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Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 26, 2010  | 
If you want to rent Warner Bros. movies from Netflix or Redbox, you'll have to wait till they've been available for sell-through for 28 days. Unless, that is, you rent at Blockbuster, which has cut a unique deal with the studio.
SV Staff  |  Mar 25, 2010  | 
3D marches on, with a notable advance in LED display technology. LG has just announced the LX9500, a screen the company says is the world's first 3D-capable HDTV with a full-array LED backlight. According to a press release on Korea's Newswire,...
SV Staff  |  Mar 25, 2010  | 
 It might not be the best way to get Netflix's streaming content to your TV, but starting tomorrow (which is presumably when most of the discs will arrive) your Nintendo Wii will officially have the Watch Now hook-up. Today, Netflix...
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 25, 2010  | 
Google makes life easier in so many ways. Soon it may become useful in a new way: searching TV content.
SV Staff  |  Mar 24, 2010  | 
Bower and Wilkins' first foray into headphones start hitting stores this week, 3 months after they premiered at CES 2010. The P5 Mobile Hi-Fi Headphones will be available at Apple stores across the country over the next few weeks. The headphones...
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 24, 2010  | 
A week after they went on sale, Panasonic's 3D TVs have sold out. Early adopters love 'em.
SV Staff  |  Mar 23, 2010  | 
If you prefer to get your movies from Netflix or a kiosk rather than a rental store, you'll be waiting a full month longer than everyone else to get the latest Warner Bros. movies. Warner Bros. has signed an agreement with Blockbuster to let them...
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 23, 2010  | 
The mega-retailer that killed innumerable independently owned neighborhood video stores is now coughing blood.
SV Staff  |  Mar 22, 2010  | 
We don't usually highlight HDTV commercials, but HDTV commercials don't usually feature George Takei in a lab coat. It's for Sharp's new Quattron screens, which aren't only very thin, but have an additional color. Sharp claims that the addition...
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 22, 2010  | 
3D fans will get a jolt this Wednesday night, March 24, 2010, when Cablevision will treat 3D TV early adopters to a hockey game with two New York teams, the Rangers and the Islanders. Cablevision's MSG network is calling it "the first network hockey telecast ever produced in 3D," making MSG "the first network in America to offer home viewers a live 3D sports telecast."
SV Staff  |  Mar 20, 2010  | 
It's like this . . .  You "wake up" in the (late) morning, and immediately there are panel discussions to run to. Then there are day parties to hopscotch to and fro — not to party at, mind you, but to see bands that you...
SV Staff  |  Mar 19, 2010  | 
Things are looking bleak for Blockbuster. The former video rental giant is in the process of closing hundreds of its stores, and now it's finding itself in a massive financial hole. The company filed its annual report on Tuesday, which stated...
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 19, 2010  | 
One of the four largest music labels plans to test a new pricing scheme that will slash list prices on all single discs to somewhere between six and ten dollars.
SV Staff  |  Mar 18, 2010  | 
Google is gearing up to take on television, according to a New York Times report. The project seems to be a joint venture between Google, Intel, Sony, and Logitech. The Times says it will result in a Google TV set-top box running on Google's...
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 18, 2010  | 
A federal appeals court has forbidden cable operators to maintain exclusive access to programming from networks they own.

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