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Audio News Roundup: 6-20-13
Brent Butterworth  |  Jun 20, 2013

Two pretty big pieces of news hit the audio world this week. Jade Design, makers of Emotiva products, purchased Bob Carver LLC and has begun making his products in the U.S. at substantially lower prices.

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Show Report: CE Week 2013
Brent Butterworth  |  Jun 28, 2013

Today's the last day of CE Week, a trade show that functions as sort of a midyear mini-CES. Conferences and talks took up most of the week, but Wednesday and Thursday featured a tech showcase at Manhattan's Metropolitan Pavilion

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Audio News: 7-11-13
Brent Butterworth  |  Jul 11, 2013

B&W's $4,000 mid-line flagship: The CM10 is the new top-of-the-line model in the company's mid-priced CM line. It's the only model in the CM line that features the same "tweeter on top" technology found in the company's higher-end 800 series.

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This picture shows the future of television
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Aug 18, 2013

This may not look like much, but it is a quantum leap in television performance.

In this long-exposure image (note how bright the iPad is in the foreground), you're looking at something incredible.

That TV you see? That TV is on.

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Exotic Home Theater Showcase
SV Staff  |  Aug 27, 2013

How one architectural and interior design-engineering services company helps enthusiasts build the home theater of their dreams. Read the story here.

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Panasonic Ain’t Just Plasmas
Rob Sabin  |  Aug 29, 2013

I recently enjoyed a press tour of Panasonic’s soon-to-open Innovation Center in Newark, NJ, an open-windowed retail-like space off the lobby of the company’s new headquarters building.

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HDTV and DVRs Expect Major Growth
SV Staff  |  Jun 21, 2007
USA Today reports that PricewaterhouseCoopers is predicting that HDTV sets will be in 59% of homes in 2011, up from 12.7% at the close of 2006. As for DVRs, 39% of all homes will have 'em in 2011, up from 11.8% in 2006. Coolness. Me, I've got three...
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Snakes & Arrows on Vinyl: It's Here!
SV Staff  |  Jun 21, 2007
The 180-HQ vinyl version of of Rush's Snakes & Arrows arrived on my doorstep yesterday. Yee-hah! Can't wait to do a listening session. One error I noticed on the back cover (yes, I know we've got the front cover pictured here): The last track...
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Always Worrying About the Wrong Thing
SV Staff  |  Jun 26, 2007
Not always, really, but a lot. So I like it when people start talking about something I consider important but largely overlooked — color, for example. Maybe we take color for granted, or maybe it’s just too vague. The things people get hung up...
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36 Films That Need To Be On DVD
SV Staff  |  Jun 26, 2007
You can watch it in France, you can watch it in Spain but you can’t watch one of America’s greatest masterpieces on DVD in America — not unless you import it and buy a multi-region player too. Where the heck is my The Magnificent Ambersons DVD? ...
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Another View of Music
SV Staff  |  Jun 27, 2007
The view here, as you can see, is merely of the top of my head. Yes, it’s your humble Entertainment Editor with his humble Reporter’s Notebook, covering the 2006 South by Southwest Music Festival. And who are those two tykes? They’re band members,...
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Gadget Mania
SV Staff  |  Jun 28, 2007
For those who are camping out all night waiting for an iPhone (they go on sale tomorrow at 6 pm), I say save your money. Check out suckbusters.com and read more. And if you do go ahead and get one, drop me a note and let me know what you think. ...
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Asia, Not Minor
SV Staff  |  Jun 28, 2007
One of the things we’ll be doing regularly here in da Bitstream is discuss music and DVDs we’re otherwise unable to get to in the magazine proper or cover over in the website’s Entertainment review section. (Ken Richardson has more on that manifesto...
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Music on Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD
SV Staff  |  Jun 28, 2007
Yes, high-def fans, there is music on those formats. There just isn't much of it, relatively speaking. Back in the January 2007 issue of Sound & Vision, I rounded up the first batch of titles in a review called Found What We're Looking For!...
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Bon Jovi Enters at No. 1, Deserves It
SV Staff  |  Jun 30, 2007
Don't laugh. After all, 292,000 fans can't be wrong. That's how many people bought Bon Jovi's new "country" album, Lost Highway (Island), in the first week of its release, enabling it to enter The Billboard 200 at the top spot in the...
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