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Control4’s Neeo Promises Refined Smart-Home Control
SV Staff  |  Nov 05, 2019
Custom installation/smart home specialist SnapAV today introduced a “highly-refined” touchscreen remote control built to harness Control4’s Smart Home OS 3 platform.
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Convergence Isn't What It Used to Be
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Mar 15, 2005
It's unlikely that you've got hours and hours of HD video sitting on your computer's hard drive - although you might if you're the proud owner of a HDV camcorder (from JVC or Sony) or you've invested in an HD PCTV card for your computer and have been recording over-the-air HDTV broadcasts for the past umpteen months. On the other hand, you're more likely to have a slew of high-res images courtesy of your megapixel digital still camera. However, as my wife is forever explaining to me, having lots of great pictures (and video) stored on your computer is nice; it would be nicer (much nicer), though, if they could actually be viewed by the family in some way that didn't involve jockeying for space and hunching over a small computer screen. As I've discovered over the years, you ignore your significant other at your peril.
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Convergence Takes New Twist with Hearst-Argyle/Geocast Deal
Barry Willis  |  Oct 10, 1999

As TVs become much more like computers, computers may become much more like TVs. That's one implication of a $10 million deal signed in early October by <A HREF="http://www.hearstargyle.com/">Hearst-Argyle Television</A> and <A HREF="http://www.geocast.com/">Geocast Network Systems</A>. The two companies plan to deliver a new-media program service to personal computers using a portion of Hearst-Argyle's over-the-air digital broadcast spectrum. The programming to be offered will originate with national networks, local TV stations, and other information and entertainment services.

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Cool Look, Hot Performance: Philips DVD Q50
HT Staff  |  Jul 05, 2001
Which is more important in a DVD player, styling or performance?
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Cool, Cooler, and Coolest
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Sep 10, 2005
After sitting on your butt for an entire day, it's good to be able to walk around the CEDIA EXPO 2005 floor…at least that's what you tell yourself the first two or three miles. But then you start running across the really cool stuff, and all that walking doesn't seem so bad after all.
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Coppola Does SIM2
Thomas J. Norton  |  May 12, 2010
Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola divides his time these days between making wine at his Rubicon vineyard in Napa Valley, California and making movies. He acquired the large vineyard, formerly owned by the Inglenook brand, over several decades as the land became available. It was at this facility that SIM2 Multimedia conducted the recent launch of a new advertising campaign featuring Coppola's endorsement of SIM2 DLP projectors.
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Coppola Wins Massive Settlement from Warner Bros.
Barry Willis  |  Jul 12, 1998

Thursday, July 9, was "an important day for artists," according to Robert Chapman, attorney for film director, producer, and writer Francis Ford Coppola. On that day, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury imposed $60 million in punitive damages on <A HREF="http://www.wb.com">Warner Brothers,</A> the defendant in a lawsuit brought by Coppola.

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Cops N' Bloggers
SV Staff  |  Aug 06, 2007
Saw the last U.S. show of this first leg of the Police's '07/'08 tour at Giants Stadium last night. Having never caught them back during their heyday, this was a must-see gig. (Geez, did I really pay THAT MUCH [take a guess] for these tickets back...
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Copying Is Stealing, Says Sony BMG
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 05, 2007
Buying a CD doesn't give you the right to copy it, a record-company attorney testified in a trial that pit the recording industry against a Native American woman in Minnesota. The single mother of two was successfully sued for using peer-to-peer file sharing to violate numerous copyrights. What may ultimately come to matter more than the verdict were some of the details that emerged along the way.
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Copyright Office: Direct Downloads OK
 |  Sep 09, 2001

In the United States, the government's traditional stance on big business has been to accommodate independent distributors whenever possible. The policy has long been seen as a way of encouraging competition and preventing the growth of monopolies; automakers don't operate their own dealerships, and cable providers typically don't produce their own programming. In general, you can't own the "pipes" and the "water," too.

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Copyright Ruling: CEA Responds
 |  Jan 19, 2003

On January 15, the US Supreme Court refused to overturn a 1998 Congressional decision to extend previous copyright protection by twenty years.

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Copyright War Continues on Several Fronts
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 09, 2009
The war among copyright holders, consumers, and other parties continues on so many fronts that it's hard for us to cover them all. Here's a smattering from the last month or so.
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Cord Cutting Makes Cable Shudder
Mark Fleischmann  |  Feb 24, 2009
Want to see your local cable operator choke on his martini? Just say two little words: "cord cutting." This is the new jargon for consumers who cancel their cable service in favor of other options, according to the Associated Press.
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Cord Trimming Accelerates
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 26, 2016
Seventy-nine percent of U.S. consumers still subscribe to pay TV, but that number is dwindling as cord-trimmers, cord-cutters, and cord-nevers cut into the base. That’s the news from PricewaterhouseCoopers in its report “Videoquake 3.0: The Evolution of TV’s Revolution.”
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Cord-Cutters: How to Live Stream the Super Bowl
SV Staff  |  Jan 31, 2017
Cord-cutting sports fans who can’t fathom missing Super Bowl LI on Sunday can stream the game live via the FoxSportsGo app without having to enter pay TV credentials.
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