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Thomson's NYC Demo "Proves" Viability of DTV Broadcasts
 |  Dec 12, 1999

A demonstration of digital television broadcasting in New York City last week may have laid to rest fears about the viability of the Advanced Television Standards Committee's transmission technology. The technique, known as 8-VSB, has been under attack from some quarters, particularly Sinclair Broadcasting, as being inadequate to prevent severe multipath distortion, which results from reflected signals arriving at a receiver slightly later than direct signals. In digital TV, multipath can cause a screen to go blank.

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Thomson's Technicolor Is Testing Blu-ray
SV Staff  |  Oct 06, 2008
Nothing like buying a shiny new Blu-ray Disc movie, and discovering that its BD-Live or BD-Java feature doesn't work properly, or takes forever to load. Kinda sucks, doesn't it? Technicolor, a division of Thomson, has opened a facility to test...
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Three Days of Home Theater, Music, and Advice Only Weeks Away
 |  May 03, 1998

It's just about a month away: <A HREF="http://www.hifishow.com">HI-FI '98</A>, The Home Theater & Specialty Audio Show, will attract thousands of home-theater enthusiasts when it visits The Westin Los Angeles Airport Hotel in Los Angeles, California from Wednesday, June 10 to Sunday, June 14, 1998.

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Three new A/V receivers from Marantz
SV Staff  |  Aug 20, 2009
Marantz has announced a trio of new A/V receivers, two of which feature optional Bluetooth support, and one which boasts a slim size not found in most receivers. The SR6004 and SR5004 are the company's two new full-size, Bluetooth-capable...
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Three opinions on the iPad at SXSW
Ken Richardson  |  Mar 27, 2011

The iPad is cool for a lot of things, but does it work for music? Various opinions came from the SXSW Music Festival, and together they're an interesting follow-up to Michael Berk's earlier post here on the concept of the iPad Album.

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Three-Month DTV Delay Urged
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 16, 2009
A three-month delay of the DTV transition is in the works at Congress. Sen. John Rockefeller (D-WV) has introduced a bill that would delay the switchover from analog to digital broadcasting from the currently scheduled February 17th to June 12th.
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Three-Way Deal Boosts EchoStar's Potential
Barry Willis  |  Dec 05, 1998

Two new satellites, 28 new digital broadcasting frequencies, and a new broadcast-operations center are among the trophies <A HREF="http://www.echostar.com/">EchoStar Communications Corporation</A> will take home in a stock-swap agreement with Rupert Murdoch's <A HREF="http://www.newscorp.com/">News Corporation</A> and <A HREF="http://www.mci.com/">MCI WorldCom</A>. The agreement with News Corp. brings litigation between the two companies to an end, and it is expected to substantially strengthen EchoStar's position as a leader in direct broadcast satellite (DBS). <A HREF="http://www.directv.com/">DirecTV</A> and <A HREF="http://www.ussb.com/">USSB</A> are the only other serious contenders in the North American DBS market.

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Through the Grapevine: Def Tech Deals on the Way
SV Staff  |  Oct 28, 2015
Every now and then we get word about an awesome deal that’s worth passing along. Like this one, heard through the grapevine…
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Throw Your Anchors Away!
Chris Chiarella  |  Nov 19, 2004
I've spewed countless compliments upon this movie, or more accurately the DVD, in the print magazine over the past year, and like a good consumer my fondness eventually gives rise to the question, "What else can I BUY?" Not all of my favorite movies have Star Wars in the title, and some (Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October) have yielded precious little tie-in merchandise, and so when an unusual product like the Old Century Master and Commander game is released, I am compelled to take note.
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Throwback Thursday: 10 Landmark Speakers
SV Staff  |  Mar 03, 2016
John Strohbeen is an audiophile through and through. In 1964, he founded the legendary Boston-born retailer Tech Hifi and after serving as president for 14 years, went to work for Ohm Acoustics where he has served as president and chief designer since 1978.
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Throwback Thursday: On the Set of Back to the Future Part III
SV Staff  |  Oct 08, 2015
Check out the behind-the-scenes camcorder footage from the set of 1990’s Back to the Future Part III. You’ll definitely want to use the slider bar to buzz through some of the shaky parts of the 20-minute video. Toward the end (about 18:17) Michael J. Fox does a meet and greet with neighborhood kids.
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Throwback Thursday: Remember HD DVD?
Bob Ankosko  |  Nov 19, 2015
Nothing quite like a good old format war. Ten years ago this month we reported on Toshiba’s decision to postpone the U.S. launch of HD DVD from December 2005 to early 2006.

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Throwback Thursday: The Iconic Yamaha DSP-A1
SV Staff  |  Dec 17, 2015
Yamaha’s iconic DSP-A1 was named one of the year’s best products in the December 1998 issue of Stereo Review, predecessor to Sound & Vision.
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Thunderbolt Ups the Ante for HTPCs
Scott Wilkinson  |  Feb 24, 2011
Intel and Apple today announced the introduction of a new computer I/O technology called Thunderbolt, which makes its debut on the latest MacBook Pro laptops. Yet another connection might seem the antithesis of cool, but this is big news for home-theater PCs.
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THX & Eighth Day Aim to Improve Concert Sound
SV Staff  |  Nov 08, 2016
How many times have you gone to a live concert and been thoroughly appalled by the quality of the sound? The bass is super boomy, vocals are muffled, and those intricate guitar fills you long to hear are lost in what comes out as sonic mush.
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