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ReplayTV Users Fight Back
Barry Willis  |  Jun 09, 2002  | 

Want to succeed in business? Two proven suggestions: don't alienate your customers, and use new technology to your advantage.

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ReplayTV's New Video Recorder Has 60-hour Capacity
HT Staff  |  Sep 07, 2000  | 
Too much is never enough for some videophiles. If you count yourself among them, ReplayTV has just the ticket for you: its new 3060 digital video recorder, boasting a 60-hour capacity with a single disc drive.
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Report Examines How Tech Can Improve Lives
SV Staff  |  Sep 08, 2016  | 
A new report from IBM and the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) Foundation—a public, national foundation with the mission to link seniors and people with disabilities with technologies to enhance their lives—reveals that meeting the needs of a growing aging population will require new technologies, partnerships, ideas, and business models. The report also discusses how technology such as cognitive computing will empower seniors to live longer, healthier, and more independently by preventing fraud and abuse, providing greater social connectivity, and improving access to vital information and services.
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Report Outlines the Winners in the Switch to Digital Television
 |  Jul 19, 1998  | 

Bringing digital television to your home is not going to be cheap. And it's not only consumers who are going to have to pony up. Broadcasters and their distribution partners, whether cable or satellite, will be investing heavily in new digital technology that will require major upgrades to existing networks. But if someone's got to pay, then someone else will certainly benefit.

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Report: 8K TV Sales Set for Steady Growth Thru 2022
SV Staff  |  Feb 13, 2018  | 
Global sales of 8K flat-panel TVs are expected to increase from 100,000 units in 2018 to 5.8 million in 2022, with China expected to lead the way with more than 60 percent of the market during this period, according to a new report from Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) and Insight Media.
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Report: Americans Skeptical About 5G
SV Staff  |  May 15, 2019  | 
An American public that is largely satisfied with the performance of 4G cellular networks remains skeptical about the benefits of next-generation 5G technology that is just now starting to get off the ground, according to a new report from the User Experience Strategies (UXS) group at Strategy Analytics.
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Report: Half of U.S. Homes Subscribe to Pay TV Plus At Least 1 Video Streaming Service
SV Staff  |  Oct 30, 2017  | 
Courtesy of Parks Associates

New research from Parks Associates shows that 53 percent of U.S. broadband households subscribe to both a pay-TV service and at least one OTT (over the top) video streaming service, chosen from a field with more than 200 active services.

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Report: ITV an "Orwellian Nightmare"
 |  Jul 01, 2001  | 

"In George Orwell's novel <I>1984</I>, everyone had a television in their home that monitored their every move," reads a June 26 report from the <A HREF="http://www.cme.org/access/index_acc.html">Center for Digital Democracy</A>, a Washington-based advocacy group. Orwell's good citizens dutifully watch, and are watched in turn, their every move tracked and recorded.

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Reporter’s Notebook: Deadpool Unmasked
Corey Gunnestad  |  May 02, 2016  | 
Actor Ryan Reynolds, director Tim Miller and actor Ed Skrein at the Deadpool press event in Beverly Hills. (Photo by Eric Charbonneau/Invision.)

What Can You Get for 47 Dollars and a Bag of Skittles?

On Monday, April 11, 2016, the good folks at Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment were kind enough to invite a select few of us to a special global media event at the ever-so posh Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills, California to herald the video release of one of its biggest box office successes, Deadpool on May 10. And I was lucky enough to attend...

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Research Links Musical Taste with Cognitive Style
SV Staff  |  Jul 28, 2015  | 
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have linked musical taste to cognitive style, or the way you think.
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Researchers Discover Amazon Echo Security Glitch
SV Staff  |  Aug 04, 2017  | 
If you’re already paranoid about always-on smart speakers eavesdropping on conversations, brace yourself: Researchers in the U.K. have discovered a security flaw in Amazon Echo smart speakers sold in 2016 that enable them to be turned on without summoning “Alexa,” according to a report in The Telegraph.
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Researchers Turn to the Human Body for Power
SV Staff  |  Feb 13, 2018  | 
Chinese and U.S. researchers have developed a small metallic tab that uses the human body to generate electricity.
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Researchers Use Infrared to Boost Wi-Fi Speeds
SV Staff  |  Apr 18, 2017  | 
Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands have figured out how to use infrared rays to dramatically increase the speed of Wi-Fi while eliminating network congestion.
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Rest In Peace, VHS
SV Staff  |  Dec 25, 2008  | 
We know it's been a dying format, but alas, VHS is officially gone. It celebrated its last Christmas, toasted its last New Year.  Back in October, the last truckload of VHS tapes were moved out of a warehouse in Florida, and anything...
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Restored Wizard Debuts Nationwide
 |  Nov 07, 1998  | 

T<I>he Wizard of Oz</I> is 59 years old and still going strong. The beloved saga of a young Kansas girl's adventures in a magical land has just been re-released in more than 1800 theaters. Enhanced with a THX/Dolby Digital soundtrack, the restored film from Warner Bros. will carry millions of fans into the holiday season, many of whom haven't stepped into a theater in years. The visual improvements to the film are reportedly so good that each of Dorothy's freckles is clearly visible.

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