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Epson Introduces $360 Portable Projector
SV Staff  |  Oct 06, 2015
Epson unveiled the $360 PowerLite Home Cinema 640 budget projector at last week’s Holiday Spectacular press event in New York City.
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Audio Video News
HDMI Launches Premium Cable Program
SV Staff  |  Oct 05, 2015
HDMI Licensing LLC today announced a Premium HDMI Cable Certification Program to give consumers peace of mind that all components in an HDMI-connected 4K/Ultra HD system are capable of delivering a reliable experience.
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Audio Video NewsNew Products
Yamaha’s New Slimline AVR Has Bluetooth Output
SV Staff  |  Oct 05, 2015
Yamaha is expanding its Slimline series of AV receivers, which includes the Top Pick winning RX-S600 introduced last year.
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Desktop Speaker ReviewsGrace Notes
Thonet & Vander Rätsel BT 2.1 Speaker System Review
Leslie Shapiro  |  Oct 05, 2015
Pop quiz: What image first comes to your mind when you hear Bluetooth speaker system? Is it a small, portable, single-cabinet pseudo-stereo box with meager amplification? Would it blow your mind to imagine a Bluetooth system that’s actually a 2.1 desktop system, complete with two stand-alone two-way speakers, a separate amplifier/control box and yes, a separate subwoofer? Take a look at the Thonet & Vander Rätsel BT 2.1 Bluetooth system with a 75-watt. Sadly, I’ve gotten so accustomed to tiny little Bluetooth speakers that my mind was suitably blown.

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LA's Luxury Tech Show: How to Add Robotics and/or Gold Plating to Everything
Lauren Dragan  |  Oct 02, 2015
This past Wednesday I attended my second Luxury Technology Show in Los Angeles and it was, as the year before it, a study in making the ordinary opulent, and the expensive ridiculously expensive. The LED-message-displaying-booze was flowing and I put on my cocktail attire to see what’s new just for you. Here’s some highlights from what I learned:

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Sweepstakes
The Morrow Audio High-end HDMI Cable with SSI Technology Sweepstakes
SV Staff  |  Oct 02, 2015
Register to win a Morrow Audio High-end HDMI Cable with SSI Technology (MSRP $139.00) we are giving away.

According to the company:

"Made to Morrow Audio high-end specifications with 4K-ready enhancement and meeting its proprietary and renowned SSI Technology guidelines, the HDMI cable helps produce phenomenal home theater picture and sound quality unlike others. With solid soundstage delivery, viewers can see and hear the sounds never before experienced until now. "

[This Sweepstakes is now closed.]

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Ex Machina
David Vaughn  |  Oct 02, 2015
Picture
Sound
Extras
Computer programmer Caleb Smith wins an inter-company competition to spend a week at the remote estate of the company’s brilliant, yet quirky CEO and founder, Nathan Bateman. He soon learns that the vacation will be anything but when he’s coerced into signing a nondisclosure release in order to administer a Turing Test on a new AI program that could revolutionize the world. It turns out that the AI has been placed in a fully functional—and human-looking—robot named Ava, who has been locked in a glass enclosure and can’t be freed unless she proves to Smith and Bateman that she’s achieved full consciousness and is not just copying human behavior.
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Surround Sound System ReviewsTower Speaker Reviews
Sonus Faber Chameleon T Speaker System Review
Daniel Kumin  |  Oct 02, 2015
Performance
Build Quality
Value
PRICE $3,447 as reviewed

AT A GLANCE
Plus
Very honest, very capable reproduction
Unusual, and unusually attractive, cosmetics
Excellent center-channel off-axis consistency
Minus
Ever so slightly warm balance may not please more analytical listeners

THE VERDICT
Wide-range towers and solid tonal matching make for a system that will fulfill many, even without a subwoofer.

Italian technology doesn’t get a lot of respect. (There’s a version of the old joke where in heaven the police are British, the cooks French, and the engineers German; in hell the police are German, the cooks British, and the engineers— you guessed it—Italian.) But think only of Ferrari. Or Lamborghini. Better still, think of supercar maker Pagani, for which today’s examinee, Sonus Faber, provides premium audio systems.

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Ears On
So Long, Lossy, It's Been Dull to Know You
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 02, 2015
Over the past couple of years, I've raised the bar for new entries to my music library. I've been steadily giving up lossy audio. In other words, file formats like MP3 and iTunes-approved AAC are no longer welcome. It is time for my library to move to the next step. So long, lossy. Quoth the raven, nevermore.

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Audio Video NewsNew Products
Integra Introduces Network-Ready Stereo Receiver
SV Staff  |  Oct 02, 2015
Offering a preview of what it will show at CEDIA Expo in Dallas in two weeks, Integra has updated the classic stereo receiver with its new DTM 40.7 network-ready stereo receiver.
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