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Reality Bytes: Dear Mr. President
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Apr 22, 2009

First, congratulations on your brilliant presidential campaign, convincing election results, and historic inauguration. I am impressed by your fresh thinking and your eloquent call for change. I was therefore surprised when your administration recommended that the switchover to digital TV be delayed beyond the February 17 deadline.

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Warner Announces Red2Blu Trade-In Program
Scott Wilkinson  |  Apr 22, 2009
If you're like most early adopters, you have a stack of HD DVDs in your collection. You might still have an HD DVD player as well, but you probably also have a Blu-ray player by now, and the HD DVD spinner is likely gathering dust awaiting disposal on eBay. But what to do with those HD DVDs?
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Warner Announces Red2Blu Trade-In Program
Scott Wilkinson  |  Apr 22, 2009

If you're like most early adopters, you have a stack of HD DVDs in your collection. You might still have an HD DVD player as well, but you probably also have a Blu-ray player by now, and the HD DVD spinner is likely gathering dust awaiting disposal on eBay. But what to do with those HD DVDs?

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Audio Video News
Warner trading Blu-rays for your HD DVDs
SV Staff  |  Apr 22, 2009
I still have a few HD DVDs sitting around my house that I haven't been able to bring myself to get rid of. It might be worth digging them out, though, and trading them in using Warner Bros.' new RED2BLU program. $4.95 plus a shipping charge...
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Audio Video News
Panasonic ready to shove Blu-ray into your car
SV Staff  |  Apr 22, 2009
Something tells me Blu-ray might be overkill for the 7-inch, 1280x270 screen on Panasonic's CN-HX3000D head unit, but that has never stopped hardcore car modifiers in the past. The unit actually sounds pretty solid, offering up a five-channel...
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Adobe Flash Coming to DTVs
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 22, 2009
TV makers are increasingly adding internet features, including browsers and widgets, to their products. But until now, the standard for 80 percent of web video has not yet penetrated the television set. That's about to change, with Adobe Flash coming to TVs and set-top boxes later this year, Adobe announced this week.
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Ask S&V
Training, Crossover, Pass-Through
Scott Wilkinson  |  Apr 21, 2009
Career Training
I am interested in learning home-theater installation as a career path. Can you suggest a training program I should look into?
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Audio Video News
Atlantic Technology gets high with new satellites
SV Staff  |  Apr 21, 2009
Good news for audiophiles interested in this new-fangled height channel business. Atlantic Technology has announced its first satellite speaker designed specifically to deliver height in a Dolby ProLogic IIz set-up. The 1400 SR-z's are dipole/bipole...
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YouTube Gets More Movies and TV
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 21, 2009
Hundreds of movies and thousands of TV shows will appear legally on YouTube thanks to a deal involving the video site, Sony Pictures, and 11 other media companies.
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Premiere Design
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Scott Wilkinson  |  Apr 20, 2009

One look and you know this is no ordinary speaker. The flowing, liquid lines of the Muon reflect the highest artistic expression, and rightly so—after all, it was created by renowned designer Ross Lovegrove for pre-eminent British speaker manufacturer <A href="http://www.kef.com">KEF</A>.

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