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Channels May Go Dark on TWC
Mark Fleischmann  |  Dec 30, 2010
Time Warner Cable is the latest cable system to be threatened with channels going dark due to yet another spat over retransmission fees.

Cable companies and TV stations have been brawling over how much the former should pay the latter for the right to carry their content. This time the warring parties are Time Warner Cable and Sinclair, owner of 33 stations in 21 markets including CBS, NBC, ABC, and Fox affiliates. The channels may go dark as early as this coming weekend.

But there's a twist. The Fox network has agreed to provide TWC with a signal if the local station withholds it. That's because its parent, News Corp., already has a retransmission agreement with TWC.

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Chapter 11 for Syntax-Brillian
SV Staff  |  Jul 08, 2008
Another one bites the dust. Syntax-Brillian, the company that brought you Olevia HDTVs and Vivitar digital cameras, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Based in Tempe, Arizona, the company is selling some assets to a company,...
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Charter Consolidates Cable
Mark Fleischmann  |  Aug 02, 2016
A recent wave of cable-company consolidations is inexorably bringing the market under the dominion of ever fewer players. The latest mega-deal is the absorption of Time Warner Cable into Charter Communications in a $65.5 billion deal, which followed lengthy review by the FCC.
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Charter in Trouble in SC
Barry Willis  |  Jan 19, 2003

Cable customers have long complained about inexplicable, inflated fees on their monthly bills and requirements by cable suppliers that they rent set-top converter boxes and other equipment even when it wasn't needed or wanted.

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Charter Tests Sports-Free Skinny TV Bundle
Mark Fleischmann  |  Nov 08, 2017
How would you like to save money on a TV package from a major cable operator and dump the set-top box at the same time?
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Charter Threatens Wayne's World
SV Staff  |  Aug 19, 2008
Wayne's World's of the world, beware. If Charter has its way, all our favorite public access cable shows are gonna be in trouble. Charter, one of the countries bigger cable carriers, is raising eyebrows across the country with two - count 'em, two...
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Charter to Offer Motorola HT System
 |  May 12, 2002

Cable companies may soon be competing with local audio/video retailers. <A HREF="http://www.charter.com">Charter Communications</A> will be the first cable provider in the nation to begin distributing the <A HREF="http://www.motorola.com">Motorola</A> DCP501 Home Theater System, at the end of the second quarter of 2002.

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Cheap for a Bryston, not for a remote
SV Staff  |  Oct 21, 2008
As a custom installer, I love high-end gear. Milled aluminum faceplates? Awesome. 99.9999% pure silver interconnects? For sure. Laser etched engraving? Damn straight. But when I received the e-mail touting Bryston's new BR2 multifunction remote...
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Cheaper, Better Plasma
Jon Iverson  |  Jan 27, 2002

As evidenced by the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, plasma screen television sets are steadily gaining market share, with every major consumer electronics manufacturer showing a variety of sizes and features. The thin displays look poised to dominate the market in coming years, providing resolution continues to increase and prices continue to drop.

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Cheaper, Faster, Blu-rayer
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Feb 27, 2007
If you've been waiting for the prices of stand-alone Blu-ray Disc players to reach a more reasonable level, Sony says that day is almost here.
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Cheaper, Faster, Smaller, Better
Jon Iverson  |  Nov 25, 2001

Both <A HREF="http://www.pioneerbroadband.com">Pioneer</A> and <A HREF="http://www.zenith.com">Zenith Electronics</A> announced new digital set-top boxes last week, as the race to control digital content flowing into consumers' homes continues.

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Cheaper, Flatter, Faster
Jon Iverson  |  May 02, 1999

Last week, <A HREF="http://www.westaim.com">Westaim Advanced Display Technologies Inc.</A> announced that it has unveiled a flat-panel display with 2 million colors using Solid State Display (SSD) technology. The company says the 5" high-contrast, full-color prototype display has a TV-like viewing angle and full motion video that is 20 times faster than the liquid-crystal display technology.

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Check Out HomeTheater.com’s New Do
Shane Buettner  |  Dec 22, 2010
HomeTheater.com has been wearing the same haircut for a good many years now. Introducing you to HomeTheater.com 2.0 really takes me back, as I was intimately involved in the last design updates we did a few years ago, when we added the Buyer’s Guides and built out a lot of the content you see today.

This new design is up to the bleeding edge modern, with chunky images, large fonts and a very clean aesthetic that we think you’re really going to like. But a lot more function will follow the form too.

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Chesky Records Announces First MQA-Encoded CDs
SV Staff  |  Apr 06, 2017
Following last month’s release of the first MQA-encoded CD, Chesky Records is bringing more MQA discs to market in May.
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Chesky's Binaural+ Aims to Recreate the Live Music Experience
Bob Ankosko  |  Oct 16, 2012
Chesky Records aims to re-create the experience of listening to live music from the best seat in the house with its new Binaural+ Series of high-resolution 24-bit/192-kilohertz recordings. Specially calibrated microphones implanted in the ear canals of a dummy head are used to capture a “stunningly accurate and realistic” 3D representation of the soundfield. With traditional binaural recordings, which have been around for decades, distinct left and right channels are recorded as they would be heard by a pair of human ears and played back through headphones—left channel to left ear, right channel to right ear—to create the illusion of a 360-degree soundstage.
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