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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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HBO’s Silicon Valley Heading for Blu-ray
SV Staff  |  Feb 14, 2017
HBO has announced that Season 3 of the comedy series Silicon Valley is coming to Blu-ray April 11.
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Former Soccer Pro Crowdfunds Unique Log Speaker
SV Staff  |  Feb 10, 2017
Vancouver, Canada-based Portmanteau Stereo Co. has successfully crowdfunded its Rockit Log line of portable speakers, exceeding its $50,000 Kickstarter goal with 11 days to go.
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Sony Announces Pricing, Availability for UHD Blu-ray
SV Staff  |  Feb 10, 2017
Sony has announced that its first 4K/Ultra HD Blu-ray player will hit stores in March with a $300 price tag.
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DTS:X Hits the Airwaves
Mark Fleischmann  |  Feb 09, 2017
No, your TV antenna can’t pick up DTS:X just yet. But the height-enhanced surround codec did get a leg up when PBS used it in a test transmission with HDR-enriched Ultra HD video.
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Vizio Rolls Out HDR10 Firmware Update
SV Staff  |  Feb 09, 2017
Vizio today announced the availability of a firmware update that adds HDR10 high dynamic range (HDR) decoding capability to a half dozen of its E-Series SmartCast Ultra HD displays.
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‘Ticketed’ Virtual Reality Concert Has 360° Sound
SV Staff  |  Feb 09, 2017
Why leave home to attend a live concert when you can strap on a headset and replicate the experience of being there—complete with 360° sound?
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Make Your TV Disappear
SV Staff  |  Feb 08, 2017
Inca won’t win any awards for the pedestrian name it has bestowed upon its latest TV concealment system, but the “Vertical Step Back & Rise” mechanism (900806-VSR) is sure to elicit oohs and aahs from unsuspecting bystanders.
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B&W Applies 800 Series Knowhow to In-Walls
SV Staff  |  Feb 08, 2017
Bowers & Wilkins is applying knowledge gleaned from nearly 40 years of refining its iconic 800 series of floorstanding speakers to a new line of in-wall speakers.
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Vizio to Pay $2 Million in FTC “Spy” Settlement
SV Staff  |  Feb 07, 2017
Vizio has agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and New Jersey’s Office of The Attorney General that it installed software to collect viewing data on 11 million smart TVs without consumers’ knowledge or consent.
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Amphion Announces Argon 7LS Speaker
SV Staff  |  Feb 07, 2017
Amphion Loudspeakers of Finland has announced a replacement for its Argon 7L floorstanding speaker.
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Sonus faber Announces High-End Speaker Series
SV Staff  |  Feb 07, 2017
Italian speaker maker Sonus faber has announced the Homage Tradition collection featuring revamped versions of the company’s Amati and Guarneri speakers and the new Serafino, a scaled down version of the floorstanding Amati.
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