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Fast Flicks and Fat Pipes from Comcast
SV Staff  |  Apr 03, 2008
Many consumers are justifying purchases of expensive high-definition Blu-ray players and movie discs by lamenting that a better alternative - such as streaming downloads of high-def movies to a hard drive attached to the TV -is too many years away....
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Tiny HD: World's Smallest TV Camera
SV Staff  |  Apr 03, 2008
Excuses, excuses. Television executives like to say that upgrading certain shows to high-def not only costs mountains of cash, but would be inconvenient for certain types of programming. Such as shows, where, you know, a behemoth high-def camera...
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Tiny HD: World's Smallest Camcorder
SV Staff  |  Apr 03, 2008
True high-def camcorders tend to be on the bulky side compared to their standard-def brethren. Sony is touting its new HDR-TG1 camcorder as the world's smallest full-HD version, so there's no real excuse to leave the camcorder at home while you...
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TiVo Shaves Down Lag Time
SV Staff  |  Apr 03, 2008
Those spoiled TiVo-owners always seem to get what they want. Unlike the poor slobs who get by with poorly-designed and slow-as-molasses DVRs from the cable company, TiVo customers will soon get an upgrade that improves response times and processing...
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Dolby's LCD Lights Up with LEDs
SV Staff  |  Apr 03, 2008
Contrast ratio junkies have long dismissed LCD televisions, repeating the idea that LCDs don't get black or bright enough compared with plasmas. A new technology from Dolby Laboratories and SIM2 Multimedia might just change their minds. A...
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Canada's Audio and Video Show Starts Tomorrow
SV Staff  |  Apr 02, 2008
Hey Canadians, its time for the annual Festival Son et Image, your local high-end audio and video trade show. Now in its twenty-first year, the show takes place from April 3-6 at the Montreal Sheraton Centre, though the first day is limited to...
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DirecTV Inching Toward 100 HD Channels
SV Staff  |  Apr 02, 2008
High-definition carriers make a lot of promises. Some they keep, some they don't. Last year, DirecTV promised 100 HD channels to its subscribers by the end of 2007. They didn't quite make it, even though the satellite broadcaster still had more HD...
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Cubans Save for Home Theater Equipment
SV Staff  |  Apr 02, 2008
One of Raul Castro's first orders of business since taking over control of the Cuban government from his brother Fidel Castro: Opening up the electronics stores. Cuban citizens don't have much cash, but at least they have a few more choices about...
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The Fiber Optic Frontier Gets HD On Demand
SV Staff  |  Apr 02, 2008
Many early subscribers to Verizon's FiOS TV service consider themselves pioneers paving the way for competition among Internet and TV service providers and forcing cable and satellite companies to stay on their toes. As with all pioneers, the...
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Make Your Thin TV a Wall-Hugger
SV Staff  |  Apr 01, 2008
HDTV sets keep getting thinner. Hitachi's UltraThin line is only 1.5-inches thick. If you're the type that must have the world's thinnest TV, you probably want to show off its slim profile with a wall-mount. However, there aren't many (as far as we...
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