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Dell and Nickelodeon slime up a netbook
SV Staff  |  Aug 11, 2009
If you're going to give your kid a notebook computer, it might as well be pre-covered in slime. Dell and Nickelodeon have announced a partnership to produce a Nickelodeon-themed Inspiron Mini 10v netbook, based on the network's signature "green...
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Xbox 360 gets a Netflix update, exclusivity
SV Staff  |  Aug 11, 2009
The Xbox 360 has just gotten a major software update, adding a bunch of tweaks and features to its different non-gaming functions. Most notable is the newest Netflix features, which promise to make browsing and watching streaming videos much more...
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Director Castigates Widescreen Butchery
Mark Fleischmann  |  Aug 11, 2009
Director Steven Soderbergh is mad. And he has every right to be. His work is being deliberately butchered for television. This was once routine in a world where widescreen films had to fit onto a 4:3 screen. Yet even now, in the age of 16:9 and high-def, widescreen films continue to be cropped in ways that horrify the artists who made them.
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Other Tech
Breaking Down The NFL Instant Replay System
Patrick Parker  |  Aug 10, 2009

During the past 10 years the National Football League's instant replay system has changed a lot. From upgrades to its overall rules, to the equipment that the officials use, it has been hard for a fan to keep track of all the changes from season-to-season.

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HD Deals: Yamaha 11.2-Channel Digital Receiver
SV Staff  |  Aug 10, 2009
If you're looking to upgrade your home theater check out the deals we found today on speakers and this Yamaha RX-Z11BL 11.2-Channel Digital Home Theater Receiver for $4,999.95. More great HD and gadget deals* after the jump. KEF XQ30MH...
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Football on the world's biggest 1080p screen
SV Staff  |  Aug 10, 2009
It measures 160 feet wide and 72 feet high, and is the largest 1080p HDTV in the world. Cowboys Stadium, the newest stadium in the NFL, is home to this massive screen, which just showed its first football game on Saturday. Granted, it was a game of...
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Audio Video News
Onkyo's newest receiver is a radio smorgasboard
SV Staff  |  Aug 10, 2009
Remember when radio was a simple question of AM or FM? Now there's satellite in a variety of flavors, streaming Internet radio, and even good old-fashioned terrestrial radio... in HD Radio format. Onkyo's new TX-NR807 receiver supports all of those...
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Toshiba Blu-ray Coming This Year
Mark Fleischmann  |  Aug 10, 2009
This will be the year when Toshiba introduces its first Blu-ray products.
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A/V Veteran
Adventures in Speakerland
Thomas J. Norton  |  Aug 09, 2009

As I browsed through the latest issue of <I>Stereophile</I> during a late afternoon lunch break, the waiter who brought my soup glanced at an advertisement.

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Audio Video News
HDTV owners now in the majority
SV Staff  |  Aug 08, 2009
Congratulations, "early adopters" of the last decade. You're now part of the majority! For the first time ever, HDTV owners outnumber non-HDTV owners; according to the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing, 53% of consumers now...
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