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Got That Spreadsheet for Me?
SV Staff  |  Mar 20, 2008  | 
Don't be surprised if it's not Excel your co-workers are watching on their PCs over the next few days. A survey conducted by the Consumer Electronics Association and the Sports Video Group shows that 38 percent of sports fans expect to download and...
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PS3's Blu-ray Player Upgrades with Downloads
SV Staff  |  Mar 20, 2008  | 
If Sony's PlayStation 3 didn't already look like a great deal to people shopping for a Blu-ray player (it costs about $20 more than several other players but comes with an entire gaming system attached), its value proposition versus the competition...
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Dish and DirecTV Snub Local HD
SV Staff  |  Mar 20, 2008  | 
Some Dish Network and DirecTV high-def subscribers may not see local channels in HD until 2013 due to a ruling this week by the Federal Communications Commission. The satellite carriers insisted they didn't have the capacity to carry all the local...
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Blu-ray's Invincible Copy Protection Breached
SV Staff  |  Mar 20, 2008  | 
Industry analysts like to say that part of the reason Blu-ray won the high-def format war against HD DVD was because of Blu-ray promised Hollywood rock-solid copy protection against illegal pirating of movies. Well, that was short-lived. This week...
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Future of HDTV Is Bright with LECs
SV Staff  |  Mar 20, 2008  | 
Display technology researchers are on a roll. A professor at University of California Santa Barbara has discovered a way to combine lighting technologies to create an even brighter, more energy efficient, longer lasting back-light than LED by...
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Would You Leave Your HDTV for 3-D?
SV Staff  |  Mar 21, 2008  | 
Mark Cuban loves HDTV, which is why he founded all-high-def network HDNet. But he also loves NBA basketball, which is why he owns the Dallas Mavericks. Why, then, is he pitting his two loves against each other by urging people in Dallas to leave...
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DirecTV Restricts DVR Pay-per-View
SV Staff  |  Mar 21, 2008  | 
DirecTV will flip a switch on April 15 that prevents pay-per-view movies downloaded to a DVR from being watched more than 24 hours after the purchase. How's that for great service? The company is blaming the sudden restriction on Hollywood,...
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Dish Wins Big in Spectrum Auction
SV Staff  |  Mar 21, 2008  | 
When the Federal Communications Commission auctioned off about $19 billion worth of wireless spectrum last week, the most voracious bidders were wireless companies like Verizon and AT&T who plan to use the airwaves for expansions of phone and...
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The Perfect Video Phone? Your HDTV.
SV Staff  |  Mar 24, 2008  | 
The video phone is another one of those permanently futuristic technologies that electronics companies never seem to get right for mainstream consumers. They've been trying for decades though, and the closest thing to a reliable video phone we've...
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Microsoft Ponies Up for $10K Media Center Giveaway
SV Staff  |  Mar 24, 2008  | 
Are your home videos trapped on your PC? Are your digital photos prisoner to My Pictures? Do you feel digitally disconnected? Then Microsoft wants you. The company is sponsoring a digital home makeover contest that will reward a digitally...
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Another Blu-ray Battle
SV Staff  |  Mar 24, 2008  | 
The odds of Columbia University professor Getrude Neumark Rothschild's complaint with the International Trade Commission evolving into a patent suit that wipes Blu-ray technology out of all the electronics companies in the world are so slim they're...
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Does What We Skip Affect What We Buy?
SV Staff  |  Mar 24, 2008  | 
As anyone who owns a DVR can tell you, DVR-owners watch fewer ads. A three-year study from Information Resources Inc. confirms this obvious point, according to Ad Age, but goes a step further by suggesting that DVR-owners end up buying fewer new...
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Let's Talk Deal: Big Box Stores Allow Bargaining
SV Staff  |  Mar 24, 2008  | 
Any self-respecting gear-hound has tried his hand at haggling at least once, but, depending on the merchant, the product (sheep, for instance - see photo), the state of the economy or the persistence of the haggler, it may not have worked. Give it...
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Extreme Makeover: Home Theater Edition
SV Staff  |  Mar 24, 2008  | 
Some home theater fanatics can get pretty worked up about design. Typical brushed metal and black can look bland and "off the shelf." Recent additions from many electronics manufacturers of slick "piano black" and bamboo-encased...
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Satellite Radio Merger Sounds Likely
SV Staff  |  Mar 25, 2008  | 
While the Department of Justice has decided it doesn't think a Sirius/XM satellite radio merger makes the music market uncompetitive - the two companies don't try to woo each others' subscribers - we're wondering if an approved merger would make...
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