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Times Are Hard? Raise Cable Rates!
user  |  Nov 14, 2008
Home prices are plummeting, people are maxing out their credit cards, the stock market is in convulsions, health care costs are out of control, and the economy is rocketing into recession. America needs a morale booster. What better time to raise cable television rates?
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Batman Kicks Iron Man's Butt
SV Staff  |  Nov 13, 2008
Not actually, but The Dark Knight is expected to ship more than 1 million Blu-ray discs to stores in time for the December 9th street date. Iron Man, which holds the previous record, sold 500,000 Blu-ray copies the first week it hit the shelves....
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LG, Sharp, and Chunghwa Plead Guilty to Price Fixing
SV Staff  |  Nov 13, 2008
Oooh . . . someone was caught cheating. And, this one is gonna leave a mark. LG, Sharp, and Chunghwa Picture Tubes have all plead guilty to price-fixing.  Total fines? $585 million.  Life's not so good.The three were found to have...
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Tough Times Everywhere: FED Factory Falls Through
SV Staff  |  Nov 13, 2008
If you thought you were the only one with financial woes these days, well . . . you're not alone. When Pioneer stopped doing their own manufacturing of their plasma panels, their factory was left empty, and their workers looking at the...
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army with BD-Live First
SV Staff  |  Nov 13, 2008
If you’ve wondered what the heck all the fuss is about BD-Live, perhaps, here’s something that might pique your interest. Universal Studios just announced that those in possession of the just-released Hellboy II: The Golden Army, and who own a...
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Radio for the Deaf?
SV Staff  |  Nov 13, 2008
A new technology, developed by NPR, Harris Corporation and Towson University is changing how the deaf and hard-of-hearing "listen" to radio. Not an oxymoron, radio for the deaf and hard-of-hearing is something the more than 77% of...
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What's Next for Circuit?
Mark Fleischmann  |  Nov 13, 2008
So Circuit City has filed for bankruptcy protection. What's in store for the nation's third largest consumer electronics retailer (after Best Buy and Wal-Mart)?
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Pure Digital Technologies Flip Mino HD -- World's Tiniest Camcorder
SV Staff  |  Nov 12, 2008
Lots of companies are putting out so-called HD mini camcorders. They have the numbers, but they just don't look good on anything besides YouTube. That's about to change.The world's smallest HD camcorder just hit the streets. The Flip...
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TiVo Checking into the Mondrian Hotel in South Beach
SV Staff  |  Nov 12, 2008
TiVo subscribers, how many times has this happened to you? You're watching TV, miss a line of dialogue, grab the remote for a replay, only to realize you're not home, and you don't have TiVo at the hotel you're checked into. Life...
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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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