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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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Hard-Disk Video Recorders for Everyone?
Jon Iverson  |  Dec 19, 1999

Both <A HREF="http://www.tivo.com">TiVo</A> and <A HREF="http://www.replaytv.com">ReplayTV</A> pioneered a new product category for television addicts that allows consumers to record programs on hard-disk-based digital recorders for later playback (see <A HREF="http://www.guidetohometheater.com/shownews.cgi?565">previous story</A>). The market is now heating up with recent announcements from several new players in the field.

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Hard-Disk–Based Home-Theater Products?
 |  Jul 16, 2000

Last week, <A HREF="http://www.Thomson-multimedia.com">Thomson Multimedia</A> and hard-disk manufacturer <A HREF="http://www.seagate.com/">Seagate Technology</A> announced an equally owned joint venture to form an independent company, called <A HREF="http://www.cachevision.com">CacheVision</A>, that the companies say will be focused on "value-added storage-centric systems" for home consumer electronics. The companies are anticipating that advanced consumer-electronics hard disk&ndash;based storage modules may soon be needed in many consumer-electronics devices, including TVs, set-top boxes, Personal Video Recorders (PVRs), and DVD players (see <A HREF="http://www.guidetohometheater.com/shownews.cgi?735">previous report</A>).

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Harman Acquires Arcam
SV Staff  |  Jul 17, 2017
Harman International, the legendary audio brand recently acquired by Samsung, today announced its acquisition of U.K-based A&R Cambridge Ltd., a.k.a. Arcam, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Jam Industries.
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Harman Acquires Roon
SV Staff  |  Nov 27, 2023
Harman, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., today announced the acquisition of Roon, the company behind the subscription-based music management and streaming platform embraced by music enthusiasts.
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HARMAN Closes Sound United Deal
Mark Henninger  |  Sep 23, 2025
HARMAN says it has closed its acquisition of Sound United, adding Denon, Marantz, Bowers & Wilkins, and more to its Lifestyle Division. Sound United will operate as a standalone strategic business unit (SBU) inside HARMAN.

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Harman Consolidates, Layoffs Announced
SV Staff  |  Sep 19, 2017
When the news hit last fall that Samsung was set to acquire Harman International, pundits wondered how the merger would impact the iconic company whose history includes introduction of the first stereo receiver under the Harman Kardon brand in 1958.
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