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HDTV Super Bowl Sales
SV Staff  |  Feb 02, 2009
Did you, or didn't you?The Consumer Electronics Association predicted that nearly 2.6 million HDTVs were sold specifically for Super Bowl XLIII.  They said that for the fourth year in a row the big game is the number one reason folks go...
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AV Receiver Reviews
Onkyo TX-SR806 A/V Receiver
Mark Fleischmann  |  Feb 02, 2009
Price: $1,099 At A Glance: Onkyo’s first THX Ultra2 Plus–certified AVR • New THX and Audyssey algorithms • Five HDMI 1.3 inputs • Faroudja DCDi video

With Two Secret Sauces

When I compare the Onkyo TX-SR806 receiver with last year’s Onkyo crop, I see incremental but significant improvements. The most notable ones are licensed technologies from THX and Audyssey (more on them soon). But when I compare this product with the earliest A/V receivers (and in the process, look back on myself as I was then), I actually get dizzy.

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Audio Video News
Netflix Might Start Streming HBO Content for a Price
SV Staff  |  Feb 02, 2009
According to Hacking Netflix, users (not me, sadly) are getting e-mail surveys asking if they would be willing to pay an extra $10 a month to watch a selection of movies and original shows from HBO. It goes on to list most of the network's most...
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HDTV Tech
Your Digital TV To-Do List
Peter Putman  |  Feb 02, 2009
How time flies. It seems like we’ve been talking about the transition to digital terrestrial television broadcasting forever—waiting for stations to light up the transmitters, watching as more and more high-definition programming appeared on our TV screens, and shopping for a new flat-screen HDTV for our family rooms.
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Audio Video News
Sirius XM Heading to iPhone
SV Staff  |  Feb 02, 2009
Everyone has a killer app for the iPhone, and hopefully, Sirius XM will find an app that will save the day.  An application was just submitted to the App Store for uSirius StarPlayr, an app that will let users listen to Sirius XM on their...
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Audio Video News
Super Bowl XLIII Ads on Hulu
SV Staff  |  Feb 02, 2009
Did you miss any of the ads from the big game?  Wanna re-watch a few of your favorites? Hulu has all the ads online, and the quality looks pretty good. They're all right here, including 2D and 3D versions of the Sobe commercial. ...
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Panasonic TH-65VX100U Plasma Monitor
Thomas J. Norton  |  Feb 02, 2009

I watched a lot of television growing up. But I was also a passionate reader. Okay, more often than not what I was reading was a Radio Shack catalog or the latest issue of the now-defunct <I>Audio</I> or <I>High Fidelity</I>. But sitting at least a dozen feet away from my parents' 21-inch console television with all the room lights on, it was easy to divide my attention between the book&mdash;er, magazine&mdash;and the latest episode of <I>Gunsmoke</I>.

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Audio Video News
Blockbuster Hooks Up with CinemaNow
user  |  Feb 02, 2009
Desperate to catch up with the online transformation of its main rival Netflix, Blockbuster has struck a deal with CinemaNow to bring online movie distribution to its customers.
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Audio Video News
Comcast Punishes Arizona Super Bowl Viewers With Porn
SV Staff  |  Feb 02, 2009
Honestly, the whole things sounds a little like a hoax to me, but there are many reports this morning that Arizona Comcast subscribers were greeted by a few seconds of porn right after Cardinals receiver, Larry Fitzgerald scored Arizona's...
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Fred Manteghian Blog
Hang 'em High!
Fred Manteghian  |  Feb 01, 2009

Nope – this isn't another story about the Feb 17th analog cut-off designed to incite people living under a rock for the last few years into vigilante justice. Heck, I'm just as guilty of inaction as anyone else, because I still have no plans for that 13" glow box sitting on my kitchen counter (besides the set of ear plugs I keep in the night stand to block out Gina's screams when she goes down to make coffee and turns on the TV on that infamous day.) I was supposed to handle it. But like everyone else, I plan on taking no personal responsibility and will simply blame the gooberment.

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