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Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 25, 2008  | 
Mitsubishi showed off its creativity in three different ways at a New York press demo yesterday. Laser-backlight LCD-HDTVs were on display, along with 5.1-channel sound built into sets, and 3D for both movies and games.
SV Staff  |  Jun 25, 2008  | 
The uber bloggers over at Gizmodo are reporting that the Sankei Shimbun newspaper is rumoring that Panasonic will join the OLED parade in 2011, right behind Sony (in current production), Samsung (rumored for 2009) and LG (also rumored for 2011). In...
SV Staff  |  Jun 24, 2008  | 
Channel surfer, that is. Looking more like a pair of Manolo Blahnik kitten heels (go on, look that up), this remote control is about as simplistic as possible.  Simply elegant, that is. Designed by Yurii Smitana Perfilov, it was inspired by...
SV Staff  |  Jun 24, 2008  | 
100% satisfaction guaranteed. Love it, or get your money back. All good products should come with a good refund policy. Unfortunately, folks are returning their LCD TV's with alarming frequency. What's wrong the sets? Are they faulty, or are folks...
SV Staff  |  Jun 24, 2008  | 
IMAX is getting ready to give up its 70mm post-card-sized-film projectors for digital. This transition should help boost profits for the iconic maker of glorious cinematic images. They just announced the first three digital installs in conjunction...
SV Staff  |  Jun 24, 2008  | 
Looks like nobody's happy with cable. We reported a few weeks ago about Los Angeles suing Time Warner Cable, and now, Comcast is getting grief. The only problem this time is that the complaints are coming from within! In a blazing internal...
SV Staff  |  Jun 24, 2008  | 
What happens when you have the coolest new technology and no one cares? That seems to be what's happening with wireless HDMI. A report by ABI Research says sales for wireless HDMI systems won't hit one million until 2012, calling the market's...
SV Staff  |  Jun 24, 2008  | 
Before the world has fully adopted high-def, NHK is pushing the barriers even further. Not even happy going to 4K, Japanese manufacturer NHK is showing a prototype system with 8K resolution. For those of you doing the math, that's 7,680 x 4,320...
SV Staff  |  Jun 24, 2008  | 
I've heard $1,000,000 speakers. I've heard $10 speakers. But none of them can do a hundredth of what Tiger Electronics'  new Automated Music Personality ( A.M.P.) can do. Let's compare, shall we, the $500 A.M.P. with Thiel Audio's universally...
SV Staff  |  Jun 24, 2008  | 
Panasonic is taking on the large venue world with two new three-chip DLP projectors with 12,000 lumen. These aren't designed for home use, though if you can foot the bill, why not? They're perfect for high-definition content for conventions,...
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 24, 2008  | 
If Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) walks by, be sure to tip your hat and say "thank you!" She's the member of Congress who introduced the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (or CALM) Act in the House of Representatives. The law, if passed, would take aim at blaring TV ads that are noticeably louder than the programming in which they appear.
SV Staff  |  Jun 23, 2008  | 
Dr. Evil had it right. One billion dollars is a lot of money. Apparently, it's also the lucky number that Hollywood execs are looking for to call Blu-ray a success. They believe they'll hit that number, and are aiming for $2.5 billion at the end...
SV Staff  |  Jun 23, 2008  | 
You're at a business lunch and you realize you need to show your clients a picture of your marketing plan for their hot new widget. You have a picture of your ad idea stored on your phone, or it's stashed on your iPod. So there you are, huddled...
SV Staff  |  Jun 23, 2008  | 
It's the same in every business. You have to keep adding features to keep the sales flowing. You need a new camera because the new ones do so much more than your old one. Your old cellphone worked just fine, but the new ones have so much more...
SV Staff  |  Jun 23, 2008  | 
Scientists say the human brain can process only between five and nine things at once. To that postulate, we'd add that the human brain can catalog only 25 DVDs. Here's proof: Have you ever rented a DVD that you later realized you own? Have you ever...

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