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Met, MoMA display the guitar as (and in) art
Michael Berk  |  Mar 24, 2011  | 

Since it appeared in the seventeenth century, the guitar has been a work of visual art in its own right, as well as a powerful influence on artists in other media.

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Beautiful nostalgia...for CRTs
Michael Berk  |  Mar 24, 2011  | 

Via adafruit...Berlin-based photographer Stephan Tillmans has a new show up, Luminant Point Arrays, consisting entirely of photographs capturing CRTs as they're shut off.

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Sony, Samsung Adopt Microsoft PlayReady
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 24, 2011  | 
A new form of digital rights management from Microsoft has been adopted by Sony and Samsung, among others. Its first high-profile use is in the Sony BDP-S380 Blu-ray player, available since February.

PlayReady DRM allows downloading and streaming of video, audio, games, and images on multiple home and mobile devices. Supported formats include MPEG Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), AAC+, Enhanced AAC+, H.264, Windows Media Audio (WMA) and Windows Media Video (WMV). Embedded licenses allow content to play without a constantly active broadband connection.

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Cover Flow: Whither the iPad Album?
Michael Berk  |  Mar 23, 2011  | 

 

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Mits Dumps LCDs in Favor of RPTVs
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 23, 2011  | 
Over the past several years several major TV makers have discontinued their rear-projection TVs to concentrate on flat panel TVs. Mitsubishi is going in the opposite direction, dumping its LCD line in favor of rear-projection sets.

Mitsubishi's RPTVs use both Texas Instruments DLP technology and its own Laservue technology.

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Dynamic Range Day 2011
Michael Berk  |  Mar 22, 2011  | 

 

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Japan Parts Shortage May Disrupt iPad 2
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 22, 2011  | 
Reports about Japanese manufacturing disruptions continue to trickle in and an early casualty may be Apple's just-launched iPad 2. Japan supplies no fewer than five key parts for the tablet everyone desires.

Missing pieces include flash memory, random access memory, electronic compass, touchscreen glass, and battery, the latter from Apple's own Japanese factory.

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Mitsubishi to exit LCD TV market
Michael Berk  |  Mar 21, 2011  | 

As noted by HDGuru over the weekend, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America has confirmed that it will indeed "exit the LCD-TV market entirely" by the end of 2011, concentrating from here on out on its consumer rear-projection televisions (including its highly regarded

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Paramount Film to Be Legally Torrented
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 21, 2011  | 
Movies get torrented. However illegal that may be, it's just a fact of life. Now get ready for the curveball: An Australian horror film is about to be legally distributed by BitTorrent as a means of getting people interested in the Paramount DVD release.

The film in question is The Tunnel, produced by Distracted Media. It will be released as both BitTorrent and Paramount DVD on May 19. The disc will have two hours of content not found in the torrent including an alternative ending and a making-of documentary.

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"The Beaver." Seriously. At SXSW.
Ken Richardson  |  Mar 19, 2011  | 

In her latest film, director/co-star Jodie Foster has Mel Gibson speaking almost exclusively in a Cockney accent - the "voice" of a beaver puppet.

Is this the recipe for a train wreck?

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SXSW Interactive: MOG to stream in car
Ken Richardson  |  Mar 19, 2011  | 

Seth_priebatschMOG has indeed announced that it will be the first music-streamin

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Samsung goes mobile with the Galaxy Player; Microsoft's Zune bows out.
Michael Berk  |  Mar 18, 2011  | 

 

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Sharp Wins Energy Star Honors
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 18, 2011  | 
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is awarding Sharp the Excellence in Energy Efficient Product Design Award for 2011. The award ceremony will take place in Washington, DC on April 11.

Sharp Aquos Quattron TVs beat the voluntary Energy Star efficiency standards by 67 percent. Fifty-one Sharp LCD TVs are Energy Star certified along with all of its Blu-ray players.

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Bob Geldof at SXSW: Best. Keynote. Ever.
Ken Richardson  |  Mar 17, 2011  | 

 

Maybe not exactly ever, but it sure seemed that way. After all, unlike recent "keynotes" at the SXSW Music Festival - which have tended to be mere Q&As with an onstage interviewer - Bob Geldof's talk this morning was an actual keynote speech. And an enthralling one at that.

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Time Warner's new iPad app escalates the battle for the small screen
Michael Berk  |  Mar 17, 2011  | 

Time Warner's new TWCable TV app for the iPad (which lets TWC internet and cable service subscribers stream content to their tablets over their home WiFi ) became the most-downloaded piece of software in the iTunes st

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