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Como Audio Offers Holiday Discount to S&V Readers
SV Staff  |  Nov 12, 2019  | 
Como Audio has announced a special pre-holiday offer for readers of Sound & Vision: a 20% discount on any of its music systems.
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Como Audio Offers Last-Minute Kickstarter Discount for New Speaker
SV Staff  |  May 29, 2018  | 
As the Kickstarter campaign for Como Audio’s new voice-enabled SpeakEasy portable speaker winds down, the company has announced the speaker can be pre-ordered for $209 until the campaign ends on Thursday at 1:30 p.m. EST.
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Como Audio Stages Halloween Giveaway
SV Staff  |  Oct 23, 2018  | 
Como Audio has announced a Halloween Giveaway for its Solo wireless music system, recipient of a Sound&Vision Top Pick.
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Como Audio Unveils Streaming Turntable, Smart Speaker
SV Staff  |  Jul 16, 2019  | 
Como Audio, the Boston-based maker of the Top Pick-designated Solo and Duetto music systems, today unveiled its first streaming turntable and announced plans to ship a new voice controllable smart speaker in the fall.
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Compact Disc: 44.1k, or 45rpm?
SV Staff  |  May 09, 2008  | 
Did you miss the Futuresonic 2008 Festival this year? If so, you also missed Aleks Kolkowski's seminar during the Urban Festival of Art, Music, and Ideas. Mr. Kolkowski is using a vintage record cutting lathe to create 45rpm records on your own...
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Compact Discs - Not Dead Yet: Parasound Rolls Out Futureproofed Zcd CD Player
Michael Berk  |  Mar 14, 2012  | 

The writing may be on the wall for the CD and for physical media in general; but we're still seeing interesting disc players emerge as we enter the format's end times (of course, we could be totally wrong about that; vinyl certainly hasn't gone away, and nor has innovation in the turntable arena). But simple CD-playback devices may be a thing of the past.

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Companies Demonstrate Real-Time DVD+RW Recording
 |  Feb 27, 2000  | 

In a unique collaboration, <A HREF="http://www.hp.com">Hewlett-Packard</A>, <A HREF="www.news.philips.com">Philips</A>, <A HREF="http://www.ricoh.com">Ricoh</A>, <A HREF="http://www.sony.co.jp">Sony</A>, and <A HREF="http://www.yamaha.com">Yamaha</A> took part in a demonstration at last week's CeBIT show in Hanover, Germany, intended to publicly reinforce their commitment to 4.7 Gigabyte DVD+RW technology. Thomson Multimedia also revealed its support of DVD+RW technology at CeBIT.

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Company Claims Five Full Length Movies on One DVD
 |  Jul 15, 2001  | 

The film industry is going to hate this. A Santa Monica technology company has announced a digital video compression scheme that supposedly can increase the data density of ordinary DVDs by three to ten times.

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Competition is Up—and So Are Cable Rates
 |  Jan 16, 2000  | 

One of the most cherished assumptions about a market economy is that competition drives down prices for goods and services. Widespread availability from numerous providers guarantees low prices, the conventional wisdom has it.

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Component Audio Bounces Back
Mark Fleischmann  |  Feb 16, 2011  | 
Component audio is coming on strong, says the Consumer Electronics Association. The trade group's 2010 figures show component audio contributing to a 6.2 percent increase in overall home audio sales. A further 11.9 percent increase is forecast for 2011.

While CEA's definition of home audio includes components, compact systems, HTiBs, multiroom, MP3 speakers, and radios, only component audio and MP3 player related speakers showed increases, buoying the entire audio category.

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Component Audio on the Upswing
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 14, 2011  | 
Consumer interest in component audio is growing, according to a recent survey by MarketSource.

The number of adults who intend to buy one or more audio components has risen to 39 percent, versus 35 percent a year back.

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Component Video Through Thin Air
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Sep 27, 2004  | 
Wireless audio/video senders are nothing new, but until now such accessory devices were limited to the composite video outputs of your DVD player, cable box, VCR, or discretely positioned X10 camera. Belkin Corporation's new PureAV RemoteTV not only lets you send analog audio and video from composite or S-video sources wirelessly, Belkin claims it's the first to incorporate component-video connectivity.
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Compressed Signals Make Me Depressed
SV Staff  |  Mar 31, 2008  | 
If you've got an eye for crisp video, surely you've wished the high-definition signal being pumped into your living room was even better. The signal quality appears to have good days and bad days, and you may have even wondered if the same HD...
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Compromises Advance Sirius/XM Merger
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jun 19, 2008  | 
The merger of the Sirius and XM satellite radio networks will move forward thanks to compromises that have attracted approval from Kevin Martin, chair of the Federal Communications Commission.
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Computer Makers Focus on Set-top Boxes to Merge TV, PC
Barry Willis  |  Apr 26, 1998  | 

Despite the ocean of ink that has been spilled on the subject, most consumers are indifferent about the inclusion of TV tuners in their computers. "Convergence" might be simply another intellectual fad---popular among journalists because it seems so logical, yet flopping among consumers because it really isn't. Most computer users who have responded to marketing studies indicate they don't care if they can receive television on their computers or not.

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