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Ready for a Little Time Travel?
SV Staff  |  Dec 12, 2017
How cool it would be to visit a major city and travel 20 years into the future — or 100 years in the past?
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What Are the Benefits of Line-Source Speakers?
Al Griffin  |  Dec 12, 2017
Got a tech question for Sound & Vision? Email us at AskSandV@gmail.com

Q I am building a dedicated 15 x 10 x 28-foot (WxHxD) home theater with two rows of seating and a bar for the third row. I plan to buy new speakers and am interested in the advantages, if any, of line-source over regular point-source designs. I’ve heard that line-source speakers create a larger stereo sweet spot. Is that the case? —Lorne Charles / via e-mail

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Audio Video News
New Tech Aims to Link TV Ad Exposure to Actual Sales
SV Staff  |  Dec 12, 2017
If TV ads still figure into your TV watching, do they influence you to get off the couch and go test drive a new car or actually buy the product advertised?
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Audio Video NewsNew Products
A Wireless Speaker that Visualizes Lyrics in Real-Time
SV Staff  |  Dec 11, 2017
Here’s an idea: An app-based wireless speaker that visualizes lyrics on a translucent baffle/screen in real-time while the music is playing, creating a quasi-holographic effect.
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Audio Video News
Verizon Targets 30 Million Homes for 5G Service
SV Staff  |  Dec 11, 2017
Verizon said it plans to build out a super-fast 5G fixed-gigabit wireless service serving 30 million homes “over the next few years,” according to a report in Telecompetitor.
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Apple, Amazon Take Heat for How Siri and Alexa Respond to Rude Comments
SV Staff  |  Dec 11, 2017
In the age of talking technology and artificial intelligence, it seems the social police have new things to worry — like how smart “virtual assistants” like Amazon’s Echo speaker respond to questions and comments.
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Blu-ray Movie ReviewsUltra HD Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Alien: Covenant
Chris Chiarella  |  Dec 08, 2017
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Remember how excited we were when we heard that George Lucas—the man who started it all—was going back to directing Star Wars movies? And a lot of us went to see Episode I and said, “Oh.” And then, a few years older and wiser, we sat through Episode II and said, “Oh. Well.”

Ridley Scott is putting us through much the same ringer with the Alien franchise he began, famously returning for 2012’s technically accomplished but overly complicated Prometheus (also newly available on 4K). And now he’s back again with Alien: Covenant, which might just be the nadir for the series.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Silence
Corey Gunnestad  |  Dec 08, 2017
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Seventeenth-century feudal Japan wasn’t exactly fertile ground for sowing the seeds of Christianity. For the Jesuit priests who went there to bring the word of God and their faithful converts, they were met with hostility, unspeakable cruelty, and death. Christ was the ultimate living example of persecution and sufferance, and the Jesuits could find strength and perseverance in that. But even Christ had his moment of doubt, and every person has his breaking point. And the Japanese were ruthlessly methodical in their efforts.
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Editor's Eye
By The Time They Got To Woodstock...
Rob Sabin  |  Dec 08, 2017
...We Were More Than a Decade Strong

A recent visit to The Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, site of 1969’s Woodstock Music & Art Festival, inspired me to dig into the stored archive of our magazine as we set sights on our 60th anniversary year. And what a library it is. Sound & Vision was founded in February 1958 as HiFi & Music Review, when the big news in audio tech was the transition from mono to stereo.

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Audio Video NewsNew Products
Puro Sound Expands Line of Kid-Safe Headphones
SV Staff  |  Dec 08, 2017
Puro Sound Labs, the San Diego-based company “dedicated to fighting the growing epidemic of noise-induced hearing loss,” has expanded its line of volume-limited headphones for kids with a wireless on-ear model.
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