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Blu What?
SV Staff  |  Jun 17, 2008  |  0 comments
Important! Wake the kids! Breaking news! The newest breakthrough in consumer electronics is . . . DVD!!!  At least that's what Toshiba thinks. You'll recall Toshiba was the prime mover and shaker of DVD, and hoped to continue its revenue...
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L.E.D.'s for LCDs
SV Staff  |  Jun 17, 2008  |  0 comments
You've heard all the buzz about OLED displays, but there's another way cool technology that's aiming to knock LCD displays for a loop. This technology is already aiming to replace the common lightbulb, and now it's looking to get entrench itself...
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Bore Your Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Grandchildren
SV Staff  |  Jun 17, 2008  |  0 comments
The year is 2208. The bad news: the earth is so toxic that even intergalactic invaders avoid the planet like the plague, which in fact is rampant here. The good news: Your great, great, great, great, great grandchildren can be bored out of their...
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United Flight 936: iPodding at 35,000 Feet
SV Staff  |  Jun 17, 2008  |  0 comments
"Ladies and gentlemen, we've reached a cruising altitude of 10,000 feet, and the captain has turned off the fasten seatbelt sign. You are free to use personal electronic devices at this time, and feel free to plug in your iPod or iPhone into...
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JBL: Theater-in-the-Round
SV Staff  |  Jun 17, 2008  |  0 comments
Need a speaker that will fit in a corner? What about something that will work in the middle of a room? JBL has the speakers for you!  The new JBL Control NOW speakers are quite unique. Each speaker is a rounded 90 degree quarter-circle,...
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Why Is This Man Smiling?
SV Staff  |  Jun 16, 2008  |  0 comments
How many times has this happened to you? You're in a movie theater or church, and cell phones keep ringing. The girl in seat 36C is surreptitiously talking on her cell phone as the flight takes off. Or, worst of all, you notice that the creepy guy...
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JBL is On Time
SV Staff  |  Jun 16, 2008  |  0 comments
JBL is taking the time to make a great iPod dock. The new On Time 200iD is a wonderful way to keep time with your favorite iPod tunes. A clock radio and iPod dock - does it get any better? The JBL On Time 200iD provides an acceptable six watts of...
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Sleeping Beauty Wakes Up to BD-Live
SV Staff  |  Jun 13, 2008  |  0 comments
The long-awaited addition of BD-Live features to Blu-ray releases is over. Well, the wait will be over soon. Disney has previewed the BD-Live functionality on Sleeping Beauty at a recent conference in Hollywood. Word is it looks good. What family...
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Little Boxes
SV Staff  |  Jun 13, 2008  |  0 comments
Lots of little boxes, all lined up on your television set. All the little boxes you need to download movies from the Internet, satellites and cable systems, and none of them talk to each other. What is it going to take to get one source and one...
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Wide Receivers
SV Staff  |  Jun 13, 2008  |  0 comments
Sure, many people's entire music library is now in their jeans pocket, and the playback space is somewhere between their left and right earbuds. That's cool. Other folks are into fancy home theaters and surround sound. Cool. But a few old-school...
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