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Universal Remote Control
 |  Aug 18, 2003  |  First Published: Aug 19, 2003  | 

A better remote control is on the wish list of almost every home theater enthusiast. <A HREF="http://www.universal-remote.com/">Universal Remote Control, Inc.</A> has introduced two products worth investigating by anyone whose remotes have been hampered by environmental or architectural constraints.

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Universal Slashes CD Prices
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 19, 2010  | 
One of the four largest music labels plans to test a new pricing scheme that will slash list prices on all single discs to somewhere between six and ten dollars.
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Universal to Embrace DTS-HD Master Audio
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 02, 2008  | 
Universal will support lossless DTS-HD Master Audio in many of its initial Blu-ray releases.
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Universal to Release Movies on 4K UHD Blu-ray
SV Staff  |  Apr 25, 2016  | 
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has announced plans to progressively roll out a “broad selection” of films on 4K Ultra HD (UHD) Blu-ray and in UHD digital formats beginning this summer, helping to push the total number of UHD titles expected to be released in 2016 to more than 100.
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Universal To Release Over 100 HD DVD Titles In 2007
 |  Jan 25, 2007  |  First Published: Jan 26, 2007  | 

Universal Studios, the only Hollywood studio currently supporting HD DVD exclusively, announced that it will release over 100 HD DVD titles in 2007, comprised of new and classic films and television shows. Many will be new titles released day and date with DVD discs, and over 90% of the titles released will be HD DVD/DVD combo discs.

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Universal to Sell BD/DVD Combo Discs
Mark Fleischmann  |  Dec 09, 2009  | 
Universal Studios Home Entertainment will begin selling double-sided discs with Blu-ray on one side and DVD on the other.
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Universal to Test No-DRM Downloads
Mark Fleischmann  |  Aug 10, 2007  | 
Recent moves by Universal Music Group, the world's largest music label, may result in a more freewheeling DRM-free download retail environment.
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Universal Tries Exotic Downloads
Mark Fleischmann  |  Aug 08, 2008  | 
Critics of the music industry often say we wish the major labels would quit bellyaching, forget the lawsuits, and just offer a better legal-download product. That's the best way to fight illegal downloads, and that's what the Universal Music Group is doing with its new Lost Tunes download service.
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Universal Wants "Wanted" Blu to be Wonderous
SV Staff  |  Jun 27, 2008  | 
Universal Studios is betting that Wanted  is going to be the Blu-ray release that's going to explode the Blu-ray business. Universal's Craig Kornblau has been quoted as saying, "What The Matrix did for DVD, Wanted could do for...
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Universal Will Not Renew HD DVD Pact
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 10, 2008  | 
Universal Home Entertainment will not renew its exclusivity pact with HD DVD, Variety has reported.
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University Launches First Voice-Technology Program
SV Staff  |  Aug 21, 2017  | 
Arizona State University (ASU) has launched a first-of-its-kind voice-technology program with courses on how to build voice-powered user interfaces as part of a larger initiative that aims to build a voice-enabled community on campus.
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Unsinkable Titanic Sails On Past $1 Billion
Barry Willis  |  Mar 08, 1998  | 

Who'd've thunk it? The movie-going public can't get enough of James Cameron's <I>Titanic</I>, the three-hour disaster flick starring the mismatched Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as a pair of doomed lovers.

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Unsure Times Ahead for Satellite TV?
Barry Willis  |  Nov 25, 2001  | 

Cable companies may be the accidental beneficiaries of the recently announced EchoStar-DirecTV deal, in which smaller direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service <A HREF="http://www.echostar.com">EchoStar</A> won approval from General Motors to buy its subsidiary Hughes Electronics Corporation, operator of <A HREF="http://www.directv.com">DirecTV</A>.

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Unwrapped: THX "Deep Note"
Leslie Shapiro  |  Jun 04, 2018  | 
In honor of its upcoming 35th anniversary, THX hit Twitter with a post that sent music and movie fans alike into a tizzy. THX just released the written musical score of the THX logo theme, satisfying fans and showing us all how wonderfully simple, yet brilliant the piece is. 35 years ago, in time for the premiere of “Return of the Jedi,” Dr. James “Andy” Moorer created the THX musical icon, and it became one of the most recognizable scores in movie history. Now, we can finally see what they were talking about.

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Up and Down In January
Jon Iverson  |  Mar 17, 2002  | 

Although broadcasters still have until 2006 to implement DTV, the <A HREF="http://www.CE.org">Consumer Electronics Association</A> (CEA) is reporting that manufacturer-to-dealer sales of digital television (DTV) products continued to beat past year performance. For the latest figures, DTV products are defined to include integrated sets and monitors displaying active vertical scanning lines of at least 480p and, in the case of integrated sets, receiving and decoding ATSC terrestrial digital transmissions.

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