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SV Staff  |  Nov 14, 2016  | 
Amazon kicked off its Black Friday deals a couple weeks ago and Best Buy has joined the fray announcing a number of deals on 4K/Ultra HD TVs in advance of the big, post-Thanksgiving shopping day.
SV Staff  |  Nov 11, 2016  | 
The first episode of Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music, the last project produced by legendary music producer Sir George Martin who passed away on March 8, airs on PBS channels at 10 p.m. ET, Monday (November 14).
David Vaughn  |  Nov 11, 2016  | 
Earlier this year, shortly after the release of the first Ultra HD (UHD) Blu-ray Disc player from Samsung, I wrote about the challenges of getting the player's full-bandwidth video signals to travel over longer distances in “UHD Blu-ray vs. HDMI: Let the Battle Begin”. Unfortunately, nearly 8 months later, consumers whose displays are more than 15 feet away from the Samsung UBD-K8500 are still in a pickle when it comes to choosing the proper HDMI cable to get the menu screen to properly come up on screen.
SV Staff  |  Nov 10, 2016  | 
Spending on home entertainment products is up about 4 percent over the same period in 2015, according to the Digital Entertainment Group (DEG).
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.
SV Staff  |  Nov 08, 2016  | 
Kushion, the “world’s first” padded Bluetooth Speaker, gives new meaning to pillow talk.
SV Staff  |  Nov 08, 2016  | 
A beastly subwoofer, multiroom DAC, Atmos-ready micro satellite speaker system, and more.
SV Staff  |  Nov 07, 2016  | 
DTS announced that China-based LeEco is integrating DTS-HD Master Audio and DTS-HD into its line of 4K/Ultra HD (UHD) TVs and one of its smartphones.
SV Staff  |  Nov 03, 2016  | 
GoldenEar Technology was recently awarded a U.S. patent for the unique design and technology used in its SuperSub series of powered subwoofers, including the new SuperSub X slated to ship before the end of the month.
SV Staff  |  Nov 04, 2016  |  First Published: Nov 03, 2016  | 
Boombotix, San Francisco-based maker of headphones and stylish voice-controlled Bluetooth speakers, has launched a Wi-Fi-based smart speaker on Kickstarter designed to “totally revolutionize the way you listen to music.”
SV Staff  |  Nov 04, 2016  |  First Published: Nov 03, 2016  | 
Amazon is aiming to put you in the holiday shopping spirit with the launch of its Black Friday Deals Store and more than a dozen curated holiday gift guides, including an Electronics Gift Guide Store featuring more than 500 products.
SV Staff  |  Nov 02, 2016  | 
For a limited time owners of older McIntosh gear can trade up to a new model with current features such as 4K/Ultra HD upsampling, network connectivity, and, yes, those cutting-edge surround-sound formats Dolby Atmos, DTS:X, and Auro-3D.
SV Staff  |  Nov 02, 2016  | 
Sony yesterday announced new firmware updates for five current projectors. The updates add an HDR Contrast function, automatic selection of BT2020 color space, among other things.
SV Staff  |  Nov 02, 2016  | 
RetailNext predicts that Black Friday will not be the biggest shopping day of the rapidly approaching 2016 holiday season.
SV Staff  |  Nov 01, 2016  | 
NAD Electronics and Bluesound have announced that their streaming media players will be “Roon Ready” by the end of the 2016.

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