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U2's Latest Album Leaked
SV Staff  |  Feb 19, 2009
The music industry has always had a hard time controlling illegal downloads. Even when they desperately try to keep files under wraps, things happen.U2 went to extraordinary lengths to keep their latest album, "No Line on the Horizon",...
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Panasonic Plasma - 103-inch Air Hockey Table?
SV Staff  |  Feb 19, 2009
If you can afford a 103-inch plasma display, I guess you can afford to turn it into a gaming table. Using an overlay designed by U-Touch, the display has multi-touch capability, so you can make it a virtual hockey table.What other applications...
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Hulu Dumped from Boxee and TV.com
SV Staff  |  Feb 19, 2009
 Just as viewing opportunities come, they go just a quickly. Hulu, with content from NBC and Fox, has pulled all of its streaming goodness from Boxee and TV.com. From the Hulu blog: "Our mission to make media dramatically easier and...
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POTUS iPhone App
SV Staff  |  Feb 19, 2009
Not that POTUS, but the band The Presidents of the United States of America have a very interesting iPhone app.  For just $3, you can get a complete boxset-worth of material, including unreleased tracks and rare images. The tracks are...
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DTV Day, Sort Of . . .
SV Staff  |  Feb 17, 2009
The hot mess that was the transition to digital TV was supposed to happen today. At midnight. Some stations went ahead and pulled the plug - it was their option, and for many stations, it was too expensive to keep both analog and digital...
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Sirius XM Saved by the Bell
SV Staff  |  Feb 17, 2009
Howard Stern can sigh with relief. His home on Sirius XM satellite radio is safe, at least for now. Liberty Media Corp., parent company of DirecTV, has stepped up to the plate to save the floundering radio service.  In a corporate game of...
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Picture: The Part of the New Simpsons Open You Didn't See
SV Staff  |  Feb 17, 2009
If you watched the HD debut of The Simpsons this weekend, then you probably noticed the super-fast scan during the open. I couldn't help but wonder what hilarious stuff was going on in that split second, so I put together a quick and dirty...
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Ultrasone's Edition 8 Headphones Look Very Comfortable
SV Staff  |  Feb 13, 2009
The Ultrasone Edition 9s were incredible. They looked, sounded and fit like a pair of ultra-expensive headphones should. The Edition 8 phones replace the Edition 9s at the top of the Ultrasone totem pole, boasting upgrades like ear cups covered in...
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What To Do With Your Old Analog TV
SV Staff  |  Feb 13, 2009
Well, now that the DTV Transition deadline has moved, you don't have to rush out and do this this weekend. However, once your old analog TV  becomes obsolete (since you didn't get a converter box and they're as hard to come by...
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Apple iTunes Video Could Get Streaming - iTunes Replay
SV Staff  |  Feb 13, 2009
It's great that iTunes has so many great selections for entertainment. The problem is, how do you store all this material once you've downloaded it. A high-def video file is huge, and even if you don't buy it, renting requires you to...
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