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Dolby and SIM2 Dazzle with LEDs
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 01, 2008  | 
Despite their popularity, LCD TVs have always had a problem with black level. Yesterday Dolby and SIM2 gave dazzled reporters a glimpse of how good black and dark colors could look on a flat-panel set. Unfortunately, this High Dynamic Range (HDR) tech was only a prototype, so it'll be awhile before you get to share the love.
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Broadcast Your Own HD Channel at Motionbox
SV Staff  |  Mar 31, 2008  | 
New moms and dads, as well as any other gearhead who has recently purchased a high-end camcorder, will be glad to know they can now share high-definition home video over the Web. Motionbox, which used to seem like just another video-sharing site,...
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Who Spent Earth Hour Watching TV?
SV Staff  |  Mar 31, 2008  | 
If you live in an eco-conscious city, you may have heard something about "earth hour" over the weekend. In various locales, public awareness campaigns were conducted for the March 29 at 8 p.m. holiday from electricity. National landmarks went dark,...
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Earn Style Points with this Home Theater PC
SV Staff  |  Mar 31, 2008  | 
One of the difficulties in swallowing Microsoft's home theater PC concept is the ugliness associated with plopping a boxy tower anywhere near your sleek living room set-up. This post is neither the time nor place to discuss the merits of HTPCs and...
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Compressed Signals Make Me Depressed
SV Staff  |  Mar 31, 2008  | 
If you've got an eye for crisp video, surely you've wished the high-definition signal being pumped into your living room was even better. The signal quality appears to have good days and bad days, and you may have even wondered if the same HD...
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Will Blu-ray Skyrocket or Dive-Bomb?
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 31, 2008  | 
Blu-ray will take 29.4 million more homes by storm by the end of the year, say researchers. Blu-ray is doomed, says the chief scientist of THX. Who to believe?
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Blu-ray Shopping Spree in 2008
SV Staff  |  Mar 28, 2008  | 
Now that bean counters have a sense for consumer Blu-ray appetite when HD-DVD is out of the picture, it looks like 15 million of the high-def discs will sell in 2008, according to HMR Research. From mid-2006 (Blu-ray's launch) until the end of...
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Panasonic's New Wave of Plasma
SV Staff  |  Mar 28, 2008  | 
At a seminar in Japan this week, Matsushita plasma group manager Susumu Tsujihara didn't say a word about subsidiary Panasonic's plans to manufacture plasma panels for Pioneer's high-end Kuro line. But everything he did say sounded like very good...
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The Sounds of Plasma
SV Staff  |  Mar 28, 2008  | 
This plasma stuff might burn you up with jealousy, but don't try this at home, electrical engineers. At least wait until you get back to the lab. Everybody else should simply enjoy the YouTube videos in safety. Gizmodo posted two videos of one...
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What Women Watch
SV Staff  |  Mar 28, 2008  | 
In the decades-old gender battle for the remote control, it appears women have begun to wrangle the device at a higher rate then men, especially when there's a digital video recorder involved. According to a new study from Solutions Research...
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Can't Afford That New HDTV? Haggle!
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 28, 2008  | 
If the pricetag on that giant plasma seems excessive, guess what? You might get a lower one just by asking for it.
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History, Re-Recorded
SV Staff  |  Mar 27, 2008  | 
If audio is recorded without the intention of being listened to, is it still a recording? American researchers in Paris are getting philosophical about a piece of etched paper they found which may contain the first ever piece of recorded audio. ...
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Toshiba Theater Bot Heals Heartache
SV Staff  |  Mar 27, 2008  | 
How is Toshiba managing to mourn the painful and expensive death of HD-DVD? Well, with a little bit of R&D therapy, it seems. Perhaps spending bucket-loads of cash on an adorable 11-inch robot of limited utility will soothe Toshiba's angst....
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LG and Vizio: Flat-tastic together?
SV Staff  |  Mar 27, 2008  | 
LG Display, an LCD-panel making offshoot of LG Electronics, is sniffing around for partners to help it sell more LCD TVs. One possible bedfellow is Amtran, the Taiwanese parent of U.S. everyman flat-screen brand Vizio. Pundits and investors don't...
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PS3 This Year, Stand-Alone Player Next Year
SV Staff  |  Mar 27, 2008  | 
Nearly twenty million consumers are so eager to jump on the high-definition disc bandwagon this year that they can't be bothered to wait for a bargain. Even though a Sony executive all but promised that the price of Blu-ray players won't drop to...
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