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Bar Codes Come to TV Ads
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 29, 2010  | 
If you watch Bravo, you may recently have seen a 45-second ad from Bluefly that featured an onscreen barcode. If you held your cellphone up to the code, it would have linked you to a five-minute infomercial featuring celebrity interview videos plus a $30 discount on clothing and accessories purchases of $150 or more.
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Bargain Basement Blu-ray from Memorex
SV Staff  |  Sep 18, 2008  | 
Is it live, or is it Memorex? Not sure, but we do know that finally a Blu-ray Disc player is available for well under $300 - $269.00 to be exact. The Memorex MVBD-2510 is under that magical price point that analysts have said would mark wide-spread...
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Baseball now better on the Web than on TV
SV Staff  |  Apr 06, 2009  | 
Try as they may, there's still nothing that compares to sitting in an uncomfortable stadium seat for nine innings. The battle for runner-up, however has gotten to be quite interesting. While plunking down in front of the TV to watch a game is...
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Batman Kicks Iron Man's Butt
SV Staff  |  Nov 13, 2008  | 
Not actually, but The Dark Knight is expected to ship more than 1 million Blu-ray discs to stores in time for the December 9th street date. Iron Man, which holds the previous record, sold 500,000 Blu-ray copies the first week it hit the shelves....
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Batman Vs. Pirates
SV Staff  |  Jul 28, 2008  | 
The first place to see new theatrical releases is not in movie theaters, but on online file-sharing sites and DVD. Pirated copies, ranging from hazy camcorder copies, to pristine copies from original prints, can sometimes be found circulating...
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BB to Offer Same-Day Streaming
Mark Fleischmann  |  May 25, 2010  | 
Best Buy's newly acquired CinemaNow will stream movies on the same date as their DVD release.
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BBC and Discovery Put High-Def on Ice
SV Staff  |  Apr 14, 2008  | 
The Discovery Channel and BBC's "Planet Earth" series is popular among HDTV-owners eager to show off the up-close-and-personal vibrant images of wild animals, deep caves and lush forests on their large flat-screens. Spacing out in front of a...
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BBC Pondering Giveaway of Digital STBs
Barry Willis  |  Feb 11, 2001  | 

In retail, they are called "loss leaders"&mdash;promotional items used as lures to generate more business. The <A HREF="http://www.bbc.co.uk/">British Broadcasting Corporation</A> is considering giving away digital set-top boxes to subscribers as "seed" to help develop interest in digital television, according to public comments made February 8 by the organization's director general Greg Dyke.

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BBC Radio 3 Goes HD Online
Mark Fleischmann  |  Dec 17, 2010  | 
Of course the BBC is Britain's version of public radio. Its Radio 3 channel is strong in classical, jazz, world music, new music, and spoken-word drama.

According to Andrew Clements of The Guardian, "toggling between the HD service and the usual Radio 3 website broadcasts revealed greater definition and the more spacious, warmer sound of the new format. There was far more bloom on the tone of the instruments in the Brahms horn trio, and a real depth to the orchestral 'picture' for the Tchaikovsky, all of which really did seem comparable to Radio 3 FM, though still worlds away from what CDs or old-fashioned vinyl LPs can offer." Since we don't have access to Radio 3's FM or HD signals, we'll take his word for it.

A BBC press release says: "Initially, the stream will only be available for live programmes (not on demand) for UK listeners only." BOO! "It will be available through pages on radio networks' websites and special event sites, although the ambition is to integrate HD Sound into iPlayer and Radioplayer as the technology develops."

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BD Live Goes Live
SV Staff  |  Jan 09, 2008  | 
The specs for Blu-ray discs and players hold the promise of loads of cool features, including stuff like games, Web-based interactivity, and video picture-in-picture where you can see the director discussing the movie on an inset box onscreen...
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BD Managed Copy Slowly Emerging
Mark Fleischmann  |  Nov 18, 2009  | 
There's good news and bad news about Managed Copy for Blu-ray. The good news is that as of December 4, 2009, the ability to back up programming will be encoded into all disc releases. The bad news is that players taking advantage of the feature have yet to see the light of day.
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BDA: HD Claims Misleading
Mark Fleischmann  |  Sep 02, 2008  | 
Full HD, a.k.a. 1080p, is every videophile's highest ideal. That's probably why satellite operators and so many others claim to supply it. But these claims are "irresponsible" and "misleading," says the Blu-ray Disc Association.
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BDA: Ultra HD Blu-ray Sees Healthy Gains
SV Staff  |  Feb 02, 2018  | 
Whether or not Ultra HD Blu-ray is the last physical format for high-quality entertainment remains an open question, but one thing is certain: The format has gained favor among enthusiasts and continues to build momentum around the world.
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BDI Introduces Customizable AV Storage Console
SV Staff  |  Apr 14, 2017  | 
BDI Furniture’s new Elements Collection of media and storage consoles can be configured 24 different ways, making it one of the company’s most customizable offerings to date.
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BDI Makes Your Gear Disappear
SV Staff  |  Jun 26, 2019  | 
For every enthusiast who wants to shine a bright light on his stack of gear there’s another who would rather hide it away, maybe in a nice piece of furniture.
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