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Viddyou Goes With High Bitrate Service
SV Staff  |  Sep 10, 2008  |  0 comments
YouTube is all good and fine, but jeez, sometimes the quality of the video is so poor you can barely see what's going on. Viddyou, a service similar to YouTube, had already launched an HD service (for a fee) but they just announced they're getting...
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TiVo Arrives on BlackBerry
SV Staff  |  Sep 11, 2008  |  0 comments
While it's already possible to schedule TiVo recordings from a mobile phone, BlackBerry is going one step further. Research In Motion, big berry parent of the BlackBerry just partnered with TiVo to bring a software application to the phones that...
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LP 2 FLASH: Transfers LP to... Flash!
SV Staff  |  Sep 11, 2008  |  0 comments
Ion Audio made news a while ago with their LP 2 CD turntable that made it easy to transfer your old vinyl records to CD. It just got even easier to get music to your computer. The new LP 2 FLASH plays your albums and converts them to MP3, then...
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Pioneer Shows Off 50" and 60" Kuro Plasmas
SV Staff  |  Sep 11, 2008  |  0 comments
Pioneer just had a press conference in Tokyo, introducing two new KURO plasma displays. The KRP-600A (60-inch) and KRP-500A (50-inch.)  Both have Full HD resolution and are designed, according to Pioneer, to produce blacks five times deeper...
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Sony OLED -- No Strings Attached
SV Staff  |  Sep 11, 2008  |  0 comments
There's been lots of talk about wireless HD. Yeah, no HDMI cables have to run to your TV, but they all still need power, and that unsightly power cord running up the wall. (Yeah, yeah, I know you can run all the cables and power in the wall, but...
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S&V Internationale?
SV Staff  |  Sep 12, 2008  |  0 comments
Is imitation the best form of flattery? We like to think that this store located in the Zurich airport loves our name and concept so much that they just had to copy it for themselves. I mean, really, Sound & Vision. Covers it all. We think so...
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FlyCast Tunes on iPhone
SV Staff  |  Sep 12, 2008  |  0 comments
FlyCast, formerly known as FlyTunes, has just released a new free application for iPhone and iPod touch that should make satellite radio providers a bit nervous. Pandora might be a little shaky too. FlyCast has over 1,000 digital channels ranging...
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Toshiba's Sexy Little Pocket Pico Projector
SV Staff  |  Sep 12, 2008  |  0 comments
Tiny LED projectors aren't on everyone's wish list, but you gotta admit, this is a sexy little projector. The Toshiba LED pocket projector debuted at Europe's IFA 2008 show. This little specimen weighs in at a scant 100 grams, and measures just 10...
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Best Buy is Buying Napster
SV Staff  |  Sep 15, 2008  |  0 comments
Remember when Napster was an upstart controversial music sharing business that was raging across college campuses until it got shut down? Not only has Napster gone legit, it has become Big Business. As reported by Reuters on Yahoo News, Best Buy...
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Vizio Going High-End
SV Staff  |  Sep 15, 2008  |  0 comments
It seems to be a common business model. Look at Hyundai. They hit the US market with very cheap affordable cars that were good, reliable modes of transportation. Get a reputation for building good, solid cars, then hit the market with luxury cars...
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Sony's Latest "Prosumer" Handycams Announced
SV Staff  |  Sep 15, 2008  |  0 comments
You know who you are. You're not shooting home videos, you shoot art. Thus, the two newest Handycam's from Sony are so you. Quite a bit more advanced than the camcorder your neighbor uses to shoot his kid's recitals, but not quite up there with...
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No Interest in DTV Coupons
SV Staff  |  Sep 16, 2008  |  0 comments
Come on, people. What are you waiting for? According to a study by DisplaySearch, less than 6% of the people who have requested the coupons the government is supplying have actually redeemed them. That means millions of folks will be left in the...
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Motorola MCU3E Wireless . . . Thingy
SV Staff  |  Sep 16, 2008  |  0 comments
Is it just me, or do most people get a headache trying to transfigure our HD video to work from one device to the next? Wouldn't a transcoder that would take either HD or SD MPEG-4 AVC or MPEG-2 media, convert and wirelessly transmit it to another...
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Pioneer's Blu-ray Recorders for Japan
SV Staff  |  Sep 16, 2008  |  0 comments
Pioneer just announced two exciting new products for Japan: two Blu-ray Disc recorders, both with built-in HDDs. The BDR-WD900 has a 1 TB drive and the BDR-WD700 has a 500GB hard drive. Prices aren't available yet. Want more info? These HDD/BD...
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AT&T U-verse and the iPhone
SV Staff  |  Sep 16, 2008  |  0 comments
It just makes sense. AT&T has an Internet and video bundle called U-verse. The iPhone is an AT&T device. Does it take a genius to connect the two?  At a showcase of future technologies, AT&T hinted that, at some point in the...
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