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JL Audio M3 Marine Speakers: Ready for the High Seas
SV Staff  |  Jul 09, 2019
You might know Miramar, FL-based JL Audio for making some of the best home and car subwoofers money can buy, not to mention fine car stereo speakers and amplifiers, but did you know they also build killer marine speakers?
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Joe Zawinul: 1932-2007
SV Staff  |  Sep 11, 2007
Very sad. This year is shaping up to be a rough one for titans of the arts. I'm almost afraid to wake up every morning. Head over to The New York Times for its obit. Meanwhile, that color image above is a highlight from the cover of Forecast:...
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Jogger Shocked by iPod
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 23, 2007
This story would be hilarious if it weren't for the pain and suffering inflicted on a hapless jogger toting an iPod. Caught in a thunderstorm, the Vancouver resident was struck by lightning and sustained serious injuries when the iPod and its cables conducted current into his body.
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John Frankenheimer, 1930–2002
Barry Willis  |  Jul 07, 2002

John Frankenheimer, director of <I>The Manchurian Candidate</I> and <I>Birdman of Alcatraz</I>, died Saturday, July 6, of a stroke following spinal surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 72.

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John Landis, Uncensored
Chris Chiarella  |  Oct 14, 2005
The October issue of HT featured our one-on-one interview acclaimed director John Landis, but those pages were scarcely adequate to contain his boundless enthusiasm, and who are we to restrain the mind that perfected the R-rated comedy? We hereby present this unfettered version of our discussion with the man behind Animal House, The Blues Brothers (celebrating its silver anniversary this year with a new special edition DVD from Universal Studios), and An American Werewolf in London, to name but a few, in addition to Michael Jackson's groundbreaking video "Thriller," which once ruled MTV.
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John Mayer Ain't that Different from You and Me
SV Staff  |  Jul 28, 2008
I don't know about you, but I hate that celebrities get hounded by the paparazzi. Except for when they capture some truly priceless footage. When TMZ captured pop-star John Mayer trying to talk his dad through finding software on his Apple...
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John Mellencamp's High-resolution DVD
SV Staff  |  Jul 17, 2008
John Mellencamp's latest album, Life, Death, Love and Freedom is coming out in an interesting format included with the usual CD release. (And downloads available from hearmusic.com. Use the code LDLF8 for two free cuts.) The new release will come...
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John Mellencamp: Rock and Roll Is Not Coming Back
Bob Ankosko  |  May 03, 2017
John Mellencamp with Carlene Carter, guests in the latest installment of McIntosh and Republic Records’ Direct Connection interview series. Photo by Meredith Truax.

Lit cigarette in hand, pop-rock icon John Mellencamp sauntered to the front of the room in McIntosh’s swanky Soho townhouse. He had a serious look on his face. No hint of a smile. Maybe he’s nervous, I thought to myself as he sat on a stool with a large ashtray at his side. Or is it just that he’s the personification of cool and really doesn’t give a rat’s ass about what people think…

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John Waters to Kick Off DVD Entertainment 2001
 |  Jun 10, 2001

Film director John Waters will lead off the <A HREF="http://www.dvdconference.com">DVD Entertainment 2001 Conference & Showcase</A>, to be held August 22 & 23, 2001 at the Hilton Universal City & Towers, in Universal City, CA. Conference organizers announced on June 5 that Waters would give a keynote presentation entitled "From the Lens to Plastic: A Typically Unorthodox View of DVD," detailing how the format has brought his work to a new audience.

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Jointly Developed "Tiled" LCD Soon to be Unleashed
Jon Iverson  |  Oct 01, 2000

Last November, <A HREF="http://www.flatdisplaysystems.philips.com">Philips</A>' flat-panel display division and <A HREF="http://www.rainbowdisplays.com">Rainbow Displays</A> announced their agreement to jointly develop large, "tiled" LCDs for a variety of next-generation consumer and business applications. Making good on that promise, last week the companies announced that they will showcase the industry's first 37.5-inch "tiled" flat-panel display at the Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies (CEATEC) Japan 2000, to be held October 3&ndash;7, 2000, in Tokyo.

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Josh.ai Brings its Voice Platform to Dish Satellite TV
SV Staff  |  Apr 25, 2019
Josh.ai, the Denver-based home-automation company specializing in natural language voice control, today announced the integration of its voice platform into Dish’s Hopper DVRs.
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JSX Sound Designs
Barry Willis  |  Nov 01, 2004

It's hard to find home theater-related products on the convention floor at the twice-per-year Audio Engineering Society (<A HREF="http://www.aes.org">AES</A>) gathering. It was therefore a treat to discover a fascinating cinema sound system at San Francisco's Moscone Center during the society's recent meeting there, October 28&ndash;30.

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Judge Says "No" to DVD Copy Control Association
Barry Willis  |  Jan 02, 2000

A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge has denied a request for a temporary restraining order against 72 computer enthusiasts brought by the DVD Copy Control Association. The computer folk were accused of distributing a string of code, called DeCSS, that enables them to play DVD movies on Linux-based machines and thereby violate intellectual property laws. Linux is user-developed software widely perceived as a possible competitor to Microsoft's Windows.

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Judge Suspends RealDVD Sales
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 06, 2008
A judge has issued a restraining order halting the sales of RealDVD, the DVD-copying application from RealNetworks. Well, that was quick.
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July 2016 New Gear
SV Staff  |  Jul 08, 2016
Dashbon Flicks Boombox Projector
Many of today’s Bluetooth speakers have put a new face on the classic boombox, but Flicks pushes the concept to its logical conclusion: a portable movie theater! Measuring 11.7 x 5.3 x 6.5 inches, this boombox packs an LED-based, 720p DLP projector that can display a 100-inch image from just over 8 feet away, plus the requisite speakers—in this case, two full-range drivers plus a “subwoofer” and bass radiator.
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