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Who Ya Gonna Call? On Flashdrive???
SV Staff  |  Sep 04, 2008
This is odd. But, it kinda makes sense. Sony and computer memory manufacturer PNY Technologies are odd bedfellows indeed. They've come out with a 2GB USB flash drive that's preloaded with the comedy classic Ghostbusters, just in time for the 25th...
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Why Is This Man Smiling?
SV Staff  |  Jun 16, 2008
How many times has this happened to you? You're in a movie theater or church, and cell phones keep ringing. The girl in seat 36C is surreptitiously talking on her cell phone as the flight takes off. Or, worst of all, you notice that the creepy guy...
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Why Wait for Holiday Discounts?
SV Staff  |  Oct 19, 2023
At least that appears to be the thinking at Atlantic Technology and Zvox, two New England-based companies that announced pre-holiday-season discounts this week.
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Wickedly Cool Tech Pranks to Scare Your Friends
SV Staff  |  Oct 30, 2015
Our heads…er, hats…are off to Techradar’s Chris Hutton for putting together a fiendishly excellent guide to high-tech Halloween pranks.

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Wide Color Gamut TVs Gaining in Popularity
SV Staff  |  Jun 14, 2016
Source: IHS

As competition in the display market intensifies, TV manufacturers are seeking new and emerging technologies to differentiate their offerings from competitors, which is leading to increased production of wide color gamut TVs.

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Wide Receivers
SV Staff  |  Jun 13, 2008
Sure, many people's entire music library is now in their jeans pocket, and the playback space is somewhere between their left and right earbuds. That's cool. Other folks are into fancy home theaters and surround sound. Cool. But a few old-school...
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Widgets on Sony Bravia
SV Staff  |  Sep 19, 2008
Sony's Bravia TVs in Japan have widgets. Whatza widget? You know, those handy little applications that range from an onscreen clock, news headlines, updated weather - you know, widgets! Of course, they have to use Bravia's Internet Link to access...
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Will add-on height channel decoders ever emerge?
SV Staff  |  May 18, 2009
Sound & Vision reader Lee Carroll brings up a great point that I completely overlooked in my two articles about Dolby Pro Logic IIz height channel technology. Having recently bought a new receiver, Lee asks, "Don't the merits of this...
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Wilmington, N.C.: The Future is Now
SV Staff  |  Sep 03, 2008
While most of us have until February 2009 for the digital switch, for Wilmington, North Carolina, the switch is happening now!  Well, next Monday, to be exact. In a test by the FCC and local broadcasters, Wilmington stations will begin...
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Win a $250 Best Buy Gift Card
SV Staff  |  Feb 10, 2009

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