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A New Wrinkle for Public Wi-Fi
SV Staff  |  Dec 17, 2015  | 
Technology truly is reaching all corners of our lives…and even beyond.
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A Novel Approach to Explaining ‘Net Neutrality’
SV Staff  |  Jan 31, 2018  | 
Have you seen Burger King’s ‘Whopper Neutrality’ ad? It’s hilarious — and ingenious.
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A Panel with Power
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Aug 21, 2005  |  First Published: Aug 22, 2005  | 
Multiroom audio is not a new idea. Nor are the concepts of digital amplification, touchscreen controllers, and audio distribution over CAT5 wiring. But not everyone has thought to bring all of those ideas together in one particular audio distribution product - and when a relative newcomer to the audio-in-any-room party shows up with an amplified (that's "amplified" as in "watts per channel") touchpanel in his hand, it's time to cock an eyebrow, act like you're not interested, and then try like heck to figure out exactly what's going on and how much it's going to cost.
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A Peek at TiVo's New Testing Interface
SV Staff  |  Sep 29, 2008  | 
TiVo is looking at improving their user interface. Lord knows that with so many new features, they have to develop an easier way to let you find everything. The new interface, that's in focus-group testing, has features such as ads on top of the...
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A Pioneering Store
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Jun 30, 2006  | 
Following the likes of Bang & Olufsen and Sony, Pioneer will open a retail store in the United States this August. The 32,000-square-foot company store, to be located at South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, California, will offer Pioneer and Pioneer Elite components traditionally sold in the U.S. in addition to products currently available only in Japan. Pioneer intends for the store to be a testing ground for these and other new products. The company expects the retail outlet to provide it with consumer feedback that will "impact and enhance future product development."
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A Pirate's Life
SV Staff  |  Jun 13, 2008  | 
If the RIAA has its way, and we know how they like to have their way, a piracy tax will be imposed on each and every person using the web. Yup. Even if you just use the web to look for love on Match.com, the RIAA wants to assume you're stealing...
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A Projector for all Sizes of Devices
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Jul 02, 2006  | 
Explay, a company focused on developing "nano-projector engines" to be used in a variety of consumer electronics products", says it has tested its nano-projector technology with several mobile devices (things like cell phones, digital camcorders, and portable media players) and successfully produced "eye-safe, always focused images".
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A Remembrance of CES Past
Sandy Gross  |  Jan 15, 2020  | 
I attended CES 2020 — probably my last as it seems that Specialty Audio, once the show’s raison d’etre, is really no longer a part of it, at least in any significant way. There are many views as to why this is. Some blame the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), but as a participant in this annual event (once bi-annual) since the early 70s, I feel strongly that the CTA and its CES did not abandon Specialty Audio. Quite the opposite: Specialty Audio abandoned the CES.
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A remote that doesn't use batteries
SV Staff  |  Nov 18, 2009  | 
We've become a remote-controlled world. When was the last time you actually pressed a button on your HDTV or Blu-ray player? Of course, this means when you're caught with dead batteries, you have to wrestled with your gadgets just to change the...
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A Rose By Any Other Name...
SV Staff  |  May 23, 2008  | 
It used to be that a brand name was just that. You always knew exactly what you were getting when you opened the box -- the name on the outside matched the components on the inside. These days, you can never tell. In the latest round of re-badging,...
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A Scaled Down CES 2022 Opens Wednesday
Bob Ankosko  |  Jan 03, 2022  | 
On Wednesday, CES 2022 returns to the live, in-person format that has defined the seminal event for 55 years but, make no mistake, it’s a smaller show this time around. Much smaller.
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A Smart Speaker Is In Your Future
SV Staff  |  Sep 17, 2018  | 
Source: Adobe Analytics survey “State of Voice Assistants” (September 2018)

Like it or not, smart speakers are on a roll. A serious roll.

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A sneak peek at Warner's restored Wizard of Oz
SV Staff  |  Sep 07, 2009  | 
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/movies/A_sneak_peek_at_Warner_s_restored_Wizard_of_Oz'; At Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, Warner Home Video recently gave a small group of journalists an advance look at some of the restored scenes from the...
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A Sony Blu-ray With an ES Upgrade
SV Staff  |  Jan 07, 2008  | 
Details were sparse to nonexistent, but at its press conference, Sony verified that an ES branded Blu-ray player is in the works. ES is the emblem Sony reserves for its best components, and if history is a guide, the ES BD player will be...
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A Titanic Announcement
Thomas J. Norton  |  Apr 10, 2005  | 

It's no secret that the original DVD release of <I>Titanic</I>&mdash;about a zillion years ago in DVD time&mdash;was a technical dud. Oh, it looked okay, and the excitement of actually being able to put it on your very own shelf to watch whenever you wanted kept the disappointment to a low simmer. But it was released during the period when studios were just beginning to adopt the anamorphic or "enhanced for widescreen" format. Unfortunately, <I>Titanic</I> was not a beneficiary of that superior technology. As ordinary letterbox transfers go, it was among the better ones. But it wasn't what it should have been.

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