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Audio Video News
Panasonic ready to shove Blu-ray into your car
SV Staff  |  Apr 22, 2009
Something tells me Blu-ray might be overkill for the 7-inch, 1280x270 screen on Panasonic's CN-HX3000D head unit, but that has never stopped hardcore car modifiers in the past. The unit actually sounds pretty solid, offering up a five-channel...
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Audio Video News
Adobe Flash Coming to DTVs
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 22, 2009
TV makers are increasingly adding internet features, including browsers and widgets, to their products. But until now, the standard for 80 percent of web video has not yet penetrated the television set. That's about to change, with Adobe Flash coming to TVs and set-top boxes later this year, Adobe announced this week.
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Ask S&V
Training, Crossover, Pass-Through
Scott Wilkinson  |  Apr 21, 2009
Career Training
I am interested in learning home-theater installation as a career path. Can you suggest a training program I should look into?
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Audio Video News
Atlantic Technology gets high with new satellites
SV Staff  |  Apr 21, 2009
Good news for audiophiles interested in this new-fangled height channel business. Atlantic Technology has announced its first satellite speaker designed specifically to deliver height in a Dolby ProLogic IIz set-up. The 1400 SR-z's are dipole/bipole...
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Audio Video News
YouTube Gets More Movies and TV
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 21, 2009
Hundreds of movies and thousands of TV shows will appear legally on YouTube thanks to a deal involving the video site, Sony Pictures, and 11 other media companies.
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Premiere Design
Aluminum Avatar
Scott Wilkinson  |  Apr 20, 2009

One look and you know this is no ordinary speaker. The flowing, liquid lines of the Muon reflect the highest artistic expression, and rightly so—after all, it was created by renowned designer Ross Lovegrove for pre-eminent British speaker manufacturer <A href="http://www.kef.com">KEF</A>.

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Bookshelf Speaker ReviewsSoundbar Reviews
Phase Technology Teatro PC-3.0 L-C-R Speaker System
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 20, 2009
Price: $2,400 At A Glance: 40-inch-wide soundbar speaker includes front left, center, and right channels • Surrounds and sub are extra-cost options • Refined sound

Stars and Bars and L-C-R

Two bars walk into a guy. Sorry to be so gender-specific, but that’s generally how these jokes begin. One bar says, “I’ve got 5.1 channels, including fake surround, to add to the grandeur of your studio apartment.” The other bar says, “I’ve got the front three channels of good, honest sound to accompany the luster of your flat-panel TV.” What does the guy say? Frankly, I haven’t got the slightest idea. The interesting thing is that he has a choice.

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Audio Video News
Blu-ray Rental Discs Cracking
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 20, 2009
Some Blu-ray rental discs sent through the mail by Netflix are arriving with cracks.
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Music Reviews
The Tragically Hip: We Are the Same
Mike Mettler  |  Apr 19, 2009
Zoë/Rounder
Music •••• Sound ••••
Where there's smoke, there's fire.
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Fred Manteghian Blog
Future Sonics Atrio Earphones
Fred Manteghian  |  Apr 19, 2009

I spend a lot of time in earphones, or should I say, they spend a lot of time in me. I've been on a lose-weight-slash-get-healthy kick for about nine months now. The dead of winter found me hardwired to what would otherwise be the mindless machinations of an elliptical machine that even a hamster would eventually find boring were it not for an iPod (for me, not sure how the hamster would feel). Now that the New England spring has sprung, I can get back to the more exhilarating activity of running America's roadways while under the influence of endorphins and my own personal soundtrack. I know running under the influence (of music) sounds dangerous as you forge ahead against traffic, but I've only been car tagged five times in hundreds of miles of jogging, and to be fair, two of those incidents were probably my fault.

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