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Remembering Buddy
SV Staff  |  Oct 09, 2008
We've just gotten word that a distant member of the Sound & Vision family passed on a couple weeks ago. He was the closest thing we had to a mascot and supermodel, and he was a real good sport: Buddy Butterworth, the Yellow Labrador Retriever. ...
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Audio Video News
Broadband Video Audience Doubles
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 09, 2008
The number of Americans viewing video with a browser has doubled in the past year, according to a survey by ABI Research.
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Audio Video News
$1 Blu-ray Premium From Netflix
SV Staff  |  Oct 08, 2008
Netflix has always had very reasonable rates, but if you want to keep getting Blu-ray Discs as part of your rental agreement, you're gonna have to pay to play. Not by much. The Blu-ray premium is only $1.00 per month. Is there anything to...
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Sunfire HRS home theater speaker system
Brent Butterworth  |  Oct 08, 2008
The Short Form
$3,850 (as tested) / SUNFIRE.COM / 425-335-4748
Snapshot
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Tower Speaker Reviews
SVS MTS home theater speaker system
Daniel Kumin  |  Oct 08, 2008
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Audio Video News
Ladies' Night at Best Buy
SV Staff  |  Oct 08, 2008
Best Buy is ditching the yellow and blue and going for pink. Figuratively, that is. In an effort to appeal to more women shoppers, a few of the new stores in Denver are doing to be redecorated. Not in pink, but for some reason, someone feels that...
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Audio Video News
TiVo Wins, DISH Denied
SV Staff  |  Oct 08, 2008
Isn't patent law fascinating? TiVo has owned the patent for, well, TiVo'ing. Their ability to time-shift while recording a show was a patented process, and DISH's DVRs were violating that patent. The damages stretch back over two years. The first...
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Audio Video News
Upgrade Fever Hits Samsung BD
SV Staff  |  Oct 08, 2008
Samsung's BD-P1500 is getting better. BD Live is the next big thing to hit Blu-ray players, and it's now available as an upgrade for the Samsung BD-P1500. The upgrade is available as a download that you can get two ways. Connect the player to the...
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A/V Veteran
Black and Blu
Thomas J. Norton  |  Oct 08, 2008

In a recent e-mail, an old friend and audio reviewer asked about Blu-ray players. I tried to steer him away (successfully, I hope) from what he thought was a good deal on an new, unused first generation Sony Blu-ray player. The seller had apparently almost convinced him that this was some sort of undiscovered gem, akin (though in a different application) to the early, tank-like SACD players held in high regard by some audiophiles.

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The Big Picture
Was I Wrong?
Scott Wilkinson  |  Oct 08, 2008

As many of you know by now, I appear as a weekly guest on <A href="http://techguylabs.com"><I>The Tech Guy</I></A>, a nationally syndicated call-in radio program hosted by Leo Laporte. During a recent show, I was explaining the difference between 1080i and 1080p, a confusing subject to be sure. Shortly after the show, I got a rather long e-mail from John Sullivan pointing out what he thought were mistakes in my explanation. I'll interlace my responses with his comments...

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