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Pioneer’s Move: Why Is Plasma Dying?
SV Staff  |  Mar 05, 2008
Reports in the Japanese business daily Nikkei that Pioneer Electronics is planning to cease production of plasma panels shocked the consumer electronics industry on Tuesday. Along with Panasonic, Pioneer has been one of plasma’s greatest...
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Greenpeace Watches TV-Makers Carefully
SV Staff  |  Mar 10, 2008
Environmental organizations like Greenpeace are used to provoking the ire of brand-loyal techies who take issue with any negative press about their favorite consumer electronics manufacturers (Apple fans are notorious for this). Its a dirty job,...
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Future of HDTV Is Bright with LECs
SV Staff  |  Mar 20, 2008
Display technology researchers are on a roll. A professor at University of California Santa Barbara has discovered a way to combine lighting technologies to create an even brighter, more energy efficient, longer lasting back-light than LED by...
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Microsoft Ponies Up for $10K Media Center Giveaway
SV Staff  |  Mar 24, 2008
Are your home videos trapped on your PC? Are your digital photos prisoner to My Pictures? Do you feel digitally disconnected? Then Microsoft wants you. The company is sponsoring a digital home makeover contest that will reward a digitally...
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A TV So Bright, You’ve Gotta Wear Shades
SV Staff  |  Mar 26, 2008
Runco is showing a prototype of a weatherproof TV you can watch in direct sunlight. It’s really not that hard to make a TV that can weather a rainstorm, but making one that can compete with the sun? Now there’s a trick. Runco just may have pulled...
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PS3 even more the Blu-ray player to own
SV Staff  |  Apr 11, 2008
Thanks to Sony, April 15 will be slightly less painful for 10 million people this year. Of course, I’m talking about the upcoming rollout of a new firmware that will allow PS3 owners to finally experience DTS-HD Master Audio soundtracks. Up until...
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DVR-owners Get Geeky
SV Staff  |  Apr 16, 2008
Would it surprise you to learn that DVR-owners seem to be slightly nerdier than the rest of the TV-watching population? Probably not. Data from Nielsen during the last week of March proves that while the most popular shows on TiVo are similar to...
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Garage Rock
SV Staff  |  Apr 25, 2008
Men need a place to be men — a place where we tinker with mechanical stuff, smoke cigars, drink bourbon, and listen to the manly music of our lost youth really frigging loud. Usually we have to go out to the garage if we want to indulge in these...
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Putting the Squeeze to Sirius
SV Staff  |  May 02, 2008
Squeezebox just got bigger! One of the easiest ways to listen to streaming media throughout your house just got better. Sirius is going to make over 80 of its channels available to all versions of Squeezebox. These channels will include their...
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Belkin FlyWire Wireless HDTV
SV Staff  |  Jul 10, 2008
Belkin is introducing an amazing new product that can improve the appearance of many home theaters. Unsightly wires, or non-optimal placement of components can now be avoided. The Belkin FlyWire is a transmitter, receiver and remote control that...
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