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Help Wanted: Smashing Pumpkins drummer
SV Staff  |  Mar 31, 2009
Can you take random abuse from Billy Corgan? Can you explode on cue? If so, the Smashing Pumpkins have a job for you: drummer!This is not a joke.Late yesterday, I received the following e-mail from the band's publicist:"Auditions will be...
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Henry Kloss, Hi-Fi Design Titan, Dead at 72
David Lander  |  Feb 10, 2002

Henry Kloss, whose prolific hi-fi design and manufacturing career spanned a half century, died of a subdural hematoma on January 31, three weeks before his 73rd birthday.

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HEOS Music App Gets a Makeover
SV Staff  |  Dec 18, 2023
The Home Entertainment Operating System (HEOS) music app Denon launched almost 10 years ago as an answer to Sonos, is getting a makeover.
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Here Come First 3D BDs
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 15, 2010
Sony and Disney are first out of the gate with 3D-compatible movies on Blu-ray.
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Here Comes the Deal
SV Staff  |  Nov 24, 2017  |  First Published: Nov 22, 2017
Are you ready for the Big Sale Day? Or are you planning to skip the whole kerfuffle and go to the movies or play a round of Top Golf? If you are, indeed, a BF shopper here are a few of the manufacturer-sponsored deals we’ve been alerted to in recent days. And don't miss the great online deals identified by Sound & Vision's own shopping portal from its retailing partners Amazon, Crutchfield, Best Buy, Wal-mart, and others.

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Here Comes YouTube 1080p
Mark Fleischmann  |  Nov 16, 2009
Online video is burgeoning but picture quality is lagging behind. Now YouTube is about to pass a milestone in its evolution by offering a 1080p video player.
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Hertz So Good
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Sep 20, 2004
Seeing as how we tend to focus on "home" theater gear - hence the name "Home Theater Magazine" - it's not likely that you've ever heard us mention a twenty-some-year-old company called JL Audio. Although JL Audio has certainly a bigwig of boom for quite a while, they've existed pretty much under our radar because their main focus has been on car audio. (Unfortunately, the powers that be who write our checks won't let us cover events such as the Funkmaster Flex 2004 Celebrity Car Tour of which JL Audio is an official sponsor.) But all that is about to change.
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HES 2007 Scores a Home Run
HT Staff  |  Jun 05, 2007
The Home Entertainment Show 2007 held May 11-13, 2007, at the Grand Hyatt New York Hotel in New York City, will be remembered by exhibitors, consumers, and visiting media as a well-attended showcase of some of the finest home-entertainment products available.
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Hey Buster, You Got Game?
SV Staff  |  Apr 29, 2008
True story: a guy walks into a Blockbuster wearing a NetFlix T-shirt, and the clerk shoots him dead. Just kidding. But it's been a long time since Blockbuster's profits from VHS rentals impressed Wall Street. What with that Interweb thing, it's...
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Hey Mister, Wanna Rent a DVD?
SV Staff  |  Mar 04, 2008
If it seems lately that some of your jumpy Netflix discs have been around the block a few times, maybe they have. Newsweek reports this week that video stores, and even public libraries, are gobbling up subscriptions to the online DVD retailer,...
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Hey, Can You Help Me?
SV Staff  |  Jun 30, 2008
So it's not just me. Seriously, whenever any of my friends need advice on what stereo/MP3 player/home theater speakers/car stereo/bicycle/television they should buy, why am I first on their speed dial? Apparently, the folks at Gizmodo have the same...
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Hey, guys, Valentine's Day is nearly upon us!
SV Staff  |  Feb 09, 2009
And here's something the ladies will love: the just-released Limited Edition Gift Set of The Notebook (Warner), director Nick Cassavetes's 2004 adaptation of Nicholas Sparks's 1996 romantic-novel bestseller.For those not in know -...
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Hey, Watch my Internet Video on Your TiVo
Darryl Wilkinson  |  May 11, 2006
Internet TV service provider Brightcove and TiVo, have agreed to enable broadband video published through Brightcove to be distributed directly to TiVo subscribers' set-top boxes. The new agreement could help push Internet TV one step closer to being the end-all, be-all of digital entertainment. (Or, it could just be another highly hyped deal that sounds cool but doesn't really amount to much.)
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Hi-Def Wheeling And Dealing
 |  Jul 01, 2007

Looking to continue the sales tear that was sparked by recent promotions that included a $100 in-store rebate on its HD DVD players, Toshiba has made its price reductions on its HD-A2 and HD-A20 permanent. On the other side of the HD fence the Blu-ray camp is responding with a summer-long promo campaign that offers consumers five free Blu-ray titles with the purchase of a player.

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HI-FI '98 Product Previews
 |  May 10, 1998

Several manufacturers will be demonstrating state-of-the-art home-theater products at <A HREF="http://www.hifishow.com">HI-FI '98</A>, some of which have never been seen by the public before. From now until Show time, we'll be running several announcements each week to give you a taste of what to expect. Here's the first assortment:

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