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Sucking Up to Blu, In a Bad Way
SV Staff  |  Jun 12, 2008  |  0 comments
As you'll recall, Paramount came up a loser in the HD DVD/Blu-ray battle. Its exclusive support for HD DVD proved to be as adept as the $100 I put on Big Brown at Belmont. DFL, as they say. Anyway, Paramount is now embracing its inner Blu - kind of....
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Light of My Life
SV Staff  |  Jun 12, 2008  |  0 comments
Listening to music is boring, right? I mean, it's just sound. There's nothing to look at or anything. That's why you'll gladly spend $2,000 on a TV, but balk at paying $200 for speakers. Right? Well, maybe. Clearly, flat screens are all the rage,...
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Warner Shakes It Up
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 12, 2008  |  0 comments
Warner Bros. will kill the recently merged New Line Cinema, cut its overall theatrical release schedule in half, and build profit streams from Blu-ray and video on demand, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes recently told an investor conference.
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HD: An Opera in Three Acts
SV Staff  |  Jun 11, 2008  |  0 comments
Not too long ago, the only way to experience opera, if there was even an opera company in your area, was to pay up to hundreds of dollars to sit in a lousy seat next to a guy with a persistent cold trying to open the world's largest cough drop....
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Sony shows 0.2mm OLED panel in Tokyo
SV Staff  |  Jun 11, 2008  |  0 comments
A demo held today at Sony's global headquarters in Tokyo indicates that OLED display technology is even cooler than we thought. A new OLED panel Sony showed makes the company's 3mm thick, XEL-1 11-inch display seem almost like a CRT-era porker. ...
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Warner Bros. Slashing Movies, Pushing Blu
SV Staff  |  Jun 11, 2008  |  0 comments
Interesting times in Hollywood. As movie budgets grow and grow, Warner Bros. has announced they're cutting the number of films they'll produce in half for 2009. Where's their money gonna come from? In a story in Home Media Magazine, the CEO of...
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LG Bedazzlers HDTV - Bling TV
SV Staff  |  Jun 11, 2008  |  0 comments
LG wasn't content with their truly attractive Scarlet HDTV models. They just had to take it to the next level. Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, yada, yada, but have they gone over the top this time? LG has teamed up with Swarovski,...
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NBC and Microsoft: "My Bad!"
SV Staff  |  Jun 11, 2008  |  0 comments
What happens when NBC makes a mistake that causes your Vista Media Center to miss capturing your favorite shows? Luckily, Microsoft jumps in to save the day. Imagine that!  What's up with these broadcast flags? In a report posted on Engadget,...
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Coming Thursday: The New S&V site
SV Staff  |  Jun 11, 2008  |  0 comments
Has the look of the Sound & Vision Web site grown . . . tiresome? Or maybe you're cool with our color palette and design but have trouble finding stuff? Well just wait till tomorrow. Starting thursday, June 12, you'll see a whole new...
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Out With the Old, In With the...Old?
SV Staff  |  Jun 11, 2008  |  0 comments
While most folks are trying to figure out how to get the latest TV technology before the switch to digital, one ingenious and resourceful man in England took a unique approach to the problem. Instead of ditching the black and white console...
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Wonderful World of Streaming Disney
SV Staff  |  Jun 10, 2008  |  0 comments
Disney's making sure no one misses an opportunity to watch their favorite Disney movies. What happens when you and your little ones miss out on the ABC airing on Saturday nights of Wonderful World of Disney? Instead of tears and tantrums, just go...
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Blue Movies Go Blu
SV Staff  |  Jun 10, 2008  |  0 comments
Most folks acknowledge that a certain faction of the video industry fueled the rapid growth of both VHS technology and more recently, DVD Video. Now, Digital Playground,(link is not appropriate for work or kiddies) a leader in the adult video biz...
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YouTube Hits the Living Room
SV Staff  |  Jun 10, 2008  |  0 comments
YouTube is breaking out of your computer and hitting the big screen.  Well... bigger screen, that is. Sony just announced that YouTube is now available on Sony's Bravia Internet Video Link service. How does it work? Sony's Bravia televisions...
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LASSIE barks if your sound's no good
SV Staff  |  Jun 10, 2008  |  0 comments
Room acoustics is like economics: It's vitally important but impossible to understand. But a new Bay Area company is working to simplify the complicated process of acoustic analysis so  almost anyone can do it. Seagrave Instruments' new...
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Philips: WOWvx in 3D
SV Staff  |  Jun 10, 2008  |  0 comments
A few weeks ago, we reported that Philips is working on a 3D prototype. Now, that speculation has become a reality. Debuting at InfoComm 2008, a new 52-inch LCD display gives a 3D 'look-around' effect, no funky 3D glasses required.   The 3D...
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