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10 S&V-Approved Holiday Gift Picks
Bob Ankosko  |  Dec 08, 2022  |  0 comments
Yes, we know… You haven’t finished your holiday shopping. You’re not alone and if you’re like me, you haven’t even started. Yet, the clock keeps ticking: 16 days ’til Christmas with only days left to order online and ensure gifts get where they need to be in advance of the Big Day. In the spirit of helping you (and me) check an item or two off the ’ol shopping list, here are 10 potential gifts to give (and get) — all Top Picks, vetted and approved by your friends at Sound & Vision — 11 if you count our just-posted Top Value Pick: the Monolith THX-certified 5.1 minispeaker system.
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10 Smokin’ Deals at Shop Sound & Vision
SV Staff  |  Dec 15, 2017  |  0 comments
As we get down to the wire for online gift orders, here are 10 smokin’ deals worth checking out at Shop Sound & Vision.
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10 Top Picks to Kick Off Holiday Shopping
SV Staff  |  Nov 25, 2015  |  1 comments
Whether you hit the stores 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day or wait a few hours (or days, if not weeks…), we've revisited our Top Pick selections over the past year and come up with a tidy 10 for your consideration...
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10 Year Flashback: Recalling Sony's Rootkit Fiasco
SV Staff  |  Nov 05, 2015  |  1 comments
A decade ago Sony was scrambling to recover from the infamous CD Rootkit Fiasco, brought about when Sony BMG, then the second largest music group, placed copyright protection software on 52 CDs.
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10% in UK Now Have Digital DBS
 |  Oct 17, 1999  |  0 comments

In the past 12 months, 1.8 million homes have signed on to <A HREF="http://www.skydigital.co.uk/">British Sky Broadcasting</A>'s digital Direct Broadcast Satellite service, the company reported in mid-October. Approximately 45% of them are completely new subscribers. With an estimated half-million homes connected to the COFDM DTV service, the total market penetration of digital television in the United Kingdom is now 2.3 million homes, or slightly more than 10%. By comparison, market penetration of digital delivery services (cable and DBS) in the US is now about 12%, after five years of service from <A HREF="http://www.directv.com/">DirecTV</A>, <A HREF="http://www.echostar.com/">Echostar</A>, and digital cable.

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100 Pixar characters drawn to scale... sort of
SV Staff  |  Apr 02, 2010  |  0 comments
This is a genuinely impressive graphic for anyone who's enjoyed Pixar's films. Chilean artist Juan Pablo Bravo has produced a huge picture depicting 100 Pixar characters, from the company's mascot Luxo to Up's Kevin, drawn to scale. Well, sort of...
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103-inch Panasonic Plasma plus Wii Boxing plus supermodel equals . . .
SV Staff  |  Nov 12, 2008  |  0 comments
. . . honestly, I don't quite know, myself. But all those things came together at Madison Square Garden last week. Light heavyweight boxing champion Roy Jones Jr. faced off against Alexandra Richards (Keith Richards' daughter) in a Wii...
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1080i/720p DVD Player
HT Staff  |  Jan 16, 2003  |  0 comments
Samsung Electronics is going where no manufacturer has gone before, but where many are certain to follow.
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1080p DLP Hits the Shelves
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Jun 29, 2005  |  0 comments
Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc. is claiming bragging rights to being the first rear-projection HDTV maker to bring Texas Instruments' 1080p DLP technology to your corner TV store. Mitsubishi (sometimes called by customers shopping for big screens "Mister Bushi" - as in, "Let me see one of those Mister Bushi TVs" - seriously, I'm not making this up) says they'll claim their rightful place in the consumer-electronics history books when they begin shipping the 52-inch WD-52627 to certain lucky (or brown-nosing) Southern California retailers on June 30th. National distribution of the widescreen HDTV will commence in the following weeks. The suggested retail price of the WD-52627 is $3,699 (plus local taxes and applicable delivery charges).
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1080p LCD Rules the Roost
Mark Fleischmann  |  Feb 15, 2011  |  0 comments
The most popular resolution in LCD HDTVs is now 1080p. The majority of LCD sets sold last year have 1080p resolution, Quixel Research has revealed in its LCD TV Market Review.

While 1080p was already dominant in 40-inch-plus models, it is now dominant in all models, as of the fourth quarter of 2010. The market share of 1080p was 51 percent in 2010 overall and rose to 54 percent in the fourth quarter of that year.

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1080p on the Cheap
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Nov 02, 2006  |  0 comments
NeoDigits says the company is now shipping the only DVD player on the market with built-in upscaling that's capable of providing output resolutions up to 1080p through HDMI and component connections. The new H4000 can also send 1080i or 720p via the player's VGA/RGB-HV outputs.
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1080p Video Processor Readied for Consumers
 |  Jan 02, 2000  |  0 comments

Last week, <A HREF="http://www.faroudja.com">Faroudja</A> announced that it will introduce its new flagship DVP5000 Digital Video Processor/Scaler at the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas, Nevada. The company claims that the DVP5000 is the first processor to automatically upconvert 1080i (interlaced) high-definition signals to 1080p (progressive) resolution, "improving on the best that HDTV currently offers by removing the interlace stairstepping and motion artifacts found in the 1080i signal." The company also adds that standard 480i sources can be upconverted to 1080p.

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1080p Wasted on Most Viewers
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 15, 2009  |  0 comments
Many viewers are sitting too far from their HDTVs to enjoy the full resolution of a 1080p display, according to a poll by the good folks at Gizmodo.
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10th Anniversary: TV Goes Digital
SV Staff  |  Jun 14, 2019  |  0 comments
Ten years ago this week analog TV broadcasting in the U.S. went dark and the transition to the digital television system we enjoy today was completed.
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11 DTS Play-Fi Products Get Alexa Voice Control
SV Staff  |  Dec 14, 2018  |  0 comments
DTS has announced that 11 more DTS Play-Fi-enabled products from three top audio brands are now compatible with Alexa voice control.
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