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Get Ready for Drone Deliveries
SV Staff  |  Dec 14, 2016
In case you haven’t heard, Amazon carried out the first successful test of its Prime Air drone delivery system in England last week.
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Get Ready for High Def Vinyl
SV Staff  |  Apr 16, 2018
Everything else is going HD, so why not vinyl?

Austrian-based startup Rebeat Innovation has received almost $5 million in funding to continue developing a new kind of high-resolution vinyl record that not only sounds better than the best of today’s vinyl releases but plays longer and louder as well.

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Get Ready for Record Store Day 2012
Michael Berk  |  Apr 19, 2012

This Saturday, April 21, marks the sixth edition of Record Store Day, a holiday for vinylphiles worldwide. In an age of music streaming services and online shopping, it's a chance to give a little back to the independently owned brick and mortar shops that nurtured your addiction in the first place, and help keep it alive today.

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Get Ready for Space TV…in 4K
SV Staff  |  Sep 14, 2015
Image from the Hubble Space Telescope

NASA has announced plans to launch North America’s first commercial-free 4K/Ultra HD TV channel and streaming service on November 1.

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Get Ready for the Age of Eternal Data Archiving
SV Staff  |  Feb 17, 2016
‘Superman Memory Crystal’ 5D Discs Can Store Data for Billions of Years

Scientists at the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) have made a major step forward in the development of digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years.

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Get Ready for the Star Wars Blitz
SV Staff  |  Sep 19, 2017
Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the second film in the Star Wars sequel trilogy and the eighth chapter in the Star Wars saga, opens in U.S. theaters on December 15, 2017. Get ready for the marketing blitz.
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Get ready to pay for Hulu and Youtube
SV Staff  |  Jan 22, 2010
And so it begins. Youtube is going to start charging to watch some independent films on its service, and Hulu looks like it might be following suit. USA Today reported that YouTube will charge around $5 for access to five Sundance Film Festival...
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Get Ready to Stock Up on Disney on Blu-ray
SV Staff  |  Aug 29, 2008
We've known for a while that Disney has been planning on its first Blu-ray release, Sleeping Beauty, to hit the streets on October 7. Finally, we have word of some of the other classics that will be coming out over the next two years in the...
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Get Thee to a Shoppery!
SV Staff  |  Apr 16, 2008
What's a "record store"? If you've never been to one, it's time for you to paddle away from your computer keyboard's virtual Amazon and enter the real world of bricks and mortar. And if you're, ahem, an older buyer who hasn't been to one...
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Get Well Soon, Mr. Jobs
SV Staff  |  Jan 15, 2009
Steve Jobs, co-founder and most recognizable figurehead of Apple, father of the iPod, isn't feeling well. A cancer survivor, Jobs announced yesterday that he'll be taking a leave of absence for medical reasons, until the end of June.No...
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Get Your Atmos Demo Here
Bob Ankosko  |  Apr 10, 2015
A Visit to Best Buy’s Magnolia Design Center

Audio snobs might cringe at the idea of visiting a Best Buy but did you know that the chain’s Magnolia Design Centers sell McIntosh electronics and speakers from B&W, MartinLogan, and Sonus Faber?

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Get Your House Party In Sync with Audioengine's AW1
SV Staff  |  Mar 12, 2008
Every audiophile music geek dreams of taking a giant hard drive full of high bit-rate music and streaming it to every room in the house. But making it a reality is expensive and complicated. Short of shelling out $1,000 or more for systems like...
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Get your Oscars on in New York City
SV Staff  |  Feb 22, 2010
[Pictured, clockwise from top center: Obidiah Stane, Bruce Wayne, (possibly) Clint Barton, Lucius Fox, and Harry from Mama Mia. Yes, four out of five of this year's best actor nominees have been or are rumored to be main characters in comic book...
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Get your own Marvel Comics HDTV
SV Staff  |  Mar 01, 2010
There's nerdy, and then there's too nerdy even for me. If you really, really love Marvel Comics, you can get an HDTV branded with a popular Marvel superhero or team. A company named RTC23 just announced that it will be releasing a full line of...
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Getting Personal
Kim Wilson  |  Oct 28, 2008

Nothing makes a statement like personalizing your interior decor with <A HREF=http://www.auralex.com/sonicprint>Auralex Acoustics SonicPrint ProPanels</A>. These acoustic absorptive panels are covered in a special fabric designed to improve the sound of your home theater or media room. The SonicPrint panels help control excessive reverberation and room ring that are caused by hard surfaces like drywall, concrete or wood. Strategically placing these panels on the walls will absorb unwanted sound energy and optimize the acoustical properties of your room, providing more accurate and undistorted sound throughout the listening area.

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