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Speaker Tech
Speaker Measurements 101
Brent Butterworth  |  Aug 30, 2013

The advent of cheap audio measurement gear has made it easy for do-it-yourselfers to tweak their systems and even test their own speakers and amps. Unfortunately, it has also spawned a new generation of would-be technicians doing really bad speaker measurements.

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Audio Video News
Demos and Prizes (… Lots of Prizes) Dominate Pacific Northwest Home Theater Meetup
Kris Deering  |  Aug 29, 2013
With more and more high-end dealers closing shop, opportunities for real demos are drying up, leaving local meet-ups as one of the few ways for enthusiasts to demo the latest gear. So I decided to host my first Pacific Northwest Area Home Theater Meetup in my hometown of Port Orchard, WA. What started out as a gathering of a few friends turned into a massive event...
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Audio Video News
Panasonic Ain’t Just Plasmas
Rob Sabin  |  Aug 29, 2013

I recently enjoyed a press tour of Panasonic’s soon-to-open Innovation Center in Newark, NJ, an open-windowed retail-like space off the lobby of the company’s new headquarters building.

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Blu-ray Setup
Q&A: Video Oppo-timization
Al Griffin  |  Aug 29, 2013

Q. I recently bought an Oppo BDP-103 Blu-ray player. A key reason for buying it was to connect a cable TV box to the Oppo’s HDMI input and tap the player’s superior video processing to improve TV picture quality. Will it be necessary to set the equipment up in such a way as to avoid the TV’s video processing?

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Editor's Eye
Panasonic Ain't Just Plasmas
Rob Sabin  |  Aug 29, 2013
I recently enjoyed an early press tour of Panasonic’s soon-to-open Innovation Center in Newark, NJ, an open-windowed retail-like space off the lobby of the company’s new headquarters building. I’m not usually much for these types of dog-and-pony shows, and little of what the company shared that day was directly related to the consumer electronics audio/video segment that’s of prime interest to our readers. But I’ve covered the firm’s CE technology for decades now, and this move from their old Secaucus, NJ campus...
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Audio Video News
How to Use Radical.FM’s Free Music Streaming App
SV Staff  |  Aug 28, 2013
The Radical.FM music streaming app is like a cross between Spotify and Pandora. Learn about its unique approach to finding songs and creating stations.
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Audio Video News
Richard Gray Introduces IP-Addressable Power Management System
SV Staff  |  Aug 28, 2013
Richard Gray’s Power Company (RGPC), a US-based manufacturer of AC power and communications network infrastructure protection and enhancement products, today introduced the IPAC-8 Remote IP Power Management System.
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Tech2
New Epson 2030 and 730HD Projectors
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Aug 28, 2013

We’ve reviewed a bunch of Epson projectors over the past year or so. The 5020, for example, was an excellent projector. Lots of light output, decent contrast ratio.

The 750HD, on the other hand, offered ridiculous light output (and a not-so-great contrast ratio).

Two new models, just announced, aim to fill some gaps in the sub-$1,000 price range.

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This Week
This Week in Movies & TV, August 27, 2013: Razzle Dazzle
Josef Krebs  |  Aug 27, 2013

The Great Gatsby

As with Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge!, with this adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel set during the Roaring Twenties, the writer-producer-director creates a series of set pieces of bravura filmmaking with careering camerawork of huge zoom-ins and acrobatic fly-arounds all tied together with rapid montages.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
This Week in Movies & TV, August 27, 2013: Razzle Dazzle
SV Staff  |  Aug 27, 2013
The Great Gatsby, Prime Suspect: The Complete Collection, To Be or Not to Be, The Walking Dead: Season 3, And Then There Were None, Kon-Tiki, Pain & Gain.
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