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IDC: Video and Smart Speakers Lead the Smart Home
SV Staff  |  Jun 26, 2018
After years of promises, false starts, and slow growth, the smart home might finally be starting to gel. Market research company IDC is forecasting that some 550 million smart home devices will ship worldwide this year...
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IDEA Takes Early Steps Toward Holographic TV
SV Staff  |  Oct 10, 2019
If the notion of a holographic television in your living room strikes you as the stuff of sci-fi, think again.
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iDVD Getting Ready for Launch
Jon Iverson  |  Feb 13, 2000

Last week, <A HREF="http://www.thebroadscreen.com">thebroadscreen.com</A> announced that it has laid all of the groundwork to begin MPEG-2 production of digital news and entertainment over what it terms "broadband Internet connections." The company says that the format will be dubbed iDVD (Internet Digital Video Disc), and is intended to be downloaded into the new DVD-RAM recorders or played live over cable and DSL connections.

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IEEE 1394 Announcements Galore
Jon Iverson  |  May 30, 1999

Last week saw several IEEE 1394 announcements in anticipation of the third annual 1394 Developers Conference coming up June 2 in San Jose, California. (See <A HREF="http://www.guidetohometheater.com/shownews.cgi?189">previous report</A>.) IEEE 1394, also known as FireWire, is a high-bandwidth local-area network (LAN) technology gaining considerable interest from consumer-electronics and computer manufacturers. IEEE 1394 can link a virtually unlimited number of home-entertainment devices with a single cable, and manufacturers hope to lower the cost of goods through a reduced number of necessary jacks, cables, and circuits.

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IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics convenes in Los Angeles
 |  May 24, 1998

For the last 25 years, about 1000 engineers from all regions of the world have gathered at the annual IEEE <A HREF="http://www.icce.org">International Conference on Consumer Electronics</A> (ICCE) in Chicago to review and discuss the emerging technology trends in the consumer industry.

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IETV Beating 3DTV
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 30, 2010
Internet-enabled sets are being shipped in far greater numbers than 3D sets.
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IETV Use on the Rise
Mark Fleischmann  |  Feb 25, 2010
Internet TV use continues to rise. According to iSuppli, 27.5 of consumers who bought new TVs last month connected them to the net, and the figure was up from 24.3 percent in December.
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If a Tree Falls . . .
SV Staff  |  Feb 06, 2009
If a Tree Camera MP3 player falls in the forest, does it make a noise? Well, yeah. It sounds like an MP3 player hitting the dirt. This little wooden camera-like device isn't a camera at all. It's a cute little MP3 player, disguised as a...
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If Dogs Run Free, Why Can't DTV?
Jon Iverson  |  Jun 25, 2000

It's a DTV jungle out there, with manufacturers, broadcasters, consumers, and other market forces fighting for their ecological niches. Always an aggressive participant in the struggle, the <A HREF="http://www.ce.org">Consumer Electronics Association</A> (CEA), in comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission last week, stated that "ensuring that today's viewers continue to enjoy free, over-the-air service should be the primary focus of the digital television (DTV) transition." While new services should be "permitted and encouraged," argued the CEA, they should be consistent with broadcasters' "continued delivery of free over-the-air programming in the digital era."

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If You Get Your TV Off-Air, Channel Rescanning May Be in Your Future
SV Staff  |  Aug 13, 2019
If you live in one of the estimated 16 million American households that use an antenna to receive live TV over the air (OTA), you might have to re-scan some of your local channels to continue receiving them.
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If You Hate Sports, You'll Love Cable
Michael Antonoff  |  Nov 08, 2018
The first thing to fade from my bloated cable bill when I dropped all sports channels was a line item called the Regional Sports Network Fee. It was a monthly tax that cost me $5.89 just for the ability to tune into channels I never watched. And it was a fraction of the more than $30 that instantly vanished from my cable bill once I customized my lineup minus the sports channels I'd been force-fed for years.
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If You've Got It, Shake It
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Feb 27, 2005
It used to be that you had to be an astronaut or a fighter pilot in order to experience first-class motion simulation. D-BOX Technology, Inc., changed that when they introduced the high-end Odyssee Motion Simulator that included a dedicated controller and set of actuators that move your favorite chair or (a platform holding several chairs) in synchronization with a number of Hollywood movies for which D-BOX had slavishly encoded motion commands. (Read about Chris Chiarella's stimulating experience with the Odyssee simulator here .) Now D-BOX has lowered the price of admission for motion at home with Quest chairs and loveseats.
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IFA 2018: Up Close with LG’s 8K OLED TV
Al Griffin  |  Sep 01, 2018
Not to be outdone by Samsung, LG had its own 8K TV to show at IFA 2018, this one an 88-inch OLED model.
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IFA 2018: Up Close with Samsung’s 8K TV
Al Griffin  |  Aug 31, 2018
The IFA show happening right now in Berlin, Germany is as much about home appliances as A/V electronics — I’ve never seen so many refrigerators in one place in my life. Still, there are interesting products to report on, particularly the new 8K TVs from Samsung and LG.
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iFi Audio Takes On Bad Sound with New Portable DAC
SV Staff  |  Jan 30, 2020
U.K.-based iFi Audio is taking on bad sound with a svelte yet sophisticated digital-to-analog converter (DAC)/headphone amp that replaces the inferior DACs and amplifiers found in most smartphones, tablets, and PCs.
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