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CEDIA: McIntosh's SACD/CD Player
SV Staff  |  Sep 05, 2008
What? You thought SACD was dead? How wrong you would be. At least at the CEDIA Expo, SACD was making a strong comeback showing. Maybe higher-end installer types are presenting more demand than lowly big-box store customers. In any case, the high-end...
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CEDIA: Marantz....
SV Staff  |  Sep 05, 2008
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CEDIA: Boston Acoustics....
SV Staff  |  Sep 05, 2008
Exhale. —Ken C. Pohlmann ...
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CEDIA: Denon's New Blu
SV Staff  |  Sep 05, 2008
Yep, love it or hate it, Blu-ray is springing up all over. Denon showed its "affordable" player, the DVD-1800BD. This profile 1.0 version 1.1 player features HDMI 1.3a output, Deep Color and BonusView support, full bitstream output of...
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CEDIA: Yamaha's New Blu
SV Staff  |  Sep 05, 2008
The CEDIA (Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association) expo in Denver is hot and heavy with new Blu-ray players, just in time for the upcoming holiday season. Perhaps one of the most anticipated players is from Yamaha. Yamaha is going...
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Cambridge Audio DacMagic
SV Staff  |  Sep 05, 2008
Normally, a digital-to-analog converter is pretty much a snooze-fest. Who really cares?  Cambridge Audio is hoping some audiophiles might take notice of their new DacMagic upsampling D to A. As more and more of your home entertainment options...
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I Want My DVR!
SV Staff  |  Sep 05, 2008
A new study out of London reveals what we all already knew. 70% of DVR owners say that they cannot live without their DVR. Almost 9 out of 10 Americans said they can't live without their DVR. Okay, "can't live" might be a bit of an...
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CEDIA: Form meet Function
SV Staff  |  Sep 05, 2008
If you're anything like me, you probably think that most audio keypad controllers look pretty cool. Then again, we don't live in mega-million dollar mansions where something on the wall might distract from an original Picasso or some other object...
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Who Ya Gonna Call? On Flashdrive???
SV Staff  |  Sep 04, 2008
This is odd. But, it kinda makes sense. Sony and computer memory manufacturer PNY Technologies are odd bedfellows indeed. They've come out with a 2GB USB flash drive that's preloaded with the comedy classic Ghostbusters, just in time for the 25th...
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Seinfield Hits TBS-HD in HD
SV Staff  |  Sep 04, 2008
Sure, anyone can upconvert anything to air on an HD station. However, TBS-HD just started airing syndicated episodes of Seinfeld in HD. How is that possible, when HD was in its infancy when it was shot? Like many sitcoms, Seinfeld was shot on 35mm...
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Pioneer's Elite KURO's Hitting the Streets
SV Staff  |  Sep 04, 2008
The Elite KURO Signature Series are finally shipping. Life is good. This long-awaited line of monitors takes the KURO to the next level. The Signature Series are handpicked at the factory for the deepest blacks and highest levels of color accuracy,...
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CEDIA: Sony previews 400 shades of Blu with a new megachanger
SV Staff  |  Sep 04, 2008
I explained most of Sony's new Blu-ray products yesterday when covering the company's press conference, but I've been saving this gadget until I could actually get a picture of it. Sony has a 400-disc Blu-ray mega-changer slated for 2009. It...
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Amazon VOD Now Available on Mac and PC
SV Staff  |  Sep 04, 2008
Amazon has boxed up Unbox and just announced that starting immediately, Mac and PC customers can instantly watch movies on either a Mac or PC with Amazon Video On Demand. Using the old Unbox app, material had to be downloaded first, to either a PC...
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CEDIA: JVC shows off 4K projector, plus some models you'll actually consider buying
SV Staff  |  Sep 04, 2008
JVC held its CEDIA 2008 press release this morning, where it showed off five new digital projectors. The first one was the DLA-SH4K (left). It's a "4K" projector, which means it can project a 10 megapixel picture (four times the...
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TiVo Hits One Out of the Park
SV Staff  |  Sep 04, 2008
Shortly after announcing a new DirecTV combination unit, TiVo is making bigger news, all by themselves. A new standalone DVR has been released, with tons of exciting features. The TiVo HD XL, if you couldn't guess by the name, has extra-large...
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