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All Obama All The Time
SV Staff  |  Oct 02, 2008
I'm Barack Obama, and I want YOU to watch my TV channel. If you don't, I'll raise your taxes. Actually, Senator Obama does have his own TV channel. Channel 73 on the Dish Network is now The Obama Channel. As with any campaign, the Obama campaign...
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All that glitters
SV Staff  |  Jul 13, 2007
Yearn to unleash your inner Liberace? Jimmy Crystal can help. (I'm not sure if that's just the name of the company or the name of an actual guy. Billy's brother, perhaps?) He can encrust  pretty much anything in crystals, it seems, and some of...
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All-in-One 12TB Blu-ray 3D Server
Kim Wilson  |  Feb 08, 2011

Combine a 3D Blu-ray player with a 12TB hard drive and you have the Mozaex Solo 2. With USA retail pricing less than $6,000 for up to 12TBs of media storage, the Solo 2 is more affordable than many other media server systems, providing a highly scalable solution. Up to four additional Blu-ray Players may be added for $2,495 apiece.

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Allio TV Does it All
SV Staff  |  Nov 10, 2008
You remember those awful TV's with built-in VCR's, right? The sets with the DVDs were a step up from that. Now, Silicon Mountain (clever - their based in Silicon Valley and Boulder, CO) has produced a line of HDTVs with everything: a...
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Almost Half of TV Buyers Plan 4K Purchase
SV Staff  |  Jan 25, 2016
Of the one in four Americans who plan to buy a new TV this year, almost half (46 percent) are planning to buy their first 4K/Ultra HD TV, according to a national survey conducted by TNS Global on behalf of FatWallet, the cash back/online coupon website that bills itself as the “number one place to go to get insider information” on ads and deals.
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Alternate Specifications for Chinese DVD Products?
Barry Willis  |  Jan 14, 2001

Although electrical systems and broadcasting standards vary from country to country, visionaries have always imagined that one day worldwide technology would adhere to one set of specifications. That may never happen. The electronics industry's hope that the DVD would become a universal format, the video equivalent of the CD, may be scuttled by Chinese manufacturers seeking to avoid paying royalties to the format's designers, according to several stories appearing in industry publications in the wake of the recent Consumer Electronics Show.

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Always Worrying About the Wrong Thing
SV Staff  |  Jun 26, 2007
Not always, really, but a lot. So I like it when people start talking about something I consider important but largely overlooked — color, for example. Maybe we take color for granted, or maybe it’s just too vague. The things people get hung up...
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AM/FM Reaches More Listeners than Streaming Audio Services
SV Staff  |  Aug 24, 2015
Recent studies by Nielsen and others reveal that the audience for AM/FM radio greatly exceeds listening via streaming services such as Pandora and Spotify, according to a report by Advanced Television.
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Amazing Footage from Prototype Camera Drone
SV Staff  |  Oct 29, 2015
Action cam maker GoPro has posted tantalizing video recorded by a prototype camera drone the company plans to offer in 2016.
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Amazon 'Deal of the Day' Pushes Echo (But Not Real Hard)
SV Staff  |  Nov 08, 2017
A peek on Amazon reveals a smattering of Deal of the Day electronics items led by discounts on the company’s own Echo smart devices. Scrolling through the first 10 or so pages of deals reveals a light turnout for electronics and, of the items listed, a handful of no-name headphones and cables.
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Amazon 4K Streamer Trades Remote for Voice Control
SV Staff  |  Jun 08, 2018
Amazon has expanded its popular Fire TV family of streaming media players with a new 4K/HDR-ready model featuring Alexa voice control.
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Amazon and Best Buy to Launch Line of Smart TVs
SV Staff  |  Apr 19, 2018
If you thought Amazon and Best Buy were the archest of arch rivals in the rapidly shifting world of retailing, brace yourself: The e-tail and retail powerhouses yesterday announced a collaboration to bring a new line of smart TVs to market in the U.S. this summer.
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Amazon and TiVo Join Forces For Movie and TV Show Downloads
 |  Feb 11, 2007

Almost lost in the aftermath of <A HREF="http://www.ultimateavmag.com/news/20807walmart/">Wal-Mart's big announcement</A> that it was tackling the movie download space was the unveiling last week of the deal between Amazon and TiVo to partner on movie and TV show downloads. TiVo owners with broadband connections can now shop for video downlods from Amazon's Unbox and have the movies and shows sent directly to the TiVos- in their living rooms, connected to their TVs. The new service is called Amazon Unbox on TiVo.

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Amazon Announces Free Streaming Content for Prime Subscribers
Stan Horaczek  |  Feb 25, 2011

I've been a subscriber to Amazon's Prime service for a while now for the free shipping it affords. But now there's a new reason to sign up in the form of a full-on free streaming media service not unlike the one offered by Netflix.

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Amazon AutoRips LPs
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 18, 2013
7113ama.jpgLongtime Amazon customers may already be surprised to find CD purchases from years and years ago appearing in their Amazon Cloud Players. Their eyebrows are set to move even higher now that Amazon is extending the courtesy to LP purchases. Buy an AutoRip-eligible disc—analog or digital—from the online retailer, boot up the Cloud Player, and there it is. If your computer or tablet of choice lacks a disc drive, as increasingly many do, you’re also free to download a free 256-kbps AutoRipped copy. The feature is available to U.S. customers only, for titles displaying the AutoRip logo.

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