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Microsoft Ponies Up for $10K Media Center Giveaway
SV Staff  |  Mar 24, 2008
Are your home videos trapped on your PC? Are your digital photos prisoner to My Pictures? Do you feel digitally disconnected? Then Microsoft wants you. The company is sponsoring a digital home makeover contest that will reward a digitally...
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The Perfect Video Phone? Your HDTV.
SV Staff  |  Mar 24, 2008
The video phone is another one of those permanently futuristic technologies that electronics companies never seem to get right for mainstream consumers. They've been trying for decades though, and the closest thing to a reliable video phone we've...
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Dish Wins Big in Spectrum Auction
SV Staff  |  Mar 21, 2008
When the Federal Communications Commission auctioned off about $19 billion worth of wireless spectrum last week, the most voracious bidders were wireless companies like Verizon and AT&T who plan to use the airwaves for expansions of phone and...
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DirecTV Restricts DVR Pay-per-View
SV Staff  |  Mar 21, 2008
DirecTV will flip a switch on April 15 that prevents pay-per-view movies downloaded to a DVR from being watched more than 24 hours after the purchase. How's that for great service? The company is blaming the sudden restriction on Hollywood,...
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Would You Leave Your HDTV for 3-D?
SV Staff  |  Mar 21, 2008
Mark Cuban loves HDTV, which is why he founded all-high-def network HDNet. But he also loves NBA basketball, which is why he owns the Dallas Mavericks. Why, then, is he pitting his two loves against each other by urging people in Dallas to leave...
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Future of HDTV Is Bright with LECs
SV Staff  |  Mar 20, 2008
Display technology researchers are on a roll. A professor at University of California Santa Barbara has discovered a way to combine lighting technologies to create an even brighter, more energy efficient, longer lasting back-light than LED by...
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Blu-ray's Invincible Copy Protection Breached
SV Staff  |  Mar 20, 2008
Industry analysts like to say that part of the reason Blu-ray won the high-def format war against HD DVD was because of Blu-ray promised Hollywood rock-solid copy protection against illegal pirating of movies. Well, that was short-lived. This week...
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Dish and DirecTV Snub Local HD
SV Staff  |  Mar 20, 2008
Some Dish Network and DirecTV high-def subscribers may not see local channels in HD until 2013 due to a ruling this week by the Federal Communications Commission. The satellite carriers insisted they didn't have the capacity to carry all the local...
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PS3's Blu-ray Player Upgrades with Downloads
SV Staff  |  Mar 20, 2008
If Sony's PlayStation 3 didn't already look like a great deal to people shopping for a Blu-ray player (it costs about $20 more than several other players but comes with an entire gaming system attached), its value proposition versus the competition...
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Got That Spreadsheet for Me?
SV Staff  |  Mar 20, 2008
Don't be surprised if it's not Excel your co-workers are watching on their PCs over the next few days. A survey conducted by the Consumer Electronics Association and the Sports Video Group shows that 38 percent of sports fans expect to download and...
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