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Hallmark: The Middle-aged Audience is Listening
SV Staff  |  Mar 27, 2008  | 
Something just wouldn't be quite right if middle-aged people approaching retirement grasped and adopted new technologies faster than their children. So it comes as no surprise that a study on that topic commissioned by Hallmark turned out just like...
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Rent Tunes on iTunes?
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 27, 2008  | 
Apple is thinking about an all-you-can-eat subscription policy for iTunes--true or false?
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Floyd's Buzzes Customers with HDTV
SV Staff  |  Mar 26, 2008  | 
Your hair doesn't grow faster when you watch HDTV, but it might make it seem like your follicles get clipped quicker when you're at Floyd's 99 Barbershop. Floyd's is one of the more prominent national chains in the throwback trend toward ole'...
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A TV So Bright, You’ve Gotta Wear Shades
SV Staff  |  Mar 26, 2008  | 
Runco is showing a prototype of a weatherproof TV you can watch in direct sunlight. It’s really not that hard to make a TV that can weather a rainstorm, but making one that can compete with the sun? Now there’s a trick. Runco just may have pulled...
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HDTV: You Better Shop Around
SV Staff  |  Mar 26, 2008  | 
Where did you buy your HDTV? Depending on your priorities and number of hours spent researching, you could have shopped at a chain store like Best Buy, a discount department store like Wal-Mart or Sears, or taken a risk and bought a set online from...
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Netflix-to-Xbox Movie Rentals Coming Soon?
SV Staff  |  Mar 26, 2008  | 
Snail-mail DVD rental company Netflix hasn't officially said it plans to allow downloads of movies via Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming console, but all clues point in that direction. Let's add them up, shall we? 1. Microsoft nixed Blu-ray on its game...
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Pow! Classic Batman Gets Blu-ray Boost
SV Staff  |  Mar 26, 2008  | 
Quick, to the Batcave! Fox Home Entertainment wants you to enjoy a souped-up Blu-ray version of the original Batman movie in the privacy of your home theater weeks before Warner's newer Batman Begins shows up in Blu-ray and The Dark Knight appears...
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Point: Blu-ray's Already Over
SV Staff  |  Mar 26, 2008  | 
[THE FOLLOWING IS THE FIRST STANCE IN A POINT-COUNTERPOINT DEBATE ABOUT THE FUTURE OF BLU-RAY. THE OPINION IS THAT OF TECH WRITER COREY GREENBERG. TO READ THE REBUTTAL, CLICK ON THE LINK AT THE END.] I don't know if I'm the first CE writer to say...
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Counterpoint: Blu-ray's Just Begun
SV Staff  |  Mar 26, 2008  | 
[THE FOLLOWING IS A REBUTTAL TO "POINT: BLU-RAY'S ALREADY OVER."] Corey, you ignorant misguided slut. Corey, you flannel-clad dilettante Corey . . . Dude, I understand your pain. We've all been there. You have, what mental health...
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Mitsubishi HDTVs Get Artsy
SV Staff  |  Mar 25, 2008  | 
A beautifully framed HDTV hanging on a living room wall is a lot like a work of art. It isn't that much of a stretch, then, to consider displaying works of art on an HDTV in the living room. That's the idea behind GalleryPlayer's partnership with...
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Sharp LCDs Beat Sony At Home
SV Staff  |  Mar 25, 2008  | 
Sony may be the No. 1 seller of LCD TVs around the world, but Sharp is tops in Japan, according to a survey of retailers conducted by Japanese newspaper Nikkei Business Daily. The paper asked four retailers to forecast demand for LCDs around April...
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44% of HDTV Owners Watch Standard-Def
SV Staff  |  Mar 25, 2008  | 
Studies from ABI Research are perfect for making us feel embarrassed about Americans' home theater habits. And after we feel ashamed, we just feel angry. Earlier this month, the research firm reminded us of how bad we are at slinging video around...
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Satellite Radio Merger Sounds Likely
SV Staff  |  Mar 25, 2008  | 
While the Department of Justice has decided it doesn't think a Sirius/XM satellite radio merger makes the music market uncompetitive - the two companies don't try to woo each others' subscribers - we're wondering if an approved merger would make...
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Cable Ops Harass CableCARD Users
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 25, 2008  | 
Major cable operators are now cutting off program options to viewers who opted to dump their cable boxes for CableCARDS.
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Extreme Makeover: Home Theater Edition
SV Staff  |  Mar 24, 2008  | 
Some home theater fanatics can get pretty worked up about design. Typical brushed metal and black can look bland and "off the shelf." Recent additions from many electronics manufacturers of slick "piano black" and bamboo-encased...
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