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The Dark Knight Watched 6 Ways
SV Staff  |  Jan 26, 2009  | 
I am an idiot for having missed The Dark Knight during its first run in IMAX. Luckily, Batman returned (get it?) to the really big screen this past weekend and I finally got to enjoy the best movie of last year (you heard me, Academy) the way it...
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The Dark Knight's IMAX Footage Goes Blu
SV Staff  |  Jul 17, 2008  | 
The latest Batman movie is barely breaking out in theaters, yet The Dark Knight's director is already talking about the Blu-ray release. Some sequences of the movie were shot in the IMAX format. For the theatrical 35mm release, they did 35mm...
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The Dark Side of . . . the Wall?
SV Staff  |  Jul 26, 2007  | 
After the 1973 original LP and the 2003 surround SACD, now comes the, um, hard-rock version of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon. Just kidding! The hard rock here is actually a 3x10-foot section of a brick wall from a 175-year-old...
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The Delphi-XM Report
SV Staff  |  Jan 09, 2008  | 
  SKYFI was Delphi's first and very successful XM Radio receiver. Its newest iteration introduced at CES, SKYFi3, is immensely sleeker than its predecessors, and sports genuinely useful new features. Most notably, it can store 10 hours...
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The DirecTV Empire Strikes back
Barry Willis  |  Jan 28, 2001  | 

Direct satellite broadcaster <A HREF="http://www.directv.com/">DirecTV</A> has gone on the offensive against piracy by unplugging freeloaders and by installing copy protection circuitry in its latest set-top boxes.

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The Dolby Truck hits Los Angeles
SV Staff  |  Nov 05, 2009  | 
Over the next few months, Dolby is driving a tricked-out surround sound truck around southern California to promote its surround sound technology. The Dolby Truck features Definitive Technology speakers, Toshiba HDTVs, Pioneer Elite receivers, and...
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The Droids you're looking for?
Michael Berk  |  Apr 26, 2011  | 

Sony's PSN and Qriocity network outage may be ongoing, but the company's pressing forward on the mobile hardware front.

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The DTV Transition Date Goes Back to the Future
SV Staff  |  Feb 04, 2009  | 
Join me in doing your best Amy Poehler voice when I read that headline and say, "Really?" The bill pushing back the deadline for the DTV transition to June 12th is alive again and should be going under the pen of the president fairly...
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The DVD Bootstrap
Jon Iverson  |  Jul 07, 2002  | 

They say a rising tide lifts all boats. It appears that the popularity of the DVD format is having a tremendous impact on sales of home theater components, according to the latest sales figures released by <A HREF="http://www.npdtechworld.com">NPDTechworld</A>.

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The DVD Wayback Machine
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Dec 06, 2004  | 
I don't know whether it's the silliest or the slickest player design to come along since the invention of the DVD format, but the new YAHOO! MetroRetro DVD Player is certainly worth a second look from anyone tired of the typical black- or silver-box chassis design that makes even some of the most expensive machines look like cheap commodities. The "retro" styling involves rounded sides and front-panel circular VU meters that give the player a look that's reminiscent of a 1960s/1970s-era Chevy.
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The End Comes for Circuit City
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 20, 2009  | 
Hard times just got a little harder. Circuit City, the second largest consumer electronics retailer in the U.S., will close all stores and liquidate assets, according to a press release. This is the end for Circuit, which had already filed for bankruptcy in November 2008.
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The End is Near
Scott Wilkinson  |  Feb 16, 2008  | 

According to a report today from NHK, Japan's public broadcaster, Toshiba has decided to stop production of HD DVD players. The company said it would continue to sell its current products, but there will be no further development, and its related factories in Aomori Prefecture in northern Japan will be closed. Market analysts expect the company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars.

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The End of Consumer Electronics As We Know It?
Jon Iverson  |  Mar 26, 2000  | 

The Linux operating-system movement appeared to have taken a leap forward last week with the announcement of <A HREF="http://indrema.com">Indrema</A>, a new consumer-electronics company specializing in open-source digital products for home entertainment. Using the Linux operating system, enhanced by a set of open-source multimedia standards such as the Direct Rendering Infrastructure, the new OpenStream video architecture, and Mesa 3D compatible graphics components, Indrema says it plans to "turn the consumer-electronics industry on its head."

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The End of Jack & Diane!
Russ Herschelmann  |  Jun 16, 2002  | 

Starting with the November issue, Home Theater Architect is going to change in big ways. This all started with letters from readers telling me they were sick of reading about Jack & Diane's $300k mega-theater.

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The Eruption of Eddie Van Halen
Mike Mettler  |  Oct 07, 2020  | 
It only took Eddie Van Halen 102 seconds to change the face, sound, and scope of rock guitar forever.

The first time any of us dropped the needle on “Eruption,” the onomatopoeic 1:42 instrumental that served as the literally explosive second track on Van Halen’s self-titled February 1978 debut album, we knew instantly that rock & roll had turned yet another corner. During the pop-music malaise of the late-1970s, wherein the razor-edge ethos of punk and seemingly endless days/nights of disco had already upset the bloated rock applecart, Eddie Van Halen shifted the narrative back to the value of the virtuoso musician in ways not seen in almost a decade.

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