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Tech Trends: Rebirth of the American Loudspeaker?
Brent Butterworth  |  Apr 01, 2011

My greatest CES disappointment led to my greatest discovery. After a cable manufacturer bailed out on the bacchanalian dinner he’d promised me, I ended up at the New York New York hotel nursing a glass of watery house bourbon while dropping quarters into a video poker machine. I soon noticed that the man next to me was sketching electrical circuits on his napkin.

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Audio Video News
Amazon Eyes Next Step for Cloud Service
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 01, 2011
Though its Cloud Drive and Cloud Player have just launched this week, allowing customers to store and access content from remote servers, Amazon is already contemplating the next steps. One imperative is to patch things up with the music industry. Another is to make the technology more convenient, replacing the unwieldy upload process with a slicker content-ownership recognition system.

First the record company politics: Amazon rushed the Cloud Drive and Player introduction to steal a march on Apple and Google, which are planning similar moves. In doing so it unnerved the major labels. One of them, Sony Music, has aired its complaint in public, commenting ominously through a spokesperson: "We are keeping our legal options open."

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Test Report: Lirpa Labs Liberty Freedom 1776 A-FY Tower Speakers
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Mar 31, 2011
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1—Warner Bros.
Kris Deering  |  Mar 31, 2011
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 5/5
Extras: 4/5
Part 1 begins as Harry, Ron and Hermione set out on their perilous mission to track down and destroy the Horcruxes - the keys to Voldemort's immortality. On their own and on the run, the three friends must now rely on one another more than ever. But there are Dark Forces in their midst that threaten to tear them apart.
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Premiere Design
Runco D-73d 3D DLP Projector, Part 3
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 31, 2011
In Part 1 and Part 2 of my report on the Runco D-73d 3D DLP projector, I covered its features in some detail. Now, it's time to reveal what we measured while working with it at Runco's training facility near Portland, Oregon. Helping me was Erik Guslawski, eastern regional product specialist, and Bob Williams, chief product architect and recent guest on my Home Theater Geeks podcast.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Social Network comes to Blu-ray
Josef Krebs  |  Mar 31, 2011

The Social Network opens with a conversation between Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) and his soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend (Rooney Mara), and it's the perfect setup for a movie about a certain form of Internet interaction.

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Tower Speaker Reviews
GoldenEar Technology TritonCinema Two
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Mar 31, 2011

Performance
Value
Build Quality
Price: $3,745 (updated 3/10/15)
at a glance: Folded diaphragm tweeters • Built-in 1,200-watt subwoofers with DSP • Super-slim center and surround speakers

Squeeze Me. Please Me.

Laurels can be an extremely comfortable and cushy thing to rest on. (They’re good for the environment, and they’re hypoallergenic.) Companies and individuals often rely on past successes to carry them along like giant helium-filled balloons in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Just because you were the first to do or invent something doesn’t necessarily mean your next project or idea will be any better than a picture painted by a monkey throwing his poo at the zoo. As the investment caveat goes, “Past performance is no guarantee of future results.” That being said, though, how can you not be pee-in-your-pants excited when a true giant in the speaker industry says he’s going to start a new speaker company?

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Audio Video NewsCustom Installation Equipment Reviews
Non-invasive TV Wall Mount
Kim Wilson  |  Mar 31, 2011
A unique mounting system that adds some extra dimension and style to your living room theater.
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Audio Video News
GOT SPL?
Michael Berk  |  Mar 31, 2011

 

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Audio Video News
Radiohead's Thom Yorke: paperboy
Ken Richardson  |  Mar 31, 2011

 

(Photo by David M. Bennett)

Couldn't resist sharing this photo with everyone.

It's Thom indeed, hawking The Universal Sigh in England.

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