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Harman Kardon? Check. Harman Newsweek?!
SV Staff  |  Aug 03, 2010
"He started a business selling FM radios in the 1950s" . . . and now he's running Newsweek magazine! Yes, Sidney Harman, whose 92nd birthday is tomorrow, has bought the ailing publication because, as he quipped to The New York Times,...
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Super-strong Gorilla Glass heading to HDTVs
SV Staff  |  Aug 02, 2010
One of the greatest fears of any home theater buff is that their awesome HDTV will be tapped, knocked, or flung-Wiimoted, shattering the screen into many sharp, pointy, useless pieces. The large glass panes in HDTVs are fairly fragile, and like...
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'The Goonies' never say die, but they do say deluxe 25th anniversary Blu-ray release!
SV Staff  |  Jul 30, 2010
25 years ago, The Goonies came out in theaters and became an American classic. Now, Warner Home Video is releasing a huge and rather strange Blu-ray Disc version of the movie. The release not only includes the film in funky new packaging, but...
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Redbox Blu-ray rentals going nationwide this Fall
SV Staff  |  Jul 29, 2010
Redbox is finally making its roll-out of Blu-ray rentals official. After vending machines with Blu-ray Disc rentals started appearing back in June, the company has just announced that it's loading 13,000 vending machines with Blu-ray Discs, and...
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Toshiba releases three CELL Regza 3D HDTVs
SV Staff  |  Jul 28, 2010
Toshiba has announced a trio of 3D HDTVs in Japan, continuing the industry's steady march toward 3D adoption. All three models feature CELL processors, which lets them use realtime 2D-to-3D conversion on videos (although the effectiveness of the...
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Audyssey's volume-bosting tech for small devices
SV Staff  |  Jul 27, 2010
Audyssey has been working on sound technology for home theaters for years now, but it's stayed mostly clear of portable gadgets. That's changing with today's announcement of a new technology for beefing up the sound capabilities of small devices....
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'Apocalypse Now' coming to Blu-ray soon
SV Staff  |  Jul 26, 2010
This year is seeing some of the greatest movies ever made hit Blu-ray. First Criterion announced that it will be releasing Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai on Blu-ray Disc this fall, and now Lionsgate has announced that Francis Ford Coppola's...
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Onkyo announces 3D-ready, THX-certified HTiB
SV Staff  |  Jul 23, 2010
The term "home-theater-in-a-box" has become an expletive in the A/V world. They're usually seen as catch-all, cheap, simple excuses for a carefully assembled home theater. Because of this, companies shy away from the term HTiB. Onkyo, for example,...
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Two new networked audio products from Marantz
SV Staff  |  Jul 22, 2010
Marantz didn't only announce receivers, amps, and Blu-ray Disc players yesterday. The company also revealed two new network-based audio devices for high-end home theater systems, the NA7004 Network Audio Player and the M-CR603 Network CD...
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Marantz announces new receivers, amps, more
SV Staff  |  Jul 21, 2010
Marantz has just unveiled its 2010 line of A/V products, and they run the full gamut of A/V receivers, amplifiers, Blu-ray Disc players, and even an SACD player. In receivers, Marantz announced three new high-end, 7-channel units, the SR5005,...
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