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Focal Unveils Mainstream Ear/Headphones
SV Staff  |  Jun 21, 2017
Focal, the French maker of stylish high-performance speakers, today announced mainstream-priced wired and wireless earphones and headphones to join last year’s high-end Utopia and Elear models, the latter of which received Sound & Vision’s Top Pick designation.
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Focal Unveils Weather-Resistant Outdoor Speakers
SV Staff  |  Nov 07, 2018
Winter may be just around the corner but that didn’t deter Focal, the France-based maker of high-performance speakers and headphones, from introducing two outdoor speakers designed to withstand extreme weather conditions.
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Focal Updates Popular Aria Series at CES 2024
Bob Ankosko  |  Jan 11, 2024
Focal, the highly regarded French speaker company, has unveiled a follow-up to the popular Aria 900 speaker range it introduced a decade ago.
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Focus Enhancements and Good Guys
HT Staff  |  May 16, 2003
West Coast electronics chain Good Guys has been enormously successful in its effort to remake itself into an upscale specialty retailer. The company's partnership with Focus Enhancements is its latest move into high-quality video.
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Folks Fuss Over FCC's CNBCU Deal
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 20, 2011
The Federal Communications Commission's conditions for the merger of Comcast with NBC-Universal are attracting comment. Media giants are dreading what will happen at the negotiating table as they cut deals for their own content. At the same time, others are saying that the FCC's net neutrality rules don't go far enough.

The initial fussing is coming from Disney and News Corp., both of whom own motion picture studios, TV networks, and cable channels. One of their concerns is that the FCC's requirement that Comcast make available programming it owns to online video services it doesn't own. This could complicate their ongoing negotiations with the likes of Netflix and Apple, pointed out The Wall Street Journal.

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Following Sun and Microsoft, Sony joins the Set-Top Crowd
Jon Iverson  |  Aug 02, 1998

The set-top box could eventually become the center of your attention, which is why several turf wars have broken out to win control over this part of the home-theater market. With DTV on the horizon, cable and satellite companies will be upgrading the services that feed your TV with some mix of standard and high-definition digital audio and video. And as movie distribution moves toward a pay-per-view future, the gateway to these services---the set-top box---will have more prominence in most home-theater systems.

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Following Up on LG's Super Sexy Rollup OLED TV
SV Staff  |  Aug 07, 2019
If there's one TV that really captured the imagination of showgoers at CES 2019, it was LG's rollup OLED TV — an impossibly thin flexible screen that magically appears and disappears into a svelte aluminum enclosure the company calls Zero View.
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Foo Fighters Join Sony to Promote Hi-Res Audio
SV Staff  |  Jul 09, 2015
The Foo Fighters have agreed to work with Sony to deliver “convincing, premium quality High-Resolution Audio experiences to audiophiles worldwide.”

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Football on the world's biggest 1080p screen
SV Staff  |  Aug 10, 2009
It measures 160 feet wide and 72 feet high, and is the largest 1080p HDTV in the world. Cowboys Stadium, the newest stadium in the NFL, is home to this massive screen, which just showed its first football game on Saturday. Granted, it was a game of...
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For Japan
Ken Richardson  |  Apr 07, 2011

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Another major aftershock has hit Japan - which, again, hits home the fact that the country needs our help.

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For Product Opinions, Consumers Trust Friends
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 15, 2008
When you need an authoritative opinion on a prospective purchase, who you gonna call?
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Forecast continues to be Cloudy
SV Staff  |  Jun 22, 2011
Everybody's heading to the cloud these days, of course (even Best Buy is launching a service), but various little glitches along the way have made some of us reconsider trusting our data to somebody else's distributed network. We told you a few...
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Forecast: iCloud
Michael Berk  |  May 31, 2011

Looks like Apple's finally going to let us know what its long-in-the-works cloud storage/music locker/content delivery service is going to look like.

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Forget 3D…Fantastic Four Opens in MX4D
SV Staff  |  Aug 07, 2015
Fantastic Four, which opens today, will be a full-on multi-sensory experience at the Showcase Cinema de Lux in Revere, MA, the nation’s second MX4D theater but the East Coast’s first such venue.

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Forget Bass Traps, Dirac Elevates Room Acoustics Digitally
SV Staff  |  Jan 05, 2023
Sweden’s Dirac is kicking off 2023 CES with a remarkable new technology that builds on and refines the acclaimed Dirac Live digital room-correction tool built into AV components from more than 20 brands.
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