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BD Vs. Streaming, Etc.
Shane Buettner  |  Jan 13, 2009
A number of things have dovetailed into this Blog in the last week and a half. A NY Times article landed downplaying the success Blu-ray is having thus far and its future prospects, and, IMO, vastly overrating the current and future prospects of movie streaming and downloads. A massive wave of CE products launched at CES that connect to Internet-driven content, adding some fuel to this fire, and well, NPR called me in the middle of the show to get my take on this, which you can read and listen to here.
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Audio Video News
New iTunes Price List
SV Staff  |  Jan 13, 2009
Lost in the shuffle of CES was rather interesting news from iTunes.  The iTunes stores is going offer all of their music in iTunes Plus -- DRM-free (without copy-protection) and at a higher-quality bit rate. The 256 kbps AAC files were...
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Audio Video News
DTV Transition May Be Delayed
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 13, 2009
Acting in response to consumer-group complaints, the Obama transition team has asked the Federal Communications to delay the DTV transition.
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Sony's First Op Loss in 14 Years
SV Staff  |  Jan 13, 2009
Sony has always seemed a fortress in the electronics world - unshakable, until recently.  Sony is expected to post a loss of about $1.1 billion for 2007 and 2008 -- the first loss posted by the corporation in 14 years. Ouch.  What...
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Other Tech
3-D: IT'S BACK!
Kevin James  |  Jan 12, 2009

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CES 2009: Day three - Inside Hitachi Ultra Thin LCD
SV Staff  |  Jan 12, 2009
A ninety-nine cent double-cheeseburger is about 1.5-inches thick, but looking inside one of those isn’t too interesting. Actually, looking inside one of those is equal parts scary, sadness and curiosity. What is interesting is taking a peek inside a...
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CES 2009: Day three - Hitachi Web Cam TV
SV Staff  |  Jan 12, 2009
This year, a lot of TV manufacturers demonstrated how they are integrating the Internet into their sets. Whether the Web is used for checking the weather, news or sports scores, or streaming You Tube or Netflix videos, once your TV is Web-enabled...
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CES 2009: Day three - Alioscopy Glasses-free 3D TV
SV Staff  |  Jan 12, 2009
One of the big video stories from CES 2009 was 3D. Whether it was LCD, Plasma, DLP, flat panel, front projection or rear projection it seemed like every booth had a crowd of people standing around wearing plastic glasses with polarized ...
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CES 2009: Day two - Samsung Wall-O TVs
SV Staff  |  Jan 12, 2009
Like many of the questions that have haunted us from the dawn of man – why are we here? Why do hot dogs and hot dog buns come in different quantities? Why do super models always go for the grungiest rockers? – Samsung has managed to answer the age...
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CES 2010
Teardown
Scott Wilkinson  |  Jan 12, 2009

At the stroke of 4:00 PM on Sunday, a great cheer was heard throughout the show and the mad rush to tear down the booths began. Stay tuned for our wrap-up reports in a couple of days after we catch our collective breath and take a little time to digest all that we saw and heard.

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