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LG Announces 2017 OLED/Super UHD TV Pricing
SV Staff  |  Feb 23, 2017  | 
LG today announced pricing and availability for many of the OLED and Super UHD TVs unveiled at CES in January.
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Bryston Unveils ‘Lightning Fast’ Digital Music Player
SV Staff  |  Feb 22, 2017  | 
Bryston today announced a digital music player/entertainment hub that supports “virtually all” digital file formats and resolutions including DSD 128 and high-resolution PCM up to 32-bit/384kHz.
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LG Smart TV Platform Certified for Cybersecurity
SV Staff  |  Feb 22, 2017  | 
LG’s webOS has become the first smart TV platform to be cybersecurity-certified by UL, the independent safety testing company.
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Como Audio Expands Wireless Speaker Lineup
SV Staff  |  Feb 21, 2017  | 
Como Audio has expanded its line of wireless music systems with a two-way speaker that converts its entry-level Solo into a stereo system.
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Smartphones: It’s All About Video
SV Staff  |  Feb 21, 2017  | 
The thought of watching video on a smartphone might have seemed crazy a decade ago, yet nearly six in 10 consumers (57 percent) around the world watch videos on their phones every day, according AOL’s annual advertising study—virtually the same as the number of people (58 percent) who watch videos on a laptop or desktop every day.
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Elite Unveils Light-Rejecting, Ultra Short-Throw Screen
SV Staff  |  Feb 21, 2017  | 
Elite Prime Vision (EPV) has introduced an ambient-light-rejecting projection screen designed for use with ultra-short-throw projectors that sit against the wall at the base of the screen.
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Esoteric ‘Opens New Horizon’ with $27K SACD Player
SV Staff  |  Feb 20, 2017  | 
Sometimes a product name says it all. Like the recently introduced Grandioso K1 SACD player from Toyko-based Esoteric, which sells for a cool 27 grand.
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Facebook TV Video App Coming Soon
SV Staff  |  Feb 20, 2017  | 
Facebook has announced plans to launch a free app in the coming weeks that will let owners of Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Samsung Smart TVs watch Facebook videos on the big screen.
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CTA: Consumers Who Know VR Are ‘Excited’ About It
SV Staff  |  Feb 17, 2017  | 
Even though Best Buy has decided to close 200 of its 500 Oculus Rift demo stations, all is not bleak in VR-land.
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Is the FM Radio in Your Phone Turned On?
SV Staff  |  Feb 17, 2017  | 
FM radio in my phone? Are you crazy? In one of those little-know (or at least little discussed) facts, today’s smartphones have an FM receiver built-in. The thing is, the receiver is not activated in most phones. As of last fall, FM was working in only 44 percent of the top-selling smartphones in the U.S.
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MQA and Universal Announce Hi-Res Streaming Plan
SV Staff  |  Feb 16, 2017  | 
MQA and Universal Music Group (UMG) today announced a multi-year agreement under which UMG will use MQA’s encoding technology to make its extensive catalog of master recordings available for high-resolution streaming.
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Bell Tolls for Pay-TV
Mark Fleischmann  |  Feb 15, 2017  | 
Forty-one percent of cable and satellite subscribers are planning to trim or sever their pay-TV subscriptions, according to a survey of 1,000 customers by FocusVision and Zanthus.
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Best Buy Gives VR a Reality Check
SV Staff  |  Feb 15, 2017  | 
The honeymoon is over. Best Buy is closing 200 of its Oculus Rift demo stations less than six months after announcing plans to feature the virtual reality headset in 500 stores in time for the 2016 holiday season.
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Okay Google, I Want to Watch CNN Now
SV Staff  |  Feb 14, 2017  | 
Amid the usual flurry of TV-related news at last month's CES—including word that Sony is getting back into the OLED game—almost everyone missed a potentially big part of Sony’s TV announcement: That its 2017 Android-powered 4K TVs will be the first televisions to support Google Assistant, Google’s answer to Amazon’s Alexa.
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Sony Announces Pricing, Availability for 4K/HDR TVs
SV Staff  |  Feb 14, 2017  | 
Sony has announced that the high dynamic range (HDR)-enabled 4K/Ultra HD TVs it introduced at CES will be available in March at prices starting at $1,000 for a 43-inch model and scaling up to $7,500 for a 75-inch set.
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