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'The Office' S6 Blu-ray will stream S7 episodes
SV Staff  |  Aug 20, 2010
This is a very interesting use of BD-Live. Universal Studios Home Entertainment has announced that users of The Office Season 6 Blu-ray Disc will be able to stream the 5 most recent episodes of season 7 whenever they want. The episodes will be...
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NFL on FOX now showing in 16:9
SV Staff  |  Aug 19, 2010
For years, FOX has shown NFL games in 4:3, even when in high-def. This was fine for SD TV users with old-fashioned 4:3 screens, but for widescreen HDTV users this meant two huge bars on either side of the screen, wasting space that could better be...
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Amex Digital claims "world's smallest" 1080p player
SV Staff  |  Aug 18, 2010
At just a little smaller than 7" by 5", the Amex Digital MP-501 is the world's smallest 1080p media player. At least, that's what the company claims. The little device can play MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, and even Windows Media 9 files at 1080p...
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Panasonic puts Twitter on its HDTVs
SV Staff  |  Aug 17, 2010
Twitter, it seems, is inescapable. It's on computers, cell phones, iPads/Phones/Pods, and now it's coming to Panasonic VieraCast HDTVs. The company just announced that several of its VieraCast plasma HDTVs will be getting Twitter Internet apps,...
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'Star Wars' trilogy finally coming to Blu-ray
SV Staff  |  Aug 16, 2010
It's been a long time coming, but the Star Wars trilogy is finally coming to Blu-ray Disc. That's the good news. The bad news, at least for some, is that it will be the Special Editions of the films and not the original cuts. The "meh" news is...
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Polk’s new LSi M, Blackstone, and Vanishing Series speakers
SV Staff  |  Aug 16, 2010
As I perused the latest Polk speakers at the company’s Baltimore HQ last week, I felt I’d been transported to a more civilized age—to an era before the low end of the speaker market was taken over by HTiBs and soundbars, before the middle of the...
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Time Warner Cable working on its own iOS app
SV Staff  |  Aug 13, 2010
Time Warner Cable is playing catch-up with Comcast. Three months ago, Comcast announced an iPad app that would let customers schedule their DVR and browse channel listings directly from their Apple device. Now, Time Warner Cable is announcing its...
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Sony's 1973 ad is really, really funny in hindsight
SV Staff  |  Aug 12, 2010
CDs are arguably on the way out. Cassette tapes are extinct. Vinyl albums are generally used only by audiophiles and other extreme music enthusiasts. Over the last decade, we've seen digital distribution become one of the most popular ways to...
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Engadget: AppleTV to become iTV
SV Staff  |  Aug 11, 2010
While it's still not official, Engadget is reporting some big news about Apple's much-anticipated update to the AppleTV. According to the site, the new A4-powered (the same processor found in the iPhone 4) device will be renamed the iTV. What's...
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Elite Home Theater Seating Unveils the iPad Chair
SV Staff  |  Aug 11, 2010
It has been obvious from the start that Apple's iPad has all kinds of potential uses in a home theater scenario (for proof, see our September issue), but Elite Home Theater seating has taken iPad integration to another level by actually...
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