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SV Staff  |  Mar 28, 2008  | 
This plasma stuff might burn you up with jealousy, but don't try this at home, electrical engineers. At least wait until you get back to the lab. Everybody else should simply enjoy the YouTube videos in safety. Gizmodo posted two videos of one...
SV Staff  |  Mar 28, 2008  | 
In the decades-old gender battle for the remote control, it appears women have begun to wrangle the device at a higher rate then men, especially when there's a digital video recorder involved. According to a new study from Solutions Research...
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 28, 2008  | 
If the pricetag on that giant plasma seems excessive, guess what? You might get a lower one just by asking for it.
SV Staff  |  Mar 27, 2008  | 
If audio is recorded without the intention of being listened to, is it still a recording? American researchers in Paris are getting philosophical about a piece of etched paper they found which may contain the first ever piece of recorded audio. ...
SV Staff  |  Mar 27, 2008  | 
How is Toshiba managing to mourn the painful and expensive death of HD-DVD? Well, with a little bit of R&D therapy, it seems. Perhaps spending bucket-loads of cash on an adorable 11-inch robot of limited utility will soothe Toshiba's angst....
SV Staff  |  Mar 27, 2008  | 
LG Display, an LCD-panel making offshoot of LG Electronics, is sniffing around for partners to help it sell more LCD TVs. One possible bedfellow is Amtran, the Taiwanese parent of U.S. everyman flat-screen brand Vizio. Pundits and investors don't...
SV Staff  |  Mar 27, 2008  | 
Nearly twenty million consumers are so eager to jump on the high-definition disc bandwagon this year that they can't be bothered to wait for a bargain. Even though a Sony executive all but promised that the price of Blu-ray players won't drop to...
SV Staff  |  Mar 27, 2008  | 
Something just wouldn't be quite right if middle-aged people approaching retirement grasped and adopted new technologies faster than their children. So it comes as no surprise that a study on that topic commissioned by Hallmark turned out just like...
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 27, 2008  | 
Apple is thinking about an all-you-can-eat subscription policy for iTunes--true or false?
SV Staff  |  Mar 26, 2008  | 
Your hair doesn't grow faster when you watch HDTV, but it might make it seem like your follicles get clipped quicker when you're at Floyd's 99 Barbershop. Floyd's is one of the more prominent national chains in the throwback trend toward ole'...
SV Staff  |  Mar 26, 2008  | 
Runco is showing a prototype of a weatherproof TV you can watch in direct sunlight. It’s really not that hard to make a TV that can weather a rainstorm, but making one that can compete with the sun? Now there’s a trick. Runco just may have pulled...
SV Staff  |  Mar 26, 2008  | 
Where did you buy your HDTV? Depending on your priorities and number of hours spent researching, you could have shopped at a chain store like Best Buy, a discount department store like Wal-Mart or Sears, or taken a risk and bought a set online from...
SV Staff  |  Mar 26, 2008  | 
Snail-mail DVD rental company Netflix hasn't officially said it plans to allow downloads of movies via Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming console, but all clues point in that direction. Let's add them up, shall we? 1. Microsoft nixed Blu-ray on its game...
SV Staff  |  Mar 26, 2008  | 
Quick, to the Batcave! Fox Home Entertainment wants you to enjoy a souped-up Blu-ray version of the original Batman movie in the privacy of your home theater weeks before Warner's newer Batman Begins shows up in Blu-ray and The Dark Knight appears...
SV Staff  |  Mar 26, 2008  | 
[THE FOLLOWING IS THE FIRST STANCE IN A POINT-COUNTERPOINT DEBATE ABOUT THE FUTURE OF BLU-RAY. THE OPINION IS THAT OF TECH WRITER COREY GREENBERG. TO READ THE REBUTTAL, CLICK ON THE LINK AT THE END.] I don't know if I'm the first CE writer to say...

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