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Imax Goes Futuristic with Digital Projection Chip
SV Staff  |  Mar 12, 2008
When most people think of Imax, they think of swooping, grandiose shots and dramatic camera angles capturing natural splendor. They remember those huge wall-to-wall screens and imagine the expensive equipment, cameras and film required to produce...
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Get Your House Party In Sync with Audioengine's AW1
SV Staff  |  Mar 12, 2008
Every audiophile music geek dreams of taking a giant hard drive full of high bit-rate music and streaming it to every room in the house. But making it a reality is expensive and complicated. Short of shelling out $1,000 or more for systems like...
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SXSW: The Night Before
SV Staff  |  Mar 12, 2008
We said our hellos (on the night before): That would be writer Billy Altman, photographer Ebet Roberts, and I (your humble Entertainment Editor, Ken Richardson) saying our annual hellos on Tuesday night - the night before the South by Southwest...
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You Tube, TiVo?
SV Staff  |  Mar 12, 2008
In the ongoing battle to lure consumers away from their PCs, TiVo has become the latest consumer electronics company to announce plans to bring Internet-based video content into the living room. TiVo will join Apple TV as the other hardware box...
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GE Promises Cheap, Versatile OLEDS
SV Staff  |  Mar 12, 2008
For some, OLED displays seem like just another future-tech promise that, like jet packs, flying cars, and domestic robots, has never been fulfilled. Sure, Sony put out one OLED TV this year - the $2,500 11-inch XEL-1 - but who can afford it? Now...
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Olympics Broadcast the Size of an Olympic Pool
SV Staff  |  Mar 12, 2008
Those lucky Brits. During the 2012 London Olympics, they'll receive BBC broadcasts in "Super Hi-Vision," on big screens across the country. Japan's public broadcaster NHK and Britain's BBC are collaborating on Super Hi-Vision, a format...
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Too Many HD Channels, or Not Enough?
SV Staff  |  Mar 11, 2008
Is there an HDTV owner in America who thinks there's a glut of HD channels and content to watch? Probably not. Well, maybe one. His name is Michael Angelakis, and he's the chief financial officer of Comcast. At a conference Monday, he told the...
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Painful DVD to Blu-ray Transition Can't Top Game Biz Cycles
SV Staff  |  Mar 11, 2008
Format transitions are tough. That's a concept with which video gamers are intimately familiar, so when gamers and game executives hear news about the movie business that suggests even though sales of Blu-ray discs will triple in 2008, DVD sales...
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Panasonic Puts Rear-Projection Sets in Rearview Mirror
SV Staff  |  Mar 11, 2008
In a press briefing touting the virtues of its expanded line of Viera plasma and LCD televisions, Panasonic indicated that it's quietly exiting the rear-projection television business. "We're out of that market," Panasonic spokesman Jeff...
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We Can't See Microsoft and Logitech in Harmony
SV Staff  |  Mar 11, 2008
Good thing this rumor doesn't have legs. If it did, we'd have to break them. Since early January, reports have surfaced that Microsoft is interested in acquiring peripheral-maker Logitech for close to $10 billion. Finally, Logitech chairman...
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