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Happy Blu Year
SV Staff  |  Jan 09, 2008
At its CES press conference, the Blu-ray Group could have been doing the Happy Dance. Instead, it was all about business. Home video software executives made the case for BD with a series of slides, showing both the hard sales data, as well as...
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The Delphi-XM Report
SV Staff  |  Jan 09, 2008
  SKYFI was Delphi's first and very successful XM Radio receiver. Its newest iteration introduced at CES, SKYFi3, is immensely sleeker than its predecessors, and sports genuinely useful new features. Most notably, it can store 10 hours...
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MiND your FLAs
SV Staff  |  Jan 09, 2008
In response to the proliferation of TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms), the electronics industry is rolling out a new generation of FLAs (Four Letter Acronyms). For example, Clarion has introduced the MiND (Mobile Internet Navigation Device) concept...
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Couples Who Dock Together, Rock Together
SV Staff  |  Jan 09, 2008
If last year’s CES made the iPod slot the new must-have input on clock radios, this year it’s two slots. JVC’s NXPN7 features His & Her docks, each illuminated by a user-selectable color. (Are you thinking pink and blue, or is that too...
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BD Live Goes Live
SV Staff  |  Jan 09, 2008
The specs for Blu-ray discs and players hold the promise of loads of cool features, including stuff like games, Web-based interactivity, and video picture-in-picture where you can see the director discussing the movie on an inset box onscreen...
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THX to Bridge Content-Hardware Divide
SV Staff  |  Jan 09, 2008
THX wants to take the headaches and confusion out of the audio/video/gaming experience for consumers. The company is meeting with journalists and companies at CES to promote its fledgling Media Director program that's designed to take the digital...
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The New Net TV
SV Staff  |  Jan 08, 2008
The days of waiting for information to come to you on TV are over. Samsung, Sharp and Sony announced at the Consumer Electronics Show TV services that enable you to instantly pull in data from the Internet for information such as news, stock quotes...
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Where's Brian?
SV Staff  |  Jan 08, 2008
I raced back from the Las Vegas Convention Center to fire up the computer I'd left in my hotel room to catch the East Coast feed of the Nightly News at 3:30 pm thinking that Brian Williams would be broadcasting live from the CES convention floor....
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DualView for Extreme Gaming
SV Staff  |  Jan 07, 2008
As an extension of the 3D capabilities Texas Instruments displayed at the 2007 CEDIA Expo, TI demonstrated an incredibly exciting new possibility, which might end up making DLP the hard-core gamer’s best technological friend. Traditionally,...
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A Kinder, Gentler Sony
SV Staff  |  Jan 07, 2008
Back in the day, Sony had a reputation for being, um, independent minded. The company was notorious for its stubborn nonpartisanship when it came to developing products. Its partnership with Philips famously succeeded with the invention of the CD....
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