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Nuvyyo Releases DVR App for Samsung Smart TVs
SV Staff  |  Feb 06, 2018
Nuvyyo, the Canada-based maker of Tablo brand over-the-air (OTA) digital video recorders (DVRs) for cord cutters, today introduced an app that brings off-air recording features to Samsung smart TVs built around the Tizen operating system.
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New Products
Split Personality: Samsung Frame TV
Bob Ankosko  |  Feb 06, 2018
They call it “the most beautiful TV you’ve never seen,” which is a perfect way to describe The Frame, a high-style 4K display from Samsung that morphs into wall art when it’s not in use. While the idea of concealing a TV behind artwork is nothing new—there are companies that specialize in motorized TV concealment systems—Samsung’s fully integrated execution is the most elegant approach we’ve seen.
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Audio Video News
New Control4 Home Automation Controller Costs $350
SV Staff  |  Feb 06, 2018
Control4, a leader in smart home technology, today introduced a $350 home automation controller the company hopes will expand the market for smart home systems.
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Signals
The Fastest Car Stereo Ever [UPDATED]
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Feb 06, 2018
Today is the big day. Or rather, today is the heavy day. The day that the Falcon Heavy is (finally) scheduled for blast-off. Yes, it might be scrubbed. Or it might just blow up. If it launches, it will be an important day in the history of car stereo.

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Audio Video NewsNew Products
HiFiMan Unveils ‘Everyday’ Planar Headphones
SV Staff  |  Feb 05, 2018
HiFiMan, the China-based personal audio specialty company, has introduced an over-ear planar-magnetic headphone designed for everyday use.
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Audio Video News
Best Buy to Drop CDs
SV Staff  |  Feb 05, 2018
If you’ve spent any time in a Best Buy store in recent years you’ve no doubt noticed the incredible shrinking music section, which has gone from multiple disc-filled aisles to a small section devoted to new releases and a limited selection of top selling classic albums.
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Audio Video News
Comcast, DirecTV to Deliver 4K HDR Olympics Coverage
SV Staff  |  Feb 05, 2018
NBCUniversal has announced that as part of its coverage of 2018 XXIII Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea it will make 4K high dynamic range (HDR) broadcasts of Friday’s opening ceremony and several high-profile events available to cable, satellite, telco providers, and other partners, marking the first time an Olympics event will be broadcast with color and contrast enhancing HDR technology.
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Grace Notes
iLive Platinum Concierge Alexa-Enabled Portable Speaker
Leslie Shapiro  |  Feb 05, 2018
They say you get what you pay for. The budget-priced ($79.99) iLive Platinum Concierge portable smart-speaker gets you into Alexa’s world, but is the price savings worth it?

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Blu-ray Movie ReviewsUltra HD Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Brandon A. DuHamel  |  Feb 02, 2018
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Ridley Scott’s stunning dystopian allegory about the meaning of life, where technology ends and humanity begins, Blade Runner—from the Philip K. Dick cyberpunk novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?—draws from many influences. Perhaps the strongest are the classic Fritz Lang film Metropolis and the Heavy Metal sci-fi magazines of the 1970s. The story follows gruff lawman Deckard (Harrison Ford) chasing androids called “replicants” that are nearly indistinguishable from humans.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Maurice
Josef Krebs  |  Feb 02, 2018
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Based the novel by E. M. Forster, Maurice is a groundbreaking room with a different view, projecting as much romance, passion, and class consciousness as producer Ismael Merchant and screenwriter-director James Ivory brought to their earlier hit adaptation of another Forster novel. In 1909, a student at Cambridge, Clive, urges college colleague Maurice to embrace the love of male physical beauty as described in classical literature and accept their mutual platonic love.
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