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This Week in Movies & TV, September 3, 2013: Old News
SV Staff  |  Sep 04, 2013
The Hour: Seasons 1&2, Now You See Me, Revolution: Season 1, Cockneys vs Zombies, Person of Interest: Season 2, The Iceman, Da Vinci’s Demons: Season 1, Stories We Tell, The Office: Season 9.
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Audio Video News
Thomson's Technicolor Is Testing Blu-ray
SV Staff  |  Oct 06, 2008
Nothing like buying a shiny new Blu-ray Disc movie, and discovering that its BD-Live or BD-Java feature doesn't work properly, or takes forever to load. Kinda sucks, doesn't it? Technicolor, a division of Thomson, has opened a facility to test...
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Audio Video News
Three new A/V receivers from Marantz
SV Staff  |  Aug 20, 2009
Marantz has announced a trio of new A/V receivers, two of which feature optional Bluetooth support, and one which boasts a slim size not found in most receivers. The SR6004 and SR5004 are the company's two new full-size, Bluetooth-capable...
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Audio Video News
Through the Grapevine: Def Tech Deals on the Way
SV Staff  |  Oct 28, 2015
Every now and then we get word about an awesome deal that’s worth passing along. Like this one, heard through the grapevine…
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Audio Video News
Throwback Thursday: 10 Landmark Speakers
SV Staff  |  Mar 03, 2016
John Strohbeen is an audiophile through and through. In 1964, he founded the legendary Boston-born retailer Tech Hifi and after serving as president for 14 years, went to work for Ohm Acoustics where he has served as president and chief designer since 1978.
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Audio Video News
Throwback Thursday: On the Set of Back to the Future Part III
SV Staff  |  Oct 08, 2015
Check out the behind-the-scenes camcorder footage from the set of 1990’s Back to the Future Part III. You’ll definitely want to use the slider bar to buzz through some of the shaky parts of the 20-minute video. Toward the end (about 18:17) Michael J. Fox does a meet and greet with neighborhood kids.
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Audio Video News
Throwback Thursday: The Iconic Yamaha DSP-A1
SV Staff  |  Dec 17, 2015
Yamaha’s iconic DSP-A1 was named one of the year’s best products in the December 1998 issue of Stereo Review, predecessor to Sound & Vision.
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Audio Video News
THX & Eighth Day Aim to Improve Concert Sound
SV Staff  |  Nov 08, 2016
How many times have you gone to a live concert and been thoroughly appalled by the quality of the sound? The bass is super boomy, vocals are muffled, and those intricate guitar fills you long to hear are lost in what comes out as sonic mush.
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Audio Video News
THX Announces New Spatial Audio Platform
SV Staff  |  Feb 26, 2018
THX today announced a new end-to-end “positional audio solution” said to be flexible enough to support emerging immersive audio formats, open standards, and legacy content across mobile, PC, and consumer electronics devices.
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Audio Video News
THX Joins Streaming Video Alliance to Advance the Online Experience
SV Staff  |  Apr 17, 2017
THX, the company founded in 1983 by filmmaker George Lucas to deliver best-in-class entertainment experiences through technical certification, has joined the Streaming Video Alliance where it will use its experience benchmarking and setting quality standards to advance the quality of streaming.

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