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Biondi Departs Universal; Meet Joe Black Gets Lukewarm Reception
Barry Willis  |  Nov 21, 1998  | 

Frank Biondi is making a very lucrative career of resigning from high-level positions. The former television executive and second-in-command at Viacom, Inc. has been forced out of the chairmanship at Universal Studios. The film-production company has not done well at the box office lately, a factor in the depressed stock price of its parent organization, Montreal-based Seagram, Ltd., which owns 80% of Universal. Former Hollywood talent agent and Creative Artists Agency co-founder Ron Meyer, who was Universal's president and chief operating officer, will take Biondi's place.

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Birds and electric guitars make beautiful music
SV Staff  |  Mar 31, 2010  | 
I recently had a disagreement with a friend about the band, Sunn O))). They're what's considered a drone metal band, which means they come out on stage in monk robes and play long strings of guitar sounds with an almost total lack of...
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BitTorrent Hankers for Respectability
Mark Fleischmann  |  Oct 15, 2007  | 
What are all those corporate logos doing on the BitTorrent homepage? Isn't this bastion of P2P technology a den of thieves? Apparently Paramount, 20th Century-Fox, Warner Bros., Lionsgate, Comedy Central, MTV, and other movie and TV studios are willing to entertain a different idea.
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Black Friday 2018: The Sale Is Already Underway
SV Staff  |  Nov 19, 2018  | 
SVS, Klipsch, LG, and others get the BF party started.

LG got Black Friday sales rolling a week ago when it announced its “Best Prices” of 2018 sale, and momentum continues to build this week as companies decide to get the Black Friday party started now rather than wait until after Thanksgiving.

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Black Friday Deals Are Here!
Bob Ankosko  |  Nov 18, 2021  | 
Black Friday, the once-official kick-off to holiday shopping, is a week away yet the deals are already in full swing and have been for quite some time (“Black Friday in July” anyone?) as retailers get a jump on holiday selling and wary shoppers scramble to grab must-have gifts. Only a handful of companies reached out to us with early BF deals so we scoured the web to see what kind of deals we could find. Here’s a sampling of what we found…
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Black Friday Deals Today and Beyond
SV Staff  |  Nov 29, 2019  | 
Okay, so Black Friday ain’t quite what it used to be but there are still plenty of deals to be had, not only today but over the next few days. Here’s a look at some of the AV discounts we’ve come across.
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Black Friday Is Bass Friday
SV Staff  |  Nov 22, 2021  | 
Forget laptops and phones. Forget robot vacuums, instant pots and all that other stuff. Black Friday this year is all about A/V, and to drive home that point, the subwoofer maestros at SVS are selling their 1000 and 2000 Series models at historically low prices.
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Black Friday Predictions
SV Staff  |  Sep 22, 2008  | 
Wouldn't you love to be able to see into the future? To be able to predict what the stock market will do tomorrow, who will win the next Superbowl, or just to see when the best time to buy a TV might be? The folks at Dealnews (that's a hint right...
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Black Friday, Blu Friday
SV Staff  |  Oct 15, 2008  | 
What better way to burn off the calories from Aunt Sandy's Thanksgiving Whiskey Cake than to go shopping the day after Thanksgiving. You know, Black Friday is the day to find amazing deals on everything from toasters to TVs. Looks like this could...
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Blackbird is About to Sing
Jon Iverson  |  Sep 20, 1998  | 

It's hard enough to transform one facet of the consumer-electronics industry, let alone three or four. But if Motorola's recent gamble with their new set-top box technology (code-named "<A HREF="http://www.motorola.com/semi/blackbird">Blackbird</A>") pays off, they could accomplish just that.

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Blame Canada's Carrier
SV Staff  |  Apr 04, 2008  | 
Comcast isn't the only service provider trying to make room for more high definition channels by compressing other channels into a smaller bandwidth footprint. It looks like they all do it, to some degree, though some carriers are better at masking...
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Blare-Busting Bill Passes House
Mark Fleischmann  |  Dec 16, 2009  | 
Legislation that would control the abusive blare of television ads passed in the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday.
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Bling and Fling your iPod Thing
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Oct 14, 2006  | 
It's hard to believe, but more iPod-related stuff is on the way. Soon to be available are kiddie cases from ifrogz, a company started by the same guys who developed Reminderband custom silicone bracelets. (And how many times haven't we all wondered how the world existed before those came along?) The new company's Tadpole line of video iPod cases are made specifically for children ages one and up - but they do not come with sedatives or tension relieving headache medicine for adults of child-rearing age.
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Blipcast Sends Audio from TV to Smartphone
SV Staff  |  Jan 18, 2016  | 
St. Louis-based startup Blipcast demonstrated a product/app of the same name at CES 2016 that lets one or more person listen to audio from their TV via headphones connected to a smartphone.

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Blockbuster + Columbia House?
Barry Willis  |  Sep 22, 2003  |  First Published: Sep 23, 2003  | 

The nation's biggest video rental chain and biggest movie club are reportedly discussing a merger. Blockbuster could join forces with Columbia House as a hedge against falling video rental revenue, according to mid-September reports in <I>The Wall Street Journal</I>, <I>The Hollywood Reporter</I>, and elsewhere.

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