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Cirrus Logic Signs Licensing Agreement with Lucasfilm
 |  Jan 17, 1999

Last week, <A HREF="http://www.cirrus.com">Cirrus Logic</A> announced an agreement that will make possible broad deployment of THX-grade home-theater systems. In a press release, the company says it has licensed THX home-theater DSP (digital signal processing) algorithms from Lucasfilm for upcoming audio products. "Cirrus Logic thus becomes the first semiconductor manufacturer to combine THX post-processing capabilities with economical, embedded certified software for all popular audio DVD decoding standards. For leading-brand mass-market suppliers, this solution will simplify designs, reduce costs, and lower the price point for implementing THX audio technology into A/V hi-fi receiver amplifiers that support playback of DVD movies."

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Cisco Gets Into HDTV Game
SV Staff  |  Mar 18, 2008
The long-promised potential of HDTV-over-the-Web could be delivered by an unlikely source. Rather than being worked out by your broadband service provider, your big-screen TV could get video through Cisco, which just invested a chunk of change in a...
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Cisco Systems: New Kid on the Block
SV Staff  |  Dec 29, 2008
Cisco Systems. Not really a name you would expect to see, well, here. From their own website:Cisco is the leading supplier of networking equipment and network management for the Internet. Products include routers, hubs, ethernet - not exactly...
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Cisco Systems: New Kid on the Block
SV Staff  |  Dec 29, 2008
Cisco Systems. Not really a name you would expect to see, well, here. From their own website:Cisco is the leading supplier of networking equipment and network management for the Internet. Products include routers, hubs, ethernet - not exactly...
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City Demands Cable Competition
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 21, 2015
The city government of Lincoln, Nebraska wants its citizens to enjoy the benefits of cable competition. So it is allowing a second cable operator onto the playing field. And guess what? The incumbent cable operator isn’t happy about it.
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Clarus Takes New Approach to Power Conditioning
SV Staff  |  Nov 06, 2019
Clarus, maker of high-end cables and sister company to Orlando, Florida-based cable specialist Tributaries, has taken a new approach to preventing AC line noise from contaminating audio signals in its first AC power conditioner.
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Clarus Unveils New High-End Audio Cables
SV Staff  |  Mar 27, 2020
Responding to “repeated requests” from its customers, Clarus, the sister brand of Tributaries specializing in high-end audio cables, is updating its popular Crimson line with new Mark II balanced XLR and singled-ended RCA audio cables and speaker cables.
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Classé Debuts Preamp/surround Processor
HT Staff  |  May 21, 2001
Canada's Classé Audio Inc. has long been known for building audiophile equipment. With the rise of home theater, the company expanded its offerings with multichannel amplifiers, DVD players, surround processors, and other product to enhance the experience of movie lovers everywhere.
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Classé Launches Sigma Series
SV Staff  |  Oct 07, 2014
Classé has announced the availability of its new Sigma Series, featuring the Sigma SSP 7.1-channel surround sound preamp/processor ($5,000) and a pair of amplifiers, the AMP2 ($3,000) and AMP5 ($5,000), rated at 2 x 200 watts and 5 x 200 watts into 8 ohms, respectively.
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Classic horror: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari on DVD
Joe Leydon  |  Jan 04, 1998

D<I>VD. Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover. Directed by Robert Wiene. Aspect ratio 4:3. Dolby Digital. 72 minutes. 1919. Image Entertainment ID4099DSDVD. Not rated. $29.95.</I>

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Clean Your LCD Screen
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Apr 14, 2006
ScreenTek, a company that sells laptop replacement screens (who knew there even was such a thing as a laptop replacement screen? I thought you were simply out of luck...), has developed a cleaning solution for LCD screens that are not in need of being replaced. Called PixelClean, the new screen cleaner was developed for high-gloss LCD screens like Sony XBRITE and Toshiba TruBrite - although the formulation is supposed to work as well on other types of flat-panel screens, such as less-advanced laptops, plasma TVs, and LCD TVs.
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ClearPix2 Projection Screens
HT Staff  |  Feb 24, 2004  |  First Published: Feb 25, 2004
Many home theater experts contend that the proper place for a center channel speaker is directly behind the screen, as in a commercial theater. Such arrangements require perforated screens that are acoustically transparent but visually reflective, an arrangement that can wreak havoc with some fixed-pixel projectors. Annoying moire patterns can result from the relationship between a projector's image elements and the holes in a perforated screen.
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Clinton Pushes for Federal Study of Violent Media
Barry Willis  |  Jun 06, 1999

In the wake of a rash of horrendous school shootings, President Clinton has ordered a federal study of marketing strategies used to promote movies, music, and video games. The <A HREF="http://www.ftc.gov/">Federal Trade Commission</A> has been given a $1 million budget and 18 months to complete the study, which will be "designed to lift a veil on whether production companies deliberately use violent imagery and language to lure young consumers," according to a June 1 report by the <A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/"><I>Washington Post</I></A>.

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Cloud Content Access Coming
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 23, 2010
Cloud-based content access is coming to consumers under the name of UltraViolet.
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Cloudy with a chance of downloads
Michael Berk  |  Mar 29, 2011

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