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Best Buy’s Geek Squad Steps Up its Game
SV Staff  |  May 28, 2018
Best Buy continues to expand its Geek Squad tech service. Last week, the nation’s largest electronics retailer announced the nationwide launch of Total Tech Support Powered by Geek Squad...
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Audio Video News
Nielsen Evolves with Ever-Changing TV Landscape
SV Staff  |  May 28, 2018
TV audience-measurement company Nielsen is now including detailed viewership data from YouTubeTV in the local TV-audience measurement data it provides to media companies and advertisers.
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The Ultimate Guide to Smart Speakers
Michael Antonoff  |  May 27, 2018  |  First Published: May 24, 2018
The smart speaker is about to change the way you live. Are you ready?

It’s not every day that a new consumer electronics category comes along that has an adoption rate projected to be faster than that of any other device, including smartphones, computers, TVs, and radios.

Some 56.3 million smart speakers are projected to ship this year, nearly twice as many as last year and 10 times the number shipped in 2016, according to Canalys. In the first quarter of 2017, only 7 percent of U.S. households had smart speakers. By the end of 2020, 75 percent are expected to have them, according to Gartner and Edison Research.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Foreigner
Josef Krebs  |  May 25, 2018
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The Foreigner, a superior action-thriller from Martin Campbell, the director of two of the best Bond outings ever—Casino Royale and GoldenEye—not only delivers both excitement and dramatic complexity but offers a surprisingly moving performance from its star, Jackie Chan. Presented in a Blu-ray of impressive picture and sound quality, it makes for memorable home theater.
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Revolution Acoustics Delivers 360° Sound from Above
SV Staff  |  May 25, 2018
Revolution Acoustics has introduced a new adapter panel for its SSP6 Multiducer “invisible” speaker that propagates a “360-degree bubble” of sound from a standard size acoustic ceiling tile.
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Editor's Eye
What's In a Wire?
Rob Sabin  |  May 25, 2018
Our “Flashback” feature “Speaker Cables: Can You Hear the Difference” (link below) offered as part of the ongoing celebration of our 60th year, is a juicy tidbit from 1983 that proved one of the most controversial articles in our predecessor Stereo Review ’s history.
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Scosche Gets Creative with Outdoor Speaker
SV Staff  |  May 24, 2018
Scosche Industries, the company that made a name for itself as a leading supplier of car audio products and accessories, has outfitted its newest portable wireless speaker with a couple of clever features.
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Audio Video News
How Does Your Internet Connection Stack Up?
SV Staff  |  May 24, 2018
If you live in Delaware, Massachusetts, or New Jersey, congratulations! Your home state ranks top in internet speed, according to a new study from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). If you live in Mississippi…well, let’s just say there’s work to be done.
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Onkyo’s Taps RZ Series for First ‘Sonos-Certified’ AVRs
SV Staff  |  May 23, 2018
Onkyo today announced that the first AV receivers to be released under the new “Works With Sonos” program will be three mid-priced models from its high-performance RZ Series.
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New Products
June 2018 New Gear
SV Staff  |  May 23, 2018
Acer VL7860 Ultra HD Laser Projector
Hailed as the world’s smallest 4K Ultra HD laser projector capable of producing up to 3,000 (ANSI) lumens of light, Acer’s VL7860 can project a gargantuan 10-foot (diagonal) image and supports high dynamic range (HDR) and an expanded color gamut said to cover 110 percent of the Rec. 709 standard. It’s also compatible with the Rec. 2020 color space and adjusts lamp power on the fly to optimize black levels.
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