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No Avatar 3D Blu-ray until 2011
SV Staff  |  Mar 17, 2010
Well, it begins. The massive success of Avatar has led to the inevitable incremental release of DVD and Blu-ray versions. The movie hits shelves on April 22, but... that's all that hits. The DVD and Blu-ray versions of Avatar that ship in April...
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Iggy wept (and SXSW crept up . . . )
SV Staff  |  Mar 17, 2010
Yes, Iggy wept. I mean no disrespect to the shortest sentence in the Bible, but seeing Iggy Pop choke up at Monday night's induction of the Stooges into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame was, if not Biblical, then at least Shakespearean....
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Anaglyph 3D coming to video games
SV Staff  |  Mar 16, 2010
3D HDTVs and active shutter glasses might be heading towards the market, but video games aren't waiting for the tech to get here and for users to upgrade. Anaglyph 3D, the old-fashioned red-and-blue style of 3D media, is being used in at least two...
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Record Revirginizer makes your vinyl new again
SV Staff  |  Mar 15, 2010
No matter how neurotic you are about storing and maintaining your records, they're going to collect dust, dirt, smoke and scads of over gross things that you could only hope to see with a fancy microscope. Obviously, all of that stuff is going...
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Netflix Streaming coming to Windows Phone 7
SV Staff  |  Mar 15, 2010
Netflix is on a mission to get their streaming service onto just about every device with a screen, but the cell phone market has been woefully neglected until now. Microsoft has been showing off how their new Windows Phone 7 platform plays nice...
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CrunchGear's $20 DIY projector mount
SV Staff  |  Mar 12, 2010
I can't attest to how sturdy it is, and I certainly would think very carefully before trusting $20 worth of hardware to support a $4,000 projector, but I still have to applaud CrunchGear's Matt Burns' ingenuity. He built his own ceiling mount for...
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NCAA Final Four hitting 100 theaters in 3D
SV Staff  |  Mar 11, 2010
March Madness has gotten a little bit more mad. CBS Sports is going to show the NCAA Final Four live in 100 movie theaters across the country. Oh, and it'll be in 3D. Locations haven't been nailed down yet, but details should be finalized before...
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"The National Parks": Lighthouses of the Holy
SV Staff  |  Mar 10, 2010
Actually, I'm talking about one lighthouse here, but in two images. First up, courtesy of the National Park Foundation: Readers of our print magazine will recognize that as the photo accompanying our December 2009 review of The National Parks...
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3D Glasses maker Vuzix now selling 3D DVDs
SV Staff  |  Mar 10, 2010
3D content is steadily marching onward, but there still aren't too many choices out there. There are several animated movies from the last few years and Avatar will be hitting DVD and Blu-ray soon enough, but that's not a whole lot of 3D....
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An HDTV with a chrome bezel; spinners extra
SV Staff  |  Mar 09, 2010
Spectre's new Chrome HDTVs are shiny. That's the biggest thing that can be said about them. Shiny. Chrome. Blinged out. Reflective. Besides their shininess, the Chrome screens are basically just relatively small HDTVs (or relatively large...
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