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Happy 25th Birthday, CD! Now, Get Lost!
SV Staff  |  Aug 17, 2007
Or so the masses seem to be saying. The Compact Disc is indeed 25 years old today. On August 17, 1982, the first discs were born in Germany. They contained Richard Strauss's Alpine Symphony, but the first commercially available release would be...
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Happy Birthday Big Bird, and Welcome to the 'Net!
SV Staff  |  Nov 11, 2008
Sesame Street just turned 39!  Happy Birthday! To celebrate, Sesame Street is hitting the Internet, in a big way. They're heading to iTunes, YouTube, and Hulu. Talk about covering all your bases. It makes sense - their target audience...
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Happy Birthday Television!
SV Staff  |  Jan 26, 2009
Not only is today the start of the year of the Ox - Happy New Year, China, but it's also the birthday of the television.  Way, way back in 1926, John Baird demonstrated the device in London. You have two choices: go home and share a...
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Happy birthday, Klipsch
Michael Berk  |  Apr 18, 2011

Klipsch turns 65 this year. The venerable US manufacturer (based in Indianapolis since 1989 but still turning out speakers in its Hope, Arkansas plant today) has posted a retrospective video (with some nifty vintage ad images) today tracing the company's evolution from its humble beginnings in ham enthusiast Paul W.

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Happy Bloomsday, rock and rollers
Michael Berk  |  Jun 16, 2011

It's Bloomsday today, everyone, and time to celebrate the life and works of James Joyce (June 16th is the day on which Leopold Bloom's wanderings through Dublin are described in obsessive detail by Joyce in his Ulysses).

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Happy Blu Year
SV Staff  |  Jan 09, 2008
At its CES press conference, the Blu-ray Group could have been doing the Happy Dance. Instead, it was all about business. Home video software executives made the case for BD with a series of slides, showing both the hard sales data, as well as...
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Happy Blu year?
 |  Feb 01, 2007  |  First Published: Feb 02, 2007

Recently released independent sales tracking from Nielsen's VideoScan has shown that Blu-ray Disc has nearly caught up to HD DVD in total number of discs sold since launch, and that the Sony-backed format outsold HD DVD at a rate of better than 2:1 in the first two weeks of January. While this is certainly too short a window to draw conclusions from, there are some significant reasons that this news bodes well for Blu-ray.

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Happy Blu-ray 3D Day!
Scott Wilkinson  |  Nov 16, 2010
One of the criticisms aimed at 3D in the home is the dearth of available titles. Then there's all the exclusive deals that make many titles available only in bundles with 3D TVs and Blu-ray players from one manufacturer or another. But according to the Digital Entertainment Group (DEG), a trade association representing the home-entertainment industry, these limitations are starting to ease as more titles are being released for the holiday buying season. In fact, 10 titles are being released today—which is being called Blu-ray 3D Day—in anticipation of Black Friday (November 26 this year).
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Happy DTV Transition Day, Part 1
Mark Fleischmann  |  Feb 17, 2009
Today is the originally scheduled date of the DTV transition. Some television stations will make the transition from antiquated analog to cool new digital broadcasting on this very date. Others will have to wait till June 12. Let's look at the current tally.
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Happy Halloween from Proficient Audio!
SV Staff  |  Oct 29, 2008
Gotta admit this: Most whole-home system manufacturers are a bit, well, boring. Really, how interesting can an in-wall speaker be? Well, the folks at Proficient Audio Systems have a bit of a sense of humor. And, a bit of creativity too!This...
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Happy Labor Day HDTV Sale!
SV Staff  |  Aug 20, 2008
Black Friday's coming early in the HDTV market. Just in time for all your favorite network shows to return - to say nothing of the fall classics and my fav, college football - HDTVs are going on sale. If you're in the market for a new set, you...
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Happy Trails to (and From) Yamaha's Doan Hoff
Doan Hoff  |  Mar 30, 2012

After 33 years, Doan Hoff, Yamaha's veteran manager of advertising and public relations is retiring today. We wracked our brains trying to come up with something to say that would capture how much we've enjoyed working with Doan (and how much we're going to miss him), but we ended up turning to the man himself.

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Happy ‘Back to the Future’ Day
SV Staff  |  Oct 21, 2015
In case you haven’t heard, October 21, 2015 is the day Marty McFly travels to in Back to the Future Part II and discovers flying cars, hoverboards (not quite there yet), self-lacing sneakers, and drones (bingo).
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Hard Times
SV Staff  |  Oct 24, 2008
Hey buddy, can you spare a nickel? Better yet, how about $700 billion? Everyone is feeling the pain these days, even Sony Corporation.The electronics giant issued a revised earnings report, and the news was not good. Consumer demand is slowing so...
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Hard Times Hit HDTV?
SV Staff  |  Sep 17, 2008
These economic times are tough on everyone. Is the TV hardware business immune from the troubles? In a conference centered around HDTV displays, the news was surprisingly optimistic. In the past, manufacturers were concerned about dropping prices...
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