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Motorola DCT64000 Series STBs
HT Staff  |  May 13, 2004
Motorola, Inc. has upped the stakes in race to build the next generation set-top box (STB).
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Motorola MCU3E Wireless . . . Thingy
SV Staff  |  Sep 16, 2008
Is it just me, or do most people get a headache trying to transfigure our HD video to work from one device to the next? Wouldn't a transcoder that would take either HD or SD MPEG-4 AVC or MPEG-2 media, convert and wirelessly transmit it to another...
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Motorola to Show Dual Cable Box
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 03, 2007
Looking for a smoother way to switch between cable and broadcast channels? Next week Motorola will demo a dual-function cable box that also receives off-the-air channels. The product will surface at the annual convention of NCTA, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association.
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Mouser Electronics: more than just a catalog
Michael Berk  |  Jul 01, 2011

 

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Move every sig: real movie-star autographs
SV Staff  |  May 04, 2009
There are three types of celebrity autographs: Sports autographs, convention autographs, and fake autographs. Sports autographs are signed balls, mitts, trading cards, and other memorabilia that bear the signature of a professional athlete....
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Move Over IMAX: Sony Readies Launch of Large-Format Movie Theater
SV Staff  |  Feb 18, 2019
Sony has announced that plans to launch an “experiential” large format movie theater system in Las Vegas to effectively compete with IMAX and Dolby Vision theaters.
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Move Over, TiVo: Hauppauge PC-TV Recorder Debuts
 |  Nov 12, 2000

Convergence is more than a buzzword in the minds of the engineers at <A HREF="http://www.hauppauge.com/"> Hauppauge Digital, Inc</A>. The New York electronics manufacturer has announced what it is calling "the first personal video recorder for PCs." In development for eighteen months, the WinTV-PVR is built to occupy a single PCI slot, and allows the recording and playback of television programs via computer. The device is compatible with Microsoft Windows 98 and Windows ME, and comes bundled with a remote control and an FM receiver for the PC.

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Movie Downloads Still Half-Baked
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 11, 2008
Like a Perdue Oven Stuffer Roaster with an unpopped plastic thermometer, downloads are still a half-baked method of movie delivery, according to a recent survey.
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Movie Gallery Chain to Close
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 11, 2010
Movie Gallery is going to close, subtracting another 1906 video and game rental stores from the American landscape.
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Movie Gallery Gobbles MovieBeam
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Mar 13, 2007
Movie Gallery wants to get inside your house and put a movie-renting remote control in your hand. The self-described "second largest North American video rental company", purchased - not rented - MovieBeam, Inc., the on-demand movie rental service, last week. Movie Gallery says it already operates over 4,600 stores in the U.S. and Canada under the Movie Gallery, Hollywood Video, and Game Crazy brands. Now it will have little electronic MovieBeam stores generating revenue around the country.
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Movie previews may get quieter
Barry Willis  |  Nov 30, 1997

Have you found yourself playing back movie soundtracks lower than the "calibrated" level? Do you instinctively try to cover your ears during previews at the theater? If so, you're not alone.

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Movie Rentals, Sales Stay Hot While Economy Cools
SV Staff  |  Apr 23, 2008
Yesterday, researchers claimed that the poor state of the U.S. economy was the reason consumers are buying more small HDTV sets and fewer mid-size ones.  Of course, it is possible that they're simply buying second HDTVs for the office or...
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Movie Server Pioneer Kaleidescape Calls it Quits
SV Staff  |  Aug 22, 2016
Kaleidescape, the company that pioneered the movie server category and waged an unsuccessful decade-long battle over the right to sell disc-ripping movie servers, has closed its doors.

UPDATE: As was reported on soundandvision.com, Kaleidescape announced on Friday, September 9th that it had secured new funding and reopened its doors as a slimmed down operation with plans to continue selling its new Strato line. You can read the story here.

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Movie Ticket Sales Up 10% This Year
 |  Jul 08, 2001

Movie tickets worth approximately $3.89 <I>billion</I> were sold in the United States during the first six months of 2001. That number is a 10% increase over the same period in the previous year, according to a report from Exhibitor Relations Company, which tracks business trends for the theater industry.

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Movie to Debut on Sony Net Platform
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 20, 2008
The latest Will Smith movie Hancock will make its video debut on Sony's Bravia Internet Video Link before it reaches Sony's Blu-ray disc format (or DVD for that matter). The release-window experiment will run from October 28 to November 10.
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