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Sony OLED -- No Strings Attached
SV Staff  |  Sep 11, 2008
There's been lots of talk about wireless HD. Yeah, no HDMI cables have to run to your TV, but they all still need power, and that unsightly power cord running up the wall. (Yeah, yeah, I know you can run all the cables and power in the wall, but...
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Other Tech
Aerielle i2i Stream Two Pack
Michael Antonoff  |  Sep 11, 2008
The Short Form
$119.95; additional i2i One Pack, $69.95; USB AC power plug adapter charger, $9.95; Home Stereo Adapter Kit, $12.95 / i2igear.com / 650-967-
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Custom Installation How-ToThe Connected Life
Microsoft Achieves Complete Home Domination
John Sciacca  |  Sep 11, 2008

You may consider Jim Carrey to be many things - comedic genius, overpaid goofball - but technological futurist probably isn't one of them. However, his prediction in the 1996 movie The Cable Guy has proved to be surprisingly accurate: "The future is now!

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Audio Video News
Pioneer Shows Off 50" and 60" Kuro Plasmas
SV Staff  |  Sep 11, 2008
Pioneer just had a press conference in Tokyo, introducing two new KURO plasma displays. The KRP-600A (60-inch) and KRP-500A (50-inch.)  Both have Full HD resolution and are designed, according to Pioneer, to produce blacks five times deeper...
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The Big Picture
Fighting Iris
Scott Wilkinson  |  Sep 11, 2008

Canadian Rob Brown recently got an Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 1080 projector and wants to know about my recommended settings:

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Audio Video News
LP 2 FLASH: Transfers LP to... Flash!
SV Staff  |  Sep 11, 2008
Ion Audio made news a while ago with their LP 2 CD turntable that made it easy to transfer your old vinyl records to CD. It just got even easier to get music to your computer. The new LP 2 FLASH plays your albums and converts them to MP3, then...
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TiVo Arrives on BlackBerry
SV Staff  |  Sep 11, 2008
While it's already possible to schedule TiVo recordings from a mobile phone, BlackBerry is going one step further. Research In Motion, big berry parent of the BlackBerry just partnered with TiVo to bring a software application to the phones that...
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Wilmington, NC Lives the DTV Future Now
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 11, 2008
The DTV transition took over a whole metro area for the first time this week. Folks in Wilmington, North Carolina are getting digital signals exclusively in a trial run for the overall U.S. DTV transition which is scheduled for February 17, 2009. That's when analog broadcasting will stop entirely, with analog signals surviving only in cable, satellite, and other non-antenna systems. Wilmington is just experiencing the future a few months early.
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Audio Video News
Viddyou Goes With High Bitrate Service
SV Staff  |  Sep 10, 2008
YouTube is all good and fine, but jeez, sometimes the quality of the video is so poor you can barely see what's going on. Viddyou, a service similar to YouTube, had already launched an HD service (for a fee) but they just announced they're getting...
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Audio Video News
Beyond TV Placeshifts Beyond Your TV
SV Staff  |  Sep 10, 2008
Beyond TV is SnapStream Media's app for Window's to record and pause live TV on a PC. It also does things that TiVo could only dream about, such as data compression.  Well, TiVo has one more thing to worry about with the latest beta version of...
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