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SV Staff  |  Sep 09, 2008  | 
One For All is already known for being a manufacturer of innovative universal remote controls. They've just unveiled two product lines, with a remote for everyone. For the high-end crowd, the new Xsight is an exciting new product line. Looking...
SV Staff  |  Sep 08, 2008  | 
Lots of talk these days about Blu-ray acceptance. Most experts have stated that until Blu-ray players hit the magical $200 price point, the technology won't go mainstream. Let the price wars begin. Best Buy has just lowered the price on their...
SV Staff  |  Sep 08, 2008  | 
RealNetworks - remember, they're the ones who tried to offer AAC music downloads that would play on your iPod product until they got shutdown - is back with a new product. RealDVD. This may or may not be legal in the eyes of Hollywood, but they're...
SV Staff  |  Sep 08, 2008  | 
Philips has just released their latest Pronto remote - the TSU9800. Figure the "TS" in the model number stands for "Touch Screen" - maybe? The TSU9600 features a very large 6.4" VGA display.  The large size makes the...
SV Staff  |  Sep 08, 2008  | 
This is just so cool. SIM2 makes gorgeous high-end home-theater projectors, with cabinets that look like art. They're Italian. Great-looking Euro-art. But that's not even the cool part. The 1080p three-chip DLP projector is capable of home theater...
SV Staff  |  Sep 08, 2008  | 
Last Saturday, an Amazon retailer was listing quite a few TVs at prices that were unreal. Turns out that, in fact, they were unreal. The online retailer, My Office Source normally sells, as you might guess, office equipment. But on Saturday,...
SV Staff  |  Sep 08, 2008  | 
What better way to celebrate a 40th anniversary of producing audio components, than to debut a new flagship loudspeaker? Infinity Systems did just that, showing off its new Prelude Forty loudspeaker. This high-end tower features Maximum Radiating...
SV Staff  |  Sep 08, 2008  | 
Harman Kardon took the wraps off its new flagship receiver, the AVR-7550HD. My photo (at right) is pretty poor, but in fact there's not much to see. This beauty has a completely stealth front panel, with a cool lighted, translucent volume knob....
SV Staff  |  Sep 08, 2008  | 
Denon showed off its new line of AV receivers, no fewer than 10 of them, to complement its flagship AVR-5308CI (pictured). All of the new models feature Audyssey Dynamic EQ, Audyssey Dynamic Volume, and Audyssey MultEQ, as well as HDMI 1.3a...
SV Staff  |  Sep 06, 2008  | 
Hitachi is joining the legions of TV manufacturers making their big screens screens slimmer, thinner, narrower, and measuring significantly less physical depth. At CEDIA 2008, the company revealed details on large-screen models of its UltraThin line...
SV Staff  |  Sep 05, 2008  | 
One of the most appealing aspects of HD Radio is about to change. In a bad way. The HD2 stations - the stations that use the extra bandwidth left over from a station's main HD Radio feed - have been commercial-free since their inception. The HD...
SV Staff  |  Sep 05, 2008  | 
Dish Network is following the lead of DirecTV by adding a 1080p on-demand movie service and bringing its overal HD lineup to over 150, including TurboHD. “Over the years, DISH Network has maintained a very competitive high definition offering in...
SV Staff  |  Sep 05, 2008  | 
We love market surveys.  No, really, we like knowing where our households fit into the average, and whether we're up on the latest trends. Who doesn't want to appear "normal," right? A new study by market research company The NPD...
SV Staff  |  Sep 05, 2008  | 
UPS. And I don't mean the guys in the brown trucks. I'm talking Uninterruptible Power Supply. When your AC goes black or brown, shutting down or sagging, it's just not a good thing. Electronic equipment hates it when that happens. To the rescue,...
SV Staff  |  Sep 05, 2008  | 
Has this happened to you? You proudly demo your sound system to your friends, and they yawn? I mean, sound from speakers - how boring. Well, with speakers from Madison Fielding and StereoStone, you can impress those friends, and turn yawns into...

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