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SV Staff  |  Feb 26, 2010
Things are looking very bleak for the former video rental juggernaut Blockbuster Video. After shuttering 374 stores last year, the company is now planning to close an additional 500 locations. The news comes after Blockbuster posted a quarterly...
SV Staff  |  Mar 01, 2010
There's nerdy, and then there's too nerdy even for me. If you really, really love Marvel Comics, you can get an HDTV branded with a popular Marvel superhero or team. A company named RTC23 just announced that it will be releasing a full line of...
SV Staff  |  Mar 01, 2010
 If you're a PS3 user, but you don't have one of the newer slim models, Sony would appreciate it if you didn't fire up your console until they can find a viable fix for the clock bug that's currently beating up their...
SV Staff  |  Mar 02, 2010
Marantz has a new promotion to get people to buy its Blu-ray Disc players: free stuff. Starting today, if you buy a Marantz Blu-ray player, you can get a Roku HD for free. Specifically, you can get a full rebate for the device by printing out and...
SV Staff  |  Mar 02, 2010
 Walking past the TiVo booth at press events has been a little painful for a while now. They were always touting a new partnership or somethingl like that, but the same, increadingly old hardware still sat there on the table. But now...
SV Staff  |  Mar 04, 2010
The web's biggest video site is now adding captions to its videos. From now on, all videos uploaded will have optional captions transcribed from the audio through Google's speech recognition system. This is a massive expansion of YouTube's...
SV Staff  |  Mar 05, 2010
Now this is an iPod speaker system with some style. The A-Box from Thodio is an iPod speaker built inside an authentic ammunition box. Olive drab, metal, yellow stenciling, serious military chic. The A-Box comes in two versions, a "light" model...
SV Staff  |  Mar 05, 2010
Spring must be around the corner again, folks, ‘cause Pioneer has just announced a bunch of new receivers. The company’s new lineup consists of 5 models that range in price from $299 to $749. All deliver height channels ...
SV Staff  |  Mar 08, 2010
Early adopters can rest easy. Denon has just announced that four of its currently available A/V receivers are officially Windows 7-compatible, and all new receivers in 2010 will share that compatibility. The Denon AVR-4810CI, AVR-4310CI,...
SV Staff  |  Mar 09, 2010
Spectre's new Chrome HDTVs are shiny. That's the biggest thing that can be said about them. Shiny. Chrome. Blinged out. Reflective. Besides their shininess, the Chrome screens are basically just relatively small HDTVs (or relatively large...
SV Staff  |  Mar 10, 2010
3D content is steadily marching onward, but there still aren't too many choices out there. There are several animated movies from the last few years and Avatar will be hitting DVD and Blu-ray soon enough, but that's not a whole lot of 3D....
SV Staff  |  Mar 10, 2010
Actually, I'm talking about one lighthouse here, but in two images. First up, courtesy of the National Park Foundation: Readers of our print magazine will recognize that as the photo accompanying our December 2009 review of The National Parks...
SV Staff  |  Mar 11, 2010
March Madness has gotten a little bit more mad. CBS Sports is going to show the NCAA Final Four live in 100 movie theaters across the country. Oh, and it'll be in 3D. Locations haven't been nailed down yet, but details should be finalized before...
SV Staff  |  Mar 12, 2010
I can't attest to how sturdy it is, and I certainly would think very carefully before trusting $20 worth of hardware to support a $4,000 projector, but I still have to applaud CrunchGear's Matt Burns' ingenuity. He built his own ceiling mount for...
SV Staff  |  Mar 15, 2010
Netflix is on a mission to get their streaming service onto just about every device with a screen, but the cell phone market has been woefully neglected until now. Microsoft has been showing off how their new Windows Phone 7 platform plays nice...

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