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Pioneer Announces Affordable Atmos AV Receivers
Bob Ankosko  |  Mar 24, 2015  | 
Pioneer today announced that four new AV receivers, ranging in price from $400 to $700, will hit stores in April. The announcement marks the first products to be released under the new Pioneer & Onkyo U.S.A. corporate umbrella.
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Pioneer Announces Affordable Network AVRs
SV Staff  |  Mar 18, 2016  | 
Two affordable 7.1-channel network AV receivers will join Pioneer’s Elite series lineup in April.
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Pioneer Announces MQA-Ready Music Player
SV Staff  |  Sep 10, 2015  | 
Pioneer announced the industry’s first portable music player to support MQA (Master Quality Authenticated) technology at the recent IFA 2015 show in Berlin.
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Pioneer AVR Features ‘Virtual’ Atmos for Under $500
SV Staff  |  Apr 03, 2017  | 
Pioneer has announced two 5.1-channel AV receivers, one of which will be the first to feature Dolby Atmos virtual surround processing.
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Pioneer Back In Black
Michael Fremer  |  May 09, 2008  | 

Bouncing back from the news that Pioneer is exiting the plasma-panel manufacturing business—Matsushita, Panasonic's parent company, will provide the panels for future Pioneer plasma TVs—the company debuted a new line of upscale, eye-popping products at a press event held May 7 at New York City’s appropriately upscale Gramercy Park Hotel.

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Pioneer Backing Out of Plasma?
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 04, 2008  | 

I wasn't going to post a story about this until we know more about it, but it's too important to wait. According to several news sources, Pioneer is finalizing plans to stop manufacturing plasma panels and concentrate on assembling plasma TVs. The company is negotiating to acquire panels from Matsushita, Panasonic's parent company. A Pioneer spokesperson said an official statement would be forthcoming this Friday.

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Pioneer Becomes Second 3D AVR Maker
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 05, 2010  | 
Pioneer has announce some 3D capable a/v receivers.
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Pioneer Blu-ray Sneak Peek
SV Staff  |  Apr 17, 2008  | 
Don't let it be said that we don't know important people here at S&V - people who will risk their very lives to get us early, semi-exclusive info. That's why we didn't find ourselves the least bit surprised when we got a call from someone we...
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Pioneer Brings Back Home Theater in a Box
SV Staff  |  Apr 12, 2019  | 
Pioneer is bringing back the once-popular home theater in a box (HTiB) with a $499 bundle that gives you almost everything you need to set up a six-speaker Dolby Atmos/DTS:X surround sound system. The only thing the package doesn’t include is a Blu-ray player or other source component.
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Pioneer Confirms Panasonic Plasma Deal
user  |  Apr 24, 2008  | 
As previously reported here, Panasonic will be the manufacturing partner that takes over the making of Pioneer-branded plasmas.
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Pioneer Confirms Will No Longer Make Plasmas
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 07, 2008  | 
Today Pioneer confirmed a previous report that it would cease making--but not marketing--plasma DTVs. Pioneer's exit from plasma manufacture adds another name to a list of casualties that already included Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, and NEC, from whom Pioneer purchased two of its plasma production lines.
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Pioneer Delivers AVR with HDCP 2.2 for $280
SV Staff  |  Aug 05, 2015  | 
Pioneer has packed five-channel discrete amplification, Ultra HD passthrough with HDCP 2 support, and Bluetooth/aptX connectivity into its new budget AV receiver, the VSX-530-K, which carries a suggested retail price of $280.

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Pioneer Discontinues Laserdisc Players
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 15, 2009  | 
Announcing the death of a format can be tricky business. After all, a lot of them live on in our hearts, minds, racks, and libraries--and at least one "dead" format, the LP, never really died. But if the manufacture of hardware is a major criterion, then the laserdisc format has died. Pioneer has discontinued its last three laserdisc player models, according to a brief announcement in Akihabara News.
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Pioneer Displays 400GB Blu-ray-playable Optical Disc
SV Staff  |  Dec 02, 2008  | 
Already bored with dual-layer discs?  Plain old Blu-ray passé? Then we've got news for you! Pioneer is showing off a 16-layer 400GB optical disc. Each layer on this read-only optical disc has 25GB of storage. Pioneer was showing it off...
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Pioneer Drops Laserdiscs
 |  Jul 11, 1999  | 

For 20 years, Pioneer has been laserdisc's biggest booster. But that era of home entertainment ended July 6, when <A HREF="http://pioneer-ent.com/">Pioneer Entertainment</A> announced that it would no longer produce or supply laserdiscs. The software division of Pioneer Electronics made the decision in view of the growing popularity of DVD, which, along with VHS tape, accounts for more than 90% of their business. The announcement is most certainly the kiss of death for the beleaguered format.

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