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Web-Friendly "Social Bowl" Breaks New Ground
Jamie Sorcher  |  Jan 31, 2012
It is the most high-tech pigskin playoff yet, and it might be the event that truly marks the debut of social TV.

This year’s SuperBowl is the first to be streamed live online and wirelessly to select mobile phones, so no matter where you are (maybe you've been sent for more beer or ice!), you can stream the game to your PC, tablet, or smartphone and not miss a moment of the action.

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Weekend Update: Fagen, Gilmour, Zep, Radiohead
SV Staff  |  Nov 09, 2007
Can't find some prominent music releases on MVI, Blu-ray, HD DVD, and CD that we previewed recently? The dates, they keep a-changin': Donald Fagen: Nightfly Trilogy (Reprise/ Rhino). Originally conceived as a three-MVI set for release on...
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Wes Phillips Takes a Look at The Saint on laserdisc
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 23, 1998

V<I>al Kilmer, Elizabeth Shue, Rade Serbedzjia. Directed by Phillip Noyce. Aspect ratio: 1.85:1. Dolby Digital. 118 minutes. 1997. CLV. Paramount Home Video LV335363-WS. PG-13. $39.95.</I>

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West Side Story: 1 Hand 1 Heart 50 Years
SV Staff  |  Nov 07, 2007
Yes, a belated "Happy Birthday!" to the landmark musical by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. At this very moment, I happen to be sitting directly across the street from the Winter Garden Theatre, where West Side Story opened on...
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Westone Introduces Adventure Series Earphones for Active Users
HT Staff  |  Jun 04, 2013
Westone, a Colorado Springs-based company specializing in high-performance audio and in-ear monitoring technology, today introduced the water-resistant Adventure Series Alpha earphones for active users.
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What a Dad Wants
SV Staff  |  Jun 03, 2008
What did you get your dad for Father's Day this year? Another crappy tie? Ugly coffee mug? Electric shaver? Wouldn't you like to know exactly what dear old dad wants? Circuit City did just that. They surveyed 4,100 fathers, and the results are...
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What Are You Going To Do, Vote Republican?
Wes Phillips  |  Jun 06, 1999

W<I>arren Beatty, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Oliver Platt, Paul Sorvino, Jack Warren, Isaiah Washington. Directed by Warren Beatty. Aspect ratio: 1:85:1. Dolby Digital. 108 minutes. 1998. 20th Century Fox 4110398. Rated R. $34.98.</I>

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What Aspect Don't You Understand?
SV Staff  |  Oct 10, 2008
Our good buddy, Pete Pachal, over at DVICE, makes a good point. In spite of technological prowess coming out the wazoo everywhere else, television companies just can't seem to figure out aspect ratios. Back in the day, it was pretty simple. When...
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What Comes After High-Def? 4K!
 |  Oct 30, 2005

<I>UAV</I> readers have been flooded with so much news lately about the transition to HDTV- with respect to both the HD DVD vs. Blu-ray format war, and this country's transition to digital TV broadcast- that I almost feel bad bringing this one up. But it's true- in late October Warner Bros. began field trials of digital cinema presentations in Japan featuring so-called 4K resolution, which is, gulp, an image with a pixel count of 4096x2160.

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What Comes After High-Def? Higher Def!
 |  Oct 29, 2006

Now that the HD transition is finally kicking into gear friends and colleagues who have been around long enough to know that something new is always around the corner have asked, what comes after high-definition? And answer of course, is higher-definition.

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What Could He Possibly Have Been Thinking?
Wes Phillips  |  Mar 04, 2001

F<I>red A. Leuchter, Jr. Directed by Errol Morris. Aspect ratio: 1.85:1 (anamorphic). Dolby Digital 2.0. 91 minutes. 1999. Lionsgate Films 20717. PG-13. $24.98.</I>

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What Did We Do Before the DVR?
SV Staff  |  Aug 28, 2007
A recent survey by Leichtman Research Group indicates that one in five homes now has a DVR. I get that. I don't know where I'd be without mine. I never would have been able to keep up with Lost and I never would have enjoyed Desperate Housewives...
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What Happened To OLED?
SV Staff  |  Nov 03, 2009
 Some electronics industry observers may be wondering if OLED TVs should be lumped in with the flying car, the food synthesizer, and other technological no-shows. After the first OLED TV, Sony’s XEL-1, showed up in spring 2008, the cognoscenti...
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What is Hip? HIPerSpace World's Highest Rez Display
SV Staff  |  Jul 10, 2008
Don't think the kids at the University of California, San Diego are slacking off, surfing all day and beach-partying all night. The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, is showing off the world's...
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What Means Innovation?
SV Staff  |  Nov 19, 2007
Each year at the Consumer Electronics Show, the Consumer Electronics Association highlights top new products in select categories and honors them with Innovations awards. The tech press got a peak at winners last week at a pre-CES event in New...
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