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Sony is "Awfully Close" to 27-Inch OLED
SV Staff  |  Jul 07, 2008
Sony Electronics' president and chief operating officer Stan Glasgow is getting around. His latest dinner companions are dishing the dirt on news Glasgow shared last week. In a report on Barron's, the dinner talk wandered from olive oil to OLED....
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NBC Going For Multiple Golds at Olympics
SV Staff  |  Jul 07, 2008
NBC is making history, not just with unprecedented coverage of the 2008 Olympics from Beijing, but with how they're presenting and measuring that coverage. No other Olympics have had the technology available for new viewing opportunities, and NBC...
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Samsung PN50A550 Plasma TV
Lawrence E. Ullman  |  Jul 07, 2008

The Samsung PN50A550 is my favorite kind of product. This 50-inch, 1080p plasma TV sits one notch below the company's flagship model (the PN50A650), which means it has all the most important high-end features without a high-end price tag.

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Samsung PN50A550 Plasma HDTV
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jul 07, 2008  |  First Published: Aug 07, 2008
The right size, the right price, the right controls.

Video experts and video reviewers can be a cantankerous bunch. We’re always engaged in a tug of war with manufacturers about what we’d like to see in new HDTVs. We aren’t often successful, not necessarily because the manufacturers are stubborn (OK, sometimes they are), but because they’re more concerned than we are about the realities of the wider marketplace. We couldn’t care less about floodlight-worthy light output, a remote that will also start your car, or a little jig the TV plays when you turn it on or off. But we’re sticklers for good blacks, natural-looking detail, and accurate color.

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LCD TV Reviews
LG 42LG60 LCD HDTV
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jul 07, 2008
A face in the crowd?

Korea-based LG, which absorbed Zenith a few years back, is one of the world’s largest flat-panel HDTV manufacturers. The company is working on some exciting new stuff, including plasmas that meet the new THX video specifications. LG will also produce LCDs that employ local dimming, a technique that improves the black level and contrast of LCD sets. Some of these models will be in stores by the time you read this, or by the fall season.

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Audio Video News
Most Returned Products Work
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 07, 2008
Two-thirds of consumer electronic products returned to retailers are in working order. Another 27 percent are returned due to buyer's remorse. Only five percent are actually defective. This giant disconnect between expectation and reality emerged in a report by the research firm Accenture, in a study entitled Big Trouble with "No Trouble Found" Returns.
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Other Tech
Why Buy Blu-ray Now?
Kevin James  |  Jul 06, 2008

You have to feel a little bit sorry for Blu-ray Disc. Despite winning the high-def format war, few are showing it much love. The month after Toshiba pulled the plug on HD DVD, Blu-ray sales plummeted by 40%.

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Custom Installation How-To
Niveus Media Rainier Edition 500HD Media Center PC system
Al Griffin  |  Jul 06, 2008
The Short Form
$7,697 (as tested) / NIVEUSMEDIA.COM / 866-258-2929
Snapshot
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Other Tech
BackTalk: Tim Kring & Jesse Alexander of Heroes
Mike Mettler  |  Jul 06, 2008

What makes the release of Heroes: Season 2 on DVD and Blu-ray Disc worth our time, attention, and dollars?

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Track One: Opening Doors with Ray Manzarek
Mike Mettler  |  Jul 04, 2008

Are you happy with how Eagle Vision's Classic Albums DVD of The Doors turned out? I think it's great. Somebody said to me, "Gee, you guys are still willing to talk about it." And I said, "Well, of course. We loved making the first album. We had a lot of fun." Why?

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