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Like A Rock: Sunfire's Super-Solid New Minis
SV Staff  |  May 18, 2008  | 
Sunfire's built a rep for teensy-tinsy speakers that sound like towering megaspeakers. Only problem was, the tiny transducers carried a giant price tag: about $6,000 to $8,000 for a full system. With the new HRS speaker system, the company's headed...
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L.A. Law: High Def in Hollywood
SV Staff  |  May 16, 2008  | 
Two lawyers are sitting in a bar. One turns to the other and asks, "Want a sneak peak at the latest Hollywood blockbuster?" Sounds like the opening to a great joke. This one isn't a joking matter. A petition filed with the FCC by the MPAA...
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Blu-ray Still Singing the Blues
SV Staff  |  May 16, 2008  | 
It's a little bit ironic, don't you think? After all the dust in the consumer electronics war between HD DVD and Blu-ray settled, it appears that not many people really cared at all. In a survey by Harris Interactive, only 9% of people who don't...
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DTS Ditching Theaters, Staying Home
SV Staff  |  May 16, 2008  | 
If you ever doubted how important the home theater market is, take a gander at this news flash. DTS, a leading innovator in surround sound, is ditching the movie business and concentrating solely on the home theater biz. They've officially sold...
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iPod in the Sky with Singapore Air
SV Staff  |  May 16, 2008  | 
Flying first class has never been this classy. Singapore Airlines, known for their luxurious seating, gourmet in-flight dining, and gorgeous flight attendants is making news again. On their all-business class planes flying from New York and LA to...
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It's Official: JVC and Kenwood Merge
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 16, 2008  | 
Last summer we reported that JVC and Kenwood were contemplating a merger. It appears the merger is about to become official, pending a June 27 shareholder meeting. The new company will be called JVC Kenwood Holdings Inc.
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Who Needs Dinner When I Can Buy a TV?
SV Staff  |  May 15, 2008  | 
Honey, pass the Puppy Chow and hand me the remote. In a time of economic woes, Wal-Mart has posted earnings that are up 6.9%. While many folks are struggling to make their house payments, where's the profit coming from? Oddly enough, it's the...
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More Sling
SV Staff  |  May 15, 2008  | 
Audio and video placeshifting technology: That's what Sling Media does, and does well. If you just got back from the ISS (motto: "Urine doesn't taste so bad!") you might not know about SlingBox. Slingbox "slings" AV signals. It...
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A Lifetime of TiVo
SV Staff  |  May 15, 2008  | 
Woohoo!!! Celebrate good times, come on! Let's celebrate! TiVo's Lifetime Service is back! For fans of the TiVo service, this can be great news. Plus, unlike what others are reporting, a quick phone call to TiVo customer service revealed that the...
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Samsung: Singing the Blues at 240Hz
SV Staff  |  May 15, 2008  | 
There have been plenty of new developments in plasma displays lately, but here's some interesting news from Samsung in the LCD world. Samsung just revealed the world's first LCD screen driven at 240Hz. The new "Blue Phase" LCD panel is a...
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For Product Opinions, Consumers Trust Friends
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 15, 2008  | 
When you need an authoritative opinion on a prospective purchase, who you gonna call?
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Toshiba's Turning Green
SV Staff  |  May 14, 2008  | 
Toshiba changed their stripes when Blu-ray demolished HD DVD. So, in addition to abandoning red, they're going green. Methanol fuel, produced naturally from a variety of sources, is the main component in Toshiba's Direct Methanol Fuel Cells....
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Women and Children First
SV Staff  |  May 14, 2008  | 
The Korea Times is reporting that Samsung and LG will stop making Blu-ray/HD DVD combo players. This is another blow to the fast-sinking HD DVD luxury liner. Cutting their losses, and also cutting the throats of early adopters who adopted the wrong...
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To Infinity and Beyond
SV Staff  |  May 14, 2008  | 
Consider something really bright (like the sun on a sunny day) and something really dark (like under your covers at night). That span from light to dark can be expressed as a contrast ratio; the human eye has good ability in that regard. Now...
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Strange Bedfellows
SV Staff  |  May 14, 2008  | 
Competition isn't always a good thing. From VHS vs. Betamax all the way to SACD vs. DVD-Audio and most recently Blu-ray vs. HD DVD, competing formats have always been controversial. In the case of SACD and DVD-Audio, it could be said that the war...
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