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Eric Clapton's Layla on the World's Smallest Radio
SV Staff  |  Feb 27, 2009
We're usually on about the biggest and best sound equipment you can buy, but in this case small is definitely cool. Some researchers at UCLA Berkeley have created a radio out of a single carbon nanotube, making it the smallest radio in the...
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Erin Go Digital
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 25, 2005

While religious and political animosity continues to brew between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, there is one thing they can agree on: digital cinema. A subsidiary of technology and services provider <A href="http://www.avicatech.com">Avica</A>, Digital Cinema Limited (DCL), has announced that they are starting to implement a nationwide digital-cinema network that will ultimately lead to a conversion of all 515 screens in both regions of the Emerald Isle to the digital format. After two years of planning, DCL began installing the first 25 projectors earlier this month and hopes to have all Irish screens operational within a year at a cost of over $53 million.

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Esoteric ‘Opens New Horizon’ with $27K SACD Player
SV Staff  |  Feb 20, 2017
Sometimes a product name says it all. Like the recently introduced Grandioso K1 SACD player from Toyko-based Esoteric, which sells for a cool 27 grand.
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ESPN - The Ultimate in Controls
SV Staff  |  May 21, 2008
Make sure you keep this one away from the dog. ESPN is announcing an amazing new clicker, boldly called, "The Ultimate Remote." Well, they might be right. The ESPN Ultimate Remote is a universal remote, but it's oh-so-much more. With...
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ESPN for Xbox LIVE Gets a Makeover
Michael Berk  |  Aug 25, 2011

Love your Xbox 360? Want more control over your live sports viewing? Microsoft has you covered with a host of upgrades to their ESPN for Xbox LIVE service (which requires an Xbox LIVE Gold membership, though you'll incur no additional cost beyond the subscription fee).

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ESPN Gets Serious about HD
Barry Willis  |  Feb 02, 2003

Televised sports are one of the primary drivers of the digital television revolution.

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ESPN Pushes HDTV
HT Staff  |  Mar 22, 2003
HDTV is poised to take off like a rocket, believes Bryan Burns, ESPN's vice president of strategic business planning and development. His network has made a big push with high-def programming over the past year, and is pushing it even harder this year.
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ESPN Streaming Service/New App Due this Spring
SV Staff  |  Feb 07, 2018
ESPN yesterday announced plans to launch a streaming service and a redesigned app this spring.
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ESPN Wants to Stand Alone
Mark Fleischmann  |  Dec 02, 2015
ESPN is tired of being just another channel in someone else’s pay-TV system. Its parent company Disney is considering going direct to consumers with a video streaming service, as HBO is already doing with HBO Now. CEO Bob Iger raised the prospect in a CNBC interview, though he added the move is at least five years away, presumably because of existing contracts with pay-TV providers. Analysts said the service could get consumers to shell out between $21 and $28 a month.
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ESPN: 3D tech will beat DVRs by 2019
SV Staff  |  May 26, 2010
ESPN is serious in seeing 3D technology develop. The company is launching a dedicated 3D network, ESPN 3D, which will be available through Comcast and DirecTV starting June 11. ESPN is now planning to broadcast over 100 3D events over the next...
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ESPN’s Decision to Close 3D Channel Raises the Question: Is 3D Dead?
HT Staff  |  Jun 14, 2013
Is 3D dead? That’s the question being asked in the wake of news that ESPN plans to close its ESPN 3D cable channel by the end of the year due to low demand—so low that audience ratings were below Nielsen's measurable threshold, according to a StarTribune report.

Voices throughout the industry are questioning whether 3D will ever take off or remain as a little used TV feature that will eventually wither away.

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Essence Ships New Line of Electrostatic Speakers
SV Staff  |  Jul 15, 2014
Essence Electrostatic has announced that its new line of floor standing electrostatic speakers is now available.
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Essence Ships Second-Generation HDMI 2.0a DACs
SV Staff  |  Apr 13, 2017
Essence For Hi Res Audio is shipping its new second-generation digital-to-analog converters (DACs) for owners of late-model AV receivers and preamp/processors who want to upgrade to HDMI 2.0a instead of replacing the gear.
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Essential Phone Gets MQA Streaming
SV Staff  |  Jun 08, 2018
MQA has announced that Essential Products, the Palo Alto, CA-based company started by Android co-founder Andy Rubin in 2015, has equipped its Essential Phone with MQA decoding and streaming capability.
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Estimated DTV Coverage Woes Worsen
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 15, 2008
Remember the research firm that predicted 5.9 million antenna-dependent U.S. households would lose at least some channels after the DTV transition? You know, the survey that convinced the Federal Communications Commission to do further field testing to gauge the extent of the potential problem? Well, that same firm has now upped its estimate, predicting that 9.2 million households will have reception problems. But what's a few million more angry viewers between friends?
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