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Hotels: HDTVs without HDTV
SV Staff  |  Sep 16, 2008
This would seem like a small mistake if it wasn't so prevalent. Hotels across the nation are upgrading to flat-panel HDTVs, tossing out those bulky CRT sets and slapping either LCD or plasma sets on the walls. Should look great, right? Seems like...
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Projector Reviews
Samsung SP-A800B DLP Projector
Thomas J. Norton  |  Sep 16, 2008
Samsung has an unusual history with high-definition video projectors. Its most recent 720p DLP model, designed in consultation with video expert Joe Kane, was superb, even standard-setting in many important respects. But dealers were rare, and worse, the projectors arrived on the market just as comparably priced 1080p models were becoming available. They ultimately sold out to lucky buyers at bargain prices.
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Audio Video News
AT&T U-verse and the iPhone
SV Staff  |  Sep 16, 2008
It just makes sense. AT&T has an Internet and video bundle called U-verse. The iPhone is an AT&T device. Does it take a genius to connect the two?  At a showcase of future technologies, AT&T hinted that, at some point in the...
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Audio Video News
Pioneer's Blu-ray Recorders for Japan
SV Staff  |  Sep 16, 2008
Pioneer just announced two exciting new products for Japan: two Blu-ray Disc recorders, both with built-in HDDs. The BDR-WD900 has a 1 TB drive and the BDR-WD700 has a 500GB hard drive. Prices aren't available yet. Want more info? These HDD/BD...
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Audio Video News
Motorola MCU3E Wireless . . . Thingy
SV Staff  |  Sep 16, 2008
Is it just me, or do most people get a headache trying to transfigure our HD video to work from one device to the next? Wouldn't a transcoder that would take either HD or SD MPEG-4 AVC or MPEG-2 media, convert and wirelessly transmit it to another...
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Audio Video News
No Interest in DTV Coupons
SV Staff  |  Sep 16, 2008
Come on, people. What are you waiting for? According to a study by DisplaySearch, less than 6% of the people who have requested the coupons the government is supplying have actually redeemed them. That means millions of folks will be left in the...
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Audio Video News
Picture Quality Tops Viewer Priorities
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 16, 2008
Picture quality, brand, and price were the three top priorities of TV shoppers surveyed by iSuppli.
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Other Tech
Ask Theo: Design Discipline (and the lack thereof)
Theo Kalomirakis  |  Sep 15, 2008

Ten years ago, when home theater was just becoming the hot trend in new-home construction, I came up with an inexpensive, ready-to-assemble theater design for a large corporation in the housing-supplies business. Our target was the builder of homes for the average American family.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Shrek the Third
David Vaughn  |  Sep 15, 2008

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/shrekthethird.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>When Shrek's father-in-law (John Cleese)&#151;or shall I say, frog-in-law&#151;passes away, Shrek (Mike Myers) is the next in line to the throne. But Shrek has a different set of priorities&#151;a return to his beloved swamp. Along with his two sidekicks, Donkey (Eddie Murphy) and Puss in Boots (Antonio Banderas), he embarks on an adventure to find the rightful heir to the throne&#151;Arthur (Justin Timberlake).

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Cool Hand Luke
David Vaughn  |  Sep 15, 2008

<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/coolhandluke.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Paul Newman stars as "Cool Hand" Lucas Jackson, a man sentenced to a Southern prison camp for destroying public property&#151;well, who wouldn't want to cut off the top of a parking meter on a drunken bliss? Anyhow, soon after entering prison, Luke can't seem to bend to the arbitrary rules, and it's time to break out of the joint.

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