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Canada to Overhaul Copyright Law
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 10, 2010  | 
Canada's parliament is planning a wide-ranging overhaul of the nation's copyright law. And there's plenty of good news here. The proposed legislation would straightforwardly legalize many practices that consumers take for granted but that have ambiguous legal status in the U.S. However, some are critical of the fact that it also grants protected status to DRM.
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Sony prices and presells its 3D Bravia HDTVs
SV Staff  |  Jun 09, 2010  | 
As you can tell below, Sony is going whole-hog into this 3D thing. The home electronics side of the company has just announced pricing and is accepting presales for no less than 7 different 3D-compatible HDTVs. The Bravia LED-backlit HDTVs...
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Sony Talks Up 3D in L.A.
SV Staff  |  Jun 09, 2010  | 
At the Culver City studios of Sony Pictures, Sony execs today rolled out their plans for what they hope will be domination of every aspect of the 3D business: movie/TV production, professional gear, and consumer electronics products. According to...
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Wireless Standard Has 3D Covered
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 09, 2010  | 
Are 3D and wireless home video distribution both equally important to you? Then you'll be glad to hear that the Wireless Home Digital Interface will support all the 3D formats included in the HDMI 1.4a specifications. The updated spec will be released in the fourth quarter of this year.
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Netflix finally coming to the iPhone
SV Staff  |  Jun 08, 2010  | 
Netflix has already made an appearance on the iPad, but it's been curiously absent on Apple's ubiquitous smartphone. That's going to change this summer, as Steve Jobs announced yesterday that Netflix is indeed coming to the iPhone. Few details...
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Redbox Gets the Blus
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 08, 2010  | 
Redbox will start offering Blu-ray rentals in the next few months. And the price, at $1.50 per title, is likely to turn heads.
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Monster now selling really, really thin HDMI cables
SV Staff  |  Jun 07, 2010  | 
Monster has started shipping its FlatScreen SuperThin Cables for HDMI, which (spoiler alert!) are much thinner than regular cables. According to Monster, these new cables are 55% thinner than conventional HDMI cables. Thinness alone isn't that...
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TV Market Recovers
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 07, 2010  | 
TVs sold faster in the first quarter of this year, reports DisplaySearch. And no wonder--prices are plummeting.
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Monitor Audio announces new all-weather outdoor speakers just in time for summer
SV Staff  |  Jun 04, 2010  | 
Monitor Audio has just announced a new line of outdoor, all-weather speakers for patios, yards, and other outside applications. The line includes the CL50, CL60, CL80, and CL60-T2. The CL50, 60, and 80 are two-way satellites with single 1-inch...
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Youtube Experiment Reminds Us Why Lossless Formats Rule
SV Staff  |  Jun 04, 2010  | 
Even using the proper settings, uploading a video to Youtube can make a mess of your source material, mercilessly compressing it in the name of bandwidth. So, what would happen if you uploaded, ripped and then re-uploaded the same video 1,000...
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Kazaa Founders Go Legit
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 04, 2010  | 
A funny thing happened when the founders of the file sharing service Kazaa confronted music industry executives in court: They became allies. Now the guys who once facilitated illicit downloading are launching a legitimate music service called Rdio.
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Redbox to start renting $1.50 Blu-ray Discs
SV Staff  |  Jun 03, 2010  | 
Redbox rental kiosks are finally going to start seeing Blu. Redbox president Mitch Lowe announced that he plans to see Blu-ray Discs in Redbox kiosks within the next few months, to the tune of $1.50 each. The $0.50 Blu-ray premium isn't...
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Cable Cleans Up Its Act
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 03, 2010  | 
Cord cutting is all the rage, with cable subscribers ditching their cable operators in favor of other video providers or even plain old over-the-air TV (newly spruced up following the DTV transition). But some major cable operators are responding by improving their customer service.
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Steve Jobs: "No one wants to buy a [set-top] box"
SV Staff  |  Jun 02, 2010  | 
There's a bit of a hitch in the previously reported rumor that a new Apple TV is coming. It turns out that Steve Jobs himself isn't very big on set-top boxes, and doesn't see much of a future in them because of the prevalence of digital cable and...
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iPad Rebellion Breaks Out
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 02, 2010  | 
Two major content producers refuse to throw out their Adobe Flash-based video libraries to suit Apple's iPad.
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