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 |  Jun 10, 2008

Back in those crazy, insecurity-ridden early days of my career as a self-taught home theater designer, my recurring nightmare was that I would run out of fresh ideas, that somehow my clients would discover that I was incompetent and pull a Donald on me: "You're fired!" Then, one cold morning in the winter of 1996, my nightmare almost became a reality.

SV Staff  |  Jun 10, 2008
Disney's making sure no one misses an opportunity to watch their favorite Disney movies. What happens when you and your little ones miss out on the ABC airing on Saturday nights of Wonderful World of Disney? Instead of tears and tantrums, just go...
SV Staff  |  Jun 10, 2008
Most folks acknowledge that a certain faction of the video industry fueled the rapid growth of both VHS technology and more recently, DVD Video. Now, Digital Playground,(link is not appropriate for work or kiddies) a leader in the adult video biz...
SV Staff  |  Jun 10, 2008
YouTube is breaking out of your computer and hitting the big screen.  Well... bigger screen, that is. Sony just announced that YouTube is now available on Sony's Bravia Internet Video Link service. How does it work? Sony's Bravia televisions...
SV Staff  |  Jun 10, 2008
Room acoustics is like economics: It's vitally important but impossible to understand. But a new Bay Area company is working to simplify the complicated process of acoustic analysis so  almost anyone can do it. Seagrave Instruments' new...
SV Staff  |  Jun 10, 2008
A few weeks ago, we reported that Philips is working on a 3D prototype. Now, that speculation has become a reality. Debuting at InfoComm 2008, a new 52-inch LCD display gives a 3D 'look-around' effect, no funky 3D glasses required.   The 3D...
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 10, 2008
British loudspeaker maker Bowers & Wilkins has teamed up with Peter Gabriel to offer subscribers exclusive music in DRM-free lossless surround.
Scott Wilkinson  |  Jun 09, 2008  |  First Published: Jun 10, 2008

A couple of weeks ago, I got an e-mail from Bogeun Chung, general manager of the LCD TV product-planning team at LG's headquarters in Seoul, Korea. He wrote that he would be passing through L.A. with one of his engineers on Monday, June 9, and asked if we could meet at Grayscale Studio, the video-testing facility for <I>UAV</I> and <I>Home Theater</I>. I value any personal contact with manufacturer representatives, so I quickly agreed. Little did I know how interesting that meeting would turn out to be...

John Sciacca  |  Jun 09, 2008

Having the right set of tools makes any job easier: everything from wall-mounting your new flat panel TV (see Step By Step: How to Mount a Flat-Panel TV) to adding some in-wall speakers (see

Brandon Grafius  |  Jun 09, 2008
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