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SV Staff  |  Mar 18, 2008
The musicians of British heavy metal band Iron Maiden are well into their fifties, but that's no reason for them to ignore a potential new fan base of teenage download-fiends. The band said last week that it would offer a free trial download of...
SV Staff  |  Mar 18, 2008
The long-promised potential of HDTV-over-the-Web could be delivered by an unlikely source. Rather than being worked out by your broadband service provider, your big-screen TV could get video through Cisco, which just invested a chunk of change in a...
SV Staff  |  Mar 18, 2008
A Massachusetts startup called Luminus Devices wants to make flat-screen LCD TVs brighter and more energy efficient with a type of Light Emitting Diode called a PhlatLight. But because the laser-enhanced technology is so pricey for consumer...
SV Staff  |  Mar 18, 2008
If you get all your flat-panel industry information from news reports, you might think LCD screens are on a tear and taking over the market. After all, research shows that everybody and their neighbor will buy an LCD TV in the next four years, and...
SV Staff  |  Mar 19, 2008
Claiming to share consumers' frustrations that they were asked to make a choice in a format war, Best Buy is placating HD DVD player customers who bought players or before  Feb. 23 fire sale prices with a $50 gift certificate. Best Buy will...
SV Staff  |  Mar 19, 2008
Sony appears to be taking inspiration from Japanese fictional monster Mothra in the design of its latest use of Blu-ray technology. Or, at least, from common moths. Sony plans to use Blu-ray laser manufacturing to produce a type of bumpy film...
SV Staff  |  Mar 19, 2008
Still have some old vinyl kicking around the attic that you'd like to offload to the iPod? You've got a few options for converting those soundwaves into bits. Numark, maker of turntables for pro DJs and consumers, will ship a direct-to-iPod...
SV Staff  |  Mar 19, 2008
It is unusual for corporate executives to blab about new product concepts that aren't even in testing yet, and even more rare for them to openly discuss product ideas that appear very controversial. That's why we're surprised that Comcast's...
SV Staff  |  Mar 19, 2008
So, Canon, you're really serious about this SED TV thing, aren't you? Like Sony and Panasonic before you, you've ditched rear-projection television technology plans. That makes sense, almost everyone agrees it is an outdated, dying design. But...
SV Staff  |  Mar 20, 2008
Don't be surprised if it's not Excel your co-workers are watching on their PCs over the next few days. A survey conducted by the Consumer Electronics Association and the Sports Video Group shows that 38 percent of sports fans expect to download and...
SV Staff  |  Mar 20, 2008
If Sony's PlayStation 3 didn't already look like a great deal to people shopping for a Blu-ray player (it costs about $20 more than several other players but comes with an entire gaming system attached), its value proposition versus the competition...
SV Staff  |  Mar 20, 2008
Some Dish Network and DirecTV high-def subscribers may not see local channels in HD until 2013 due to a ruling this week by the Federal Communications Commission. The satellite carriers insisted they didn't have the capacity to carry all the local...
SV Staff  |  Mar 20, 2008
Industry analysts like to say that part of the reason Blu-ray won the high-def format war against HD DVD was because of Blu-ray promised Hollywood rock-solid copy protection against illegal pirating of movies. Well, that was short-lived. This week...
SV Staff  |  Mar 20, 2008
Display technology researchers are on a roll. A professor at University of California Santa Barbara has discovered a way to combine lighting technologies to create an even brighter, more energy efficient, longer lasting back-light than LED by...
SV Staff  |  Mar 21, 2008
Mark Cuban loves HDTV, which is why he founded all-high-def network HDNet. But he also loves NBA basketball, which is why he owns the Dallas Mavericks. Why, then, is he pitting his two loves against each other by urging people in Dallas to leave...

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