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Blu-ray update: B&O puts the BD in BV
SV Staff  |  Jun 03, 2009  |  0 comments
Bang & Olufsen is adding built-in Blu-ray Disc support to its 40-inch BeoVision 7 HDTV. Like the Sharp Aquos BD series, the new, upgraded BeoVision 7-40 has a Blu-ray Disc player built right into its stylish frame. This isn't the first...
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Klipsch will trade gear for your jokes
SV Staff  |  Jun 03, 2009  |  0 comments
Online caption contests aren't hard to come across (they post a picture, you write a funny joke about it), but this one is being held by Klipsch. They're offering up a pair of the new Image S4 headphones or their new HD Theater 300 HTIB to...
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AMD ATI Theater HD 750 pulls down TV anywhere
SV Staff  |  Jun 02, 2009  |  0 comments
Slingbox is great for getting content when you're a world away from your precious DVR, but it's not always easy to find the required bandwidth. AMD's newly announced ATI Theater HD 750 can grab HDTV/DTV/analog broadcast signals...
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Morel ships their balls of steel
SV Staff  |  Jun 02, 2009  |  0 comments
Morel is trying to make round the new square. In a world filled with rectangular, blocky speakers, the company is rolling out a set of sound-blasting spheroids. The SoundSpot MT 1 system uses a set of 60-watt spherical SP-1 satellites, each...
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Panasonic's $800 DMP-B15 portable Blu-ray
SV Staff  |  Jun 01, 2009  |  0 comments
We saw Panasonic's portable Blu-ray player back at CES, but it will soon be making its way into the carry-on luggage of HD-addicts. $800 gets you an 8.9-inch WSVGA LCD screen attached to a full-featured BD player that supports both BD Live and...
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Xbox 360's Video Marketplace going 1080p
SV Staff  |  Jun 01, 2009  |  0 comments
Buying HD content from The Xbox Live Marketplace has always been pretty good, but waiting a long time for 720p content is always kind of annoying. Today, on the first day of video game trade show, E3, they announced that they were changing things...
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Forget RGB, Sharp is developing CYRGB displays
SV Staff  |  May 29, 2009  |  0 comments
Since time immemorial (or at least, since color televisions have been available), TVs have used 3 colors: red, green, and blue. Combinations of these three color building blocks produced the increasingly wide spectrum of colors you now see on the...
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Hulu Desktop Beta has great potential
SV Staff  |  May 29, 2009  |  0 comments
The first thought that hits me when I open Hulu's desktop application is how bad I feel for Joost. A few years ago they were trying to pull off the same magic trick: bringing a full-fledged TV experience to the desktop. Adobe tried, too with...
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Is Zune HD the future of portable media?
SV Staff  |  May 29, 2009  |  0 comments
Just a few days ago, the Zune HD was nothing more than the subject of some wild speculation, but now that it has been made official, many people are wondering whether or not Microsoft's new player is actually going to be make as much noise as...
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Custom soda machines for your theme theater
SV Staff  |  May 28, 2009  |  0 comments
Beverages and movie-watching go together like, well, beverages and virtually any other activity. Beverages are just that great. You can keep a cube fridge in your home theater to ensure a frosty drink is always available, but that just seems so...
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