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Samsung's 2000nit LCD; Future's So Bright...
SV Staff  |  Nov 12, 2008  | 
Not exactly primed for your home theater, Samsung has announced that they've developed a 70-inch "super bright" LCD panel, designed for outdoor advertising. They say it's the brightest mass-produced panel in the world. Let me...
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Gene Simmons AXE Guitar Hero/Rock Band controller lets you hack up riffs, not people
SV Staff  |  Nov 12, 2008  | 
Usually, when referring to an electric guitar, the term "axe" is more of a metaphor than a literal description. The guitar's long neck and broad body, often pointy or otherwise sharp-looking, looks a bit like a battle axe. Gene Simmons...
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103-inch Panasonic Plasma plus Wii Boxing plus supermodel equals . . .
SV Staff  |  Nov 12, 2008  | 
. . . honestly, I don't quite know, myself. But all those things came together at Madison Square Garden last week. Light heavyweight boxing champion Roy Jones Jr. faced off against Alexandra Richards (Keith Richards' daughter) in a Wii...
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Sirius XM Radio's New Channel Lineup for XM
SV Staff  |  Nov 11, 2008  | 
It's the end of the world as we know it. Okay, maybe not. It's the end of the world as I know it. I've been a fan of XM Radio literally from day one, and I'm not taking too kindly to the merger. I'll get over it. What I will...
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Circuit City Receives a Lifeline
SV Staff  |  Nov 11, 2008  | 
Circuit City is not going down without a fight. Just a day after filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Bank of America comes to the rescue. To the tune of $1.1 billion. Yowza.Not sure if that's even going to be enough — the company is $2.3 billion in...
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Circuit City Receives a Lifeline
SV Staff  |  Nov 11, 2008  | 
Circuit City is not going down without a fight. Just a day after filing chapter 11 bankruptcy, Bank of America comes to the rescue. To the tune of $1.1 billion. Yowza.Not sure if that's even going to be enough - the company is $2.3 billion in...
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Is this Some Kind of Record?!?
SV Staff  |  Nov 11, 2008  | 
The next time your spouse starts needling you to toss out the vinyl records taking up valuable real estate in the living-room bookcase, score some points by explaining that your stockpile pales in comparison to the one now up for sale by Neiman...
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Surprise, Surprise: Flat Panel TV Growth Slowing
SV Staff  |  Nov 11, 2008  | 
This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who's taken a peak at the economy. While there's some growth, the flat panel TV markets are slowing, according to the latest report from DisplaySearch. Even though the economy tanked in the...
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Happy Birthday Big Bird, and Welcome to the 'Net!
SV Staff  |  Nov 11, 2008  | 
Sesame Street just turned 39!  Happy Birthday! To celebrate, Sesame Street is hitting the Internet, in a big way. They're heading to iTunes, YouTube, and Hulu. Talk about covering all your bases. It makes sense - their target audience...
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NY Tries Brief Analog TV Shutoff
Mark Fleischmann  |  Nov 11, 2008  | 
Analog television channels went dark for two minutes in the New York metropolitan area a few weeks ago, in an early trial run for the DTV transition, scheduled for February 2009.
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Circuit City Files Chapter 11: Women and Children First
SV Staff  |  Nov 10, 2008  | 
Just days after announcing that they're shutting down 155 stores and laying off thousands of employees, Circuit City just took another step towards the deep end of the pool. Today, Circuit City filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. Chapter 11...
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TiVo, With Pepperoni and Anchovies
SV Staff  |  Nov 10, 2008  | 
We think we have it pretty good here in the good old U.S. of A. We have Hannah Montana, a new puppy for the White House, and we've had TiVo for years.  Years and years. Folks in Australia might not seem so lucky. They just got TiVo,...
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Allio TV Does it All
SV Staff  |  Nov 10, 2008  | 
You remember those awful TV's with built-in VCR's, right? The sets with the DVDs were a step up from that. Now, Silicon Mountain (clever - their based in Silicon Valley and Boulder, CO) has produced a line of HDTVs with everything: a...
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Who Needs YouTube, Hulu, Netflix or TiVo?
SV Staff  |  Nov 10, 2008  | 
Sure, we can talk all we want about high-end video. We can compare formats. We can talk until we're Blu about pixels.Who cares, though? Not when we have PUPPYCAM!!!! No wonder Circuit City is failing. All you need is a computer and a...
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Naming Names: MGM Heading to YouTube
SV Staff  |  Nov 10, 2008  | 
Just a few days ago, we reported that YouTube's big daddy, Google, was in negotiations with a variety of entertainment companies, but no names were mentioned. Well, the negotiations must have gone well, because MGM has just announced a...
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