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Long Live CD: Marantz Debuts High-End Player
SV Staff  |  Aug 15, 2016
If you’re still spinning CDs you might as well do it in style. On Friday, Marantz announced a compact CD player to go with its HD-AMP1 integrated amplifier.

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Long Time CE Industry Leader, CES Founder Jack Wayman Dies at Age 92
SV Staff  |  Sep 02, 2014
Jack Wayman in the early days of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

International CES founder and consumer electronics (CE) industry legend Jack Wayman died Saturday, August 30 of natural causes at the age of 92, announced Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) President and CEO Gary Shapiro.

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Long-Distance "Broadcast Quality" Video over DSL
Barry Willis  |  Oct 28, 2001

Bandwidth limitations have long been a primary obstacle to transmitting broadcast-quality video over the Internet. Even digital subscriber lines (DSL), so useful for quick access to text and graphics, are typically capable of quality video over short distances only.

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Look Ma! No Wires!
SV Staff  |  Oct 03, 2008
Our friends over at EngadgetHD spotted another mildly interesting product at the CEATEC show in Japan. Hitachi is showing wireless HD camcorder transfer. Obviously a prototype, the camcorder reliably streamed high-definition content to a nearby TV,...
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Look Up! In the Cloud! It's Amazon!
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 29, 2011
The latest cloud-based content initiative comes from Amazon. Its Cloud Player will enable users to store their music libraries on the web and access them from broadband-connected computers or Android devices.

"Now," says Bill Carr, Amazon's veep for movies and music, "whether at work, home, or on the go, customers can buy music from Amazon MP3, store it in the cloud and play it anywhere."

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Look! Up in the Sky! It’s a…7-Eleven Drone
SV Staff  |  Dec 21, 2016
If you had any doubts, drone delivers are on the path to becoming a real thing.
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Look, No Wires!
SV Staff  |  Jan 10, 2008
An unqualified hit, Sony’s Bravia line of video displays are keeping up with the times (a new XBR6, left, made its debut at CES). In particular, aside from the usual upgrades of style and size, the new Bravias are heavily into connectivity....
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Lord of the Rings Coming to BD
user  |  Dec 28, 2009
Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy, arguably the greatest sfx fest in movie history, will finally get a high-def release next year. Unfortunately, there's a catch. The Blu-ray disc release will use only the shorter cut shown in theaters.
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Losses at Reel.com Dogging Hollywood Entertainment
Barry Willis  |  Mar 05, 2000

Net loss: Video vendor Hollywood Entertainment Corporation would be doing well if it weren't for its publicly traded online operation <A HREF="http://www.reel.com/">Reel.com</A>, which just can't make a profit no matter how hard it tries. The nation's second-largest video rental chain, <A HREF="http://www.hollywoodvideo.com/">Hollywood Video</A> enjoyed strong growth last year but was driven into the red by losses incurred by the Internet business, which reported a fourth-quarter net loss of $21.7 million.

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Lot of water under the bridge, lot of other stuff too
Michael Berk  |  May 24, 2011

 

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Lotsa Monster
Scott Wilkinson  |  Jun 10, 2009
Monster Cable had a lot to discuss at the CEA Line Shows in New York today. First and foremost was the world's first THX-certified HDMI cables, which meet or exceed the new HDMI 1.4 spec's bandwidth rating of 10.2Gbps as measured by Simplay Labs.
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Lovin' the LP: my first weekend with PerspeX
SV Staff  |  Apr 28, 2009
Longtime S&V readers know how much your humble Editor-In-Chief loves vinyl. But my old turntable was, well, old, and the more I listened to my LPs, the more I realized I had to bite the bullet and get a new 'table. I never enter new-gear...
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Low Bit-Rate Hi-Def DVD?
Barry Willis  |  Mar 03, 2002

Just a week after a consortium of electronics companies announced its commitment to a new <A HREF="http://www.guidetohometheater.com/shownews.cgi?1228">high-capacity DVD</A>, the DVD Forum voted to approve the use of low-bit-rate compression for high-definition DVD. The vote was approved by 11 of the Forum's 17 members, with Matsushita, JVC, and Philips abstaining.

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Lowest Prices Ever: SVS Is Closing Out its Ultra Series
SV Staff  |  Jan 26, 2024
SVS is running a closeout sale on its popular Ultra Series speakers to make room for the new Ultra Evolution Series unveiled at CES 2024. All models will be sold at the “lowest prices ever” until inventory is depleted.
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LP 2 FLASH: Transfers LP to... Flash!
SV Staff  |  Sep 11, 2008
Ion Audio made news a while ago with their LP 2 CD turntable that made it easy to transfer your old vinyl records to CD. It just got even easier to get music to your computer. The new LP 2 FLASH plays your albums and converts them to MP3, then...
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