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InnerFidelity Launched With Tyll Hertsens As Editor-in-Chief
Ultimate AV Staff  |  Apr 04, 2011  | 
Keith Pray, Publisher of Source Interlink Media web sites, is thrilled to announce the April preview launch of InnerFidelity, a new website dedicated to playing well with personal audio.
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TWC App Loses Old Friends, Makes New Ones
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 04, 2011  | 
Time Warner Cable recently introduced an innovative iPad app that allows subscribers to access live TV channels on everyone's favorite tablet. But a hostile response from content owners has forced the cable operator to sharply reduce the number of available channels.

It was (and still is) a beautiful idea. TWC subscribers who buy both TV and internet services get access to the app. It grabs a router wi-fi signal and displays channels without having to record them. Unlike Slingbox, it works only within the home. Not such a threat to Hollywood, right?

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Tech Trends: Rebirth of the American Loudspeaker?
Brent Butterworth  |  Apr 01, 2011  | 

My greatest CES disappointment led to my greatest discovery. After a cable manufacturer bailed out on the bacchanalian dinner he’d promised me, I ended up at the New York New York hotel nursing a glass of watery house bourbon while dropping quarters into a video poker machine. I soon noticed that the man next to me was sketching electrical circuits on his napkin.

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Amazon Eyes Next Step for Cloud Service
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 01, 2011  | 
Though its Cloud Drive and Cloud Player have just launched this week, allowing customers to store and access content from remote servers, Amazon is already contemplating the next steps. One imperative is to patch things up with the music industry. Another is to make the technology more convenient, replacing the unwieldy upload process with a slicker content-ownership recognition system.

First the record company politics: Amazon rushed the Cloud Drive and Player introduction to steal a march on Apple and Google, which are planning similar moves. In doing so it unnerved the major labels. One of them, Sony Music, has aired its complaint in public, commenting ominously through a spokesperson: "We are keeping our legal options open."

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Audio Video NewsCustom Installation Equipment Reviews
Non-invasive TV Wall Mount
Kim Wilson  |  Mar 31, 2011  | 
A unique mounting system that adds some extra dimension and style to your living room theater.
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GOT SPL?
Michael Berk  |  Mar 31, 2011  | 

 

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Radiohead's Thom Yorke: paperboy
Ken Richardson  |  Mar 31, 2011  | 

 

(Photo by David M. Bennett)

Couldn't resist sharing this photo with everyone.

It's Thom indeed, hawking The Universal Sigh in England.

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Japan Manufacturing Starts to Recover
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 31, 2011  | 
Some consumer electronics manufacturers report that their Japanese operations are more or less getting back to normal. While the net impact of Japan's chain of disasters on its economy remains to be seen, there are a few hopeful signs.

Yamaha reports that the catastrophes will not have "any significant impact" on supplies of the products it makes, including consumer a/v, pro audio, and musical instruments. Existing inventory will supply short-term demand. The company has confirmed that all employees are safe.

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Harman teaches you How to Listen
Michael Berk  |  Mar 30, 2011  | 

This past week Harman International quietly released a public beta of How to Listen, a freeware application used in-house at Harman as part of a listening course for train staffers in product research, development, and testing.

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Stormy weather for Amazon's cloud services?
Michael Berk  |  Mar 30, 2011  | 

Like everybody else who covers media technology, we were excited by yesterday's announcement of Amazon's Cloud Drive remote storage and associated Cloud Player streaming media

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Netflix Program Suppliers Play Hardball
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 30, 2011  | 
Netflix recently announced it would start investing in original programming. Now producers who license their content to Netflix are retaliating against a partner that they increasingly see as a competitor.

Both Showtime and Starz have announced that they will withhold shows from Netflix.

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3D Glasses Standard: Too Little Too Late?
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 29, 2011  | 
Yesterday, Panasonic and Xpand, makers of mostly commercial active-shutter 3D glasses, announced a standard synchronization protocol for this type of eyewear called M-3DI. The new standard is intended to improve compatibility between 3D TVs and home projectors, computers, and digital cinema, a problem that has plagued the current 3D marketplace since its inception over a year ago.
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Cloudy with a chance of downloads
Michael Berk  |  Mar 29, 2011  | 

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"The Ten Commandments," Today!
Ken Richardson  |  Mar 29, 2011  | 

 

Behold this mighty box indeed. (Click on image for larger view.)

It's a Limited Edition Gift Set of 100,000 copies, and here's what you get:

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Look Up! In the Cloud! It's Amazon!
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 29, 2011  | 
The latest cloud-based content initiative comes from Amazon. Its Cloud Player will enable users to store their music libraries on the web and access them from broadband-connected computers or Android devices.

"Now," says Bill Carr, Amazon's veep for movies and music, "whether at work, home, or on the go, customers can buy music from Amazon MP3, store it in the cloud and play it anywhere."

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