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Pioneer Kuro Goes Euro with 2008 Lineup
SV Staff  |  Apr 08, 2008
European fans of Pioneer's Kuro line of HDTVs will be eager to study the company's recently released breakdown of its upcoming line. With a full complement of LCDs, front projectors and familiar plasmas for the continent in 2008, Pioneer is doing a...
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Verizon's Digital Switch Jumps the Gun
SV Staff  |  Apr 08, 2008
Verizon calls its FiOS TV subscribers "ahead of the game" for buying into its advanced, all-digital service. That must be why the company feels no shame in snipping the wires on its customers' analog TV channels and taking them off the air...
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Fast Downloads and the Universe's Secrets
SV Staff  |  Apr 07, 2008
How convenient. Researchers at European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) needed a super-fast network to store data gathered from its universe probing experiments conducted with an enormous particle accelerator. In the process of creating this...
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Mitsubishi's Summer of Laser
SV Staff  |  Apr 07, 2008
Lasers make everything better. At least, that's what Mitsubishi hopes consumers will think when they see the company's new laser-powered HDTVs in stores this summer. The company announced Monday that its laser sets, now officially dubbed...
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Sony Plans to Pump Up Products with Blu-ray
SV Staff  |  Apr 07, 2008
Sony was one of the earliest backers of the Blu-ray format, but continues to promote the format mainly through one product: the PlayStation 3. Looks like the company is finally wising up, and searching for ways to put its Blu-ray eggs into more...
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Blu-ray. Have You Heard of It?
SV Staff  |  Apr 04, 2008
Sit down at a cafe in Paris and begin talking about your latest Blu-ray movie purchase, and odds are your French neighbors will have no idea what you're talking about. Try the same at a Manhattan bar and the barflies will likely get the gist. ...
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Stones. Scorsese. "Shine a Light." Smash!
SV Staff  |  Apr 04, 2008
Too old to rock & roll? Not the Rolling Stones, as they prove in Martin Scorsese's killer concert documentary Shine a Light, which opens today. The subject of age seems to be on most other critics' minds, but I honestly wasn't struck by the...
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Blame Canada's Carrier
SV Staff  |  Apr 04, 2008
Comcast isn't the only service provider trying to make room for more high definition channels by compressing other channels into a smaller bandwidth footprint. It looks like they all do it, to some degree, though some carriers are better at masking...
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Online TV-Watching Goes Mainstream
SV Staff  |  Apr 04, 2008
In 2008, 14% of all television-watching will happen online, according to a study from Convergence Consulting Group. It would be reassuring to also hear that approximately 14% of television-watching will take place outside of a home environment...
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iTunes: America's Favorite Music Store
SV Staff  |  Apr 04, 2008
In fewer than five short years, Apple has managed to whomp the entire music industry. The iTunes online store sold more music in January and February than any other U.S. retailer, including second-place finisher Wal-Mart, according to a report from...
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