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Moog Launches Minimoog Model D iOS App
SV Staff  |  Mar 26, 2018  | 
Moog Music, creator of the iconic Moog synthesizer, today announced the launch of the Minimoog Model D iOS app for Apple devices.
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Edifier’s New Speakers Break All the Rules
SV Staff  |  Mar 23, 2018  | 
Edifier, a global supplier of speakers and headphones, has applied the high-style design of its Luna speaker to a six-piece home theater speaker combo with looks that kill.
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Audible Audiobooks Now Available on Sonos
SV Staff  |  Mar 23, 2018  | 
Sonos has announced that audiobooks and other spoken-word programming from Audible is now available on its platform.
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AVTech Media Ltd (UK) Acquires Home Tech Network From TEN: The Enthusiast Network
SV Staff  |  Mar 22, 2018  | 

New Group Combines AVTech Media’s Specialist Hi-Fi/Home Theater Titles with TEN’s Home Tech Network to Create World’s Largest Consumer Electronics Audio/Visual Publishing Enterprise

NEW YORK, NY — AVTech Media Ltd (UK) (www.avtechmedia.co.uk) has purchased the Home Tech Network from TEN: The Enthusiast Network (www.hometechnetwork.com), it was announced today.

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Bill Reauthorizing FCC, TV Station Funding Awaits Senate
SV Staff  |  Mar 22, 2018  | 
In a rare display of functionality, the U.S. House of Representatives recently passed the Ray Baum Act. Named after the former staff director of the Energy and Commerce Committee who died recently, the bill reauthorizes the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), among other things.
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NBC to Trim TV Commercials
SV Staff  |  Mar 22, 2018  | 
If those blaring SUV ads are challenging your attention span or DVR trigger finger, here’s some good news: NBC recently announced plans to trim advertising time by 10 percent and reduce the number of breaks by 20 percent, starting with the coming fall season.
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Pioneer Expands Elite Lineup with $499 AV Receiver
SV Staff  |  Mar 22, 2018  | 
Pioneer has expanded its 2018 Elite receiver lineup with a 7.2-channel base model that lists for $499.
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New Audeze Headphones Embrace 3D Audio
SV Staff  |  Mar 21, 2018  | 
Audeze has launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to introduce a new set of planar-magnetic headphones built around 3D audio technology developed by Israel’s Waves Audio.
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3D Lives On Samsung's Cinema LED Screen
SV Staff  |  Mar 21, 2018  | 
3D is dead as a doornail in major-brand TV lines but Samsung appears to think it has a future in theaters. It has created a 3D version of its 34-foot Cinema LED theater screen.
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Younger TV Viewers Turning to On-Demand Services
SV Staff  |  Mar 20, 2018  | 
New research from Dallas-based Parks Associates finds that as live TV viewing continues to decline among U.S. broadband households, nearly 60 percent of the video viewed on a household’s main TV is on-demand content as opposed to traditional “linear” programming scheduled by broadcasters.
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From London to Austin: MQA Live Debuts
SV Staff  |  Mar 20, 2018  | 
London-based MQA Ltd. launched a live streaming version of its MQA audio encoding technology at simultaneous events held yesterday in London and Austin, Texas.
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Going Behind the Scenes in Star Wars: The Last Jedi
SV Staff  |  Mar 19, 2018  | 
If you missed Star Wars: The last Jedi in theaters you can now stream it in Dolby Vision 4K on Vudu or on Movies Anywhere — or you can wait until the 4K/Ultra HD Blu-ray hits next Tuesday (March 27).
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Screen Sizes Get Bigger as TV Sales Slip
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 19, 2018  | 
2017 was not a banner year for TV sales, despite growth for 4K (Ultra HD) TV and even 8K TV.
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Tech Tidbits March 2018
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 19, 2018  | 
The First 8K channel will be launched by NHK, the Japanese broadcast authority, later this year. How much programming will support it remains to be seen...

Samsung may return to OLED manufacturing, say anonymous sources quoted by a Korean-language news site. But this time it would combine the brightness of Samsung’s quantum dot with the black levels of OLED...

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Bose Augments Aural Reality
SV Staff  |  Mar 16, 2018  | 
Bose is getting into augmented reality (AR) — with a twist: Its new AR platform will specialize in delivering audio.
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