrine, which was originally introduced in United States in 1949 and became a policy of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1967, when there were only three television networks and no Internet. The FCC then abolished the doctrine in 1987, claiming that the proliferation of media outlets made it irrelevant.
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 02, 2009  | 
Would you like to subscribe to both satellite radio and satellite television in one convenient package? You might get a chance if Liberty Media's John Malone gets his way. He's thinking of bundling Sirius XM, in which he now owns a minority interest, with DirecTV, in which he owns a controlling interest.
SV Staff  |  Mar 02, 2009  | 
Sherwood America has unveiled a new A/V receiver with a handy optional feature: Bluetooth connectivity. Thanks to the BT-R7 dongle, the new RD-7503 receiver can pull stereo audio off of any compatible Bluetooth device, from iPhones to notebook...
SV Staff  |  Feb 27, 2009  | 
We're usually on about the biggest and best sound equipment you can buy, but in this case small is definitely cool. Some researchers at UCLA Berkeley have created a radio out of a single carbon nanotube, making it the smallest radio in the...
SV Staff  |  Feb 27, 2009  | 
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...
SV Staff  |  Feb 27, 2009  | 
3-D has been making a pretty big resurgence lately, especially in movie theaters. From My Bloody Valentine to Coraline, moviegoers have been lining up to put on some silly-looking glasses and watch the special effects jump out at them. While...
Mark Fleischmann  |  Feb 27, 2009  | 
Responding to rumors that it may pull out of plasma manufacturing, LG reaffirmed its commitment to the category in a press release issued today. In its entirety, it says:

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