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CEDIA 2010: Cute Little Minx
SV Staff  |  Sep 24, 2010  | 
 CEDIA has predictably turned out to be a 3D front projector show, but there’s also a surprising amount of cool two-channel audio gear being hawked here. One compelling demo I sat through was of Cambridge Audio’s new Minx speaker...
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CEDIA 2010: A Golden Oasis
SV Staff  |  Sep 24, 2010  | 
   Wander down to the far end of CEDIA’s long exhibit hall and you’ll find a closed-door booth emblazoned with an unfamiliar company name: GoldenEar Technology. Enter that booth, and you’ll see legendary speaker-guy Sandy Gross...
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CEDIA 2010: 2D Video Projectors
SV Staff  |  Sep 24, 2010  | 
A few large manufacturers excepted, most of the video projection industry seems in no big rush to get into 3D. As a result, there was plenty of 2D projection action at this year’s CEDIA Expo, a gathering in Atlanta this week of custom installers...
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CEDIA 2010: New Paradigms
SV Staff  |  Sep 25, 2010  | 
Speaker-maker Paradigm has several new offerings at CEDIA, but the stuff that caught my eye was its MilleniaOne satellite speaker ($249/each) and Millenia subwoofer ($1399). Standing just under 8 inches high, the sat has a die-cast aluminum...
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CEDIA 2010: Bipolar Order
SV Staff  |  Sep 25, 2010  | 
Definitive Technology is a company closely associated with bipolar speakers due to its longstanding use of that design approach in its products. At CEDIA, Def Tech is showing a family of four brand-new bipolar SuperTowers, all of which feature...
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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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Sennheiser Announces Six New iPhone-Oriented Headhpones
SV Staff  |  Sep 27, 2010  | 
 Cell phones have been on the offensive when it comes to replacing dedicated digital music players, which means iPhone- (and smartphone)- compatible headhpones have been multiplying like a swimming pool full of Gremlins. The latest batch...
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Bose's VideoWave speaker-less HDTV sound system
SV Staff  |  Sep 28, 2010  | 
All-in-one home theater systems can mean a variety of things. Sometimes they mean a home-theater-in-a-box, a package of multiple speakers and all the gear you need to hook it up. Sometimes they mean a soundbar, a one-piece way to pump up your...
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'Star Wars' Starts Going 3D in 2012
SV Staff  |  Sep 29, 2010  | 
  While many have been eagerly awaiting Star Wars to make its way to Blu-ray, apparently George Lucas has been hard at work bringing his beloved franchise into 3D. According to a report by The Hollywood Reporter, 2012 will mark the...
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IMDB counts down to 20th anniversary October 17
SV Staff  |  Sep 29, 2010  | 
Nearly 2 decades ago, the Internet Movie Database hit the fledgling World Wide Web. Since then, it's become the go-to site for movie information like cast lists, dates, and trivia. To commemorate the site's upcoming 20th anniversary, it's set up a...
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NHK and BBC coomplish the first super-high-resolution broadcast from UK to Japan
SV Staff  |  Sep 30, 2010  | 
1080p high-definition is nice. 4K (4096 x 2160) is even better, but only a few theaters have projectors that use that resolution yet. Super Hi-View is even better than that, with a resolution of 7680 x 4320, 4 times greater than 4K and 16 times...
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Toshiba discontinues OLED production
SV Staff  |  Oct 01, 2010  | 
The development of organic LED displays in home entertainment faced a huge setback, as Toshiba announced that it won't pursue OLED production anymore. Toshiba, together with Panasonic, spent over $190 million to set up an OLED manufacturing...
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Google TV gets a new website, app preview video
SV Staff  |  Oct 04, 2010  | 
  We're curious to say the least about what will happen when Google TV  finally lands in the hands of the general public, but today Google unleashed a video preview of their new applications and it's looking very promising. The...
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Ultrasone announces Edition 10 headphones
SV Staff  |  Oct 04, 2010  | 
High-end headphone company Ultrasone has unveiled its newest headphones, the Edition 10 open-back headphones. The best word to describe them would be "opulent." They have titanium bodies, Zebrano wood inlays, and Ethiopian sheepskin ear cups. They...
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'Avatar' to get extended DVD/Blu-ray Disc release
SV Staff  |  Oct 05, 2010  | 
Avatar made records as the top grossing film of all time in theaters. Unfortunately, the DVD and Blu-ray release of the film disappointed many viewers because it offered nothing but what they already saw in theaters; they were barebones releases...
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