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Survey: ‘Multi-Service Usage’ the Norm for TV Viewers
SV Staff  |  Feb 08, 2019
With a seemingly endless parade of programming from an ever-expanding variety of services, the days of getting TV from one source are long gone as “multi-service usage” becomes the norm.
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Westworld: Season Two
David Vaughn  |  Feb 08, 2019
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Westworld: Season One ended in a cliffhanger with Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) taking charge of the adult amusement park. Westworld: Season Two picks up shortly after this event with the puppet show now over and the liberated “hosts” coming after the humans for their own pound of flesh.
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TCL Announces $1,000 Deal on New 75” 4K TV
SV Staff  |  Feb 08, 2019
The Chinese electronics giant TCL, which bills itself as “America’s fastest growing TV brand,” has announced a special deal on its already aggressively priced 75-inch 4K Roku Smart TV.
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Remaster Class: Superman
Chris Chiarella  |  Feb 07, 2019
In part because it has now endured for 40 years, but also because it is the sort of thrilling cinematic entertainment we never seem to tire of, Superman has appeared on just about every home entertainment format, and deservedly so. The first comic book blockbuster, director Richard Donner's visually stunning epic stars Christopher Reeve as the only survivor of a brilliant but arrogant alien culture who finds his place in our world as a god-like protector.
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AudioControl Issues IMAX Update for AVRs, Processors
SV Staff  |  Feb 07, 2019
AudioControl has entered into a partnership with IMAX and DTS to offer IMAX Enhanced AV receivers and preamp/processors.
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Fluance Introduces Omnidirectional Wireless Speaker
SV Staff  |  Feb 07, 2019
Fluance, the internet-based audio company based in Niagara Falls, Ontario, has introduced a portable wireless speaker designed to radiate sound in all directions.
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UltraViolet Cloud-Based Movie Locker to Close in July
Barb Gonzalez  |  Feb 06, 2019
The lights will go out on UltraViolet on July 31 when the cloud-based movie-rights locker/library will be discontinued. UltraViolet’s demise became inevitable when Movies Anywhere launched in 2017 with a greater number of movie studio and streaming partners. While Movies Anywhere has most of the same partners as UltraViolet, users will still want to take steps to be sure all of their movies will be available after July.
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Sonus faber Previews Architectural Speaker Collection
SV Staff  |  Feb 06, 2019
Sonus faber announced a new line of in-wall and in-ceiling speakers at the Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) show that opened yesterday in Amsterdam.
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Q Acoustics 3000i Series Speaker System Review
Daniel Kumin  |  Feb 06, 2019

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Performance
Build Quality
Value

Subwoofer
Performance
Features
Build Quality
Value
PRICE $1,499

AT A GLANCE
Plus
Rich, full-range sound
Fine imaging
Great-looking and nicely finished
Minus
Center-channel not a perfect timbral match with towers
Subwoofer output and extension does not fully complement towers

THE VERDICT
This highly affordable Q Acoustics 5.1 package offers big, warm, dynamic stereo sound from compact towers, and good movie sound with or without the included sub.

Q Acoustics is a relatively new British loudspeaker manufacturer who has made a goodly amount of noise in the value/performance speaker arena for a dozen years now. I count the firm among the 21st-century flowering of affordable-speaker-makers catalyzed by partnerships with Chinese manufacturing firms and ever-more powerful and widely accessible computer-modeling design processes. The result of this confluence has been a bounty of excellent designs in the most competitive price ranges, from new and old names alike, that in the aggregate make the home-theater dollar go further than ever before.

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Denon and Marantz Expand IMAX-Enhanced Lineups
SV Staff  |  Feb 06, 2019
Sound United today announced a firmware update that brings IMAX Enhanced technology to a five AV receivers and a preamp/processor from Denon and Marantz.
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