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DLNA 4.0 Aims to Fix "Media Format Not Supported" Problems
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 18, 2016
You may not recognize the name of DLNA, the Digital Living Network Alliance. But you’re probably familiar with its implementation of plug-and-play technology, which enables AV receivers to access music from a connected computer. The standard continues to evolve.
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Binaural vs. Stereo and The Sound of Ferrari
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Oct 18, 2016
Let's see a show of hands. How many of you often listen through headphones? Thanks to that camera looking back at you from your device, and some pretty cool software I got from a guy in Russia, I can see that many of you do indeed listen through headphones. You can put your hands down. My question then, is why aren't you listening to binaural recordings?

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Klipsch Builds More 70th Anniversary Speakers
SV Staff  |  Oct 18, 2016
Klipsch has introduced two 70th Anniversary Heritage Series speakers to join the limited-run Klipschorn and Heresy Heritage models introduced in April.
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Audio Video News
HBO Crime Series The Night Of on Blu-ray Today
SV Staff  |  Oct 18, 2016
HBO’s acclaimed series (What Happened) The Night Of arrives on DVD and Blu-ray today.
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Audio Video News
Gaming Company Razer Acquires THX
SV Staff  |  Oct 17, 2016
Audio’s old guard is changing once again. In May, Silicon Valley startup EVA Automation acquired the venerable British speaker brand B&W. Today, San Diego-based Razer, a global lifestyle brand for gamers, confirmed that it has acquired the majority of THX Ltd.’s assets.
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Audio Video News
Klipsch to Live Stream Johnny Cash Tribute
SV Staff  |  Oct 17, 2016
If you’re a Johnny Cash fan mark your calendar: Klipsch, in partnership with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, will live stream the 21st Annual Music Masters tribute concert honoring the “Man in Black” this Friday, October 21, 7:30 p.m. EDT.
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Do Wires Running to a Pair of Speakers Need To Be the Same Length?
Al Griffin  |  Oct 17, 2016
Got a tech question for Sound & Vision? Email us at AskSandV@gmail.com

Q Do all speaker wires running to matched sets of speakers need to be the same length? I’m using 12 AWG wire to connect my AV receiver to speakers with an impedance of 6 ohms. My plan was to use 3-foot runs to my right and center speakers, a 10-foot run to the left speaker, and 26-foot and 36-foot runs, respectively, to the left and right surrounds. Will this create a problem? —Dan Donna / via e-mail

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Review: The Needy Sons "Vis-A-Vis"
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Oct 15, 2016
One of my favorite bands of all time is Buffalo Tom. The main voice behind them, literally and figuratively, is Bill Janovitz. While BT still releases albums (all too infrequently), Janovitz keeps himself busy with other projects (like the excellentFireworks on TV! and Walt Whitman Mall).

Janovitz’s latest project is The Needy Sons, a four-piece with Mike Gent, Ed Valauskas, and Eric Anderson. They released an EP last year, and have finally put out a full length album.

I am enjoying it greatly. Here’s why.

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Audio Video News
Facebook Announces Streaming to TVs
SV Staff  |  Oct 14, 2016
Facebook has announced plans to enable its users to stream videos to their TV.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Dr. Strangelove
Fred Kaplan  |  Oct 14, 2016
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Dr. Strangelove is one of the great American films: not just a savage anti-war satire but a jeremiad against the mechanization (and resulting dehumanization) that spawned the nuclear-war machine and might turn a burst of insanity into the death of all life on the planet. (The film’s subtitle: “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.”) It was an amazingly daring movie for its time: early 1964, the peak of Cold War tensions, barely a year after the Cuban Missile Crisis, on the eve of escalation in Vietnam—and here’s Stanley Kubrick, joined by Terry Southern, author of Candy, The Magic Christian, and other naughty novels, portraying the top brass as mentally off, our political leaders as feckless, and the holy of military holies, the nuclear deterrent, as a Doomsday Machine. And it’s funny as hell!
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