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When All Weather Means All Weather
SV Staff  |  Apr 14, 2016
Ever wonder what claims of “weatherproof” or “all-weather” really mean when it comes to speakers built to withstand the elements of life outside?
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Throwback Thursday
All in the Family: The Story of Grado Labs
SV Staff  |  Apr 14, 2016
Joe Grado hand-built phono cartridges in his BrookIyn home in the early 1950s and founded Grado Labs in 1953 when production exceeded the size of his kitchen table.
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Should I Upgrade My System for 4K Blu-ray?
Al Griffin  |  Apr 14, 2016
Got a tech question for Sound & Vision? Email us at AskSandV@gmail.com

Q I own about 300 DVDs, but only 20 Blu-ray discs. Should I stop buying regular Blu-rays and move on to 4K Blu-ray now that the new format is out? I’m worried that 4K Blu-ray will just be for new movies and they won’t put out older titles as they did with regular Blu-ray. —Don Fowler

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SmartStream
Getting the Most Out of MightyTV's Movie Discovery App
Barb Gonzalez  |  Apr 13, 2016
A hands on review of the MightyTV movie streaming discovery app. Check out the tips on how to use the social and mashup features of this unique new app.
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Audio Video News
Samsung Debuts New Flagship UHDTVs
 |  Apr 13, 2016
Samsung Sr. VP Dave Das and the new 88-inch KS9800 UHDTV

Samsung officially unveiled its new 2016 SUHD televisions yesterday at its annual spring launch event in New York, offering up claimed advances in both picture quality and their smart TV interface.

Notably, all the new SUHD sets offer 1,000 nit peak brightness for high dynamic range content mastered to the HDR10 open standard, and wide color gamut. (They are not compatible with Dobly Vision HDR programs.) All meet the Ultra HD Alliance's Premium UHD certification standards.

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Audio Video News
Yamaha to Bring MusicCast to Existing Audio Gear
SV Staff  |  Apr 13, 2016
Yamaha announced plans to ship an amp and preamp in August that will enable any brand of audio gear to become part of a MusicCast wireless streaming ecosystem.

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The Connected Life
Are You Ready for Video Nirvana?
John Sciacca  |  Apr 13, 2016
One of the more unexpected non-events of January’s CES 2016 was the soft and lackluster launch of Ultra High Definition Blu-ray (UHD BD) players. While the industry had been expecting hardware capable of spinning new 4K discs to feed the millions of 4K TVs that have been sold, the fanfare at the show was surprisingly ho-hum. In fact...
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Signals
Vizio Pulls the Plug on Free TV
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Apr 12, 2016
Vizio recently unveiled its new P-series models. And they are pretty impressive, featuring 4K UHD and the very cool SmartCast app that essentially builds in all the capabilities of Google Cast. Since they are Vizios, they are very competitively priced. Very nice. The problem is, if you want to be a stickler for details, these devices aren't actually TVs.

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Audio Video News
MQA Update Now Available for Pioneer and Onkyo Portable Music Players
SV Staff  |  Apr 12, 2016
Starting today, a free MQA update is available for Pioneer’s XDP-100R digital audio player ($700) and Onkyo’s just released DP-X1 ($900).

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Remotely Possible
The Connected Home is Dead. Long Live the Smart Home!
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Apr 11, 2016
Last week, Nest announced they were pulling the plug on all their customers' Revolv smart home hubs. Why am I happy about this?
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