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Smart Speakers Right at Home as Category Sizzles
SV Staff  |  Oct 10, 2017
Smart speakers such as Amazon’s Echo and Google Home are finding their way into an ever expanding base of U.S. homes, which raises a couple questions: Where are people putting these voice-controlled, virtual assistants and how are they using them?
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Smart Speakers Spark Increased Music and Radio Listening
SV Staff  |  Jun 26, 2017
Voice-powered smart speakers such as the Amazon Echo, Google Home, and—later this year the Apple HomePod—may not be the pinnacle of sound quality as S&V’s Leslie Shapiro lamented in a recent blog, but they are spurring more music and radio listening at home.
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Smart Speakers: The Next Smartphone?
SV Staff  |  Aug 29, 2017
Smart speakers, the product category Amazon created a couple years ago with its voice-enabled Echo, is abuzz on Wall Street.
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Smart TVs: Who’s Watching Who?
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 10, 2015
“I’m terrified of my new TV,” said legal eagle Michael Price in his blog for the New York University School of Law’s Brennan Center for Justice. His Samsung Smart TV came with a camera and microphone for gesture and voice control—and a 46-page privacy policy.
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Smartphone Video Streaming Now Commonplace
SV Staff  |  Mar 24, 2016
Four out of five (81 percent) of all U.S. smartphone users now stream video on their devices, according to a new report from the NPD Group’s Connected Intelligence division. The streaming is being driven primarily by users who are 25 and younger, who spend twice as much time watching video content on YouTube and Netflix mobile apps compared with users who are over the age of 25.
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Smartphones and Tablets Are Transforming Audio
SV Staff  |  Aug 31, 2015
The global audio market is being profoundly reshaped by smartphones and tablets as they become go-to devices for wirelessly streaming music, according to a new study from IHS Technology.
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Smartphones: It’s All About Video
SV Staff  |  Feb 21, 2017
The thought of watching video on a smartphone might have seemed crazy a decade ago, yet nearly six in 10 consumers (57 percent) around the world watch videos on their phones every day, according AOL’s annual advertising study—virtually the same as the number of people (58 percent) who watch videos on a laptop or desktop every day.
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Smooth Sailing for Top-Grossing Titanic
Barry Willis  |  Dec 28, 1998

Director James Cameron's <I>Titanic</I> is not only afloat but appears to be eminently seaworthy. The epic disaster drama's three-hour-and15-minute length is apparently no drawback for film fans, who packed theaters to the tune of a $51.9 million gross in the first week following the film's release, according to Exhibitor Relations Company, which tracks box-office results.

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Snakes & Arrows on Vinyl: It's Here!
SV Staff  |  Jun 21, 2007
The 180-HQ vinyl version of of Rush's Snakes & Arrows arrived on my doorstep yesterday. Yee-hah! Can't wait to do a listening session. One error I noticed on the back cover (yes, I know we've got the front cover pictured here): The last track...
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Sneak Peak: Samsung Ultra-thin Blu-ray
SV Staff  |  Jan 06, 2009
While we won't have an official confirmation, it looks like Samsung is planning to announce an ultra-thin Blu-ray player at CES tomorrow. This 1.5-inch thick beauty will look great with the 6.5mm HD LCD they're teasing about too. No word...
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Sneak Peek Exclusive: Jack Reacher Sequel in IMAX
SV Staff  |  Oct 19, 2016
Find out how sound brings the action to life in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, which opens in theaters this Friday.
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Sneak Peek: Vizio's 120-inch Reference UHDTV
Rob Sabin  |  Oct 12, 2015
As we reported last week, Vizio was in New York City on October 6 to formally introduce its much anticipated Reference Series Ultra HDTVs. Editor-in-chief Rob Sabin and video tech editor Tom Norton got a hands-on session with the big 120-inch RS120. Here's what they found.

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Snell "On-Wall" Speaker
HT Staff  |  May 04, 2002
Snell Acoustics' new SR30mp Multi-Pattern Surround speaker has been approved by THX and is now officially part of Snell's THX Ultra 2 Certified line of products, according to an April 29 announcement.
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Snell and Escient Get the Ax
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 08, 2010
D&M Holdings will pare its six brands down to four, eliminating Snell Acoustics, a well known speaker brand, and Escient, maker of media servers. Denon, Marantz, McIntosh Labs, and Boston Acoustics will continue in the D&M family.
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So Bad They're Good
 |  Nov 01, 1998

Last week, <A HREF="http://www.b-movie.com">B-Movie Theater</A>, a Web site celebrating the art and industry of the low-budget film, announced the first round of inductions into the new B-Movie Hall of Fame. The honorees were selected from over 1000 nominations submitted by cinephiles around the world, who selected the classic films and most prolific artists of the B-Movie genre.

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