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Guitar Hero a Wii Bit Off
SV Staff  |  Dec 10, 2007
Wii users, stop banging on your speakers. It's not your system or your ears. Your Pearl Jam solo is suffering from a glitch in the Wii version of Guitar Hero 3 that's putting out mono sound rather than a multi-channel version advertised as Dolby...
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"Thriller" in surround. NOT!
SV Staff  |  Dec 07, 2007
Here we don't go again: According to a report on Billboard.com, Epic/Legacy will release a 25th-anniversary edition of Michael Jackson's Thriller on February 12. (Actually, last year was the 25th birthday of this 1982 album, although it did make...
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"300" Conquers High-Def Awards
SV Staff  |  Dec 06, 2007
So says the headline of a press release we received about the first annual High-Def Disc Awards, presented primarily by the weekly B2B trade publication Home Media Magazine. Specifically, 300 won two different awards for its two different...
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Secret Spice!
SV Staff  |  Dec 04, 2007
I want to say one word to you. Just one word. (Yes, sir.) Are you listening? (Yes, I am.) Branding. (Just how do you mean that, sir?) Here's how I mean that: When it comes to bands maximizing their potential - when it comes to bands being...
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Back to . . . Open-Reel?!
SV Staff  |  Nov 29, 2007
You say you've (re)discovered vinyl? Fuhgeddaboudit! The LP simply isn't old-fangled enough. To really go reelin' in the years, it seems, you must go all the way back to open-reel tape! The Tape Project, a label for reissuing recordings on...
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First Look: Amazon Kindle
SV Staff  |  Nov 25, 2007
I've always been intrigued by the electronic book, but none of the models that has hit the market to date--from Sony, RCA and others--has jazzed me enough to want to invest in the medium. After all, I like books. I like to store them on a shelf...
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What Means Innovation?
SV Staff  |  Nov 19, 2007
Each year at the Consumer Electronics Show, the Consumer Electronics Association highlights top new products in select categories and honors them with Innovations awards. The tech press got a peak at winners last week at a pre-CES event in New...
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Update Update: Radiohead
SV Staff  |  Nov 12, 2007
Monday, Monday / Entrust that date: Comes word this morning (at 6:03 a.m., to be exact) that the regular CD of Radiohead's In Rainbows will now be released on January 2, 2008. (See my post immediately below.) The parent label is indeed the ATO...
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Weekend Update: Fagen, Gilmour, Zep, Radiohead
SV Staff  |  Nov 09, 2007
Can't find some prominent music releases on MVI, Blu-ray, HD DVD, and CD that we previewed recently? The dates, they keep a-changin': Donald Fagen: Nightfly Trilogy (Reprise/ Rhino). Originally conceived as a three-MVI set for release on...
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Floyd, U2, Radiohead in surround. NOT!
SV Staff  |  Nov 08, 2007
It's getting tougher and tougher these days to cheerlead the cause of music in surround sound. No, we at S&V aren't giving up. But, coming so soon after hearing that we're getting the best of Led Zeppelin on stereo CD (again) as opposed to any...
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