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Hisense Ready to Descend on North America
SV Staff  |  Mar 07, 2016
Expect to see more Hisense and Sharp brand TVs hit store shelves this year. Models from both of those brands began moving through the production line last week at a 1.3 million square-foot facility in Rosarito, Mexico.

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New Powered Speaker from Britain’s ATC Now Available in the U.S.
SV Staff  |  Mar 07, 2016
ATC Loudspeakers of Britain has announced that its new SCM19AT powered loudspeaker is now available in the U.S. consumer.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Water Diviner
Josef Krebs  |  Mar 04, 2016
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As directed by Russell Crowe from the book of the same name by Andrew Anastasios and Dr. Meaghan Wilson-Anastasios, The Water Diviner is part (anti-) war story, part romance, part history lesson, and part travelogue. Four years after the Battle of Gallipoli in which he lost his three sons, Joshua Connor (Crowe) is driven by the suicide of his wife to leave his Outback farm to go to the battlefield in search of their remains.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Josef Krebs  |  Mar 04, 2016
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Like Hitler, Guy Ritchie has a certain style. Which doesn’t make either of them an artist. However, Ritchie has finally learned how to make a kick-ass action movie, and in adapting a somewhat silly and camp British 1960s TV series, the director has found something that fits his talents and temperament like a tight, flash suit. By far superior to his laughably bad Sherlock Holmes films, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is a slick adventure that moves along at a clip from one set piece to the next, connected by banter—not witty, but efficient in setting up each character.
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SUPERHOT Review
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Mar 04, 2016
It’s highly stylized, fun, and different from anything you’ve played before. It’s a little like The Matrix and a little like Portal. It’s a puzzle game masquerading as a really cool FPS.

It’s SUPERHOT and it’s awesome and you should get it.

Here’s why.

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Ears On
Do Concerts Need THX Live! Certification?
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 04, 2016
Concertgoers will enjoy a new experience on Beyoncé's next tour. Starting in April 2016, the Formation World Tour will be the first to feature THX Live! certification. Yes, THX is now certifying concert sound.

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Audio Video News
Sony Future Lab Seeks Input on Early Prototypes
SV Staff  |  Mar 04, 2016
Dismissing the notion of product development shrouded in secrecy in an isolated corner of a remote R&D lab, Sony’s new Future Lab Program plans to share early prototypes to get real-world feedback on what’s good and not so good about work-in-progress technology.
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Audio Video News
The Making of Star Wars: The Force Awakens
SV Staff  |  Mar 04, 2016
As of late February, Star Wars: The Force Awakens had raked in more than $2 billion at box office, a monumental success due in large part to an incredible behind-the-scenes effort from some of the film industry’s most talented audio and visual professionals.
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Bluetooth Speaker ReviewsWireless Multiroom Speaker Reviews
B&W Zeppelin Wireless Sound System
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 03, 2016

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Value
PRICE $699

AT A GLANCE
Plus
AirPlay, Bluetooth, analog input
Redesign reduces cabinet resonance
Unique cosmetics
Minus
No iPhone/iPod dock

THE VERDICT
Bowers & Wilkins revises, revoices, and updates its popular high-end Zeppelin speaker to eliminate the iPhone/iPod dock, focusing instead on wireless connectivity—and it sounds better than ever.

The debut of the iPod was so cataclysmic that it nearly hurled the planet out of orbit. “1,000 songs in your pocket” was a revolution on par with “perfect sound forever.” And now it seems just as archaic. In fact, Apple no longer offers the iPod classic, and Bowers & Wilkins has quietly eliminated the iPhone/iPod dock from its formidable Zeppelin one-piece audio system. If you want to plug a wired device into the new Zeppelin Wireless, it’ll have to go into the analog minijack in back—the servants’ entrance, as it were.

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Throwback Thursday: 10 Landmark Speakers
SV Staff  |  Mar 03, 2016
John Strohbeen is an audiophile through and through. In 1964, he founded the legendary Boston-born retailer Tech Hifi and after serving as president for 14 years, went to work for Ohm Acoustics where he has served as president and chief designer since 1978.
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