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Google Eyes the TV
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 03, 2010
Google has its giant corporate eye on your TV and rack. It is planning to show developers Android-based software designed to fit into sets, set-top boxes, and other devices, reports The Wall Street Journal.
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Audio Video News
Lutron donates to the Smithsonian
SV Staff  |  May 01, 2010
This past week, I was among a small group of journalists invited to attend a special donation ceremony at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, in Washington DC. While this typically wouldn’t be newsworthy for Sound + Vision...
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Audio Video News
James Cameron's 3D vision will go to Mars
SV Staff  |  Apr 30, 2010
It sounds surreal, but Avatar's massive success could influence our real-life space program. According to CBS News, James Cameron has convinced NASA to use a 3D camera on its next Mars mission. The Curiosity mission, set to launch next year,...
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3D Tech
Samsung 3DTV Briefing
Scott Wilkinson  |  Apr 30, 2010

On Tuesday, I visited Samsung's QA (Quality Assurance) Labs in Los Angeles to discuss the company's 3D technology in some detail. Of course, there was a Samsung 3DTV on hand—the UN55C7000 LED-edgelit LCD—along with a BD-C6900 3D Blu-ray player and a high-def media server with some additional 3D content.

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Audio Video News
TiVo Pleads for Cable Parity
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 30, 2010
TiVo is pleading with Congress to make its DVRs, and retail set-top devices in general, as powerful as those leased by cable operators to their subscribers.
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Audio Video News
Obvious: Avatar is the most pirated Blu-ray Disc
SV Staff  |  Apr 29, 2010
First Avatar became the highest grossing film of all time. Now it looks like Avatar is the most illicitly downloaded Blu-ray Disc of all time. According to BitTorrent blog Torrentfreak, over 200,000 copies of the Avatar Blu-ray Disc have been...
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Premiere Design
Scaena Model 1.4 Speaker System
Scott Wilkinson  |  Apr 29, 2010

I've written about line-array speakers in this blog several times, and for good reason&#151;tall stacks of drivers deliver smooth horizontal dispersion and sound levels that fall off more gradually than point-source speakers, creating a coherent, open soundstage. That's the idea behind the so-called iso-linear speakers from American maker <A href="http://www.scaena.com">Scaena</A>, whose name is Latin for "stage."

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Custom Installation How-To
Sony BDP-S570
Al Griffin  |  Apr 29, 2010

Sony took its sweet time in matching other major Blu-ray Disc player makers on the media-streaming front — not surprising, given the company’s history of doing things its own way.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Tombstone (Blu-ray)
David Vaughn  |  Apr 29, 2010

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/tombstone.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>After a successful career as a lawman in Dodge City, Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) and his two brothers retire to Tombstone, AZ looking for peace and quiet as entrepreneurs. When a band of outlaws called the Cowboys descend upon the town, the Earp's and their good friend Doc Holiday (Val Kilmer) take-up arms in order to protect the town from the ruthless villains.

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Audio Video News
Avatar Breaks Blu-ray Records
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 29, 2010
Avatar is breaking Blu-ray records all over the place, and it's not even out in 3D yet.
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