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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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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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Mitsubishi Shows LaserVue
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 25, 2008
Mitsubishi showed off its creativity in three different ways at a New York press demo yesterday. Laser-backlight LCD-HDTVs were on display, along with 5.1-channel sound built into sets, and 3D for both movies and games.
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Panasonic OLED Rumor de Jour
SV Staff  |  Jun 25, 2008
The uber bloggers over at Gizmodo are reporting that the Sankei Shimbun newspaper is rumoring that Panasonic will join the OLED parade in 2011, right behind Sony (in current production), Samsung (rumored for 2009) and LG (also rumored for 2011). In...
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sPult Sexy Surfer
SV Staff  |  Jun 24, 2008
Channel surfer, that is. Looking more like a pair of Manolo Blahnik kitten heels (go on, look that up), this remote control is about as simplistic as possible.  Simply elegant, that is. Designed by Yurii Smitana Perfilov, it was inspired by...
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LCD Returns on Rise
SV Staff  |  Jun 24, 2008
100% satisfaction guaranteed. Love it, or get your money back. All good products should come with a good refund policy. Unfortunately, folks are returning their LCD TV's with alarming frequency. What's wrong the sets? Are they faulty, or are folks...
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IMAX Going Digital
SV Staff  |  Jun 24, 2008
IMAX is getting ready to give up its 70mm post-card-sized-film projectors for digital. This transition should help boost profits for the iconic maker of glorious cinematic images. They just announced the first three digital installs in conjunction...
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Personal Problem, Comcast?
SV Staff  |  Jun 24, 2008
Looks like nobody's happy with cable. We reported a few weeks ago about Los Angeles suing Time Warner Cable, and now, Comcast is getting grief. The only problem this time is that the complaints are coming from within! In a blazing internal...
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Waiting For Wireless
SV Staff  |  Jun 24, 2008
What happens when you have the coolest new technology and no one cares? That seems to be what's happening with wireless HDMI. A report by ABI Research says sales for wireless HDMI systems won't hit one million until 2012, calling the market's...
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The Big Picture
No More MP3!
Scott Wilkinson  |  Jun 24, 2008

If there's a choice between convenience and quality, convenience usually wins out. The best example of this is the sad tale of DVD-Audio and SACD vs. MP3, all of which were introduced at roughly the same time. The convenience of quickly downloading MP3s into portable players easily trumped the vastly superior quality of DVD-A and SACD. Granted, the skirmish between the two high-res audio formats didn't help, but I suspect the outcome would have been much the same even if there had been no competition at the high end. So what's an audiophile to do?

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