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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...
SV Staff  |  Mar 15, 2010  | 
Netflix is on a mission to get their streaming service onto just about every device with a screen, but the cell phone market has been woefully neglected until now. Microsoft has been showing off how their new Windows Phone 7 platform plays nice...
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 15, 2010  | 
A piece of conventional wisdom about the nature of online music sales ran into a brick wall last week when a court ruled that Pink Floyd's landmark album Dark Side of the Moon cannot be broken up and sold as individual songs.
SV Staff  |  Mar 12, 2010  | 
I can't attest to how sturdy it is, and I certainly would think very carefully before trusting $20 worth of hardware to support a $4,000 projector, but I still have to applaud CrunchGear's Matt Burns' ingenuity. He built his own ceiling mount for...
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 12, 2010  | 
The Panasonic Touch the Future Tour will let members of the public (that's you) in 15 cities get direct experience with the company's version of 3D technology, starting Monday March 15 in New York and finishing next month in Miami. See end of this story for other locales and dates.
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 12, 2010  | 
Following a bare-knuckled fight that interrupted ABC's Oscar telecast to millions of New York area cable subscribers, the major cable operators are petitioning the Federal Communications Commission for new regulations that would prevent future blackouts during retransmission negotiations.
SV Staff  |  Mar 11, 2010  | 
March Madness has gotten a little bit more mad. CBS Sports is going to show the NCAA Final Four live in 100 movie theaters across the country. Oh, and it'll be in 3D. Locations haven't been nailed down yet, but details should be finalized before...
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 11, 2010  | 
The Federal Trade Commission will require TVs to have EnergyGuide labels at the retail level.
SV Staff  |  Mar 10, 2010  | 
Actually, I'm talking about one lighthouse here, but in two images. First up, courtesy of the National Park Foundation: Readers of our print magazine will recognize that as the photo accompanying our December 2009 review of The National Parks...
SV Staff  |  Mar 10, 2010  | 
3D content is steadily marching onward, but there still aren't too many choices out there. There are several animated movies from the last few years and Avatar will be hitting DVD and Blu-ray soon enough, but that's not a whole lot of 3D....

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