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Life
David Vaughn  |  Oct 13, 2017
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Discovering life on Mars would be the crowning achievement in any scientist’s career, so when a team on the International Space Station receives a care package of samples from the red planet, they can’t wait to begin their experiments. To their surprise, they discover there was once life on Mars after all, and they unleash a creature that evolves at an accelerated pace that has its eyes on the planet below them.
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Audio Video NewsNew Products
New Heritage Headphones Honor Klipsch Founder
SV Staff  |  Oct 13, 2017
Klipsch has introduced a new flagship headphone inspired by an experiment conducted by an inquisitive 15 year-old almost 100 years ago.
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Audio Video NewsNew Products
HyperX Gears Up for Holiday Gaming
SV Staff  |  Oct 13, 2017
HyperX, California-based maker of high-performance gaming products, is gearing up for holidays with a new headset and related accessories aimed at serious gamers.
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Audio Video News
LG Takes OLED On The Road with Cinema House
Rob Sabin  |  Oct 12, 2017
Not content to let consumers come to OLED, LG Electronics is now taking OLED straight to the public in an impressive new traveling demo experience. Dubbed the "LG OLED TV Cinema House powered by Dolby," LG's portable theater kiosk features a spartan demo room inside that comes to life with the assistance of a 77-inch sample of LG's Signature W7 "wallpaper" OLED TV, it's accompanying Dolby Atmos soundbar, and a half-dozen projectors that together turn the four walls of the approximately 10 x 20-feet viewing space into a visually and sonically immersive cocoon.

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New ProductsPremiere Design
Back to the '70s: Tannoy Legacy Series Speakers
Bob Ankosko  |  Oct 12, 2017
Do you feel like you’re back in the ’70s, when vinyl ruled and fashion was…well, let’s just say, questionable?

There’s a good reason for that: Tannoy’s new Legacy Series is based on the popular High Powered Dual (HPD) Series released in 1974, the year after Pink Floyd mixed The Dark Side of the Moon at London’s legendary Abbey Road Studios on a pair of newly installed Tannoy Lancaster monitors.

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Audio Video NewsNew Products
Periodic Headphone Amp Fits in a Watch Pocket
SV Staff  |  Oct 12, 2017
Periodic Audio has announced a portable amplifier small enough to fit in a watch pocket.
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Ask S&V
Do Any Home Video Releases Have 7.1.4 Sound?
Al Griffin  |  Oct 12, 2017
A Are there any home video releases with 7.1.4-channel sound? I find that most movies have 5.1-channel soundtracks? —J. Kevin Sexton / via e-mail
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SmartStream
The New Rokus Have Arrived. Should You Upgrade?
Barb Gonzalez  |  Oct 11, 2017
Roku has released its 2017 line of streaming players. Find out if you need to upgrade to a new Roku.
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Audio Video NewsNew Products
McIntosh Unveils its Smallest Solid-State Integrated Amp
SV Staff  |  Oct 11, 2017
McIntosh today introduced a two-channel integrated amplifier designed to deliver big sound from a small package.
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The S&V Interview
Talking With Tom Petty, The Man Who Never Backed Down
Mike Mettler  |  Oct 11, 2017
Photo: Mary Ellen Matthews

I had the privilege of interviewing the late Tom Petty for Sound & Vision on three separate occasions. In these previously unpublished back-and-forths culled from my sitdown with Tom in Malibu in 2010, Tom tells me how The Heartbreakers truly got their start, how the band worked together to create new material, and shares his hopeful thoughts toward the band’s future.

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