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Alas, Cassettes, We Hardly Knew Ye
SV Staff  |  Aug 04, 2008  | 
I regret to inform you of the passing of the Compact Cassette. At the age of 45 (that's about 135 in technology years) the cassette finally succumbed to market forces. Cause of death, tragically, was the cassette's own offspring, the Compact Disc....
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Alas, Poor Plasma! We Viewed Him, Horatio
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Oct 15, 2013  | 
A screen of infinite beauty, of most excellent fancy. He hath shone on me a thousand times. And now, how abhorred he is. Where be your hues now? Your wider viewing angle? Your deeper blacks? Your brightness that was wont to set the room on a roar? Now get you to my lady’s chamber, and let her paint a screen an inch thick. Make her look at that.

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Alas, VCR, We Hardly Knew Ye
SV Staff  |  Oct 27, 2008  | 
We were all dreading this day. We hoped it would never come. But, of course, now the dreaded day has arrived. The VHS VCR is no more.The butt of endless "flashing 12:00" jokes, and cruelly forced to play more than a few porno tapes, the...
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Alexa Finds Her Way into a Lamp
SV Staff  |  Dec 07, 2016  | 
GE has integrated Amazon’s Alexa Voice Service into a prototype LED table lamp, the first in a planned suite of connected products.
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Alexa Hack Creates Hilarious (Creepy?) Talking Skull
SV Staff  |  Mar 16, 2017  | 
Amazon’s Alexa, the voice controlled personal assistant that made its first appearance in the Echo smart speaker a couple years ago, is now showing up in dozens of consumer electronics products, including more speakers, TVs, lamps, refrigerators—you name it.
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Alexa Makes its Debut in Aftermarket Car Audio
SV Staff  |  Jan 17, 2018  | 
Everyone knows Amazon’s Alexa is the star of an ever growing number of smart speakers, but did you know that the popular voice service is also finding its way into aftermarket car stereo?
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Alexa Update Coming to Yamaha MusicCast Products
SV Staff  |  Feb 28, 2017  | 
Yamaha today announced that a free firmware update due out this fall will bring Amazon Alexa voice control to its MusicCast series of wireless multiroom products.
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Alexa Voice Search Added to Vizio SmartCast TVs
SV Staff  |  Sep 17, 2019  | 
Vizio today announced expanded Alexa voice control capabilities for SmartCast TVs dating back to the 2016 model year.
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Alexa: I Control the World
Mark Fleischmann  |  Aug 08, 2017  | 
Amazon is many things to many people, and now it’s become the king of the smart-speaker market. Parks Associates reports that the online retail giant dominates smart speakers with 70.6 percent of sales, adding that smart speakers are in 11 percent of U.S. broadband households.
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Alienology Aims to Kickstart 3D-Printed Speakers
SV Staff  |  Mar 17, 2017  | 
With 20 days to go, Los Angeles-based startup Alienology Audio has raised $1,322 of its modest $2,500 goal to help fund the launch of its T3TRA speakers on Kickstarter.
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Alioscopy: No Glasses Required 3D
SV Staff  |  Dec 18, 2008  | 
While companies in London are touting 3D with not-so-dorky-looking glasses, they still have glasses. However, next month in Vegas, Alioscopy is going to be showing off their Autostereoscopic 3D display -- NO GLASSES REQUIRED! Alioscopy and TCL...
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All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go---Yet
Jon Iverson  |  Aug 09, 1998  | 

Sandor Hasznos of Denver, Colorado, purchased a television on July 31, and it was delivered last week. This might not seem like a big deal---unless you consider that this was the first HDTV officially sold in the US. The set, a <A HREF="http://www.panasonic.com">Panasonic</A> PT-56WXF90, was the first one bought at <A HREF="http://www.ultimateelectronics.com">Ultimate Electronics</A> during an HDTV preview event that drew over 4000 digital-television enthusiasts.

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All Dressed Up with Nowhere to Go?
 |  Jul 30, 2000  | 

According to figures released last week by the <A HREF="http://www.ce.org">Consumer Electronics Association</A> (CEA), factory sales to dealers for digital television (DTV) displays for the month of June were 26,750 units, which the CEA claims is "the biggest sales month to date for DTV." The figures also show that the June figures brought DTV display sales for 2000 to 129,438, surpassing total display sales in 1999 (121,226). The CEA adds that these figures include DTV and HDTV display monitors that require the addition of a set-top box to receive digital broadcasts, as well as DTV and HDTV sets that include a DTV tuner. In addition, the CEA reports that 17,671 standalone set-top receivers have been sold to dealers since January 2000.

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All Ears - and Eyes - on the I-Sonic
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Apr 25, 2005  | 
Evidently, Polk has a thing for XM Satellite Radio. About six months after they introduced a stand-alone, home-component XM tuner (the XRt12), the speaker company is pulling the wraps off of a new XM-ready tabletop entertainment system called the I-Sonic. Sure, you might think it's just a new compact stereo system designed to sonically kick the you know what out of you know which (heavily advertised) tabletop system from you know who. (And who am I to say that you're wrong?) But a quick look at all of the I-Sonic's features and capabilities makes it appear to be something more - you know, the kind of thing your grandmother could use but will still impress the heck out of your more techno-sophisticated friends.
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All Eyes (and Ears) on Voice Control
SV Staff  |  Mar 16, 2016  | 
The success of Amazon’s voice-controlled Echo speaker/personal assistant apparently has AV companies scrambling.
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