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No More Monochrome: EdgeAudio Pushes Color
HT Staff  |  Jan 30, 2001
Just say no to black, brushed aluminum, and dark wood veneers. Tigard, Oregon-based EdgeAudio is betting that movie fans will do exactly that when they seen the company's new line of home theater speaker systems. Conceived by award-winning Ziba Design, EdgeAudio's entire line of home theater speakers and subwoofers will get the color cabinet treatment later this year. Prototypes were displayed at the Consumer Electronics Show in January.
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No More Pioneer DTVs? Say It Ain't So!
Mark Fleischmann  |  Feb 09, 2009
Pioneer is considering retreating from its status as the manufacturer of some of the world's best flat-panel DTVs.
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No more sick touchpanels!
SV Staff  |  Apr 30, 2008
Don't you hate it when people come over to your house and they get their grubby hands all over your perfectly clean touchscreens? Or if they grab your brand new iTouch and start. . . touching!!! I mean, you don't know where their hands have been!...
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No More Vizio Plasma
Scott Wilkinson  |  Feb 11, 2009
Vizio has just announced it will get out of the plasma business altogether, due in large part to the overwhelming popularity of LCDs and the vanishing price gap between the two technologies. According to company co-founder Laynie Newsome, plasmas don't sell as well in big-box stores because LCDs look more impressive in brightly lit aisles, and the company must concentrate on products that move off the shelves the fastest.
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No Need for TiVo in the Future?
Jon Iverson  |  Jun 03, 2001

If companies like <A HREF="http://www.nCUBE.com">nCUBE</A> have their way, hard-disc-based PVR manufacturers such as TiVo are going to have a tough time finding customers. nCUBE announced last week that it will demonstrate its scalable "network-based" personal video recorder (nPVR) systems at Cable 2001, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association's (NCTA) Convention in Chicago, June 10&ndash;13.

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No Need to Wait for Black Friday: TV Deals Are Here!
Bob Ankosko  |  Nov 17, 2022
TVs have a decades-long history of providing amazing value and, even in the face of the historically high levels of inflation we’re experiencing today, they remain an oasis of relief from inflation. In other words, now is a great time to buy a new TV! If you’ve been eyeing one of the new QD OLED sets from Samsung or Sony — or any TV for that matter — there’s no need to wait for Black Friday…
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No NuVo Wires
SV Staff  |  Aug 19, 2008
With a name that sounds more akin to a nighttime wrinkle cream solution than a breakthrough multi-room audio distribution system, NuVo Technologies Renovia is designed to make adding music to existing home a far simpler proposition. With new...
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No Shortage of Blu-ray Players…Yet
SV Staff  |  Feb 25, 2019
Samsung turned more than a few heads last week when it confirmed that it would no longer sell Blu-ray players in the U.S. The news was particularly striking because Samsung made headlines just three years ago when it introduced the world’s first 4K/Ultra Blu-ray player — the Top Pick-designated UBD-K8500.
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No Stopping DVD
HT Staff  |  Aug 12, 2003
The DVD format continues to gain momentum. Earlier this year, DVD rentals exceeded VHS in units and dollar business for the first time, sure signs that videotape is headed for extinction.
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No Surprise: Survey Says Consumers Like DTV, Dislike Lack of Programming
Barry Willis  |  Jul 23, 2000

Owners of digital television (DTV) products are extremely satisfied with their performance, but are unhappy with the lack of available programming in the new format, according to a survey conducted by the <A HREF="http://www.ncl.org/">National Consumers League</A> (NCL) and released July 21, 2000.

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No TV? We'll Read a Magazine
Mark Fleischmann  |  Dec 11, 2007
Not all owners of analog television sets are planning to make the transition to digital broadcasting, according to a survey by the Consumer Electronics Association. Twenty-two of them plan to just let their TVs go dark and find something else to do.
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No, Not That DIVX
Jon Iverson  |  Aug 26, 2001

In the world of video-on-demand broadcast over the Internet, MPEG-4 video codec DivX (not to be confused with the <A HREF="http://www.guidetohometheater.com/shownews.cgi?453">previous Circuit City fiasco</A> of the same name) has emerged as one of the more popular video compression technologies. Last week, <A HREF="http://www.divx.com">DivXNetworks</A> announced that DivX 4.0, the newest version of the codec (compressor/decompressor), is now available for download at its website.

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No, Not That DivX
Jon Iverson  |  Mar 10, 2002

The four letters D, I, V, and X will trigger memories of horror for most DVD and home theater fans. The ill-fated pay-per-view DVD format from Circuit City died an ugly death a couple of years back. However, the acronym has been reborn as DivX, a video compression technology from <A HREF="http://www.divxnetworks.com">DivXNetworks</A> that is seeing the kind of popularity its former namesake only dreamt of.

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No, They Don't.
SV Staff  |  Apr 25, 2008
[IN THE FOLLOWING POST, BLOGGER COREY GREENBERG TAKES HIS FINAL SHOT IN OUR POINT/COUNTERPOINT DEBATE: BLU-RAY - IS IT ALREADY OVER?] Today's New York Times asks the question, "Blu-ray: Do Consumers Care?" but never answers it, which is...
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Noble Audio Adopts xMEMS Driver Tech for New Wireless Earbuds
Bob Ankosko  |  Dec 13, 2023
Noble Audio, a 10-year-old Texas-based company specializing in high-performance in-ear monitors (IEMs) with luxurious custom finishes, has announced that its latest set of noise-canceling wireless earbuds are built around a cutting-edge silicon-based microspeaker developed by xMEMS Labs.
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