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McIntosh, Audio Research Offer Trade Up Programs
SV Staff  |  Jun 14, 2017
If you own McIntosh or Audio Research gear and you’re thinking of upgrading, now is the time to do it. Both brands have announced compelling trade-up programs.
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UHD BD Beating Old BD
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 13, 2017
Though still a small part of the market, Ultra HD Blu-ray players are outpacing unit sales of original Blu-ray players in the same time frame, with 300,000 units sold in 2016 according to the Blu-ray Disc Association.
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Vizio’s Flagship P-Series Displays Now in Stores
SV Staff  |  Jun 13, 2017
Vizio today announced that its flagship P-Series and M-Series 4K/Ultra HD displays are now available in stores.
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Hey Dad, How About Some Vinyl?
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Jun 13, 2017
You can call me old fashioned. You can call me a Luddite. You can even call me Ishmael. But I like to read books. Paper books, thank you very much. Based on that, my homies at Barnes & Noble apparently think that I like to listen to vinyl too.

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Casio Pitches “LampFree” Projector to Dads
SV Staff  |  Jun 13, 2017
With Father’s Day around the corner, Casio is pitching DLP projectors based on its LampFree technology as the perfect gift, or at least one to consider.
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Soundfloat Kickstarter Campaign Sinks
SV Staff  |  Jun 13, 2017
You gotta give the guys at Spika International credit for trying to raise fifty grand on Kickstarter for an “inflatable lounge” with built-in Bluetooth speakers. But after 38 days, the campaign was canceled, having met less than 20 percent of its goal ($9,393).
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IMAX Opens Virtual Reality Center In NYC
Rob Sabin  |  Jun 12, 2017  |  First Published: Jun 13, 2017
The company best known among cinephiles for entertaining big audiences with big screens and big sound has gone the opposite way with its latest big idea: Virtual reality (VR) centers to provide one-on-one entertainment to walk-in customers at cineplexes and other venues nationwide.

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Zvox Launches $300 Dialogue-Boosting Soundbar
SV Staff  |  Jun 12, 2017
Zvox has successfully funded a new soundbar on Kickstarter that will offer the company’s AccuVoice technology for $300.
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Sound United Brands Will Support AirPlay 2
SV Staff  |  Jun 12, 2017
Sound United, parent company of a half-dozen venerable audio brands, has announced that Denon, Marantz, Polk Audio, Heos by Denon, and Definitive Technology that will support AirPlay 2, the updated version of the AirPlay wireless streaming protocol Apple announced last week at its developers conference where it also introduced the HomePod smart speaker.
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The Trouble with Sequels
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Jun 10, 2017
We’re well into the age of "Movie Sequels and Series and Nothing Else". Complaining about it won’t go away. They’re low risk and usually high profit. This is how Hollywood is right now, and there’s nothing we can do about that.

So it’s important to take a look at how hard it is to make a sequel, using two recent movies as examples of how to do it, and how not to do it.

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