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New Yamaha Subs Borrow Technology from Flagship
SV Staff  |  Apr 04, 2017
Yamaha today introduced two budget subwoofers that incorporate the proprietary “twisted flare port” technology used in the company’s $2,000 flagship model.
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Audio Video News
RIP: Consumer Technology Hall of Famer Bernie Appel
SV Staff  |  Apr 04, 2017
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) mourns the passing of consumer technology industry legend and Hall of Fame member Bernie Appel. Appel, affectionately called "Mr. Radio Shack" by employees and vendors alike during his 34 years of working for one of the industry's largest retail chains, passed away Sunday, April 2nd.
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Remotely Possible
Poof Goes Your Online Privacy
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Apr 03, 2017
By the time you read this, it may already be too late to stop it.

And your ISP may have just logged the fact that you landed on a page containing a discussion about online privacy.

Paranoid? Well, yes, but with good reason...

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Headphone ReviewsGrace Notes
Mid-Priced JBL 'Phones Deliver High-Priced Sound
Leslie Shapiro  |  Apr 03, 2017
These days, it seems that listeners have no choice but to spend hundreds of dollars to get good quality Bluetooth headphones. The JBL E55BT (MSRP $150) has the sound of a $300+ headphone, with good performance and a wired option, all in a range of colors to suite any style.

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Audio Video NewsNew Products
Pioneer AVR Features ‘Virtual’ Atmos for Under $500
SV Staff  |  Apr 03, 2017
Pioneer has announced two 5.1-channel AV receivers, one of which will be the first to feature Dolby Atmos virtual surround processing.
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SI Debuts Perforated Versions of Slate & Pure Screens
SV Staff  |  Apr 03, 2017  |  First Published: Apr 05, 2017
Screen Innovations (SI) has announced acoustically transparent versions of its Slate Slate and Pure series projection screens.
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Audio Video News
Z-Wave Alliance & CTA Fortify Smart Home Security
SV Staff  |  Apr 03, 2017
Addressing consumer concerns over smart home security and privacy, the Z-Wave Alliance has announced that it will require strict and uniform adoption of a new, advanced security protocol for all smart home devices submitted for certification.
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Editor's Eye
Fear and Loathing Beyond Vegas
Rob Sabin  |  Apr 01, 2017
As night settled in with hours left to drive, I pulled off the highway in Barstow to tap the Wi-Fi at Starbucks and download the Audible version of Fear and Loathing to my iPhone. That’s when I saw him, working behind the counter, his wild gray hair dancing in the overhead lights...
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
The Girl on the Train
Chris Chiarella  |  Mar 31, 2017
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Rachel (Emily Blunt) is a lost soul who eases the lingering pain of her divorce with ample doses of alcohol, particularly on her daily rail trips to and from Manhattan. Her only diversion is an elaborate fantasy about someone she sees from her moving window, Megan (Haley Bennett), and projecting all of her longing onto this stranger. And then one day Rachel spies Megan doing something she ought not to, threatening the idyllic life the voyeur has imagined for her. She even goes so far as to attempt a confrontation with Megan, but it quickly becomes a boozy blur of violence.
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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Hardcore Henry
Corey Gunnestad  |  Mar 31, 2017
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Henry is part of a radical military experiment that merges cybernetic machinery with biological tissue to create the ultimate super soldier. When Henry wakes up in a high-tech laboratory missing two of his limbs, he is unable to speak. He also has no memory of who he was beforehand. A fetching lab technician attaches his new cybernetic limbs, and very shortly thereafter, the door to the lab explodes open and all hell breaks loose… and pretty much stays on the loose for the next 90 minutes.
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