Mark Fleischmann

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Harman International Goes Private
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 27, 2007  |  0 comments
One of the few major audio manufacturers to function as a public company will be taken private. Kohlbert Kravis Roberts and GS Capital Partners bought Harman International in a deal worth $8.3 billion.
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TWC Axes Analog
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 26, 2007  |  0 comments
At least one major cable operator is pruning analog channels in advance of the end of analog broadcasting, slated for February 17, 2009. Time Warner Cable's Staten Island Project will provide 100 new channels of HDTV to the southernmost borough of New York City.
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Ears On
Altec Lansing inMotion im600 iPod Speakers
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 25, 2007  |  0 comments
Smaller iPod-compatible speaker systems like this one are usually described as "speakers" (as opposed to "systems"). The Altec Lansing inMotion gets points for not calling itself an i-something. What's seductive about it, though, is its shape-shifting ability.
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Broadcasters Rip Cable on DTV Dilution
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 24, 2007  |  0 comments
Cable operators may discriminate against broadcasters by reducing both the quality and quantity of DTV channels, the head of the National Association of Broadcasters asserted last week in a keynote at the NAB's annual convention in Las Vegas.
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Bookshelf Speaker Reviews
HSU Research HB-1 Speaker System
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 23, 2007  |  Published: Mar 23, 2007  |  0 comments
Trappist ale on a beer budget.

I admired the HSU Research HB-1 horn-loaded loudspeaker when I first heard it at the Home Entertainment Show in Los Angeles in June 2006. Nearby demo rooms were stuffed with megabucks two-channel gear, much of which simply didn't approach the directness of this $125 budget wonder. I blogged my first response, and it's a good thing I still feel that way, because now it's printed right on the HB-1's carton: "This speaker may become the underground bestseller of 2006." Make that 2007. Aside from the year, I stand by my original impression.

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Sony to Replace Defective DVDs
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 23, 2007  |  0 comments
Sony will offer replacements for 20 defective glitch-prone DVD titles. The cause of the defect is yet another digital rights management scheme that's gone wacky.
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Musicians Taste Sweet Revenge
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 20, 2007  |  0 comments
The latest challenge to the music industry comes from musicians themselves. Some of them are re-recording their hits to capture licensing revenue that otherwise would go to their record companies.
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Is Internet Radio Doomed?
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 19, 2007  |  0 comments
The federal government's Copyright Royalty Board refused this week to reconsider an earlier decision to impose a massive rate hike on Internet radio broadcasters starting May 15. Depending on whom you ask, this is either a victory for recording artists or the finally tolling of the bell for net radio.
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Circuit City Struggles for Survival
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 18, 2007  |  0 comments
Recent doings at Circuit City may be of interest in the wake of the mass firings reported here and elsewhere. The story became a Primedia trifecta--covered here, on the Stereophile site, and on the Ultimate AV site--in addition to wide coverage elsewhere including a stern editorial in the New York Times.
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Will iPod Go Wireless?
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 17, 2007  |  0 comments
The iPod may about to go wireless, if reports from Taiwanese component makers are to be believed.
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