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No One Brakes for Audiophiles
Fred Manteghian  |  Jun 25, 2008  |  First Published: Jun 26, 2008

I played out my pair of <a href="http://blog.ultimateavmag.com/fredmanteghian/110406Shure/" target="new">Shure E4c</a> about a year ago when, ensconced in their circular case, they rolled out of my car into oncoming traffic. Realizing the driving public wasn't trained by years of reading signs on the back of 18-wheelers declaring "Where there's a rolling earphone case, there's a running audiophile," I erred on the side of caution. Bye-bye Shure.

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Audio Video News
VIZIO Hitting the High-Def Notes
SV Staff  |  Jun 25, 2008
VIZIO is known for affordable televisions, but they're adding features and specs to a newly announced product line that should start the big name brands to take a look. Three new sets were introduced, all 1080p resolution and 120 Hz processing. Two...
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Other Tech
The Netflix Queue: How's it Work?
Nick Kolakowski  |  Jun 25, 2008

Ah, Netflix. Killer of brick-and-mortar video stores; red-jacketed savior of people having a crappy day who come home to find that at least there's a decent flick waiting for them.

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Serving Up DVDs
John Sciacca  |  Jun 25, 2008

Whether your music arrives via ripping, streaming, or downloading, it's not difficult to see that hard drives have won the music-storage battle - and it's easy to see why. Once music has been rejiggered into handy data files, so much more can be done with it beyond being able to carry 10,000 songs in your pocket.

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Other Tech
S&V Shootout: 3 DTV Converters
Brent Butterworth  |  Jun 25, 2008

Americans are fearing the future. And not just because there's a fourth Jurassic Park movie in the works.

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Bookshelf Speaker Reviews
Polk Audio RTi A Series Home Theater Speaker System
Daniel Kumin  |  Jun 25, 2008
Up here in the rarefied air of S&V World Headquarters - as we plot world domination, drink our lattés, and await the next $10,000 or $20,000 suite of loudspeakers submitted for o
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Audio Video News
VIZIO's "Budget" Plasma TVs
SV Staff  |  Jun 25, 2008
If you've been holding back on upgrading to digital, take a peek at these two new plasmas from VIZIO. The VP422 is going to retail for $799, but the VP322 is a more enticing $599. Both have a contrast ratio of 30,000:1 and three HDMI inputs,...
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Audio Video News
Comcast Center's 10,000,000 Pixels
SV Staff  |  Jun 25, 2008
While we've been poking fun at Comcast lately, you have to be impressed with this latest feat. They've bestowed the Comcast Center in Philadelphia with a 2,100 square foot media wall with five times the resolution of current HDTVs. Designed for...
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Audio Video News
Mitsubishi LaserVue Coming This Fall
SV Staff  |  Jun 25, 2008
Mitsubishi's LaserVue rear-projection 1080p DLP television was a knock-out at the Consumer Electronics Show last January. We were genuinely blown away by the vivid color and sharp detail of this prototype screen. But, we wondered, when would it...
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Audio Video News
Samsung Opens BD 'Resource Center'
SV Staff  |  Jun 25, 2008
In case you haven't noticed, consumer electronics has gotten complicated. This is obvious to everyone who has read the 200-page owner's manual for their cell phone. Well, actually, no one has ever read their cell phone manual, but you get my point....
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