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Stick a fork in it: Studios win RealDVD injunction
SV Staff  |  Aug 12, 2009  | 
Almost a year ago, RealNetworks launched RealDVD, an application that lets users rip their DVDs to a hard drive, so they can keep their entire library together and watch their DVDs on a whim, instead of spreading their collection across multiple...
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Sticky Labels Bedevil Consumers
Mark Fleischmann  |  Nov 13, 2017  | 
Don’t you hate peeling sticky labels off your new phone and other CE purchases? You are not alone...
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Stones. Scorsese. "Shine a Light." Smash!
SV Staff  |  Apr 04, 2008  | 
Too old to rock & roll? Not the Rolling Stones, as they prove in Martin Scorsese's killer concert documentary Shine a Light, which opens today. The subject of age seems to be on most other critics' minds, but I honestly wasn't struck by the...
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Stop That or I’ll Make You Watch TV
Mark Fleischmann  |  Nov 04, 2015  | 
Second-screen use is “creating a generation of kids for whom TV is punishment,” says Miner & Co. Studio.
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Store More Digital Media Than Ever Before
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Dec 12, 2004  |  First Published: Dec 13, 2004  | 
Want an easy way to store, manage, access, and enjoy digital entertainment content in your home? Beginning to think Microsoft's Windows Media Center Edition 2005 doesn't quite live up to all the hype? Afraid you'll run out of storage room? Concerned about so many questions to answer?
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Stores to Carry Analog-TV Lifesavers
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 04, 2008  | 
One of the most significant pieces of the transition from analog to digital TV broadcasting fell into place with the recent announcement that major retail chains would carry the set-top boxes necessary to keep analog sets from going dark.
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StormAudio Activates Dirac Live Active Room Treatment
Mark Henninger  |  Jun 12, 2023  | 
One of the best demos I heard at CES 2023 was Dirac Live demonstrating its Active Room Treatment (ART) technology. Now, StormAudio has flipped the switch and activated the feature in its ISP platform, meaning it works with all StormAudio processors and AVRs with firmware 4.5 on up and is included at no additional fee on any products purchased January 1 2023 onward.
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StormAudio Develops Advanced HDMI Card
SV Staff  |  Jul 29, 2019  | 
StormAudio, the French maker of high-end surround processors, has developed an advanced 4K-compatible HDMI card that delivers “improved switching time and compatibility with all HDMI connectable devices.”
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Stormy weather for Amazon's cloud services?
Michael Berk  |  Mar 30, 2011  | 

Like everybody else who covers media technology, we were excited by yesterday's announcement of Amazon's Cloud Drive remote storage and associated Cloud Player streaming media

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Strange Bedfellows
SV Staff  |  May 14, 2008  | 
Competition isn't always a good thing. From VHS vs. Betamax all the way to SACD vs. DVD-Audio and most recently Blu-ray vs. HD DVD, competing formats have always been controversial. In the case of SACD and DVD-Audio, it could be said that the war...
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Stream TV Unveils 8K "Lite" Glasses-Free 3D Monitor
SV Staff  |  Jan 16, 2019  | 
Stream TV Networks, developer of Ultra-D optical/rendering technology that enables a video panel to deliver 3D images without viewers having to wear 3D glasses, is not giving up on 3D TV, even though major TV makers have largely abandoned the concept.
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Streamers Love Netflix and Amazon Original Content
SV Staff  |  Mar 21, 2017  | 
One in three of those who subscribe to streaming video services chose the service for its original content, up 8 percent over the past year, according to a new survey from New York-based 451 Research.
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Streamers Say Yes to MQA
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 24, 2015  | 
A promising new encoding method from Meridian, maker of world-beating active loudspeakers and other digital audio hardware, has been adopted by Tidal and 7digital, two major forces in music streaming. Tidal is the Norwegian company whose lossless 16-bit streaming has gotten audiophiles interested in streaming. 7digital operates music download and streaming services for itself and other parties and was the first company to offer DRM-free MP3 downloads in 2008.
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Streaming Catches Up with Pay TV, 4K TVs On the Rise
SV Staff  |  Mar 13, 2017  | 
For the first time ever, the percentage of free or paid streaming video subscribers in the U.S. has nudged past the number of paid TV subscribers at 68 percent vs. 67 percent, according to new research from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA).
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Streaming HDTV Appears At Comdex This Week
Jon Iverson  |  Nov 12, 2000  | 

This week, <A HREF="http://www.2netFX.com">2netFX</A>, which specializes in providing streaming technology for intranet and broadband Internet media delivery, has announced that its new HDTV-over-IP streaming technology will be featured in a live demonstration of Gigabit Ethernet over fiber in conjunction with <A HREF="http://www.worldwidepackets.com">World Wide Packets</A> at Comdex in Las Vegas. The new approach is intended to enable Internet Service Providers, cable television companies, and telecommunication carriers to base new services on HDTV technology.

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