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Have a Merry Glitch-mas?
SV Staff  |  Jan 02, 2008  |  0 comments
According to a Dec. 31 article in The New York Times, most buyers are still on the fence when it comes to the high-def disc battle, with neither camp reporting impressive numbers. Citing data from Adams Media Research, 578,000 HD DVD and 370,000...
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Gift Card, Sure, but for Whom?
SV Staff  |  Jan 02, 2008  |  0 comments
Got a gift card for the holidays? Better use it or lose it to a company that could double its money if the card isn't used within a certain period of time. Earlier this year, says Consumer Reports, the TowerGroup research firm in Needham, Mass.,...
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Post-Holiday Clues: Tributes, Covers
SV Staff  |  Jan 04, 2008  |  0 comments
Flush with cash from the holidays? Eager to ka-ching those checks and hit the stores? I hear ya! I help ya! All through the past year, I've been gathering nuts & nuggets, squirrel-like, that just couldn't fit into the print mag or anywhere...
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Call them Warner Blu-thers!
SV Staff  |  Jan 04, 2008  |  0 comments
The rumors got louder and louder and today they became truth: Warner Bros. - the "Switzerland" studio in the high-def format wars (they produced Blu-ray and HD DVD discs) - just dumped the red states (HD DVD) and went exclusively Blu. A...
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Post-Holiday Clues: Books About Music
SV Staff  |  Jan 04, 2008  |  0 comments
Part 1 (see my post below) was full of tribute albums and cover songs. Now comes my second stash from 2007: The Year in Books About Music. You still have too much disposable cash left over from the holidays, right? Read (and buy) on! -Ken...
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Pioneer Stays True to Its Name
SV Staff  |  Jan 06, 2008  |  0 comments
What's this? Pioneer's Kuro line isn't the final word in the blackest TV blacks after all? Not according to Russ Johnston, the company's  executive VP of marketing for Home Entertainment. Pioneer is actually working on a new concept - the...
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The Unbearable Heaviness of Being HD DVD
SV Staff  |  Jan 06, 2008  |  0 comments
"As you can imagine, this is a tough day for me," said Jodi Sally, VP of Marketing Digital A/V for Toshiba. "I've had better." Sally's better days, to be more specific, were right before last Friday, when Warner Bros....
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One - Singular Sensation?
SV Staff  |  Jan 06, 2008  |  0 comments
When you're Harmony, the world's leading manufacturer of universal remote controls, what do you do for an encore to replace your best selling model ever? You start by listening to what your legion of satisfied customers and loyal dealers have to...
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Cell Service
SV Staff  |  Jan 06, 2008  |  0 comments
Despite the air being sucked out of the room by the HD-DVD presentation that kicked-off today's Toshiba's CES press conference (you'll recall Warner just dumped Tosh's HD DVD format for Blu-ray), there was one non-HD-DVD nugget of information that...
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Wireless Goes Whoopsie
SV Staff  |  Jan 06, 2008  |  0 comments
One of the buzzwords coming into the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show was the intriguing wireless TV. The idea is that you can shoot video or pictures from a digital video source to a TV without so much as an HDMI cable in between. But wireless TV may...
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