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Flashback 1997: Microsoft Shows Off WebTV
SV Staff  |  Sep 21, 2017
Twenty years ago this week, Microsoft introduced a new and improved WebTV, the interactive TV service it had purchased from internet TV pioneer Steve Perlman a few months earlier.
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Flashback 1997: The First DVD Players Arrive
SV Staff  |  Mar 30, 2017
Twenty years ago this month, the first DVD players were introduced in the U.S. after numerous false starts and delays over copyright concerns raised by Hollywood movie studios. DVD offered better picture quality than VHS tape plus the convenience of a CD-like disc that wasn’t prone to wear.
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Flashback 1998: AOL Goes Hollywood
SV Staff  |  Dec 22, 2016
When the romantic comedy You’ve Got Mail opened in theaters 18 years ago this week, the Internet was crossing over into the mainstream—as evidenced by the movie’s title, borrowed from AOL’s iconic email notification “voice.”
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Flashback 1998: Birth of the MP3 Player
SV Staff  |  May 12, 2016
Apple didn’t invent the MP3/digital music player but it did single-handedly create the market for it with the iPod, which debuted in October 2001 with the enticing tagline “1,000 songs in your pocket.” By mid 2003, sales of the iconic device topped 1 million. So if Apple didn’t invent the MP3 player, who did?
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Flashback 1998: First Feature Film Webcast
SV Staff  |  Mar 17, 2016
The 1994 independent film Walls of Sand became the first feature film to be streamed over the Internet 18 years ago this week.

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Flashback 1999: Nailing Napster
SV Staff  |  Dec 10, 2015
In December 1999 the music industry sued (and ultimately shut down) downloading service Napster. Three years later Apple opened the iTunes Music Store, pointing the way to the future of music distribution and turning the recording industry on its ear.
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Flashback 1999: Napster Is Born
SV Staff  |  Jun 02, 2016
Napster, the notorious Internet-based peer-to-peer file sharing service made its debut 17 years ago this week, forever changing the way we discover and share music and (ultimately) forcing the record industry to face the music: The Internet wasn’t going away and (with the help of Apple) would radically transform music distribution.
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Flashback 1999: New Mag Met (Mostly) with Praise
SV Staff  |  Mar 08, 2018
Nineteen years ago this week, the second issue of Stereo Review’s Sound & Vision hit newsstands. Stunning cover (and content) notwithstanding, the 152-page second act of the magazine that replaced Stereo Review (which enjoyed a prosperous 40-year run) and Video (which was the videophile’s go-to magazine for 21 years) was met with much praise…but not everyone was happy.
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Flashback 1999: World’s Biggest TV!
SV Staff  |  Jul 19, 2018
Nineteen years ago this month, Sound & Vision had just published its fifth issue. The cover featured the “world’s biggest TV” — an 80-inch Mitsubishi rear-projection TV that was positively huge by today’s skinny-TV standards.
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Flashback 2000: Super Bowl Broadcast in HD for the First Time
SV Staff  |  Jan 31, 2019
Super Bowl XXXIV is historic not only because it is the Ram’s one and only Super Bowl triumph, but because it marked the first time the Super Bowl was broadcast in glorious high-definition…
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