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Alexa Hack Creates Hilarious (Creepy?) Talking Skull
SV Staff  |  Mar 16, 2017
Amazon’s Alexa, the voice controlled personal assistant that made its first appearance in the Echo smart speaker a couple years ago, is now showing up in dozens of consumer electronics products, including more speakers, TVs, lamps, refrigerators—you name it.
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Pink Floyd’s Live 8 Reunion Revisited with 3D Sound
SV Staff  |  Mar 15, 2017
Left to right, the team responsible for creating a 360-degree mix of Pink Floyd's historic Live 8 performance: Recording engineer Andy Jackson, Andreas Sennheiser, producer Simon Franglen, co-curator Aubrey Powell, producer Simon Rhodes, and Daniel Sennheiser

Sennheiser and Pink Floyd have partnered to produce a new immersive mix of “Comfortably Numb” and other songs from 2015’s Live 8 concert—the last time David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Rick Wright played onstage with former band member Roger Waters.

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How to Install a Projection Screen the Right Way
SV Staff  |  Mar 15, 2017
Dave Rodgers is on a mission to ensure owners of video projection systems, and professionals who set up these systems, get it right. As marketing manager for Garden Grove, California-based Elite Screens, he travels the world promoting the virtues of bringing the movie theater home or, as he likes to say, the larger-than-life experience that only a huge video projection screen can deliver.
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Samsung QLED TVs Arrive, UHD Blu-ray Player to Follow
SV Staff  |  Mar 14, 2017
Samsung today announced that the 4K QLED televisions it previewed at CES 2017 are now available at Samsung.com and retailers nationwide.

The company also announced that its new UBD-M9500 Ultra HD Blu-ray player will be available in April for $399, followed by...

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Sony Announces Pricing, Availability for 4K OLED TVs
SV Staff  |  Mar 14, 2017
Sony has announced that pre-sales of the 4K OLED TVs it previewed at CES 2017 begin today at Amazon and BestBuy.com.
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Society for Information Display Traces OLED History
SV Staff  |  Mar 14, 2017
To commemorate three decades of innovation and success in OLED technology in advance of Display Week 2017, the Society for Information Display (SID) has shared an infographic that traces OLED’s evolution from early R&D through its present day status as a major display technology.
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Denon Expands Heos Line with High-Style AVR
SV Staff  |  Mar 13, 2017
The newest addition to Denon’s Heos line of wireless multiroom products is a high-style AV receiver that pushes traditional AVR design in a new direction—one that exudes simplicity.
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Streaming Catches Up with Pay TV, 4K TVs On the Rise
SV Staff  |  Mar 13, 2017
For the first time ever, the percentage of free or paid streaming video subscribers in the U.S. has nudged past the number of paid TV subscribers at 68 percent vs. 67 percent, according to new research from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA).
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Sling Offers Cloud DVR to Amazon Fire TV Users
SV Staff  |  Mar 10, 2017
Sling TV owners who use Amazon Fire TV, Fire TV Stick, or Fire tablet devices are being offered an “exclusive” opportunity to buy into Sling’s Cloud DVR service under the company’s First Look “early access” program.
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RadioShack Files for Bankruptcy, Will Close 200 Stores
SV Staff  |  Mar 10, 2017
RadioShack, the 96-year-old retail chain that for decades was the go-to store for electronics hobbyists, filed for bankruptcy this week, marking the second time in just over two years that it has sought protection under bankruptcy laws.
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