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LG Aims to Simplify Couch Potato Shopping
SV Staff  |  Oct 04, 2016
LG is looking to make it easier for owners of its smart TVs to buy goods and services directly through its webOS interface without having to budge from the couch.
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Tom Wheeler's Waterloo on Liberating Your Cable Box
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Oct 04, 2016
Thursday, September 29, was supposed to be the big day. The Federal Communications Commission was scheduled to vote on a plan to liberate our cable TV boxes from mandatory rental fees. Billions of (our) dollars hung anxiously in the balance. Then, abruptly, the vote was pulled from the meeting agenda.

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Monitor Audio Unveils “Easy-to-Hide” Subwoofers
SV Staff  |  Oct 04, 2016
UK’s Monitor Audio has introduced a pair of high-performance compact subwoofers designed for easy concealment.
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Star Trek Beyond Rollout Begins Today
SV Staff  |  Oct 04, 2016
Star Trek Beyond, released theatrically in July as the thirteen film in the 50-year-old Star Trek franchise, is available to purchase digitally today for $29.99 in 4K/Ultra HD high dynamic range (HDR) with a Dolby Atmos soundtrack or $19.99 in HD from vudu.com. iTunes and Amazon are offering only the HD version.

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Audioengine Expands HD Speaker Series
SV Staff  |  Oct 03, 2016
Audioengine has introduced a passive version of its HD6 powered speaker, which was awarded Sound & Vision Top Pick status earlier this year.

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Denon Introduces Double-Driver Earphones
SV Staff  |  Oct 03, 2016
Denon has introduced three new in-ear models ranging in price from $99 to $199, including a model that uses two drivers per ear for enhanced bass.

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Japan’s RME Premium Recordings Embraces MQA
SV Staff  |  Oct 03, 2016
RME Premium Recordings, a label owned by Synthax Japan that specializes in live hi-res recordings, is the latest label to embrace the MQA music format invented by Meridian founder Bob Stuart.
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Luxury Tech Show Los Angeles 2016
Lauren Dragan  |  Sep 30, 2016
The city of Los Angeles is no stranger to opulence, so an event such as the Luxury Tech Show feels as natural here as spotting Lady Gaga at Chateau Marmont. The annual event has showcased upcoming trends like smartwatches, 3D printers, and the now infamous hoverboard. So what will we call crazy today and want tomorrow? I braved the 405 traffic to the Petersen Museum just so I could tell you all about it.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Triple 9
Guido Henkel  |  Sep 30, 2016
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Dirty-cop movies are nothing new, and for any film in the genre, it would be easy to simply reach for established tropes to tell the story. When you have an entire gang of cops that serves the Russian mob, however, things are almost certain to spiral out of control, and in Universal’s gritty action fest, Triple 9, they do so hard and fast.
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Gods of Egypt
Brandon A. DuHamel  |  Sep 30, 2016
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It’s difficult to fathom that Alex Proyas, the director who gave us Dark City and The Crow, is the same director responsible for I, Robot and Gods of Egypt, but sure enough, he is. If the first two films were dark and foreboding, and I, Robot was a perfect visual effects popcorn movie, then Gods of Egypt is…what, exactly? Well, let’s say it’s a big special-effects movie, and that’s it. It certainly has Proyas’s style all over it, but it’s hollow inside.
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