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AV to Benefit from NASA Research on Battery Safety
SV Staff  |  Jul 24, 2017  | 
Lithium-ion (li-ion) batteries power millions upon millions of electronic devices—from phones and laptops to headphones and Bluetooth speakers—without incident but every now and then something goes awry. Who can forget Samsung’s massive recall (and eventual discontinuation of) the Galaxy Note 7 following reports of spontaneous combustion.
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Avanca Offers New Wireless Earbuds at a Discount
SV Staff  |  Oct 19, 2017  | 
Netherlands-based Avanca is offering its new Minim Wireless Earbuds at a sizable discount through Indiegogo.
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Avantgarde's $40,000 G2 Duo Omega speakers
SV Staff  |  Jan 20, 2010  | 
Just because CES ended two weeks ago doesn't mean there still aren't some funky, expensive speakers to check out. For example, Avantgarde's G2 speakers combine a huge horn-shaped speaker with a huge block-shaped subwoofer into a large, loud, pricey...
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Avatar BD Needs Firmware Fix
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 05, 2010  | 
Some Blu-ray players need to have their firmware updated before they can play Avatar in its current 2D release.
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Avatar Blu-ray Billows
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 07, 2010  | 
Avatar will have gained some weight when its next 2D disc release arrives on November 16, just in time for the holidays.
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Avatar Breaks Blu-ray Records
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 29, 2010  | 
Avatar is breaking Blu-ray records all over the place, and it's not even out in 3D yet.
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Avatar Raises 3D Awareness
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jan 21, 2010  | 
Avatar now has a place in movie history as a film that has forever changed public consciousness of a technology. In this case, the technology is 3D. Like it or not, 3D is coming home, and James Cameron's blockbuster has made a majority of viewers aware of that.
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Avatar Stays Exclusive Till 2012
Mark Fleischmann  |  Dec 15, 2010  | 
Panasonic will retain its special arrangement with Avatar, providing the much sought after 3D Blu-ray title to purchasers of its products through February 2012.

James Cameron's masterwork has done much to convince consumers that 3DTV is a worthy investment. And folks can enjoy it at home if they buy a Panasonic 3DTV or Blu-ray player on which to view it. But those who use non-Panasonic gear are still out in the cold for another year. Of course Panasonic provided a lot of production support during the making of the hit movie, so if anyone is going to have a special relationship with Avatar and its producers, it's going to be Panasonic.

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Avatar: Looks great, less filling!
SV Staff  |  Dec 21, 2009  | 
Thursday night/Friday morning, I saw Avatar the way it was meant to be seen: in 3D IMAX at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square in New York. It was a 3:45 a.m. show, which I attended only because the midnight show was sold out. Avatar is easily the most...
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Avid unleashes new consumer-level media tools
SV Staff  |  Sep 24, 2009  | 
Yesterday, software maker Avid kicked off its Gen Cre8 campaign, a series of events intended to highlight the accessibility of its new consumer-level production software. The first event, held in Brooklyn, highlighted Avid's new trio of Pro...
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AVTech Media Ltd (UK) Acquires Home Tech Network From TEN: The Enthusiast Network
SV Staff  |  Mar 22, 2018  | 

New Group Combines AVTech Media’s Specialist Hi-Fi/Home Theater Titles with TEN’s Home Tech Network to Create World’s Largest Consumer Electronics Audio/Visual Publishing Enterprise

NEW YORK, NY — AVTech Media Ltd (UK) (www.avtechmedia.co.uk) has purchased the Home Tech Network from TEN: The Enthusiast Network (www.hometechnetwork.com), it was announced today.

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Axiom announces "Customize Yours" options
SV Staff  |  Aug 26, 2010  | 
Axiom Audio has just revealed a service that it claims makes it the "world's most customized loudspeaker shop." The company now offers the "Customize Yours" service, which lets customers dictate exactly how their speakers look. Instead of just a...
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Axiom Audio celebrates its 30th anniversary
SV Staff  |  Sep 27, 2010  | 

Just 30 years ago last week, Ian Colquhoun started Axiom Audio in his friend's garage. To commemorate the company's 3 decades of work in audio, it held a birthday party in the Ontario district of Muskoka.

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AXPONA Goes Virtual With Facebook Livestream Event
Al Griffin  |  Apr 15, 2020  | 
AXPONA, the largest high-end audio event in North America, has been pushed back from April to August for 2020, but you can get a sneak peek at the new products audio manufacturers have in store by “attending” the show’s Facebook Live event this Friday, April 17—the day AXPONA 2020 was originally scheduled to open at the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel and Convention Center in Chicago, IL.
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AXPONA Moves 2020 Expo from April to November
SV Staff  |  Sep 14, 2018  | 
Organizers of the Audio Expo North America (a.k.a. AXPONA) have announced that the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel in metro Chicago is the show’s new permanent home and that in 2020 the three-day show will move from its usual mid-April time frame to late October/early November.
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