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Roku Now Supports Alexa Voice Control
SV Staff  |  Mar 18, 2019  | 
Amazon’s voice-enabled virtual assistant Alexa is continuing to find her way into an ever growing list of products. Roku is the latest company to announce Alexa compatibility for its streaming devices and Roku TVs...
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Roku Owners: Visit Space from Your Living Room
SV Staff  |  Sep 17, 2018  | 
We were pumped when NASA did the first 4K live stream from the International Space Station a year and a half ago, and now we can hardly contain our enthusiasm with the news that spectacular views of space from NASA are now available on the Roku streaming platform.
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Roku rocks out with two new players
SV Staff  |  Oct 27, 2009  | 
Roku is making a nice sandwich out of its line-up, with new offerings priced above and below its popular Roku HD streaming media player. On the high end, Roku has announced the HD-XR player, an updated Roku HD player with 802.11n wireless...
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Roku to Deliver Wireless TV Speakers this Fall
SV Staff  |  Jul 17, 2018  | 
Roku has announced its entry into the wildly overcrowded TV speaker market — but not with a soundbar.
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Roku Updates OS
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 07, 2017  | 
Roku’s new operating system brings new features. The search platform ties into 300 streaming channels. More Ways to Watch uses content recognition to recommend programs or streams, including those delivered by antenna. If you’d rather not have Roku monitoring your viewing, it can be turned off.
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Room Correction from Meridian
HT Staff  |  Jun 08, 2003  | 
Meridian Audio Limited has long distinguished itself by making its products future-forward, or adaptable to new technologies.
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Rooms of Magic
HT Staff  |  May 29, 2003  | 
San Francisco, CA—May 2003—Audiogon/Videogon.com—the online resource for buying and selling high-end audio and video equipment—has joined forces with Primedia and the Elf Foundation for a Charity Auction to be held at the Home Entertainment 2003 Show in San Francisco, June 6–8, 2003.
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Rooms of Magic
 |  Jun 01, 2003  | 

Audiogon/Videogon.com&mdash;the online resource for buying and selling high-end audio and video equipment&mdash;has joined forces with Primedia and the Elf Foundation for a charity auction, which will be held at the <A HREF="http://www.homeentertainment-expo.com">Home Entertainment 2003 Show</A> in San Francisco, June 6&ndash;8, 2003.

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Rooms of Magic
 |  May 19, 2002  | 

eBay and Primedia have announced an industry-wide <A HREF="http://www.ebay.com/hes/">online</A> charity event, which will culminate during the <A HREF="http://www.homeentertainment-expo.com/">Home Entertainment 2002 Show</A> (HE 2002), May 31&ndash;June 2, 2002. The charity event will bring the latest and greatest in home theater and audio products to enthusiasts around the world, while benefiting The Elf Foundation, a charity created and supported by the consumer electronics industry.

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Roon Launches Biggest Update Yet
SV Staff  |  Jan 22, 2019  | 
Roon Labs, maker of music-library management software embraced by audiophiles, today announced the rollout of its biggest update ever.
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Roon Music Software Now Supports Chromecast
SV Staff  |  Jul 09, 2018  | 
Roon Labs has announced that its subscription-based music management software now supports streaming from Chromecast devices.
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Roon Update Takes Personalization to the Next Level
SV Staff  |  Nov 26, 2019  | 
Roon Labs, maker of the popular Roon music playback and library management system, has announced an ambitious update that makes personalization… well, more personal.
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Rope Burns!
Mike Mettler  |  Apr 15, 2011  | 

I spoke with producer Butch Vig at length about the all-analog approach he took to recording the Foo Fighters’ kick-ass new album Wasting Light (Roswell/RCA) in bandleader Dave Grohl’s garage.

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Rosebud Goes Digital
Jon Iverson  |  Sep 02, 2001  | 

It ranks as many movie buffs' best film of all time, and has landed at the top of the American Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest American Movies, but until now, you could not get it on DVD. The film, of course, is <I>Citizen Kane</I>, Orson Welles' Academy-Award-winning masterwork credited with expanding film-making frontiers like no other movie in history.

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Rosy Projections
Jon Iverson  |  Jun 16, 2002  | 

The video display market has been revolutionized in the last few years as plasma screens and video projectors have gained widespread acceptance. Smaller, lighter, and brighter projectors are translating into healthy market growth: Worldwide unit shipments are expected to reach 2.7 million in 2006, a 24.6% compound annual growth rate from 2002&ndash;2006, according to figures released by analyst <A HREF="http://www.idc.com">IDC</A>.

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