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Ultrasone shipping shiny new Palladium phones
SV Staff  |  Feb 24, 2010
If you like your headphones German, shiny, and really expensive, Ultrasone has the pair for you. The company is shipping its Edition 8 Palladium headphones to North America, giving American audiophiles a chance to get their hands on (according to...
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Ultrasone's Edition 8 Headphones Look Very Comfortable
SV Staff  |  Feb 13, 2009
The Ultrasone Edition 9s were incredible. They looked, sounded and fit like a pair of ultra-expensive headphones should. The Edition 8 phones replace the Edition 9s at the top of the Ultrasone totem pole, boasting upgrades like ear cups covered in...
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Ultrasone's new heavy-duty hi-fi headphones
SV Staff  |  Oct 06, 2009
Headphone maker Ultrasone has just unveiled its newest flagship model, the HFI-2400. The new headphones feature 40mm gold-plated drivers, an open-backed design, and a relatively hefty price tag. Besides its attractive design, the HFI-2400...
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UltraViolet to Arrive This Summer
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 21, 2011
Buy it once, play it on any device: That's the promise of UltraViolet, a cloud-based computing scheme. While the Consumer Electronics Show was in full swing this month, it was reported that UltraViolet is launching this summer.

As we've previously reported, this is a big deal. UltraViolet will let you access content you've paid for once across multiple platforms including TVs, PCs, gaming consoles, smart phones, and any kind of computer.

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UltraViolet: Building a Movie Library in the Cloud
Bob Ankosko  |  Sep 24, 2012
I half expected an ordeal as I walked into Walmart carrying a small shopping bag with several movies, ready to take the new Disc-to-Digital service for a spin. I was directed to the electronics department where I was greeted by a large placard that read: “Access your movie collection. Any time. Any place. 3 Easy Steps...” Offered in Walmart stores across the country, the service is operated through the chain’s online streaming service, Vudu, and is intended to provide an easy way to set up a cloud-based digital movie library with DVDs and Blu-ray Discs you already own.
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Umbrella Speaker: Singing In the Rain
SV Staff  |  Nov 06, 2008
One of the most fascinating facts I learned in college was that microphones and loudspeakers are really physically the same. Well, you know those parabolic microphones you see on the sidelines of football games? You know, the ones that look like...
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UMG Joins EMI in Nixing DRM
SV Staff  |  Aug 14, 2007
As a follow-up to Ken Pohlmann's story on Apple and EMI vs. DRM: The Universal Music Group has announced that it, too, will begin selling its catalog online without Digital Rights Management. However, Universal won't be making its entire catalog...
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Unanticipated Problems Cloud DTV Rollout
Barry Willis  |  Jul 29, 2001

The digital TV rollout may have more problems than were previously anticipated. A study released July 25 by <A HREF="http://www.trivenidigital.com">Triveni Digital</A> indicates that a majority of the nation's digital broadcasts have transport stream errors that can cause reception problems ranging from "tuner lock-up" to audio sync errors. In addition, a July 26 report in the <I>Los Angeles Times</I> says that new content protection schemes could be incompatible with early generation high-definition TVs.

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Uncertain Fate for Voom
Barry Willis  |  Dec 26, 2004  |  First Published: Dec 27, 2004

<A HREF="http://www.voom.com/">VOOM</A> isn't going anywhere, at least not yet.

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Underwater Robot/4K Cam “Revolutionizes” Fishing
SV Staff  |  Mar 22, 2017
When does technology go too far? It’s a question that comes up frequently these days. Here’s one potential example.
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Undiscovered Genius Scholarship Program Announced
 |  Jan 30, 2000

High school and college students whose parents may be wondering if little Ricky will ever stop playing with the video camera now have a scholarship program to call their own. The creation of the Zoom Culture Undiscovered Genius Scholarship program was announced last week at the Sundance Festival.

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Unique Ambeo Headset Records the World Around You
SV Staff  |  Oct 27, 2017
Sennheiser has announced that the unique Ambeo Smart Headset it previewed at CES 2017 is now available.
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United Flight 936: iPodding at 35,000 Feet
SV Staff  |  Jun 17, 2008
"Ladies and gentlemen, we've reached a cruising altitude of 10,000 feet, and the captain has turned off the fasten seatbelt sign. You are free to use personal electronic devices at this time, and feel free to plug in your iPod or iPhone into...
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Unity Motion to Broadcast HDTV
Jon Iverson  |  Jun 21, 1998

On June 17, <A HREF="http://www.unitymotion.com/unity/home.asp">Unity Motion</A> announced an agreement with <A HREF="http://www.turner.com/">Turner Engineering</A> under which Turner will supply high-definition television (HDTV) broadcast-engineering expertise to Unity Motion, which this year begins transmitting multiple channels of HDTV via satellite to subscribers in the US. In addition, Unity Motion announced that it will broadcast the first national satellite-based HDTV signal in the US on June 23-25.

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Universal and Columbia TriStar Join for International DVD Distribution
 |  Feb 28, 1999

Last week, <A HREF="http://www.cthv.com/">Columbia TriStar Home Video</A> (CTHV) and <A HREF="http://www.universalstudios.com">Universal Studios Home Video</A> (USHV) jointly announced an agreement to distribute USHV DVDs outside North America. According to the companies, the agreement represents a milestone in the international expansion of DVD. CTHV, the first major Hollywood studio to release films on DVD outside the US (i.e., in Europe, Latin America, and Japan), is now joined by USHV as one of the few major studios releasing its movies on a consistent basis internationally.

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