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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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Streaming Key for Nearly a Third of Internet Users
SV Staff  |  Dec 06, 2017
New research from financial services company Raymond James shows that almost a third (31 percent) of Internet users polled in November cited streaming services such as Netflix or Hulu as their primary source of video content, up from 24 percent a year ago and just four percent behind the 35 percent of survey respondents who named cable as their primary source of video entertainment.
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Streaming NetFlix Over Xbox 360
SV Staff  |  Jun 26, 2008
It's not an officially sanctioned marriage, but more like common law. With a little effort, you can stream NetFlix movies over your Xbox 360 video game console. It isn't even really a hack - just a clever application of a Vista Media Center...
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Streaming on Disney+, ‘Queen: Rock Montreal’ Is First Concert Film with IMAX Enhanced Sound
SV Staff  |  May 20, 2024
Queen: Rock Montreal, the concert film featuring the iconic British rock group and its electrifying front man Freddie mercury at the Montreal Forum in 1981, is the first concert film available with IMAX Enhanced DTS:X sound.
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Streaming Samsung
SV Staff  |  Oct 24, 2008
Netflix is a company on the move. They've already become the world’s largest online movie rental service, and they're fast sewing up their leadership in online streaming.Hard on the heels of their announcement that LG will offer Netflix...
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Streaming Subs Are Explorers
Mark Fleischmann  |  Nov 28, 2017
It’s no surprise that Parks Associates finds 59 percent of U.S. broadband households subscribe to a streaming service like Netflix, Amazon, or Hulu—or that the trend is upward. But those streaming subscribers are also in an exploratory mood, with “an increase in households subscribing to two, three, or even four or more services,” reports Brett Sappington, Parks’s senior research director.
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