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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.
SV Staff  |  Mar 17, 2010
Well, it begins. The massive success of Avatar has led to the inevitable incremental release of DVD and Blu-ray versions. The movie hits shelves on April 22, but... that's all that hits. The DVD and Blu-ray versions of Avatar that ship in April...
SV Staff  |  Mar 17, 2010
Yes, Iggy wept. I mean no disrespect to the shortest sentence in the Bible, but seeing Iggy Pop choke up at Monday night's induction of the Stooges into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame was, if not Biblical, then at least Shakespearean....
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 17, 2010
Sony's PlayStation Network has become the first platform to carry high-def movie content from all six major studios, the company says in a press release.
SV Staff  |  Mar 16, 2010
3D HDTVs and active shutter glasses might be heading towards the market, but video games aren't waiting for the tech to get here and for users to upgrade. Anaglyph 3D, the old-fashioned red-and-blue style of 3D media, is being used in at least two...
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 16, 2010
Onkyo has introduced what it describes as the world's first THX-certified 3D-ready a/v receiver.
SV Staff  |  Mar 15, 2010
No matter how neurotic you are about storing and maintaining your records, they're going to collect dust, dirt, smoke and scads of over gross things that you could only hope to see with a fancy microscope. Obviously, all of that stuff is going...

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