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Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 11, 2010  | 
The Federal Trade Commission will require TVs to have EnergyGuide labels at the retail level.
SV Staff  |  Mar 10, 2010  | 
Actually, I'm talking about one lighthouse here, but in two images. First up, courtesy of the National Park Foundation: Readers of our print magazine will recognize that as the photo accompanying our December 2009 review of The National Parks...
SV Staff  |  Mar 10, 2010  | 
3D content is steadily marching onward, but there still aren't too many choices out there. There are several animated movies from the last few years and Avatar will be hitting DVD and Blu-ray soon enough, but that's not a whole lot of 3D....
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 10, 2010  | 
TiVo's victory in a prolonged court battle may force EchoStar to pull the plug on eight million Dish Network DVRs.
SV Staff  |  Mar 09, 2010  | 
Spectre's new Chrome HDTVs are shiny. That's the biggest thing that can be said about them. Shiny. Chrome. Blinged out. Reflective. Besides their shininess, the Chrome screens are basically just relatively small HDTVs (or relatively large...
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 09, 2010  | 
To widespread derision, Blockbuster has reinstated late fees for program rentals.
SV Staff  |  Mar 08, 2010  | 
Early adopters can rest easy. Denon has just announced that four of its currently available A/V receivers are officially Windows 7-compatible, and all new receivers in 2010 will share that compatibility. The Denon AVR-4810CI, AVR-4310CI,...
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 08, 2010  | 
RealDVD's DVD-copying application is dead, having been officially outlawed by a judge after a protracted legal battle.
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 05, 2010  | 

Well, that didn't take long. Less than two months after 3DTVs were introduced at CES, some models are already available for consumers to purchase. The first out of the gate are Samsung's UN46C7000 and UN55C7000 LED edge-lit LCD TVs (shown here), which can be purchased at Amazon.com for $2339 and $2969, respectively, as well as a few other online retailers such as Crutchfield, which has the 46 in stock for $2400 and is taking pre-orders for the 55 for $3060. Soon to follow are some Panasonic plasmas, which are scheduled to go on sale at Best Buy on March 10, marking the first time that 3DTVs will be available at brick-and-mortar outlets.

SV Staff  |  Mar 05, 2010  | 
Spring must be around the corner again, folks, ‘cause Pioneer has just announced a bunch of new receivers. The company’s new lineup consists of 5 models that range in price from $299 to $749. All deliver height channels ...
SV Staff  |  Mar 05, 2010  | 
Now this is an iPod speaker system with some style. The A-Box from Thodio is an iPod speaker built inside an authentic ammunition box. Olive drab, metal, yellow stenciling, serious military chic. The A-Box comes in two versions, a "light" model...
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 05, 2010  | 
Pioneer has announce some 3D capable a/v receivers.
SV Staff  |  Mar 04, 2010  | 
The web's biggest video site is now adding captions to its videos. From now on, all videos uploaded will have optional captions transcribed from the audio through Google's speech recognition system. This is a massive expansion of YouTube's...
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 04, 2010  | 
Skype has signed up a third TV maker with Samsung adding Skype internet phone capability to its LED 7000 and 8000 Series TVs.
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 03, 2010  | 

TiVo is one of the most recognizable brands in all of consumer electronics—so much so that the name of the company has become a verb in the popular lexicon, much like Xerox. After years of anticipation, TiVo today announced the next generation of its DVR platform—Premiere and Premiere XL.

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