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Four Words: Led Zep Goes Digital
SV Staff  |  Oct 15, 2007  |  0 comments
Just got the press release 10 minutes ago. Reprinted in full below. -Ken Richardson LED ZEPPELIN TO RELEASE DIGITAL CATALOG The Legendary Band's Original Albums Available for the First Time at All Online Music Retailers November 13 LOS ANGELES -...
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TiVo, Rhapsody Hook Up
SV Staff  |  Oct 09, 2007  |  0 comments
It's all about the relationship. That was the message at the official rollout of TiVo and Real Networks' new partnership at  the Arena club in Manhattan this week. Emcee Chris Harrison, host of The Bachelor, opened the festivities, leaving...
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DLP: Tales from the Dark Side
SV Staff  |  Oct 04, 2007  |  0 comments
At the CEDIA Expo, Texas Instruments announced the latest generation of its Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) technology, dubbed DarkChip 4. The company claims even better reproduction of black and dark grays than achieved by its current DarkChip 3...
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Read This
SV Staff  |  Oct 02, 2007  |  0 comments
There's something about the electronic book that holds a lot of appeal. When Sony launched its first-edition Reader at the Consumer Electronics Show a few years ago, reporters flocked around the device - to the surprise of the Sony PR team, who...
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Radiohead, Eagles: Out of Record Stores
SV Staff  |  Oct 01, 2007  |  0 comments
"Record stores"? What are those? Judging from actions by bands as seemingly disparate as Radiohead (left) and the Eagles, record stores are obsolete. Just this morning, it was confirmed that Radiohead's new album, In Rainbows, will be...
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Picture This
SV Staff  |  Oct 01, 2007  |  0 comments
2006 was a watershed year for digital photo frames, according to Dallas-based market research company Parks Associates. Sales of digital photo frames in the first half of 2006 showed a typical growth curve and then skyrocketed. During the second...
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The Little Things
SV Staff  |  Sep 21, 2007  |  0 comments
Pepcom held its annual Holiday Spectacular this week in New York, where several dozen companies set up booths to promote products that will be in stores for the holidays. During the event, the technology press shuffles along from booth to booth,...
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Downsizing Again
SV Staff  |  Sep 19, 2007  |  0 comments
Bose is up to its old tricks. The company first pulled the faux speaker cabinet caper on audio journalists back in the late 1980's when it introduced the Acoustimass system. Lee Ritenour's On the Line came pouring  out of a sub box and a pair...
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"YYZ": Heroic Guitarist or "Guitar Hero"?
SV Staff  |  Sep 18, 2007  |  0 comments
My older son, Paul, is kinda bummed that he wasn't able to go with me to Rush's American tour finale last night at Madison Square Garden. Seems he was especially eager to hear "YYZ." That would be "YYZ" as made famous by...
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"No Taste for High-Quality Audio"?
SV Staff  |  Sep 13, 2007  |  0 comments
Been meaning to post this link for some time now . . . Fans of DVD-Audio, SACD, surround sound, and so forth are hereby encouraged to check out No Taste for High-Quality Audio, published recently in the British newspaper The Guardian. It's a...
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