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Oppo 4K Blu-ray Players Now Support Dolby Vision
SV Staff  |  Jun 07, 2017
Support for the Dolby Vision high dynamic range (HDR) format is now available for Oppo’s new UDP-205 and Top Pick-designated UDP-203 4K/Ultra HD Blu-ray players.
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Sound & Vision Tech Tidbits June 2017
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 06, 2017
Denon Heos 1 Go Packs are being recalled by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission due to potential fire hazard. If the battery you bought to go with your Heos 1 speaker has a serial number beginning with the number 5, or those between 601G913517 and 601G914004, call (844) 759-1987 or see usa.denon.com/gopackreplace to arrange for a free replacement...
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Audio Video NewsNew Products
Klipsch Puts Reference Premiere Speakers in the Wall
SV Staff  |  Jun 06, 2017
Klipsch today introduced a series of in-wall speakers based on its Reference Premiere line of freestanding home theater speakers.
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A/V Veteran
Hi-Fi in La La Land
Tom Norton  |  Jun 06, 2017
Live (well, almost) from the Los Angeles Audio Show…
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New Products
Monitor Audio Transforms Speakers into Art
SV Staff  |  Jun 06, 2017
Traditional floorstanding speakers are alive and well but they’re not for everybody—especially when space is tight or décor rules the day.
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Audio Video NewsNew Products
Pioneer Unveils Budget-Priced Elite AVRs
SV Staff  |  Jun 05, 2017
Pioneer has expanded its Elite series of AV receivers with two feature-packed yet moderately priced 7.2-channel AV receivers.
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Audio Video News
Voice Speaker Usage to Double This Year
SV Staff  |  Jun 05, 2017
Individuals of any age who use a voice-enabled speaker at least once a month. Source: eMarketer, April 2017

More than 35 million Americans will use voice-enabled virtual assistant speakers such as the popular Amazon Echo speaker at least once a month this year, more than twice as much as they did last year, according to a new market forecast from eMarketer.

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Headphone ReviewsGrace Notes
Hands On: AKG N60NC Wireless Headphones
Leslie Shapiro  |  Jun 05, 2017
These days, air travel just sucks. Seats are smaller, flights are overbooked, computer glitches cause massive delays, and whatever happened to in-flight meals? You’re lucky to get a tiny bag of pretzel crumbs. Whenever I travel, I always slip on a pair of headphones, and tune out the chaos. If there’s a baby screaming all flight long, I won’t hear it. So when AKG announced the N60NC Wireless, a new active noise-cancelling headphone with Bluetooth, I was all ears.

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“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales” Review
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Jun 03, 2017
Why is this even a thing?
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Cinema Paradiso
Brandon A. DuHamel  |  Jun 02, 2017
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The entertainment glitterati love a work that glorifies the history and existence of themselves. Just look at the praise lavished upon such films like the neo-silent The Artist or the arguably overrated La La Land to get a sense of how much Hollywood is willing to revel in its own nostalgia. Writer/director Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1988 semiautobiographical paean to the films that framed his coming of age in Southern Italy revolving around the titular Cinema Paradiso movie theater is a prime example of such a work.
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