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NBC and Microsoft: "My Bad!"
SV Staff  |  Jun 11, 2008
What happens when NBC makes a mistake that causes your Vista Media Center to miss capturing your favorite shows? Luckily, Microsoft jumps in to save the day. Imagine that!  What's up with these broadcast flags? In a report posted on Engadget,...
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Audio Video News
Coming Thursday: The New S&V site
SV Staff  |  Jun 11, 2008
Has the look of the Sound & Vision Web site grown . . . tiresome? Or maybe you're cool with our color palette and design but have trouble finding stuff? Well just wait till tomorrow. Starting thursday, June 12, you'll see a whole new...
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Audio Video News
Out With the Old, In With the...Old?
SV Staff  |  Jun 11, 2008
While most folks are trying to figure out how to get the latest TV technology before the switch to digital, one ingenious and resourceful man in England took a unique approach to the problem. Instead of ditching the black and white console...
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Ears On
Tivoli Audio iSongBook
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 11, 2008
Tivoli Audio has steadily expanded beyond its original retro-style Model One radio into a variety of related products. All of them have killer radio tuners and some, like the iYiYi, have iPod docks. This revision of the briefcase-friendly SongBook radio adds an extension speaker and iPod dock along with some interesting twists.
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Other Tech
Show the Home Theater King Your System
 |  Jun 10, 2008

Back in those crazy, insecurity-ridden early days of my career as a self-taught home theater designer, my recurring nightmare was that I would run out of fresh ideas, that somehow my clients would discover that I was incompetent and pull a Donald on me: "You're fired!" Then, one cold morning in the winter of 1996, my nightmare almost became a reality.

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Audio Video News
Wonderful World of Streaming Disney
SV Staff  |  Jun 10, 2008
Disney's making sure no one misses an opportunity to watch their favorite Disney movies. What happens when you and your little ones miss out on the ABC airing on Saturday nights of Wonderful World of Disney? Instead of tears and tantrums, just go...
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Audio Video News
Blue Movies Go Blu
SV Staff  |  Jun 10, 2008
Most folks acknowledge that a certain faction of the video industry fueled the rapid growth of both VHS technology and more recently, DVD Video. Now, Digital Playground,(link is not appropriate for work or kiddies) a leader in the adult video biz...
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Audio Video News
YouTube Hits the Living Room
SV Staff  |  Jun 10, 2008
YouTube is breaking out of your computer and hitting the big screen.  Well... bigger screen, that is. Sony just announced that YouTube is now available on Sony's Bravia Internet Video Link service. How does it work? Sony's Bravia televisions...
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Audio Video News
LASSIE barks if your sound's no good
SV Staff  |  Jun 10, 2008
Room acoustics is like economics: It's vitally important but impossible to understand. But a new Bay Area company is working to simplify the complicated process of acoustic analysis so  almost anyone can do it. Seagrave Instruments' new...
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Philips: WOWvx in 3D
SV Staff  |  Jun 10, 2008
A few weeks ago, we reported that Philips is working on a 3D prototype. Now, that speculation has become a reality. Debuting at InfoComm 2008, a new 52-inch LCD display gives a 3D 'look-around' effect, no funky 3D glasses required.   The 3D...
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