Audio Video News

Sort By: Post DateTitle Publish Date
Audio Video News
"YYZ": Heroic Guitarist or "Guitar Hero"?
SV Staff  |  Sep 18, 2007  | 
My older son, Paul, is kinda bummed that he wasn't able to go with me to Rush's American tour finale last night at Madison Square Garden. Seems he was especially eager to hear "YYZ." That would be "YYZ" as made famous by...
Continue Reading »
Audio Video News
Downsizing Again
SV Staff  |  Sep 19, 2007  | 
Bose is up to its old tricks. The company first pulled the faux speaker cabinet caper on audio journalists back in the late 1980's when it introduced the Acoustimass system. Lee Ritenour's On the Line came pouring  out of a sub box and a pair...
Continue Reading »
Audio Video News
The Little Things
SV Staff  |  Sep 21, 2007  | 
Pepcom held its annual Holiday Spectacular this week in New York, where several dozen companies set up booths to promote products that will be in stores for the holidays. During the event, the technology press shuffles along from booth to booth,...
Continue Reading »
Audio Video News
Picture This
SV Staff  |  Oct 01, 2007  | 
2006 was a watershed year for digital photo frames, according to Dallas-based market research company Parks Associates. Sales of digital photo frames in the first half of 2006 showed a typical growth curve and then skyrocketed. During the second...
Continue Reading »
Audio Video News
Radiohead, Eagles: Out of Record Stores
SV Staff  |  Oct 01, 2007  | 
"Record stores"? What are those? Judging from actions by bands as seemingly disparate as Radiohead (left) and the Eagles, record stores are obsolete. Just this morning, it was confirmed that Radiohead's new album, In Rainbows, will be...
Continue Reading »
Audio Video News
Read This
SV Staff  |  Oct 02, 2007  | 
There's something about the electronic book that holds a lot of appeal. When Sony launched its first-edition Reader at the Consumer Electronics Show a few years ago, reporters flocked around the device - to the surprise of the Sony PR team, who...
Continue Reading »
Audio Video News
DLP: Tales from the Dark Side
SV Staff  |  Oct 04, 2007  | 
At the CEDIA Expo, Texas Instruments announced the latest generation of its Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) technology, dubbed DarkChip 4. The company claims even better reproduction of black and dark grays than achieved by its current DarkChip 3...
Continue Reading »
Audio Video News
TiVo, Rhapsody Hook Up
SV Staff  |  Oct 09, 2007  | 
It's all about the relationship. That was the message at the official rollout of TiVo and Real Networks' new partnership at  the Arena club in Manhattan this week. Emcee Chris Harrison, host of The Bachelor, opened the festivities, leaving...
Continue Reading »
Audio Video News
Four Words: Led Zep Goes Digital
SV Staff  |  Oct 15, 2007  | 
Just got the press release 10 minutes ago. Reprinted in full below. -Ken Richardson LED ZEPPELIN TO RELEASE DIGITAL CATALOG The Legendary Band's Original Albums Available for the First Time at All Online Music Retailers November 13 LOS ANGELES -...
Continue Reading »
Audio Video News
What's in a Name?
SV Staff  |  Oct 17, 2007  | 
A lot of profit, if you're talking about trusted names in consumer electronics. But some of those reassuring brands we grew up with - RCA, AT&T, Westinghouse, and Polaroid - bear no relation to the American companies we associate them with....
Continue Reading »
Audio Video News
Sharp Expands South of the Border
SV Staff  |  Oct 17, 2007  | 
It was a lesson in perspective this week in Baja California, Mexico, where Sharp Electronics officially cut the ribbon on a $300 million LCD manufacturing plant in Rosarito. While American journalists were busy scribbling notes about screen sizes...
Continue Reading »
Audio Video News
Surround & Visionaries
SV Staff  |  Oct 18, 2007  | 
Porcupine Tree mastermind Steven Wilson (holding down the middle position and leaning on the center channel in the accompanying photo) dropped by the S&V offices yesterday for a 2-hour surround-sound listening session with yours truly (at right)...
Continue Reading »
Audio Video News
Music for Rent
SV Staff  |  Oct 24, 2007  | 
I held a garage sale recently and had hundreds of CDs on display. One of the shoppers asked me why I was dumping all my CDs. I wasn't getting rid of all my discs. I was just filtering out those that I bought for maybe a song or two (Journey's...
Continue Reading »
Audio Video News
The Reprise of PIP
SV Staff  |  Oct 30, 2007  | 
I hate to admit this, but despite the appeal and all the hard work that go into the extras supplied with DVD movies, I rarely have taken the trouble to access that content. Part of it is that I don't like to be interrupted when I'm engrossed in a...
Continue Reading »
Audio Video News
Soul Full of Heart
SV Staff  |  Nov 02, 2007  | 
Where does the time go? It has already been 3 years since Heart's last studio album, the fine Jupiters Darling. Fans waiting for the next one can tide themselves over with several projects, both band and solo. First, there's the just-released...
Continue Reading »

Pages

X