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More Sling
SV Staff  |  May 15, 2008
Audio and video placeshifting technology: That's what Sling Media does, and does well. If you just got back from the ISS (motto: "Urine doesn't taste so bad!") you might not know about SlingBox. Slingbox "slings" AV signals. It...
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Audio Video News
More Storage for Your DirecTV HD DVR
SV Staff  |  Sep 12, 2007
Ever run out of room on your DirectTV HR20 high-definition DVR? (I don't, maybe because of my HR20's propensity to stop recording episodes of a programmed series for no apparent reason, but maybe your luck is better than mine. Man, do I miss...
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Audio Video News
Morel ships their balls of steel
SV Staff  |  Jun 02, 2009
Morel is trying to make round the new square. In a world filled with rectangular, blocky speakers, the company is rolling out a set of sound-blasting spheroids. The SoundSpot MT 1 system uses a set of 60-watt spherical SP-1 satellites, each...
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Audio Video News
Motorola MCU3E Wireless . . . Thingy
SV Staff  |  Sep 16, 2008
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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Audio Video NewsNew Products
Mount-It! Makes One Beast of a TV Wall Mount
SV Staff  |  Jul 10, 2024
Mount-It!, a family-owned company specializing in a wide range of AV-related mounts and stands, recently introduced a $200 heavy-duty wall-mount designed to support TVs weighing up to 275 pounds with screens as big as 110 inches (diagonal).
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Audio Video News
Move every sig: real movie-star autographs
SV Staff  |  May 04, 2009
There are three types of celebrity autographs: Sports autographs, convention autographs, and fake autographs. Sports autographs are signed balls, mitts, trading cards, and other memorabilia that bear the signature of a professional athlete....
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Audio Video News
Move Over IMAX: Sony Readies Launch of Large-Format Movie Theater
SV Staff  |  Feb 18, 2019
Sony has announced that plans to launch an “experiential” large format movie theater system in Las Vegas to effectively compete with IMAX and Dolby Vision theaters.
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Grace Notes
Movie Premiere: Riddick
SV Staff  |  Sep 06, 2013
Riddick is an intergalactic murderous badass. When things start to go south, he’s your best and only hope.
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Audio Video News
Movie Rentals, Sales Stay Hot While Economy Cools
SV Staff  |  Apr 23, 2008
Yesterday, researchers claimed that the poor state of the U.S. economy was the reason consumers are buying more small HDTV sets and fewer mid-size ones.  Of course, it is possible that they're simply buying second HDTVs for the office or...
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Audio Video News
Movie Server Pioneer Kaleidescape Calls it Quits
SV Staff  |  Aug 22, 2016
Kaleidescape, the company that pioneered the movie server category and waged an unsuccessful decade-long battle over the right to sell disc-ripping movie servers, has closed its doors.

UPDATE: As was reported on soundandvision.com, Kaleidescape announced on Friday, September 9th that it had secured new funding and reopened its doors as a slimmed down operation with plans to continue selling its new Strato line. You can read the story here.

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