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Coming Soon: DVD Recorders, DVD/VCR Combo
 |  Jul 16, 2000

The market for DVD recorders is expected to explode in the near future, and major manufacturers are positioning themselves to benefit. In mid-July, Japanese electronics firms <A HREF="http://www.sharp.co.jp/">Sharp Corporation</A> and <A HREF="http://www.pioneer.co.jp/">Pioneer Corporation</A> announced an alliance to cooperate on the development of new digital products, in particular DVD recorders.

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Coming Soon: Great Theatrical Performances on Tape
 |  Dec 19, 1999

Most of this site's visitors enjoy home theater. Now, thanks to a huge boost in funding for <A HREF="http://www.Broadwayarchive.com/"> Broadway Digital Entertainment</A> (BDE), we'll be able to enjoy theater at home, too. BDE has just received $3 million to help put its archive of historic theatrical performances out on VHS tape.

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Coming Soon: HD Movies–On Tape
Barry Willis  |  Feb 03, 2002

With the advent of DVD, the death of videotape has been widely predicted. Standard VHS may be going the way of the dinosaur, but tape is re-emerging as a format for high definition movies. Some folks are even predicting that DVD may be relegated to a "mid-fi format."

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Coming Soon: High-Def Terminator
Barry Willis  |  May 11, 2003

Computer geeks and sci-fi action thrillers go together like peanut butter and jelly. It's therefore no accident that the first-ever high definition DVD will feature Arnold Swarzenegger's monosyllabic cyborg on a disc playable on computers only.

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Coming Soon: Movies on Demand from Time-Warner
Barry Willis  |  Oct 17, 1999

Cable subscribers in Tampa, Florida and Austin, Texas will be the first in the nation to get movies whenever they wish. <A HREF="http://www.pathfinder.com/corp/">Time Warner</A>, the nation's second-largest cable company, is preparing to roll out video-on-demand to its subscribers in those cities by the end of the year, according to an October 15 report in the <A HREF="http://www.ajc.com/"><I>Atlanta Journal and Constitution</I></A>.

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Coming Soon: Self-Destructing Discs
Barry Willis  |  Jan 23, 2000

The old <I>Mission: Impossible</I> TV series always opened with the head of the spy team picking up his instructions on a miniature tape recorder stashed in an obscure place. An authoritative voice would give Mr. Phelps his instructions&mdash;always with the option of declining the assignment&mdash;and then announce that the tape would self-destruct, which it did with a burst of flame and a puff of smoke.

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Coming Soon: Sony Blu-ray Recorder
Barry Willis  |  Mar 03, 2003

<A HREF="http://www.sony.com">Sony Corporation</A> has beaten its competitors off the starting line again.

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Coming Soon: Spielberg Films on DVD
Barry Willis  |  Apr 30, 2000

Steven Spielberg has held out long enough. With as many as 12 million DVD players expected to be in movie fans' homes by the end of the year, Hollywood's most successful director has decided to release his films on digital discs.

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Coming Soon: Virtual Aquarium as "Video Wallpaper"
Barry Willis  |  Sep 12, 1999

Years ago, Brian Eno pushed the artistic envelope with "sonic wallpaper," or background music as art. Artists working in film and video have exploited the concept too, using their cameras to record campfires, roaring surf, sleeping people and animals, stationary buildings, and other excruciatingly boring subjects. In playback, such fare tests viewers' patience and challenges their assumptions about art.

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Coming This Fall: 2nd Generation DVD Recorder from Panasonic
HT Staff  |  May 30, 2001
On May 31, Panasonic announced the DMR-E20, its second-generation DVD video recorder. Carrying a suggested retail price of $1499.95, less than half the price of last year's DMR-E10, the new machine will hit the streets in October.
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Coming this Summer: Multi-zone Processor from Lexicon
HT Staff  |  May 16, 2001
This summer, Bedford, MA-based Lexicon, Inc. will introduce two new digital controllers that will assume the lead in the company's audio product lineup. The MC-12 and MC-12 Balanced Digital Controllers feature "leading-edge audio processing technology, and a unique new industrial design," according to a May 14 announcement.
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Coming This Summer: Self-Destructing DVDs
Barry Willis  |  May 19, 2003

Hackers will need more than computer skills to work around the self-destructing DVDs soon to be released by Walt Disney Company's Buena Vista Home Entertainment.

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Coming Thursday: The New S&V site
SV Staff  |  Jun 11, 2008
Has the look of the Sound & Vision Web site grown . . . tiresome? Or maybe you're cool with our color palette and design but have trouble finding stuff? Well just wait till tomorrow. Starting thursday, June 12, you'll see a whole new...
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Commercials Are "Excessively Noisy or Strident"
SV Staff  |  Jul 02, 2008
Don't hate me. It's just my job, and they make me do it. Yes, I am one of those cursed recording engineers who mixes television commercials, and mixes them to be as loud as possible. It's not my fault, it's just the way it is. You know how loud...
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Commercials are a Good Thing
SV Staff  |  Jan 29, 2009
A new study, of course by the television industry, found that people enjoyed TV shows more with commercials than the same show displayed without commercials. Interesting . . .Of course, it should be noted that most sitcoms are written in...
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