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Sono Luminus Announces 5th Auro-3D Release
SV Staff  |  Mar 14, 2016  | 
Sono Luminus has announced that Crossing Over, the new album by the Skylark Vocal Ensemble, is the label’s fifth release to be recorded and mixed in Auro-3D surround sound.
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RIP: Keith Emerson, Founder and Keyboardist of ELP
SV Staff  |  Mar 12, 2016  | 
Another icon of the rock generation has departed this world: Keith Emerson, founder and keyboardist extraordinaire of the influential progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, a.k.a. ELP, died Thursday night at his home in Santa Monica. He was 71.
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DPL Labs Certifies the First Optical HDMI Cable for 18Gbps Throughput
SV Staff  |  Mar 11, 2016  | 
Tributaries has introduced an active fiber optic HDMI cable that has been certified by DPL Labs to transport HDMI signals at data rates up to 18Gbps over cable lengths up to 98 feet. The cable is said to be the first to receive such certification.
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DirecTV Tees Up New 4K Channel with Masters
SV Staff  |  Mar 11, 2016  | 
AT&T and its new subsidiary DirecTV are putting golf fans “on the green” at the 2016 Masters Tournament with the first live 4K Ultra High Definition (UHD) broadcast in the United States.
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LG’s Announces ‘Super UHD’ TV Pricing, Availability
SV Staff  |  Mar 10, 2016  | 
LG today announced pricing and availability for the Super UHD TV series it previewed at CES 2016 and said all models will support the HDR10 and Dolby Vision high-dynamic range (HDR) formats. Dolby Vision will be added via a firmware update in Early April.

The 2016 lineup, featuring IPS 4K Quantum display technology, 10-bit color processing, and LG’s webOS smart TV platform, comprises nine models with 55- to 86-inch screen sizes. Models with 55-, 60- and 65-inch screens from the UH7700 and UH8500 series will be available later this month at prices ranging from $1,800 for the 55UD7700 to $3,000 for the 65UH8500.

LG said 65- and 86-inch models in the flagship UH9500 series will be available later this spring at $4,000 and $10,000, respectively. The 75-inch 75UH8500 is also slated for later introduction at $5,000.

The company said it is working with Amazon Video, Netflix, and VUDU to offer HDR content streaming via its webOS interface.

Most major studios have announced support for Dolby Vision and Dolby estimates as many as 100 titles could be available by the end of 2016.

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Magnasonic Introduces Pocket DLP Projector
SV Staff  |  Mar 09, 2016  | 
Magnasonic today introduced what it’s calling the world’s smallest portable DLP projector, the LED Pocket Pico Video Projector.
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Half of U.S. Households Set Up for Streaming
SV Staff  |  Mar 09, 2016  | 
Just over half (52 percent) of all U.S. Internet homes have at least one TV connected to the Internet, representing an increase of 6 million homes over the past year, according to a new report from NPD
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High-End Projection Brand Runco Fades Away
SV Staff  |  Mar 08, 2016  | 
Sam Runco, the founder and driving force behind Runco International, with the Emmy Award he received in 2013 for his pioneering development of aspect ratio control.

Remember Runco? The brand founded by larger-than-life personality Sam Runco, who built a company that became synonymous with high-end video projection, is being quietly laid to rest, according to a recent report in the trade magazine CEPro.

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Germany's Ceratec Introduces Chrome Speaker
SV Staff  |  Mar 08, 2016  | 
Germany's Ceratec has introduced a new polished chrome version of the stylish, wall-mountable effeqt speaker we covered in January New Gear.
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Hisense Ready to Descend on North America
SV Staff  |  Mar 07, 2016  | 
Expect to see more Hisense and Sharp brand TVs hit store shelves this year. Models from both of those brands began moving through the production line last week at a 1.3 million square-foot facility in Rosarito, Mexico.

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New Powered Speaker from Britain’s ATC Now Available in the U.S.
SV Staff  |  Mar 07, 2016  | 
ATC Loudspeakers of Britain has announced that its new SCM19AT powered loudspeaker is now available in the U.S. consumer.
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Sony Future Lab Seeks Input on Early Prototypes
SV Staff  |  Mar 04, 2016  | 
Dismissing the notion of product development shrouded in secrecy in an isolated corner of a remote R&D lab, Sony’s new Future Lab Program plans to share early prototypes to get real-world feedback on what’s good and not so good about work-in-progress technology.
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The Making of Star Wars: The Force Awakens
SV Staff  |  Mar 04, 2016  | 
As of late February, Star Wars: The Force Awakens had raked in more than $2 billion at box office, a monumental success due in large part to an incredible behind-the-scenes effort from some of the film industry’s most talented audio and visual professionals.
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Throwback Thursday: 10 Landmark Speakers
SV Staff  |  Mar 03, 2016  | 
John Strohbeen is an audiophile through and through. In 1964, he founded the legendary Boston-born retailer Tech Hifi and after serving as president for 14 years, went to work for Ohm Acoustics where he has served as president and chief designer since 1978.
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LG to Bring Cloud-Based Gaming to Smart TVs
SV Staff  |  Mar 03, 2016  | 
LG announced plans to bring cloud-based gaming to its smart TVs starting in late April when the GameFly Streaming App becomes available on its webOS 2.0 (2015) and 3.0 (2016) smart TV platforms. The app will be added as part of a software update.
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