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Best Buy Offers HD DVD Morning-After Options
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 19, 2008  | 
If you bought an HD DVD player or Xbox drive before February 23, here's some good news from Best Buy. You now have two options. You can keep your HD DVD player and the store will give you a $50 gift card to ease the pain. Or you can trade in your HD DVD player for further gift-card bounty.
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Industry Group Tries to Breathe Life into Plasma
SV Staff  |  Mar 18, 2008  | 
If you get all your flat-panel industry information from news reports, you might think LCD screens are on a tear and taking over the market. After all, research shows that everybody and their neighbor will buy an LCD TV in the next four years, and...
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Laser LEDs in the Living Room?
SV Staff  |  Mar 18, 2008  | 
A Massachusetts startup called Luminus Devices wants to make flat-screen LCD TVs brighter and more energy efficient with a type of Light Emitting Diode called a PhlatLight. But because the laser-enhanced technology is so pricey for consumer...
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Cisco Gets Into HDTV Game
SV Staff  |  Mar 18, 2008  | 
The long-promised potential of HDTV-over-the-Web could be delivered by an unlikely source. Rather than being worked out by your broadband service provider, your big-screen TV could get video through Cisco, which just invested a chunk of change in a...
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Iron Maiden Tempts Youth with Free Album Trial
SV Staff  |  Mar 18, 2008  | 
The musicians of British heavy metal band Iron Maiden are well into their fifties, but that's no reason for them to ignore a potential new fan base of teenage download-fiends. The band said last week that it would offer a free trial download of...
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Tax Refunds to Fuel CE Sales
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 18, 2008  | 
On what will you spend your forthcoming federal tax refund? One out of five U.S. households will buy consumer electronics, according to (who else?) the Consumer Electronics Association. That's positive thinking. We like that.
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By 2012, Your LCD Will Be Nothing Special
SV Staff  |  Mar 17, 2008  | 
In four years, worldwide shipments of LCD TVs will nearly double to 194 million, according to research firm iSuppli. About 54% of those TVs will be capable of displaying high-definition programming, compared with fewer than 15% of LCDs sold in...
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Americans to Stimulate Economy with TV Purchases
SV Staff  |  Mar 17, 2008  | 
Whether you're for or against the Bush administration's decision to mail out economic stimulus checks to American taxpayers, the check is in the mail. Or, it will be at some point this summer in the amount of $600 per adult per household, and $300...
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NIN Sees Ghosts, Bucks
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 17, 2008  | 
The marketing of Ghosts I-V, the new Nine Inch Nails album, puts Radiohead and R.E.M. in the shade.
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SXSW, Day 4: Saturday, 3/15
SV Staff  |  Mar 16, 2008  | 
Welcome to International Night! No, that's not an official SXSW designation for the last night of the festival. But even though I've already taken you to places as far flung as Australia and the Faroe Islands, tonight I'll take you to Brazil,...
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SXSW, Day 3: Friday, 3/14
SV Staff  |  Mar 15, 2008  | 
Yes, it's Friday! And that means: It's the weekend! And that means: The Vampire watch begins! But first, in order to guarantee that I'm inside the famous club Antone's when VW takes the stage at 11 p.m., I need to get there for the first act and...
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SXSW, Day 2: Thursday, 3/13
SV Staff  |  Mar 15, 2008  | 
As I warned you in SXSW: The Night Before (under Rule No. 4), tonight is the night I make my pilgrimage to Soiled Mattress & the Springs. The photo at left is the opening image on the band's MySpace page - and I can't think of anything better...
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Bohemian Higher-Def Rhapsody
SV Staff  |  Mar 15, 2008  | 
Have you got a favorite film that's never been released on DVD? I have - in fact it never came out on laserdisc and is virtually impossible to get on VHS. I acquired a tape copy of Montparnasse 19 , also known as Modigliani Montparnasse 19 and The...
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SXSW Keynote: Reed on Sound
SV Staff  |  Mar 14, 2008  | 
"I have a B.A. in dope, but a Ph.D. in soul." That, of course, is the line extracted for today's front page of The Austin Chronicle, reporting on yesterday's SXSW keynote interview of Lou Reed, conducted by producer and friend Hal...
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Pandigital Beats Microsoft to Kitchen HDTV Punch
SV Staff  |  Mar 14, 2008  | 
Every year at the Consumer Electronics Show, Bill Gates likes to get up on stage and make a fuss about "the connected home of the future" and its associated gadgets, which often include a smart kitchen counter top, refrigerator and recipe...
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