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CES 2018Grace Notes
Monster Takes Over 2018
Leslie Shapiro  |  Jan 08, 2018
CES 2018 kicked off this morning with the always entertaining, always optimistic Monster Press Conference hosted by head Monster Noel Lee, who launched the company's 39th year in the industry with the motto "Takeover 2018." Along with an array of new speakers and headphones, Monster announced a variety of new products that will capitalize on the popularity of smart speakers and headphones with MonsterTalk, powered by Speak Music’s Melody voice service.

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Startup Carmaker Byton Puts a Widescreen in its Dash
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Jan 08, 2018
CES, of course, is all about consumer electronics. And as you've probably noticed, today's cars are jam-packed with electronics. But that's nothing compared to what's coming down the road in the near future.

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CES 2018's Ultimate Tech Playground Opens Tomorrow
SV Staff  |  Jan 08, 2018
CES has come a long way since its humble beginnings in the summer of 1967 as a TV/audio show staged at New York City’s Hilton and Americana hotels. The inaugural show featured 250 exhibitors and attracted 17,500 attendees, eager to check out the latest color TVs from the likes of RCA and Sylvania, pocket transistor radios, and hi-fi gear from Fisher, Marantz, Acoustic Research, KLH, and many other now-iconic brands.
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CES 2018Audio Video News
Sound United Acquires Classé Audio
SV Staff  |  Jan 08, 2018
On the eve of CES 2018, Sound United today announced that it has acquired Classé Audio, the Canadian maker of high-performance AV components.
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CES 2018Audio Video News
Fibbr to Launch 8K/HDR-Ready Optical HDMI Cable
SV Staff  |  Jan 05, 2018
“Here for today and ready for tomorrow” is how China-based Fibbr is positioning the imminent launch of Ultra 8K, a “plug-and-play” 8K/HDR-ready fiber-optic HDMI cable said to support transmission speeds up to 56 gigabits per second (Gbps) over distances up to 164 feet (50 meters).
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CES 2018Remotely PossibleAudio Video News
CES 2018: A Preview of the Ultimate Tech-Fest
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Jan 05, 2018
CES 2018 is coming! Here's our preview of the upcoming tech-fest.
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Blu-ray Movie ReviewsUltra HD Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Corey Gunnestad  |  Jan 05, 2018
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I typically tend to bash films that rely on hackneyed plot devices and laughably implausible action sequences, and Disney’s latest escapade in their beleaguered Pirates of the Caribbean franchise is guilty on all charges. The entire series has anchored its plot lines to a host of supernatural elements like cursed pirates, leviathan sea monsters, and homicidal mermaids.
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Captain Underpants
Thomas J. Norton  |  Jan 05, 2018
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Based on a series of twelve children’s books, Captain Underpants: The Original Superhero is the story of Best Friends Forever George and Harold. To stay sane in their suffocating grammar school, they write comics starring their imagined superhero, Captain Underpants. They also engage in elaborate pranks, to the dismay of their insufferable, warden-like principal, Mr. Krupp.
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Oppo Aces Longterm Reliability Test
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 05, 2018  |  First Published: Jan 04, 2018
Longterm reliability is a missing piece in most reviews of electronic products. A big missing piece.

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Where Is Home Entertainment Heading?
Bob Ankosko  |  Jan 04, 2018
15 Minutes with Astra Insights’ Shawn DuBravac

Stop for a moment and think back to home entertainment 10 years ago. You were starting to build a library of Blu-ray titles, thankful that HD had finally made its way to disc, but 4K at home was a technology of the future and streaming was still a curiosity. Netflix was a hugely successful DVD mail-order company with a billion discs delivered but could see the writing on the wall when it started offering movies on demand over the internet in February 2007. Today, streaming is commonplace and home audio and video have reached unprecedented levels of quality, raising the question of what comes next? Looking ahead to the future, we reached out to Dr. Shawn DuBravac, founder of the Washington, DC-based consultancy Astra Insights, former chief economist for the Consumer Technology Association, and author of the New York Times Best Seller (Regnery, 2015). A well-regarded futurist and trendcaster, DuBravac writes frequently about technology with a focus on deciphering disruptive shifts.

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