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The Best Laid Blu-Ray Plans
SV Staff  |  Apr 11, 2008  |  0 comments
Consumers have the best intentions when it comes to planning high-tech purchases. A Japanese survey of about 15,000 people indicates that consumers in that country really want to buy a Blu-ray Disc  recorder, they just don't know when they're...
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NBC To Broadcast 5.1 Channels of Sweat
SV Staff  |  Apr 11, 2008  |  0 comments
NBC seems to be making all the necessary investments so that come August's opening ceremonies in Beijing, it can provide a high-definition coverage bonanza on audio and video. The broadcaster has already divulged its intentions to fan out around...
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DVRs Vote Survivor off the Hard Drive
SV Staff  |  Apr 13, 2008  |  0 comments
Like millions of Americans, I have totally ditched my VCR and now solely rely on my DVR to record my favorite shows while I'm away from home. And the vast majority of time, my Scientific Atlanta box has my back. From Lost, to Prison Break, to The...
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Circuitbuster
SV Staff  |  Apr 14, 2008  |  0 comments
Blockbuster wants in on the electronics business. First the struggling movie rentals company wants to sell a branded set-top box for downloading movies. Now it wants to buy an entire consumer electronics retail chain. Blockbuster made a buyout...
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Dish Won't Give Up TiVo Fight
SV Staff  |  Apr 14, 2008  |  0 comments
Dish Network and TiVo have been battling in court since 2004 over Dish's alleged infringement of TiVo's recording-while-watching patent, but even though TiVo keeps winning, Dish won't give up. The latest development: a Federal Circuit court ruled...
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HD Viewers to Double between 2007 and 2008
SV Staff  |  Apr 14, 2008  |  0 comments
The whole world is slowly upgrading to high-def. While many countries can't compete with the U.S. in terms of adoption speeds, they're still latching on at their own pace. Only two percent of homes around the world watched high-definition...
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BBC and Discovery Put High-Def on Ice
SV Staff  |  Apr 14, 2008  |  0 comments
The Discovery Channel and BBC's "Planet Earth" series is popular among HDTV-owners eager to show off the up-close-and-personal vibrant images of wild animals, deep caves and lush forests on their large flat-screens. Spacing out in front of a...
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Can't W8 for Sony's GR8 XBR8
SV Staff  |  Apr 15, 2008  |  0 comments
Sony isn't talking about its update plans for its high-end XBR LCD series, but it doesn't have to when leaked product road maps say all that needs to be said. According to the Boy Genius Report, which published a leaked documents about the XBR...
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A Future Filled with Unlimited Storage
SV Staff  |  Apr 15, 2008  |  0 comments
Limitations in data storage are the only thing holding us back from iPods and personal video players that hold thousands of movies and hundreds of thousands of audio tracks. Hard drives break, and flash drives are slow. Researchers at IBM's IBC...
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iRecord Pro Buddies Up to Any A/V Ins and Outs
SV Staff  |  Apr 15, 2008  |  0 comments
Gadget reviewers liked the original iRecord, from Streaming Networks and NXP Semiconductors, because it made transferring any audio or video from one source to another, such as protected DVDs playing on a DVD player to an iPod, or recorded TiVo...
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Sharp's Newest Aquos Ready for the Web
SV Staff  |  Apr 15, 2008  |  0 comments
You might remember Sharp's Aquos SE94 LCD HDTVs from CES reports back in January, but the Internet-faring TVs are finally real and shipping within North America. Let us refresh your memory: The Aquos SE94 sets - in 46, 52, and 65-inch models - have...
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Get Thee to a Shoppery!
SV Staff  |  Apr 16, 2008  |  0 comments
What's a "record store"? If you've never been to one, it's time for you to paddle away from your computer keyboard's virtual Amazon and enter the real world of bricks and mortar. And if you're, ahem, an older buyer who hasn't been to one...
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$9 for True Video On Demand HD Movies?
SV Staff  |  Apr 16, 2008  |  0 comments
Movie fans have a lot of choices when it comes to how they're going to access a film. Theaters, DVDs, Blu-ray, mail rentals, digital rentals, digital downloads and video on demand are all viable options depending on a consumer's patience level. ...
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Sony's Paper-Thin OLED
SV Staff  |  Apr 16, 2008  |  0 comments
Sony just OLED the cat out of the bag. At a display expo in Japan this week - one that U.S. consumers and enthusiasts are hardly aware of - Sony showed that it can do a lot better than its 11-inch, 3mm thick XEL-1 OLED TV (which is already ahead of...
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Japan Waves Goodbye to JVC LCDs
SV Staff  |  Apr 16, 2008  |  0 comments
This won't affect North American and European consumers, but Japanese shoppers may soon observe a noticeable lack of JVC LCD TVs for sale. That's because JVC is looking to exit the business in its home country, and will probably make its decision...
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