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SV Staff  |  Aug 09, 2010
Once again it's time to look at a clever, elegant DIY home entertainment project. Charles "The B-Roll" Visnic has put together a guide to making your own attractive, wireless outdoor speakers. All you need is a pair of $99 Rocketfish wireless...
SV Staff  |  Aug 06, 2010
Enterprising home theater buffs sometimes come up with clever ways to conceal their equipment. Apartment Therapy recently showed off this creative A/V cabinet, built behind a hidden wall panel upon which an HDTV is mounted. The panel is mounted...
SV Staff  |  Aug 05, 2010
Active-shutter 3D glasses generally use infrared signals to sync the shutters with the images on the screen. An emitter placed near the screen beams invisible light that the glasses pick up and translate into timing information. They're...
SV Staff  |  Aug 05, 2010
High-end audio company Meridian Audio has announced a new one-piece, bookshelf sound system with impressive stats and an even more impressive price tag. The M80 is a 2.1-channel, 80-watt sound system that can play audio from CDs, DVDs, AM/FM...
SV Staff  |  Aug 03, 2010
3D movies have simultaneously reached their apex and nadir. Canadian teen pop sensation Justin Bieber is getting his own feature-length, widespread-release documentary film, and it's going to be in 3D. It gets weirder, too. Paramount is in talks...
SV Staff  |  Aug 03, 2010
Maybe you saw Inception. Maybe you loved those three-dimensional-looking images. Maybe you realized — and appreciated — that those images weren't actually in 3D.Director Christopher Nolan (at right in photo, with Leonardo DiCaprio) digs good...
SV Staff  |  Aug 03, 2010
"He started a business selling FM radios in the 1950s" . . . and now he's running Newsweek magazine! Yes, Sidney Harman, whose 92nd birthday is tomorrow, has bought the ailing publication because, as he quipped to The New York Times,...
SV Staff  |  Aug 02, 2010
One of the greatest fears of any home theater buff is that their awesome HDTV will be tapped, knocked, or flung-Wiimoted, shattering the screen into many sharp, pointy, useless pieces. The large glass panes in HDTVs are fairly fragile, and like...
SV Staff  |  Jul 30, 2010
25 years ago, The Goonies came out in theaters and became an American classic. Now, Warner Home Video is releasing a huge and rather strange Blu-ray Disc version of the movie. The release not only includes the film in funky new packaging, but...

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