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Only HDTV For Me
SV Staff  |  Jul 09, 2008  | 
Nielsen Media Research - you know, the company that's tracked viewing habits for years - has come out with a fascinating new survey report. In a study for the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing, twenty percent of owners of...
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One Night Only: 'WarGames'
SV Staff  |  Jul 09, 2008  | 
"Shall we play a game?" Who doesn't remember that classic line from WarGames, the '80s classic with Matthew Broderick as a high-school hacker who launches a near-nuclear Armageddon? My, oh my, how computers have changed since then, right?...
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LG Special Edition Time Machine TVs
SV Staff  |  Jul 09, 2008  | 
Complete details are sketchy at the moment, but LG is launching four new TVs in celebration of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Called "Smart Time Machines," these all contain hard disc recorders, built right into the TV set. Not sure if we're...
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Recordable Blu-ray Coming from Pioneer
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 09, 2008  | 
Pioneer will unveil its first BD recorders before March 2009.
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Chapter 11 for Syntax-Brillian
SV Staff  |  Jul 08, 2008  | 
Another one bites the dust. Syntax-Brillian, the company that brought you Olevia HDTVs and Vivitar digital cameras, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Based in Tempe, Arizona, the company is selling some assets to a company,...
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Solar-Powered Sharp - Sunny Side Up
SV Staff  |  Jul 08, 2008  | 
While other manufacturers are set on making the biggest and best displays, Sharp has taken a look at an oft-overlooked segment of society. At the G8 Hokkaido environmental summit, Sharp unveiled an LCD television that most folks would have walked...
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Shocking DVD Copying Numbers
SV Staff  |  Jul 08, 2008  | 
We've all read the stories about DVD piracy, and how horrible it is, blah, blah, blah. No one we know is illegally copying DVDs, right? Wrong! A new report called the Consumer Home Piracy survey done by Futuresource Consulting had rather shocking...
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Audio Apocalypse
SV Staff  |  Jul 08, 2008  | 
Well, they did a survey, and it's official. The end of the world is near. Parks Associates surveyed 2,000 broadband households in the U.S. and Canada, and found that roughly two-thirds of them are regularly using PCs to play music at home, and...
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Edgy Blu-ray for "Gangs of New York"
SV Staff  |  Jul 08, 2008  | 
Caveat emptor. Just because you've purchased the newly released Gangs of New York on Blu-ray, and spent hundreds upgrading your home theater, don't expect a brilliant viewing experience.  On the contrary, this release can almost be used as an...
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Your eyes suck. Step up to HD Glasses!
SV Staff  |  Jul 08, 2008  | 
All these years you've been wandering around like a schmuck looking at the world with plain old "regular" vision. Live in shame no more! The time has come to step up to . . . HD VISION! If you're anything like me, you're tired of living...
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iPhone Phone Home
SV Staff  |  Jul 08, 2008  | 
Does it get any better?  The clever code jockeys at Millard Software have released a beta version of software that enables an iPhone or iPod Touch to receive XM Radio. Yep, grab your jailbroken phone with firmware version 1.1.4, uXM beta v.53...
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Sony: Get FED in 2009
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 08, 2008  | 
Field Emission Display technology, developed by Sony and Motorola, will make its debut in 2009. While its initial use will be in the broadcast and medical arenas, the FED may also put ultra-flat tubes on the longterm wish lists of consumers.
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Sony Covering All Bases: FED TVs Are Coming
SV Staff  |  Jul 07, 2008  | 
We just reported that Sony's coming out with a 27-inch OLED display in the somewhat-near future. But, before you start saving up for that, check out the latest technology Sony's working on. Sony is taking over a Pioneer manufacturing plant so they...
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DreamStream Approved By MPAA
SV Staff  |  Jul 07, 2008  | 
DreamStream, creator of military-strength encryption code, has a reason to celebrate. The MPAA has approved DreamStream's anti-piracy technology to provide a secure online file streaming system. They're claiming it's hack-proof. When will they...
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PS3 Pushing Blu-ray Sales
SV Staff  |  Jul 07, 2008  | 
Sales reports are usually pretty dry reading. No difference with the latest report from the Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) following sales trends in TV, home video and video gaming. However, this time, the numbers from this 32-page...
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