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Video: Loewe Sound Commercial Better Than any Super Bowl Ad
SV Staff  |  Feb 25, 2009
I know, it's a little TBS Superstation of me to post one of "the world's funniest commercials!" But, as an A/V nerd, this one got me. While itd doesn't quite have the wow-factor of Sony's ultra-elaborate Bravia ads, it's wroth a chuckle. I won't...
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VUDU to start offering HD movies to buy, not just rent
SV Staff  |  Feb 24, 2009

Vudu has been streaming for over a year now, and it's a pretty nice service (just ask our own Gadget Gary Del'Abate). Get the Vudu box (now available in rack-mountable flavors for home theater buffs with a big gear closet), hook it up, and watch your favorite movies for a price.

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Liquidation madness: Did Circuit City sell off its ability to use math?
SV Staff  |  Feb 23, 2009
It's now been over a month since Circuit City began its liquidation. We've covered the liquidation to death; you probably won't get any real deal at these stores unless you're both canny and lucky. They jack up prices to MSRP, then start shaving...
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Some movie tie-in games might actually be pretty good this year
SV Staff  |  Feb 23, 2009
Thanks to the twin nerd-industry wonders of New York Comic-Con and Toy Fair, I managed to get an eyeful of several upcoming movie-branded games. Usually, branded video games are at best mediocre, and at worst horrible. They all too often reek of...
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A Look at Last Night's Technical Oscar Winners
SV Staff  |  Feb 23, 2009
A few weeks ago we took a look at what we consider to be the most underrated categories at The Academy Awards. Now, the trophies have all been handed out, and it's our duty to look back at the Academy's decision and second guess them...
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DTV Transition Leads to Stand-Off Between Police and drunken 70 Year-Old
SV Staff  |  Feb 20, 2009
Plenty of jokes have been made about what old people were going to do once the DTV transition messed with their normal TV-watching, but things got serious on Wednesday when a 70 year-old Missouri man shot up his own TV and got into a small...
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DTV Transition is well . . Transitioning
SV Staff  |  Feb 19, 2009
February 17th has come and gone. Some stations switched, and guess what? People have survived just fine. The FCC set up call centers ( 1-888-CALL-FCC) that were equipped to handle 100,000 calls per day to help people with the switch to digital...
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U2's Latest Album Leaked
SV Staff  |  Feb 19, 2009
The music industry has always had a hard time controlling illegal downloads. Even when they desperately try to keep files under wraps, things happen.U2 went to extraordinary lengths to keep their latest album, "No Line on the Horizon",...
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Panasonic Plasma - 103-inch Air Hockey Table?
SV Staff  |  Feb 19, 2009
If you can afford a 103-inch plasma display, I guess you can afford to turn it into a gaming table. Using an overlay designed by U-Touch, the display has multi-touch capability, so you can make it a virtual hockey table.What other applications...
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Hulu Dumped from Boxee and TV.com
SV Staff  |  Feb 19, 2009
 Just as viewing opportunities come, they go just a quickly. Hulu, with content from NBC and Fox, has pulled all of its streaming goodness from Boxee and TV.com. From the Hulu blog: "Our mission to make media dramatically easier and...
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