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Making Weight: The Ray-Dough Connection
 |  Oct 16, 2008

It sounded silly. Pursue the audiophile myth that more expensive gear will weigh more. It was well past time to put that audiophile myth to rest. After all: A heavy iPod is better than a lightweight one? A 5-pound cellphone?

Look, a BD player is just another computer running software. Building the player with an 8-pound chassis and charging more is bogus, right?

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Time Warner Cable and Cox Slapped on Wrist by FCC
SV Staff  |  Oct 16, 2008
Flexing its muscles, the FCC has slapped a fine on Time Warner Cable and Cox communications for introducing switched digital video signals into cable systems still utilizing CableCards.  This is a direct violation of federal rules that...
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Happy 200 Million, iTunes!
SV Staff  |  Oct 16, 2008
Apple is celebrating, and with good reason. According to Apple, the iTunes Store is the world's most popular online TV store. How popular? They've sold over 200 million TV episodes, which includes the 1 million HD shows sold since launching the HD...
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FCC Doom and Gloom on DTV Transition
SV Staff  |  Oct 16, 2008
While the transition is coming, ready or not, a member of the FCC has said that it "will be messy . . . but we'll get through it." This quote is from Robert McDowell (R), just a few weeks after FCC Chairman Daniel Inouye said that the...
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LG's OLED prototype
SV Staff  |  Oct 16, 2008
It seems like yet another battle in the CE world. Everyone is trying to come out with bigger OLED screens to compete with Sony's 11-inch mini OLED. Samsung was showing a 14-inch and a 31-inch Full HD panel, and LG showed off a 19-inch OLED, powered...
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Back By Popular Demand... The Ratings Return
Shane Buettner  |  Oct 16, 2008
After many months and much gnashing of teeth online and print, Home Theater's ratings are in fact returning starting to product reviews with the January issue being assembled now. The ratings are not only coming back, we think the more streamlined version we've come up with is actually better than what we had before.
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Sharp AQUOS with Built-in Blu-ray
SV Staff  |  Oct 16, 2008
Remember how low-class it was to have a TV with a built-in VCR?  No one would ever take that seriously. What if an HDTV had a built-in Blu-ray player?  Better yet, add in an HDTV tuner too. Not too shabby, right? Sharp is doing just...
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Blu-ray Pricing in Flux
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 16, 2008
Will the list prices of Blu-ray player prices drop from current levels in time for the holidays? Yes, says one struggling brand. No, says the standard bearer.
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Black Friday, Blu Friday
SV Staff  |  Oct 15, 2008
What better way to burn off the calories from Aunt Sandy's Thanksgiving Whiskey Cake than to go shopping the day after Thanksgiving. You know, Black Friday is the day to find amazing deals on everything from toasters to TVs. Looks like this could...
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Blu-ray Recorders Coming?
SV Staff  |  Oct 15, 2008
Stand-alone Blu-ray recorders have been available in Japan for a while, but alas, we're not so lucky here in the U.S. Prices aren't that great even over there - about $800 US for a Sharp Blu-ray recorder. But, a story from HD Guru said that...
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