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SV Staff  |  Aug 17, 2008  |  0 comments
We professional journalist types are too careful to call La Sphere the strangest-looking speaker ever created, so let's just say it's in our top five-and we can't think of what the other four might be. The $140,000-per-pair speaker from French...
SV Staff  |  Aug 18, 2008  |  0 comments
Several months ago, I lamented about how my Scientific Atlanta cable box repeatedly refused direct orders to record Survivor. Week after week I would say, "Record all showings," and week after week I looked in vain through my recorded list. My...
SV Staff  |  Aug 18, 2008  |  0 comments
Horrible news for fans of Pandora Internet Radio.  In fact, it's not looking good for any Internet radio sites - my beloved Slacker.com is in jeopardy too. Why? Looks like the government has a hand in bringing down what might be the best thing...
SV Staff  |  Aug 18, 2008  |  0 comments
Last weekend might have seemed a bit long and boring for some Netflix subscribers. No movies in their mailboxes. How did they survive? Without explanation or warning, all of Netflix's 55 shipping centers across the country experienced a massive...
SV Staff  |  Aug 19, 2008  |  0 comments
While all the talk is about Blu-ray, Best Buy is looking at red. Russia, that is. News reports from Reuters and Russia-InfoCentre are reporting that Best Buy has registered trademark rights for the Future Shop name. Future Shop is the name of the...
SV Staff  |  Aug 19, 2008  |  0 comments
Wayne's World's of the world, beware. If Charter has its way, all our favorite public access cable shows are gonna be in trouble. Charter, one of the countries bigger cable carriers, is raising eyebrows across the country with two - count 'em, two...
SV Staff  |  Aug 19, 2008  |  0 comments
We have previously reported on LG's Scarlet plasma TVs. Maybe you've seen the provocative commercials. We have also previously reported on RED Digital Cinema's Scarlet video camera. The question is, did they confuse you? That issue may be decided...
SV Staff  |  Aug 19, 2008  |  0 comments
With a name that sounds more akin to a nighttime wrinkle cream solution than a breakthrough multi-room audio distribution system, NuVo Technologies Renovia is designed to make adding music to existing home a far simpler proposition. With new...
SV Staff  |  Aug 19, 2008  |  0 comments
Sore losers? Maybe. After throwing in the HD DVD towel, and surrendering to Sony's Blu-ray technology, you might think Toshiba would jump on the BD bandwagon like everyone else, and try to get some of that hot BD action. Instead, at the surrender...
SV Staff  |  Aug 19, 2008  |  0 comments
Our fellow bloggers over at Gizmodo uncovered an interesting opportunity. Some guy is selling some records. About 3 million records, along with 300,000 Compact Discs. More than half the records are said to be new. Billed as the World's Greatest...
SV Staff  |  Aug 19, 2008  |  0 comments
Who doesn't love their TiVo? Who would love to take their TiVo to work with them every day? If you're on the staff at The Daily Show, you don't have to. If you've watched the show, you know that they pull clips from a wide range of sources. Did...
SV Staff  |  Aug 19, 2008  |  0 comments
Can't you just picture your whole family gathered around the TV wearing those goofy red and blue 3D glasses? Makes you all warm and fuzzy thinking about it. Well, Warner Bros. just announced they're going to release the computer-generated animated...
SV Staff  |  Aug 20, 2008  |  0 comments
When Verizon began rolling out trucks to run fiber optic cables through nearly half its territory, critics were skeptical. Rightly so. The cost to install fiber optic cables for Verizon's FiOS system was close to $23 billion. Billion. Doing the...
SV Staff  |  Aug 20, 2008  |  0 comments
Harman Kardon is going to make a splash at CEDIA 2008 in early September with a bevy of new products for the custom installation crowd (and maybe you too!). Harman,probably best known for making A/V receivers, is introducing a state-of-the-art...
SV Staff  |  Aug 20, 2008  |  0 comments
Black Friday's coming early in the HDTV market. Just in time for all your favorite network shows to return - to say nothing of the fall classics and my fav, college football - HDTVs are going on sale. If you're in the market for a new set, you...

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