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CES 2015
Audio Alchemy Is Baaack
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jan 11, 2015
If your audio memory extends back far enough you’ll recall Audio Alchemy. That company marketed an extensive line of inexpensive DACs long before streaming and downloading digital music was possible and D/A converters were the hot ticket...

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CES 2015
E.A.T. Turntables Are Yummy
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jan 11, 2015
We don’t cover turntables much here at S&V, but an interesting new line of upmarket turntables from European manufacturer E.A.T. is being distributed in the U.S. by VANA Ltd.

Shown here is the middle child of the three E.A.T. tables VANA brought to the show...

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CES 2015
Sharp’s SmartCentral 4.0 Allows Viewing of 4 Streams at Once
Barb Gonzalez  |  Jan 10, 2015
For those who can split their attention, Sharp offers MultiView that displays four separate streams onscreen. Easily controlled by Sharp’s tablet app, users can choose videos from myriad online video streaming services. MultiView is part of Sharp’s SmartCentral 4.0 that has been fully redesigned from last year’s Smart TV user interface.
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CES 2015
Sharp’s SmartCentral 4.0 Allows Viewing of 4 Streams at Once
Barb Gonzalez  |  Jan 10, 2015
For those who can split their attention, Sharp offers MultiView that displays four separate streams onscreen. Easily controlled by Sharp’s tablet app, users can choose videos from myriad online video streaming services. MultiView is part of Sharp’s SmartCentral 4.0 that has been fully redesigned from last year’s Smart TV user interface.
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CES 2015
PlayOn's AdSkipper Removes Ads On Hulu and Broadcast TV Streams
Barb Gonzalez  |  Jan 10, 2015
PlayOn’s recording feature, PlayLater, now lets you automatically skip commercials when viewing broadcast network streams and Hulu using PlayOn’s AdSkipper feature.
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CES 2015
Blu-Ray Disc Association Names 4K Disc Format
Barb Gonzalez  |  Jan 10, 2015
The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) has named the future 4K Blu-ray format “Ultra HD Blu-Ray.”
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CES 2015
Pella Uses Z-Wave to Get Insynctive
John Sciacca  |  Jan 10, 2015
Pella Corporation has been making innovative door and window products for nearly 90 years and now the company is branching into technology with its new Insynctive line of sensors and control devices enabling homeowners to have simplified control over their home’s security, comfort and convenience features.

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CES 2015
Cambridge Audio’s Azur Launches Music Into the Sonic Stratosphere
John Sciacca  |  Jan 10, 2015
In November 1969, West Germany launched the Azur, the country’s first scientific satellite, into space. At CES Cambridge Audio launched the Azur 851N, the company’s flagship upsampling network music player that takes any incoming audio signals up into the high-resolution stratosphere.

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CES 2015
TrackingPoint Lets Anyone Shoot Like a SEAL
John Sciacca  |  Jan 10, 2015
The Internet of Things has expanded to include a new high performance rifle from TrackingPoint nicknamed the “Mile Maker” for its “tag and shoot” technology that virtually guarantees anyone can hit a plate-sized target at up to one mile even on targets moving up to 30 mph! This technology puts the level of shooting skills the likes of Navy SEAL and Delta Force snipers that have spent years honing their craft into virtually anyone’s trigger finger.

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CES 2015
To Sleep, Perchance to Stream
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Jan 10, 2015
Because I suffer from a rare form of workophobia and isolationism, I sometimes have to take a timeout from the world at large and listen to music or some sort of hypnotic trance-inducing soundscape. Lying down with headphones is difficult, at best, and even using in-ear monitors can be uncomfortable when you’re lying on your side. Of course, then there’s the headphone/earbud cable albatross around your neck that invariably gets caught on something and yanks one of the buds out of your ear or wraps around your neck almost strangling you.

SleepPhones calls its headphone-embedded headband “pajamas for your ears”, and they’re designed to be...

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