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Audio Video News
Security Update Fixes Smart Speaker Vulnerability
SV Staff  |  Nov 17, 2017
Amazon and Google have rolled out security updates for their Echo and Home smart speakers to prevent a flaw in Bluetooth known as BlueBorne from making the speakers vulnerable to malicious attacks, according to press reports.
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The Connected Life
Mount a TV Like a Pro: Part 1
John Sciacca  |  Nov 17, 2017
In my last blog I listed some essential tools for tackling various DIY custom install projects around the house. This time, we’ll put that toolkit to work mounting a flat-panel TV! I’ll cover running the wiring to your new TV, and in my next blog we’ll tackle the physical mounting of the set.
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Audio Video News
AV Industry Mourns the Death of JVC Icon Harry Elias
SV Staff  |  Nov 17, 2017
The consumer electronics industry mourns the loss of Harry Elias, Consumer Technology Hall of Famer and former JVC executive vice president and Akai chairman, who died on November 12. He was in his late 80s.
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Audio Video News
LG Announces $1,500 'Best Ever" Price for 4K OLED TV
SV Staff  |  Nov 17, 2017
LG today unveiled “best ever” Black Friday pricing for 55- and 65-inch 4K OLED TVs in its B7A series.
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Audio Video News
Electronic/Instrumentalist Composer Emancipator Releases 5th Album
SV Staff  |  Nov 17, 2017
Classically trained electronic/instrumental composer/producer Emancipator (Doug Appling) — known for creating a unique blend of jazz, electronic, bossa nova, chillwave, hip-hop, world and classical music with his five-piece ensemble — today announced the release of his fifth album, Baralku.
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Throwback Thursday
Flashback 1977: ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ Opens
SV Staff  |  Nov 16, 2017
Forty years ago today Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi masterpiece Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a tale about UFOs and the ultimate alien encounter, opened in a limited number of theaters before hitting “theaters everywhere” in December 1977.
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Audio Video News
Echo Security Glitch Found
Mark Fleischmann  |  Nov 16, 2017
British researchers have found a security vulnerability in Amazon Echo speakers that would allow hackers to install malicious software and listen in on your conversations.
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Audio Video NewsNew Products
Klipsch Adds On-Wall Speakers to Reference Series
SV Staff  |  Nov 16, 2017
Klipsch today introduced a new line of space-efficient on-wall speakers designed to complement wall-mounted TVs.
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Can I Link My AVR to a Soundbar in Another Room?
Al Griffin  |  Nov 16, 2017
Got a tech question for Sound & Vision? Email us at AskSandV@gmail.com

A Can I link my Sony STR-DN1060 AV receiver with a Sony soundbar using its Zone 2 output? What I want is for the receiver to drive speakers in my main listening room and for the soundbar to play the same audio in a second room. —Lewis Starman / via e-mail

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Projector Reviews
Optoma UHD65 4K DLP Projector Review
Thomas J. Norton  |  Nov 15, 2017
Performance
Features
Ergonomics
Value
PRICE $2,500

AT A GLANCE
Plus
Superb resolution in HD and UHD
Effective HDR for a projector
Affordable price
Minus
Poor contrast and black level
HDR color banding

THE VERDICT
If pure picture quality with 1080p standard dynamic range will dominate your viewing there are better options out there at this price and lower. But none of them will do what the Optoma can: accept a 4K input, provide a reasonable facsimile of high dynamic range, and offer picture detail challenged only by native 4K projectors costing many times its price.

Optoma has been in the projector business for years. Go to the company’s website, and you’ll see a bewildering array of models. But the UHD65 is one of the first models to make use of a new 4K DMD (Digital Micromirror Device), the core of Texas Instruments’ Digital Light Processing technology. And along with its sister model, the UHD60, it’s one of the cheapest.

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