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‘The Americans’ Season 5 Slated for Digital…and DVD
SV Staff  |  Feb 28, 2018
As the hit TV Series, The Americans, heads into its sixth season, Fox has announced that the fifth season of the KGB espionage thriller is being readied for release on digital and DVD. No word on Blu-ray yet.
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Audio Video News
‘The Beatles: Get Back,’ a Revealing Documentary, Headed to Theaters this Fall
SV Staff  |  Mar 12, 2020
Disney has acquired distribution rights to the Peter Jackson-helmed documentary, The Beatles: Get Back, and plans to release it to theaters nationwide in n September.
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Audio Video News
‘Ticketed’ Virtual Reality Concert Has 360° Sound
SV Staff  |  Feb 09, 2017
Why leave home to attend a live concert when you can strap on a headset and replicate the experience of being there—complete with 360° sound?
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Audio Video NewsNew Products
‘Turn It Up to 11, Alexa’
SV Staff  |  Oct 23, 2018
Marshall, the U.K.-based maker of some of the most revered guitar amplifiers in the world, has announced two Alexa voice-equipped versions of its “mini Marshall” wireless multiroom music systems.
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Audio Video News
‘Wizard of Oz’ 80th Anniversary 4K Blu-ray in Works
SV Staff  |  May 16, 2019
To commemorate the 80th Anniversary of one of the most beloved movies of all time, Warner Bros. staged a series of screenings of the Wizard of Oz in theaters around the country earlier this year. Now word on the street has it that an 80th Anniversary 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray edition is in the works...
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Audio Video News
’60s Sci-Fi Classic ‘The Outer Limits’ Hits Blu-ray Today
SV Staff  |  Mar 27, 2018
It’s time for fans of’60s sci-fi television to rejoice. Starting today, Season 1 of the classic television series The Outer Limits is available on Blu-ray.
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Throwback Thursday
’70s Flashback: Forgotten Brands A-Z, Part 1
SV Staff  |  Jul 14, 2016
Akai (July 1977, art by Charles Bragg), BIC (1975), Carver (1980)

Enjoy this multi-part collage recalling long-forgotten audio brands, represented here by iconic advertising of the day.

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Throwback Thursday
’70s Flashback: Forgotten Brands A-Z, Part 2
SV Staff  |  Jul 21, 2016
Nakamichi (October 1977), Nikko (December 1974), Optonica (March 1979)

Last week we presented a selection of iconic ’70s-era advertisements from long-forgotten brands with names that fall in the first half of the alphabet (A–M). Our favorites included the Carver ad showing a young Bob Carver hamming it up, Garrard’s “Improve Your Hearing for $200” turntable ad, and the iconic Maxell ad depicting a listener getting “blown away.” Here we pick up where we left off, starting with classics from Nakamichi, Nikko, and Optonica. Watch for Part 3, our final installment, next week.

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Throwback Thursday
’70s Flashback: Forgotten Brands A-Z, Part 3
SV Staff  |  Aug 04, 2016
Enjoy this multi-part collage recalling long-forgotten audio brands, represented here by iconic advertising of the day.
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Audio Video News
“Ultimate Battery” in the Works
SV Staff  |  Nov 03, 2015
Working laboratory prototype of a lithium-oxygen battery.

From the University of Cambridge:

Scientists have developed a working laboratory demonstrator of a lithium-oxygen battery which has very high energy density, is more than 90 percent efficient, and, to date, can be recharged more than 2,000 times, showing how several of the problems holding back the development of these devices could be solved.

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