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Dave Matthews on Blu-ray
SV Staff  |  Jul 13, 2007
Make that Dave Matthews and fellow guitarist Tim Reynolds. Way back in 1999, they released Live at Luther College. Now, 8 years later, they're Live at Radio City. Make that, of course, Radio City Music Hall. RCA announced on Wednesday that...
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David Bowie's Final Album Is No. 1 in the U.S.
SV Staff  |  Jan 18, 2016
David Bowie's Blackstar, the album released on January 8 just two days before his death, has made history as the artist's first album to reach No. 1 in the U.S.
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David Byrne: Same as it ever was!
SV Staff  |  Dec 10, 2008
  Last night, my wife and I saw David Byrne in concert in Charleston, South Carolina, and Byrne put on a rockin' show!  In what was practically a two-hour love letter to fans, Byrne played a ton of Talking Heads material, as well as...
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David Gilmour on Blu-ray and HD DVD
SV Staff  |  Aug 09, 2007
Hot on the heels of the big Led Zeppelin announcement (see my post below) comes word that David Gilmour's imminent DVD, Remember That Night: Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Columbia), will also be available on both Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD. Each of...
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David Gilmour Swings Six Ways
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 08, 2008
I was poking around Amazon last week when I found David Gilmour's new Live in Gdansk album. In fact, I found several versions. It's available in no fewer than six configurations that dole out varying levels of content at prices from $20 to $116.
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David Letterman Headed Back to TV in Netflix Deal
SV Staff  |  Aug 09, 2017
David Letterman is returning to television to host a six-episode series that will air on Netflix in 2018.
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David vs. Goliath in Struggle for Titanic Copyright
Barry Willis  |  Feb 21, 1998

Does the United States Patent and Trademark Office operate on a first come, first served basis, or will it bow to the applicant with the biggest bucks? The issue of legal ownership of the "Titanic" trademark---a name worth millions in the wake of the biggest blockbuster movie in history---is being contested at the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board in Arlington, Virginia.

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Day And Date Movie Downloads With Burn To DVD
 |  Oct 01, 2006

This past Tuesday Universal Studios released <I>The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift</I> day and date on standard DVD, HD DVD, and through <a href="http://ultimateavmag.com/news/040606industrynews/">CinemaNow</a> in a "downloadable DVD version" that can be downloaded and then burned to a blank DVD for just $9.99. The burned DVD is claimed to be playable "in virtually any DVD player," which means CinemaNow users aren't confined to watching the feature film on their computer monitors.

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Days of Plasma TV Coming to a Close
Mark Fleischmann  |  Nov 14, 2014  |  First Published: Nov 12, 2014
Editor's note: This story has been updated.

Samsung and LG will end production of plasma TVs at the end of November signaling the death knell for a TV technology that has been the darling of video enthusiasts for more than a decade. Though plasma’s black-level performance has made it a perennial critic’s favorite, sales have dwindled in recent years.

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DBS Delivering More HDTV
Barry Willis  |  Sep 29, 2003

Direct broadcast satellite services <A HREF="http://www.echostar.com">EchoStar</A> and <A HREF="http://www.directv.com">DirecTV</A> are expanding HDTV programming and hardware options for their subscribers. The news should help boost subscriber growth for both companies, whose combined viewers now total more than 20 million.

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DBS Merger Stirs Rancor
Barry Willis  |  Dec 29, 2001

All is not well with the proposed merger of satellite broadcasters <A HREF="http://www.echostar.com">EchoStar</A> and <A HREF="http://www.directv.com">DirecTV</A>, currently being reviewed by Federal regulators.

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DBS Subscriptions Continue to Surge
 |  Dec 10, 2000

Television viewers can't get enough of direct broadcast satellite services. Both <A HREF="http://www.directv.com/">DirecTV</A> and <A HREF="http://www.echostar.com/">EchoStar</A> have reported huge increases in new subscribers for the third quarter of 2000.

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DBS: States Next Obstacle?
Barry Willis  |  Mar 10, 2002

It appears that almost nobody in government thinks a single direct broadcast satellite system is a good idea.

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DBSers Promise Total Coverage
Barry Willis  |  Mar 03, 2002

Can direct broadcast satellite services make good on their promises? Representatives of EchoStar and Hughes Electronics Corporation (owner of DirecTV) have promised federal lawmakers that if their merger is approved, they will roll out broadband digital services, retransmit local television signals, and generally saturate the nation with satellite television&mdash;all within three years.

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Dead & Company Show to Stream Live on Saturday
SV Staff  |  Nov 06, 2015
It’s been 20 years since Jerry Garcia died, bringing 30 years of the Grateful Dead to an end. Over the years surviving members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart have carried on in various offshoots of the band and reunited sporadically for one-off performances and tours featuring many guests.
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