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January 2018 Top Picks at a Glance
SV Staff  |  Feb 01, 2018
If you’ve been paying attention you will notice something about January’s batch of top-rated AV products: All were deemed worthy of Sound & Vision’s Top Pick of the Year accolades. So here you have it: The return of an iconic turntable, two exemplary Dolby Atmos-enabled speaker systems at compelling price points, a set of in-ear monitors designed by the guy who invented the category for a price that will surprise you, and an ambient-light-rejecting screen made for the new breed of ultra-short-throw projectors that are giving big-screen TVs a run for their money.
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Japan Manufacturing Starts to Recover
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 31, 2011
Some consumer electronics manufacturers report that their Japanese operations are more or less getting back to normal. While the net impact of Japan's chain of disasters on its economy remains to be seen, there are a few hopeful signs.

Yamaha reports that the catastrophes will not have "any significant impact" on supplies of the products it makes, including consumer a/v, pro audio, and musical instruments. Existing inventory will supply short-term demand. The company has confirmed that all employees are safe.

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Japan Parts Shortage May Disrupt iPad 2
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 22, 2011
Reports about Japanese manufacturing disruptions continue to trickle in and an early casualty may be Apple's just-launched iPad 2. Japan supplies no fewer than five key parts for the tablet everyone desires.

Missing pieces include flash memory, random access memory, electronic compass, touchscreen glass, and battery, the latter from Apple's own Japanese factory.

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Japan Tragedy May Disrupt Manufacturing
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 15, 2011
While human misery is the most horrifying outcome of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, the natural disaster also has implications for the manufacturing of consumer electronics.

Japan makes finished CE products like TVs as well as components such as LCD panels and chips, which it supplies to manufacturers all over the world. The disruption may result in shortages and higher pricing for these products and parts.

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Japan Vs. Korea in OLED Battle
SV Staff  |  Jul 10, 2008
It seems we're breaking news every day on the newest OLED technological advance. Sony's 11-inch XEL-1 was the first, and they announced last week progress on a 27-inch OLED model, with a 40-inch model far in the future. Now, Japanese powerhouses...
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Japan Waves Goodbye to JVC LCDs
SV Staff  |  Apr 16, 2008
This won't affect North American and European consumers, but Japanese shoppers may soon observe a noticeable lack of JVC LCD TVs for sale. That's because JVC is looking to exit the business in its home country, and will probably make its decision...
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Japan's Blu-ray Sales Boom
SV Staff  |  Jul 23, 2008
While Blu-ray might be seeing slow sales in the U.S. market, Japanese sales of Blu-ray in June topped 122,000, hitting the 6-figure/month mark for the first time ever. Compared to May's 82,000 units, you can see why it's a big deal. Speculation...
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Japanese Director Juzo Itami Commits Suicide
Barry Willis  |  Dec 28, 1998

The Associated Press reported Dec. 22 that Japanese film director Juzo Itami died after jumping from the top of an eight-storey building that housed his office. Itami was director of the international hit film <I>Tampopo</I>.

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Japanese Film Star Toshiro Mifune Dead at 77
Barry Willis  |  Dec 28, 1998

Movie fans the world over are mourning the passing of Toshiro Mifune, Japan's greatest film actor. Mifune died December 24 at a hospital in Mitaka, Japan, not far from his home in Tokyo. The cause of death was an unspecified "organ failure." Mifune was 77.

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Japan’s NHK Forges Ahead with 8K Broadcasts at Olympics
SV Staff  |  Aug 05, 2016
As sales of 4K Ultra HD (UHD) TVs begin to take off and 4K content slowly becomes available, Japan’s NHK is forging ahead with 8K TV, which delivers four times more pixels than UHD or 16 times that of standard HD.
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Japan’s NHK to Showcase 8K at Broadcast Convention
SV Staff  |  Apr 06, 2018
Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), which plans to start regular satellite broadcasting of 4K/8K content in December, will showcase its latest 8K technologies and new 8K content at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention, which opens tomorrow (April 7) in Las Vegas.
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Japan’s RME Premium Recordings Embraces MQA
SV Staff  |  Oct 03, 2016
RME Premium Recordings, a label owned by Synthax Japan that specializes in live hi-res recordings, is the latest label to embrace the MQA music format invented by Meridian founder Bob Stuart.
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Jay Leno’s Garage Heads to TV This Fall
SV Staff  |  Aug 14, 2015
Jay Leno’s garage, the weekly hour-long program Jay Leno has produced online since 2006, will debut on CNBC in October. The show, which features many cars from Leno’s personal collection, will air October 7 at 10 p.m. ET.

For more information, see this report on TVNewser.

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Jaybird Targets Athletes with Earbuds that are Wireless and Waterproof
SV Staff  |  Feb 12, 2019
Jaybird is targeting athletes with wireless earbuds designed to withstand sweat and adverse weather.
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JBL Adds TiK Series to Home Theater Lineup
HT Staff  |  May 20, 2001
Venerable loudspeaker manufacturer JBL has added an impressive new series to its home theater offerings. The TiK line embodies an entirely new design, one that JBL is calling the "bending trapezoid," for its gently curving sides and truncated-cone appearance. The company has devoted special attention to chamber construction and resonance suppression, in addition to developing a new set of drivers. TiK speakers are new from the ground up.
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