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Blockbuster Bails on Circuit City Buyout Bid
SV Staff  |  Jul 02, 2008
Talk about a slap in the face. After making a bid for Circuit City, supposedly for over $1 billion, Blockbuster has changed its mind. Siting "market conditions," Blockbuster has withdrawn its $1.3 billion bid. There's no word yet from...
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HD Radio Stations: More Power, Please
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 02, 2008
FM stations sending out over-the-air digital signals have a message for the Federal Communications Commission: We need a stronger signal.
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Definitive Technology Mythos SSA-50 soundbar speaker
Brent Butterworth  |  Jul 01, 2008
Definitive Raises the Bar 93207058226 Definitive SSA-50 When highbrow artists loan their talents to lowbrow productions, magic often follows.
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TiVo Selling Demographic Info: Big Brother?
SV Staff  |  Jul 01, 2008
This is kinda creepy. TiVo is partnering with TRA, specifically TRA's Media TRAnalytics research service to license, market, and sell information about how you watch TV. TiVo will sell the data from your household, namely viewing, demographic and...
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Sony's "Hancock" at Home
SV Staff  |  Jul 01, 2008
Why won't Sony's CEO Howard Stringer make up his mind? First, he claimed movie downloads would never take off. Now, he's changed his tune entirely. Sony's hoping Will Smith's latest release, Hancock will change the way we watch movies. Hancock...
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The Big Picture
Two All-Beef Patties
Scott Wilkinson  |  Jul 01, 2008

Dan Golus of Irvine, California, recently wrote to me with two A/V "beefs" about which he feels very strongly:

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A/V Veteran
Ride the Blu-Ray Bandwagon?
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jul 01, 2008

A recent article on the <I>Electronic House</I> website offered three reasons to avoid jumping onto the Blu-ray bandwagon—at least for now. One of the arguments&#151;that Blu-ray quality is still inconsistent&#151;read as follows:

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Audio Video News
Netflix Profiles Back On Track
SV Staff  |  Jul 01, 2008
The Netflix queue system was a complete mystery in the past until Sound & Vision peaked behind the curtains to see how the system worked. Unfortunately, Netflix planned on nixing one of its best features - separate user profiles that let shared...
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Mitsubishi LCDs With 16-Speaker Array
SV Staff  |  Jul 01, 2008
Mitsubishi is making some big splashes in the HDTV pool. They just announced some exciting news, which includes 3-D DLP packages with new screen sizes. But, perhaps the most exciting news is in the LCD line. Mitsubishi is releasing two new sets:...
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Most CableCARDs End Up in Boxes
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 01, 2008
Here's the number of CableCARDs in circulation: about 6.6 million. Hooray! Now here's the number of CableCARDs operating in digital cable ready TVs: 372,000. Huh? Wha?!
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