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Dolby Digital Plus Hits the Airwaves
Mark Fleischmann  |  Nov 06, 2008  | 
Dolby Digital Plus will make its broadcast debut in France's recently launched HDTV platform.
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Panasonic May Buy Sanyo
Mark Fleischmann  |  Nov 05, 2008  | 
Panasonic is making a bid to purchase Sanyo. The move would not only make one of Japan's leading consumer electronics giants even bigger--it might also lead to a dominant position in batteries, a fast growing segment of the industry.
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Retail Woes Worsen
Mark Fleischmann  |  Nov 04, 2008  | 
Even as shoppers wait expectantly for Black Friday to kick off the holiday shopping rush, retailers are already suffering.
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TiVo Is Latest Netflix Rental Medium
Mark Fleischmann  |  Nov 03, 2008  | 
Netflix will bring its streaming movie service to owners of TiVo Series3, HD, and HD XL DVRs. Testing began last week, with the rollout to all TiVo subscribers following in December.
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Gamers Meet the Beatles
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 31, 2008  | 
MTV-Harmonix, maker of the game platform Rock Band, will develop a new game based around the Beatles. It will become the first non-hard-copy digital distribution medium for music by the Beatles.
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Want HD Radio With That?
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 30, 2008  | 
Wouldn't it be convenient if all satellite radio--meaning Sirius XM--receivers also handled over-the-air HD Radio? A bill in Congress would mandate this pairing. The Federal Communications Commission is also considering it as an outgrowth of its approval for the Sirius XM merger.
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The VCR Is Dead
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 29, 2008  | 
The VCR quietly passed away this month as JVC stopped making standalone VHS decks. There are still some VCRs in the pipeline--and VHS will survive in DVD/VCR combos. But the era of the VCR has drawn to a close.
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Crystal Ball Shows Black Friday TV Prices
user  |  Oct 28, 2008  | 
Traditionally prices for TVs and other consumer electronics have plummeted starting on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and the kickoff of the holiday shopping season. This year, an analyst has looked into his crystal ball and seen flat-panel HDTVs selling for a range of three-digit prices.
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Getting Personal
Kim Wilson  |  Oct 28, 2008  | 

Nothing makes a statement like personalizing your interior decor with <A HREF=http://www.auralex.com/sonicprint>Auralex Acoustics SonicPrint ProPanels</A>. These acoustic absorptive panels are covered in a special fabric designed to improve the sound of your home theater or media room. The SonicPrint panels help control excessive reverberation and room ring that are caused by hard surfaces like drywall, concrete or wood. Strategically placing these panels on the walls will absorb unwanted sound energy and optimize the acoustical properties of your room, providing more accurate and undistorted sound throughout the listening area.

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Lala Offers Two Ways to Buy Music
user  |  Oct 27, 2008  | 
Downloads and streaming are nothing new. But lala.com offers both with an unusual angle on streaming. Instead of paying an all-you-can-eat subscription fee, you can pay 10 cents for the right to stream a song indefinitely. If that's not convenient, you can also pay to download it in the conventional way.
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Samsung BD Players to Deliver Netflix Movies
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 24, 2008  | 
Samsung Blu-ray players are learning some new tricks. The BD-P2550 and BD-P2500 will stream movies rented from Netflix's online service. And the first of those two models will also stream music from Pandora Radio.
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Circuit City's Blood in the Water
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 23, 2008  | 
Attention, shoppers. Circuit City may close 150 stores as an alternative to bankruptcy. The reason this grim news may be of interest is that when stores close, inventory gets liquidated--and that could mean sweet deals for consumers down the road.
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TV Prices to Drop This Holiday Season
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 21, 2008  | 
Brace yourself. Visualize a 32-inch LCD HDTV in a store. Then visualize a pricetag on it that says...$350. At least, that is what one analyst is predicting for the forthcoming holiday shopping season.
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Movie to Debut on Sony Net Platform
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 20, 2008  | 
The latest Will Smith movie Hancock will make its video debut on Sony's Bravia Internet Video Link before it reaches Sony's Blu-ray disc format (or DVD for that matter). The release-window experiment will run from October 28 to November 10.
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Blu-ray Pricing in Flux
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 16, 2008  | 
Will the list prices of Blu-ray player prices drop from current levels in time for the holidays? Yes, says one struggling brand. No, says the standard bearer.
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