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Are the Holidays Make or Break In the Format War, or Just Break Even?
Shane Buettner  |  Nov 30, 2007

Way back when, say July of this year, the holiday shopping season seemed poised to be make or break time for the format war, and HD DVD in particular. Blu-ray was rolling along, outselling HD DVD handily in software, and looking to a holiday season with a broad number of exclusive to the format titles that would mop the floor with poor HD DVD, and leave it in the scrap heap next to the BetaMax.

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Audio Video News
Back to . . . Open-Reel?!
SV Staff  |  Nov 29, 2007
You say you've (re)discovered vinyl? Fuhgeddaboudit! The LP simply isn't old-fangled enough. To really go reelin' in the years, it seems, you must go all the way back to open-reel tape! The Tape Project, a label for reissuing recordings on...
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Fred Manteghian Blog
mStation 2.1 Stereo Tower – What the Wii is to Gaming
Fred Manteghian  |  Nov 28, 2007

Do you find that others in your home don't bond with electronics as well as you do? Do you get calls at work that start with "how do I . . ." and end with "your [optional expletive deletive] [brand and function of your last electronic purchase]?

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Audio Video News
HD DVD Players Hit 750,000 Mark
 |  Nov 27, 2007

Black Friday was apparently very good to HD DVD. Riding another wave of deep discount sales on the day after Thanksgiving, the HD DVD group, citing "retailer reports and other point of sale data," issued a press release claiming 750,000 dedicated HD DVD players have been sold.

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Music Reviews
MP3 Review: Radiohead
Mike Mettler  |  Nov 26, 2007

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Blu-ray Player Reviews
Panasonic DMP-BD30 Blu-ray Player
Thomas J. Norton  |  Nov 26, 2007

We've almost become jaded with the rapid rollover of high-definition disc players. Some manufacturers are now on third generation models, and ready to launch a fourth generation at the January 2008 CES. But even with that, Panasonic surprised everyone a few short weeks ago with the announcement of the DMP-BD30, its second-generation design. While a number of significant mid-year revisions to the DMP-BD10, the company's first player, resulted in its re-badging as the DMP-BD10AK, it remained essentially the same design throughout production.

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Audio Video News
First Look: Amazon Kindle
SV Staff  |  Nov 25, 2007
I've always been intrigued by the electronic book, but none of the models that has hit the market to date--from Sony, RCA and others--has jazzed me enough to want to invest in the medium. After all, I like books. I like to store them on a shelf...
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Fred Manteghian Blog
I Take Back Most Things I've Said about Cable
Fred Manteghian  |  Nov 24, 2007

Saturday morning and the cable modem craps out. I hook up the Blackberry to my laptop and pull over into the truck lane of the Information Highway.

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Custom Installation How-ToHome Movie Theaters
Poolside Theater
Krissy Rushing  |  Nov 21, 2007

<I>The breeze off the Pacific brings unparalleled ambiance to this Maui outdoor theater.</I>

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Audio Video News
What Means Innovation?
SV Staff  |  Nov 19, 2007
Each year at the Consumer Electronics Show, the Consumer Electronics Association highlights top new products in select categories and honors them with Innovations awards. The tech press got a peak at winners last week at a pre-CES event in New...
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