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Sunny Side iPod
SV Staff  |  Jun 18, 2008
Portable speakers are great for listening to your iPod, but they suck down batteries like a sweaty runner sucks down Gatorade. Just in time for a summer full of long days on the beach is the K3000 ST Solar, a solar-powered speaker system iPod dock....
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Big News from Texas Instruments
 |  Jun 18, 2008

Today at InfoComm, an annual trade show dedicated primarily to commercial and industrial video displays held this year in Las Vegas, Texas Instruments made three major announcements, all related to DLP front projectors. The biggest news was the unveiling of a light engine that uses three PhlatLight LEDs—red, green, and blue—rather than a conventional white lamp and color wheel.

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Audio Video News
Blu What?
SV Staff  |  Jun 17, 2008
Important! Wake the kids! Breaking news! The newest breakthrough in consumer electronics is . . . DVD!!!  At least that's what Toshiba thinks. You'll recall Toshiba was the prime mover and shaker of DVD, and hoped to continue its revenue...
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Other Tech
5 Shortcuts to Blu-ray Release
Reed Tucker  |  Jun 17, 2008

To the list of life's great mysteries - which already includes what's our purpose on earth, and how does Keanu Reeves keep getting work? - you can add one more: Just how in the name of 1080p do studios decide which titles to re-release on Blu-ray Disc?

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Custom Installation How-To
Exclusive First Look: Kaleidescape 1080p Player (KPlayer-6000)
John Sciacca  |  Jun 17, 2008

They say luck favors the prepared. It also doesn't hurt to be in the right place at the right time. Whatever. The planets aligned in my favor, resulting in my being one of the few reviewers handpicked by Kaleiedescape co-founder and COO, Cheena Srinivasan, to audition and preview their latest addition.

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L.E.D.'s for LCDs
SV Staff  |  Jun 17, 2008
You've heard all the buzz about OLED displays, but there's another way cool technology that's aiming to knock LCD displays for a loop. This technology is already aiming to replace the common lightbulb, and now it's looking to get entrench itself...
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Bore Your Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Grandchildren
SV Staff  |  Jun 17, 2008
The year is 2208. The bad news: the earth is so toxic that even intergalactic invaders avoid the planet like the plague, which in fact is rampant here. The good news: Your great, great, great, great, great grandchildren can be bored out of their...
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United Flight 936: iPodding at 35,000 Feet
SV Staff  |  Jun 17, 2008
"Ladies and gentlemen, we've reached a cruising altitude of 10,000 feet, and the captain has turned off the fasten seatbelt sign. You are free to use personal electronic devices at this time, and feel free to plug in your iPod or iPhone into...
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The Big Picture
BD-Live: Worth the Hype?
Scott Wilkinson  |  Jun 17, 2008

Last Tuesday, I attended a demonstration of the BD-Live capabilities that will distinguish Disney's Blu-ray release of <I>Sleeping Beauty</I>, the first Disney animated title with these enhancements. Of course, to take advantage of them, you need a BD-Live (aka Profile 2.0) player, of which there are very few so far. In fact, the only ones available as of this writing are the Sony PS3 and Panasonic DMP-BD50, with the Sony BDP-S350 and S550 expected to ship soon.

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Audio Video News
Vinyl Surges, Accidentally and Otherwise
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 17, 2008
There are so many ways to track the resurgence of vinyl. You might read Michael Fremer's "Analog Corner" column in the print version of Stereophile, our sister publication, or his own site The Music Angle. Or you could read the recent series of blogs by Stephen Mejias about his sudden and intense immersion in record cleaning machines and all things analog. You might peruse this masters thesis by a student at the University of Amsterdam. And what's this? A turntable review in Home Theater Magazine! But my favorite recent clip is this Associated Press story about a retail chain that accidentally ordered a large shipment of vinyl and ended up selling it.
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