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What's up, Dock?
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Jul 28, 2008

The sight of a dancing iPod user, and particularly her white earbuds, is a genuine cultural icon. But it would be a mistake to overlook the iPod's nonportable applications. Most of your music collection might be on a 'Pod, but you don't have to condemn your tunes to the lowly fidelity typical of most 'buds.

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Q&A September: What's White?
Al Griffin  |  Jul 28, 2008

Q. I'm concerned about the accuracy of the standards used for professional HDTV calibration. In ISF-calibrated sets, the color white always has some other shade mixed in that makes it look slightly gray, brown, or green. But the whites I've seen on most uncalibrated HDTVs look more like the color white as it appears in reality.

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HDTV Update 2008
Kevin James  |  Jul 28, 2008

After two straight years of heady double-digit price drops, it's sometimes hard to get beyond the fact that high-def TVs of all stripes are far more affordable than ever. But to just focus on price misses the bigger picture, so to speak: TVs haven't just gotten cheaper, they've also gotten better.

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Audio Video News
John Mayer Ain't that Different from You and Me
SV Staff  |  Jul 28, 2008
I don't know about you, but I hate that celebrities get hounded by the paparazzi. Except for when they capture some truly priceless footage. When TMZ captured pop-star John Mayer trying to talk his dad through finding software on his Apple...
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Audio Video News
DirecTV Goes 1080p
SV Staff  |  Jul 28, 2008
DirecTV is fighting back against the competition, in a big way. Starting August 14, DirecTV will add another 30 HD channels, for a total 130 HD channels. All programming will have Dolby Digital soundtracks and be transmitted in the MPEG-4 Advanced...
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Batman Vs. Pirates
SV Staff  |  Jul 28, 2008
The first place to see new theatrical releases is not in movie theaters, but on online file-sharing sites and DVD. Pirated copies, ranging from hazy camcorder copies, to pristine copies from original prints, can sometimes be found circulating...
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A Merger Made in Heaven
SV Staff  |  Jul 28, 2008
It's official. You should receive your engraved invitation to the wedding (er, merger) any day now. On Friday, with a 3-2 vote, the FCC blessed the proposed merger of satellite radio companies Sirius and XM. This is the first marriage (er, merger)...
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A/V Veteran
Direct to Blu-ray
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jul 28, 2008

Living as I do in a suburb of LA, it's hard to avoid movie news. The local rag, the <I>Los Angeles Times</I>, is awash in it. Its theater listings take up an entire section of the paper, which on Friday and Sunday can feature huge, double-page ads for major releases. So if a movie opens to big notices and reviews, good or bad, it's hard to avoid hearing about it around here.

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Direct to Blu-ray?
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jul 28, 2008
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Direct to Blu-ray?
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jul 28, 2008
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