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Plastic TV Announced by English Company
 |  Feb 15, 1998  | 

According to a recent Reuters report, London-based Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) has announced a very original product: a plastic video display. In the report, the company said, "CDT and its Japanese partner, Seiko-Epson Corp., have unveiled the world's first plastic TV display and will set aggressive targets for commercializing the technology." According to CDT chief executive Danny Chapchal, "The announcement will demonstrate that our technology is very close to commercialization for computer and video display applications."

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Play-Fi Wireless Audio Standard Gains Momentum
SV Staff  |  Jul 24, 2014  | 
DTS today announced that the McIntosh, Sonus Faber, and Wadia brands owned by Fine Sounds Group will introduce products featuring its Play-Fi wireless audio standard later this year.
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Playboy Stripping Down on DVD
SV Staff  |  Oct 21, 2008  | 
It's a well-known industry "secret" that the adult film industry has been responsible for much of the growth of new formats. First VHS and then DVD, the mainstream industry owes a lot to the adult sector. However, in a strange...
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Playing Catch-up: DTS Announces DTS:X Object-Based Surround to Compete with Atmos
Bob Ankosko  |  Apr 09, 2015  | 
Nine months after Dolby Atmos made its home debut at a New York trade show, DTS today officially introduced DTS:X, an “object-based, multi-dimensional audio technology” for commercial cinema and home theater.
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Playstation 2 Lets Users Bypass DVD Copy-Protection Scheme
Barry Willis  |  Mar 26, 2000  | 

The cat has really gotten out of the bag with Sony's new Playstation 2. In mid-March, we <A HREF="http://www.guidetohometheater.com/shownews.cgi?672">reported</A> that the machine can play Digital Versatile Discs from all regions, reinforcing one of the film industry's biggest fears: that the new format will circumvent carefully orchestrated release dates. Now it appears that the machine can do more.

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Playstation 4 WITHOUT Blu-ray?
SV Staff  |  Sep 17, 2008  | 
It seems like many in the industry are killing off Blu-ray in its infancy. This is the second story today alone on the subject. Now, a CNET blogger is going as far as saying that it's his opinion that Sony won't include Blu-ray in the next...
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New Products
PlayStation 5: Your New Ultra HD Blu-ray Player?
Al Griffin  |  Jun 15, 2020  | 
While interest in movies on disc continues to be strong even with the massive growth of streaming, there’s been a deficit of new disc players to choose from. We’ve recommended models from Panasonic and Pioneer semi-recently, but with no new Ultra HD Blu-ray players unveiled at CES 2020, there's nothing from that category in our review queue at present. Hmm, what about this new PlayStation 5 thing everyone’s been talking about?
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PlayStation Achieves HD Quorum
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 17, 2010  | 
Sony's PlayStation Network has become the first platform to carry high-def movie content from all six major studios, the company says in a press release.
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PlayStation Gets Netflix Streaming
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 27, 2009  | 
The video streaming news just keeps on coming. Latest word is that Netflix streaming will penetrate Sony's PlayStation 3 video game console.
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PlayStation Network, still on the fritz
Michael Berk  |  Apr 25, 2011  | 

Things are still looking bleak for the PlayStation Network; the gaming network (along with Sony's Qriocity streaming music-and-movie service) has been down

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PlayStation VR, Set for October Launch, Promises Next Level of Immersion
SV Staff  |  Jun 30, 2016  | 
Sony says gamers and developers are ready to embrace the highly anticipated PlayStation VR (PS VR) when it becomes goes on sale in the U.S. on October 13 for $399.
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PlayStation3 Delayed?
 |  Feb 26, 2006  | 

It's incredibly common for Hollywood blockbusters to come in way late and over budget, so perhaps we shouldn't be surprised since Sony owns its own movie studio. An industry analysis by Merrill Lynch predicts that Sony's PlayStation3 could not only be delayed 6-12 months, putting off its US launch until late 2006 or early 2007, but also estimates that the gaming consoles are going to cost Sony nearly $900 per unit to build. These predictions started a firestorm across broad segments of the industry, as such delays would not only hurt Sony in the gaming space, but also would undoubtedly cost Blu-ray Disc some critical momentum in the next-gen disc format war. HD DVD players and discs are currently on schedule to hit retail stores next month.

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PlayStation3 To Include Dolby TrueHD Decoding
 |  Oct 04, 2006  |  First Published: Oct 05, 2006  | 

Sony's PlayStation3 is looking like a better deal all the time. The latest revelation is that the Blu-ray Disc based game console will include the ability to decode up to 7.1-channels of Dolby TrueHD. TrueHD is a so-called "lossless" audio codec that attains compression rates as high as 4:1, but reconstructs the original signal bit-for-bit on playback. Although there have been delays announced for the European availability of PS3, the premium version of the console is due to hit US stores on November 17th at a price of $599.

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PLUS "Piano" Projector: Affordable DLP Arrives
HT Staff  |  Oct 28, 2001  | 
Many home theater fans have been holding out for affordable DLP projectors. Until recently, "affordable" was merely wishful thinking, with many Digital Light Processing™ -equipped projectors priced well above $10,000.
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Plus Audio Unveils High-End All-in-One Record Player
SV Staff  |  Nov 03, 2017  | 
Fresh off a successful Kickstarter campaign that more than doubled the company’s funding goal, London-based Plus Audio is unveiling a turntable-based all-in-one music system next week at the New York Audio Show.
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