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AOC’s Curved-Screen Gaming Monitor Is HDR-Ready
SV Staff  |  Oct 12, 2018  | 
AOC has introduced a 32-inch, curved-screen gaming monitor that supports high-dynamic range (HDR) content.
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AOL Joins Forces with Blockbuster
Barry Willis  |  Nov 07, 1999  | 

The world's largest Internet service provider is teaming up with the world's largest video rental chain to deliver movies and as-yet-unspecified content over broadband connections. <A HREF="http://www.aol.com/">America Online</A> is pumping $30 million into a three-year joint venture with <A HREF="http://www.blockbuster.com/">Blockbuster Video</A>, with the intent of leveraging the two companies' huge customer bases for mutual benefit. AOL members will have access to Blockbuster's enormous library of discs and tapes, and Blockbuster will promote AOL by giving away CD-ROMs of AOL version 5.0 at its more than 4000 outlets in the US.

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Aperion Audio Announces Compact, Affordable Subwoofer
HT Staff  |  Jun 09, 2001  | 
Passive radiators fell out of favor with loudspeaker manufacturers in the early 1980's, but the technology always showed promise for extending the low-end response from small cabinets. Tigard, OR-based Aperion Audio, formerly known as EdgeAudio, has revived the design with the introduction of a new 150-watt powered subwoofer selling for just under $400.
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Apocalypse Yet Again
Jon Iverson  |  Mar 04, 2001  | 

Obviously taking the concept of a "director's cut" quite seriously, Francis Ford Coppola announced this week that he will soon be releasing a radically different version of his 1979 classic <I>Apocalypse Now</I>. The new version of the film will feature 53 minutes of new material and will debut at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival in France May 9&ndash;20.

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Apple Adding Voice Control to Apple TV
SV Staff  |  Feb 10, 2016  | 
Apple is aiming to simplify control of its popular Apple TV) streaming media player by adding a voice control feature.
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Apple Aims to Improve Siri as Part of iOS 11 Rollout
SV Staff  |  Sep 21, 2017  | 
Apple has reworked Siri to give the virtual assistant a more natural voice and new capabilities.
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Apple AirPlay May Stream Video
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 25, 2011  | 
Apple's AirPlay wireless audio streaming technology is finding its way into an increasing number and variety of products. What next? Possibly video streaming.

An unconfirmed report in the business press says Apple is in talks to license AirPlay to consumer electronics manufacturers for video streaming. AirPlay is already capable of video streaming but so far has been licensed only for audio streaming.

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Apple Announcement #1: The Beatles!
SV Staff  |  Sep 05, 2007  | 
No, not that Apple. And no, not that technological species of Beatles. In a week when it was rumored that Apple Inc. would herald the long-awaited availability of the Beatles on iTunes, Apple Corps Ltd. instead divulged that the band's second...
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Apple Announcement #2: iMakeover!
SV Staff  |  Sep 05, 2007  | 
Steve Jobs has done it again. Stealing some thunder from another consumer-electronics confab (that would be CEDIA Expo 2007, where nearly all of S&V's editors are ensconced right now), the Apple Inc. CEO actually made not one but six big...
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Apple Announcement #3: Steve Jobs Says, iSorry!
SV Staff  |  Sep 07, 2007  | 
"I have received hundreds of emails from iPhone customers who are upset about Apple dropping the price of the iPhone by $200 two months after it went on sale," writes Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs in an open letter "To all iPhone...
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Apple Announces Video iPod
 |  Oct 16, 2005  | 

Last week Apple concurrently announced a new iPod digital music player that can play digital video as well as audio, and iTunes 6.0, which enables users to purchase and download music videos and TV shows from the iTunes Music Store (iTMS.

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Apple Delays HomePod Launch
SV Staff  |  Nov 20, 2017  | 
There will be no HomePods under Christmas trees this holiday season. Apple announced on Friday that it will postpone the launch of its first smart speaker to “early 2018.”
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Apple Delays Movie Rental Upgrade
Scott Wilkinson  |  Feb 02, 2008  | 

At MacWorld Expo last month, Apple CEO Steve Jobs promised that an upgrade of the Apple TV software to allow online movie rentals would be available by the end of January. But, as with so many things tech, the release of that software will now be delayed by "a week or two" according to a company statement issued on January 31. The software will be made available as a free download to existing Apple TV customers when it's finally deemed ready.

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Apple Does High-Def Download Rentals
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 16, 2008  | 
The Blu-ray folks who have been guzzling champagne for the past week might want to put the cork back in the bottle and put it in the fridge. Yesterday's raft of Apple announcements included the company's entry into high-def movie downloads and deals with several major studios.
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Apple Drops iPod Nano and Shuffle
SV Staff  |  Jul 28, 2017  | 
Is the iPod headed for extinction? Let’s put it this way, if you had been meaning to pick up the newer version of your outdated nano or shuffle you’d better move fast. Apple has quietly dropped both models from its iPod product page, which now highlights only its top selling iPod touch.
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