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SV Staff  |  Feb 19, 2009
If you can afford a 103-inch plasma display, I guess you can afford to turn it into a gaming table. Using an overlay designed by U-Touch, the display has multi-touch capability, so you can make it a virtual hockey table.What other applications...
SV Staff  |  Feb 19, 2009
The music industry has always had a hard time controlling illegal downloads. Even when they desperately try to keep files under wraps, things happen.U2 went to extraordinary lengths to keep their latest album, "No Line on the Horizon",...
SV Staff  |  Feb 19, 2009
February 17th has come and gone. Some stations switched, and guess what? People have survived just fine. The FCC set up call centers ( 1-888-CALL-FCC) that were equipped to handle 100,000 calls per day to help people with the switch to digital...
SV Staff  |  Feb 20, 2009
Plenty of jokes have been made about what old people were going to do once the DTV transition messed with their normal TV-watching, but things got serious on Wednesday when a 70 year-old Missouri man shot up his own TV and got into a small...
SV Staff  |  Feb 23, 2009
A few weeks ago we took a look at what we consider to be the most underrated categories at The Academy Awards. Now, the trophies have all been handed out, and it's our duty to look back at the Academy's decision and second guess them...
SV Staff  |  Feb 23, 2009
Thanks to the twin nerd-industry wonders of New York Comic-Con and Toy Fair, I managed to get an eyeful of several upcoming movie-branded games. Usually, branded video games are at best mediocre, and at worst horrible. They all too often reek of...
SV Staff  |  Feb 23, 2009
It's now been over a month since Circuit City began its liquidation. We've covered the liquidation to death; you probably won't get any real deal at these stores unless you're both canny and lucky. They jack up prices to MSRP, then start shaving...
SV Staff  |  Feb 24, 2009

Vudu has been streaming for over a year now, and it's a pretty nice service (just ask our own Gadget Gary Del'Abate). Get the Vudu box (now available in rack-mountable flavors for home theater buffs with a big gear closet), hook it up, and watch your favorite movies for a price.

SV Staff  |  Feb 25, 2009
I know, it's a little TBS Superstation of me to post one of "the world's funniest commercials!" But, as an A/V nerd, this one got me. While itd doesn't quite have the wow-factor of Sony's ultra-elaborate Bravia ads, it's wroth a chuckle. I won't...
SV Staff  |  Feb 25, 2009
Let's face it: if you have a home theater, you're going to hook up the majority of your components via HDMI. It looks best, supports 1080p, and gives you all of the audio and video information you need in one handy little plug. If your gadget...
SV Staff  |  Feb 26, 2009
For the last two years, Pioneer Kuro plasmas have sit squarely at the top of our HDTV heap. Both the PRO-110FD and the PRO-111FD earned their years' respective Editor's Choice award for Best Product of the Year, and they've been roundly considered...
SV Staff  |  Feb 26, 2009
"Randy who?" I can't blame you for asking. Randy Bewley was the guitarist for the legendary Georgia band Pylon. In the photo above, that's Randy to the left, playing at Hurrah's in 1979.Pylon? "Legendary"? Yes, to...
SV Staff  |  Feb 27, 2009
It's getting mighty depressing around here for plasma fans. Pioneer is gone, Vizio is gone, and now there are reports that LG is thinking about closing shop on its PDP operation. Of course, nothing is set in stone yet, but the decision is...
SV Staff  |  Feb 27, 2009
3-D has been making a pretty big resurgence lately, especially in movie theaters. From My Bloody Valentine to Coraline, moviegoers have been lining up to put on some silly-looking glasses and watch the special effects jump out at them. While...
SV Staff  |  Feb 27, 2009
I haven't had much use for 3-D. But with the advent of RealD — and since I am, after all, the entertainment editor of this magazine — I figured it was high time for me to check out the latest state of the 3-D art. And what better film to do...

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