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Internet Radio Granted Slight Reprieve: Is It Enough?
SV Staff  |  Nov 07, 2008  | 
Pandora, take a breath. Slacker, slack off. True, a deal has not yet been struck between the Digital Media Association, which represents web-based radio, and SoundExchange, the agency in charge of royalties for the RIAA. Still, the heavy lifting...
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Blu-ray's BD-Live Copy Hack
SV Staff  |  Nov 07, 2008  | 
Nothing's safe anymore, is it? The folks over at the Doom9 forum just posted an update to their Blu-ray disc copying software. What's included now?The software is one of the first, as far as we know, to copy the BD-Live extension. Blu-ray...
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Blu-ray Bargains: How Low Will They Go?
SV Staff  |  Nov 07, 2008  | 
Feeling lucky? How lucky? Do you wait until Black Friday to pick up a Blu-ray player for a great price, or trust that the price at the floundering Circuit City will be your best bet? For a limited time (guessing at that — they're listed in...
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Blockbuster's Set-Top Box: Home for the Holidays
SV Staff  |  Nov 10, 2008  | 
Is this yet another case of "too little, too late?" Blockbuster CEO/Chairman Jim Keyes made an interesting announcement during an investor call last week. Perhaps after seeing the reception that the Xbox 360 and Playstation made with...
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Naming Names: MGM Heading to YouTube
SV Staff  |  Nov 10, 2008  | 
Just a few days ago, we reported that YouTube's big daddy, Google, was in negotiations with a variety of entertainment companies, but no names were mentioned. Well, the negotiations must have gone well, because MGM has just announced a...
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Who Needs YouTube, Hulu, Netflix or TiVo?
SV Staff  |  Nov 10, 2008  | 
Sure, we can talk all we want about high-end video. We can compare formats. We can talk until we're Blu about pixels.Who cares, though? Not when we have PUPPYCAM!!!! No wonder Circuit City is failing. All you need is a computer and a...
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Allio TV Does it All
SV Staff  |  Nov 10, 2008  | 
You remember those awful TV's with built-in VCR's, right? The sets with the DVDs were a step up from that. Now, Silicon Mountain (clever - their based in Silicon Valley and Boulder, CO) has produced a line of HDTVs with everything: a...
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TiVo, With Pepperoni and Anchovies
SV Staff  |  Nov 10, 2008  | 
We think we have it pretty good here in the good old U.S. of A. We have Hannah Montana, a new puppy for the White House, and we've had TiVo for years.  Years and years. Folks in Australia might not seem so lucky. They just got TiVo,...
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Circuit City Files Chapter 11: Women and Children First
SV Staff  |  Nov 10, 2008  | 
Just days after announcing that they're shutting down 155 stores and laying off thousands of employees, Circuit City just took another step towards the deep end of the pool. Today, Circuit City filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy. Chapter 11...
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Happy Birthday Big Bird, and Welcome to the 'Net!
SV Staff  |  Nov 11, 2008  | 
Sesame Street just turned 39!  Happy Birthday! To celebrate, Sesame Street is hitting the Internet, in a big way. They're heading to iTunes, YouTube, and Hulu. Talk about covering all your bases. It makes sense - their target audience...
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Surprise, Surprise: Flat Panel TV Growth Slowing
SV Staff  |  Nov 11, 2008  | 
This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who's taken a peak at the economy. While there's some growth, the flat panel TV markets are slowing, according to the latest report from DisplaySearch. Even though the economy tanked in the...
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Is this Some Kind of Record?!?
SV Staff  |  Nov 11, 2008  | 
The next time your spouse starts needling you to toss out the vinyl records taking up valuable real estate in the living-room bookcase, score some points by explaining that your stockpile pales in comparison to the one now up for sale by Neiman...
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Circuit City Receives a Lifeline
SV Staff  |  Nov 11, 2008  | 
Circuit City is not going down without a fight. Just a day after filing chapter 11 bankruptcy, Bank of America comes to the rescue. To the tune of $1.1 billion. Yowza.Not sure if that's even going to be enough - the company is $2.3 billion in...
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Circuit City Receives a Lifeline
SV Staff  |  Nov 11, 2008  | 
Circuit City is not going down without a fight. Just a day after filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Bank of America comes to the rescue. To the tune of $1.1 billion. Yowza.Not sure if that's even going to be enough — the company is $2.3 billion in...
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Sirius XM Radio's New Channel Lineup for XM
SV Staff  |  Nov 11, 2008  | 
It's the end of the world as we know it. Okay, maybe not. It's the end of the world as I know it. I've been a fan of XM Radio literally from day one, and I'm not taking too kindly to the merger. I'll get over it. What I will...
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