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Panasonic ready to shove Blu-ray into your car
SV Staff  |  Apr 22, 2009  | 
Something tells me Blu-ray might be overkill for the 7-inch, 1280x270 screen on Panasonic's CN-HX3000D head unit, but that has never stopped hardcore car modifiers in the past. The unit actually sounds pretty solid, offering up a five-channel...
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Adobe Flash Coming to DTVs
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 22, 2009  | 
TV makers are increasingly adding internet features, including browsers and widgets, to their products. But until now, the standard for 80 percent of web video has not yet penetrated the television set. That's about to change, with Adobe Flash coming to TVs and set-top boxes later this year, Adobe announced this week.
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Atlantic Technology gets high with new satellites
SV Staff  |  Apr 21, 2009  | 
Good news for audiophiles interested in this new-fangled height channel business. Atlantic Technology has announced its first satellite speaker designed specifically to deliver height in a Dolby ProLogic IIz set-up. The 1400 SR-z's are dipole/bipole...
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YouTube Gets More Movies and TV
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 21, 2009  | 
Hundreds of movies and thousands of TV shows will appear legally on YouTube thanks to a deal involving the video site, Sony Pictures, and 11 other media companies.
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Blu-ray Rental Discs Cracking
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 20, 2009  | 
Some Blu-ray rental discs sent through the mail by Netflix are arriving with cracks.
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200-disc Blu-ray changer coming from Crestron
SV Staff  |  Apr 17, 2009  | 
What's better than one Blu-ray disc? Two hundred of them, all stacked in a neat little carousel for you to load and play at your leisure. Crestron is making that dream a reality with the ADC-200BR, a 200-disc Blu-ray super-changer that, combined...
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HDMI Mechanically Improved
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 17, 2009  | 
The HDMI interface is great for video and audio signal transfer, at least now that it's grown up a bit. But in a mechanical sense, it's no better today than it was at the outset. That's about to change.
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April 18 is Record Store Day!
SV Staff  |  Apr 16, 2009  | 
Worried about the demise of independent record stores nationwide? Then make a date to visit your local "mom and pop" shop this Saturday, April 18 — the second annual Record Store Day.Bands will play. Special releases will be available. And...
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Samsung presents a plethora of projectors
SV Staff  |  Apr 16, 2009  | 
Samsung has unveiled an entire collection of new digital projectors, ranging from portable, low-power models to high-end 1080p home theater models. The Samsung P (Portable), L (LCD), D (Data), and A (A/V) series offer a broad range of projectors,...
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Beeb Meets BitTorrent
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 16, 2009  | 
BitTorrenting is often regarded as a scruffy and perhaps slightly criminal medium. But it will soon gain new respectability when the venerable British Broadcasting Corporation allows a new show to be torrented.
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InFocus sold to holding company for $39 million
SV Staff  |  Apr 15, 2009  | 
InFocus, one of the big names in digital projectors, has announced that it will be acquired by the Image Holdings Corporation. IHC will buy all outstanding shares at $0.95 per share, totaling around $39 million. Both InFocus' president Bob...
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JBL and Roxy fuse forces, foment fashion
SV Staff  |  Apr 15, 2009  | 
Audio company JBL and clothing makers Roxy have announced a partnership to produce a line of fashion-minded portable audio equipment. Next month, the companies will release a series of Roxy-branded ear buds and headphones targeted at...
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Circuit City Assets to Be Acquired
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 15, 2009  | 
The contents of Circuit City's coffin are likely to be snapped up by a sharp-eyed operator called Systemax.
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Blockbuster on Life Support
Scott Wilkinson  |  Apr 14, 2009  | 
After denying it was considering bankruptcy, Blockbuster is closer than ever to calling it quits. According to a recent story in the Wall Street Journal, auditors from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP said in a financial filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that they had "substantial doubt about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern."
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4K Coming to a Theater Near You
Scott Wilkinson  |  Apr 13, 2009  | 

At the recent Showest trade show for the commercial-cinema industry, one the most important announcements was a $315M deal between Sony and AMC, one of the country's largest movie-theater chains, to install Sony 4K SXRD digital-cinema projectors for all 4628 screens in its 309 theaters over the next few years. Currently, AMC has 150 Sony 4K projectors in 11 theaters.

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