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AV Industry Mourns the Death of JVC Icon Harry Elias
SV Staff  |  Nov 17, 2017
The consumer electronics industry mourns the loss of Harry Elias, Consumer Technology Hall of Famer and former JVC executive vice president and Akai chairman, who died on November 12. He was in his late 80s.
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Security Update Fixes Smart Speaker Vulnerability
SV Staff  |  Nov 17, 2017
Amazon and Google have rolled out security updates for their Echo and Home smart speakers to prevent a flaw in Bluetooth known as BlueBorne from making the speakers vulnerable to malicious attacks, according to press reports.
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Klipsch Adds On-Wall Speakers to Reference Series
SV Staff  |  Nov 16, 2017
Klipsch today introduced a new line of space-efficient on-wall speakers designed to complement wall-mounted TVs.
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Throwback Thursday
Flashback 1977: ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ Opens
SV Staff  |  Nov 16, 2017
Forty years ago today Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi masterpiece Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a tale about UFOs and the ultimate alien encounter, opened in a limited number of theaters before hitting “theaters everywhere” in December 1977.
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Shinola Introduces Canfield Headphone Collection
SV Staff  |  Nov 15, 2017
The Detroit-based industrial design and manufacturing company Shinola is expanding its audio offerings with a line of precision-built headphones.
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Synaptics Announces Hi-Res THX-Certified Codec for Headphones
SV Staff  |  Nov 15, 2017
San Jose-based Synaptics has announced the availability a THX Certified audio codec that supports high-resolution playback on headphones.
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Triad Expands In-Ceiling Speaker Lineup
SV Staff  |  Nov 15, 2017
Triad Speakers has expanded its R Series of in-ceiling speakers with six models, ranging in price from $225/pair to $325 apiece.
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Top 10 Streaming Services: Can You Rank Them?
SV Staff  |  Nov 14, 2017
HBO Now, Starz, and Showtime moved up in the recently updated 2017 top 10 list of U.S. streaming services while Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu continued to hunker down in the top three slots.
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Sound & Vision Tech Tidbits December 2017
SV Staff  |  Nov 14, 2017
LG Welcomes Sling TV to 2017 OLED and Super UHD models. And its ad-supported Channel Plus app now offers more than 100 streaming channels...

Netflix and Dolby Atmos are now a thing. Initial titles will include Okia, Blame, Death Note, Bright, and Wheelman, while supported streaming devices include 2017 LG OLED TVs, Xbox One, and Xbox One S...

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Survey: Smartphones Are the Device of Choice for Holiday Shopping
SV Staff  |  Nov 13, 2017
More Americans than ever before will use their smartphones for holiday shopping and one in five plan to use a voice-activated smart speaker to “voice shop,” according to the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) 2017 Pre-Black Friday Survey.
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