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sPult Sexy Surfer
SV Staff  |  Jun 24, 2008
Channel surfer, that is. Looking more like a pair of Manolo Blahnik kitten heels (go on, look that up), this remote control is about as simplistic as possible.  Simply elegant, that is. Designed by Yurii Smitana Perfilov, it was inspired by...
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LCD Returns on Rise
SV Staff  |  Jun 24, 2008
100% satisfaction guaranteed. Love it, or get your money back. All good products should come with a good refund policy. Unfortunately, folks are returning their LCD TV's with alarming frequency. What's wrong the sets? Are they faulty, or are folks...
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IMAX Going Digital
SV Staff  |  Jun 24, 2008
IMAX is getting ready to give up its 70mm post-card-sized-film projectors for digital. This transition should help boost profits for the iconic maker of glorious cinematic images. They just announced the first three digital installs in conjunction...
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Personal Problem, Comcast?
SV Staff  |  Jun 24, 2008
Looks like nobody's happy with cable. We reported a few weeks ago about Los Angeles suing Time Warner Cable, and now, Comcast is getting grief. The only problem this time is that the complaints are coming from within! In a blazing internal...
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Waiting For Wireless
SV Staff  |  Jun 24, 2008
What happens when you have the coolest new technology and no one cares? That seems to be what's happening with wireless HDMI. A report by ABI Research says sales for wireless HDMI systems won't hit one million until 2012, calling the market's...
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The Big Picture
No More MP3!
Scott Wilkinson  |  Jun 24, 2008

If there's a choice between convenience and quality, convenience usually wins out. The best example of this is the sad tale of DVD-Audio and SACD vs. MP3, all of which were introduced at roughly the same time. The convenience of quickly downloading MP3s into portable players easily trumped the vastly superior quality of DVD-A and SACD. Granted, the skirmish between the two high-res audio formats didn't help, but I suspect the outcome would have been much the same even if there had been no competition at the high end. So what's an audiophile to do?

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NHK's 8K Gold
SV Staff  |  Jun 24, 2008
Before the world has fully adopted high-def, NHK is pushing the barriers even further. Not even happy going to 4K, Japanese manufacturer NHK is showing a prototype system with 8K resolution. For those of you doing the math, that's 7,680 x 4,320...
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A.M.P. speaker puts on a moving performance
SV Staff  |  Jun 24, 2008
I've heard $1,000,000 speakers. I've heard $10 speakers. But none of them can do a hundredth of what Tiger Electronics'  new Automated Music Personality ( A.M.P.) can do. Let's compare, shall we, the $500 A.M.P. with Thiel Audio's universally...
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BIG Screen Panny Projectors
SV Staff  |  Jun 24, 2008
Panasonic is taking on the large venue world with two new three-chip DLP projectors with 12,000 lumen. These aren't designed for home use, though if you can foot the bill, why not? They're perfect for high-definition content for conventions,...
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Will Congress Ban Loud TV Ads?
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 24, 2008
If Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) walks by, be sure to tip your hat and say "thank you!" She's the member of Congress who introduced the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (or CALM) Act in the House of Representatives. The law, if passed, would take aim at blaring TV ads that are noticeably louder than the programming in which they appear.
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