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Soul Full of Heart
SV Staff  |  Nov 02, 2007
Where does the time go? It has already been 3 years since Heart's last studio album, the fine Jupiters Darling. Fans waiting for the next one can tide themselves over with several projects, both band and solo. First, there's the just-released...
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The Reprise of PIP
SV Staff  |  Oct 30, 2007
I hate to admit this, but despite the appeal and all the hard work that go into the extras supplied with DVD movies, I rarely have taken the trouble to access that content. Part of it is that I don't like to be interrupted when I'm engrossed in a...
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Music for Rent
SV Staff  |  Oct 24, 2007
I held a garage sale recently and had hundreds of CDs on display. One of the shoppers asked me why I was dumping all my CDs. I wasn't getting rid of all my discs. I was just filtering out those that I bought for maybe a song or two (Journey's...
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Surround & Visionaries
SV Staff  |  Oct 18, 2007
Porcupine Tree mastermind Steven Wilson (holding down the middle position and leaning on the center channel in the accompanying photo) dropped by the S&V offices yesterday for a 2-hour surround-sound listening session with yours truly (at right)...
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Sharp Expands South of the Border
SV Staff  |  Oct 17, 2007
It was a lesson in perspective this week in Baja California, Mexico, where Sharp Electronics officially cut the ribbon on a $300 million LCD manufacturing plant in Rosarito. While American journalists were busy scribbling notes about screen sizes...
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What's in a Name?
SV Staff  |  Oct 17, 2007
A lot of profit, if you're talking about trusted names in consumer electronics. But some of those reassuring brands we grew up with - RCA, AT&T, Westinghouse, and Polaroid - bear no relation to the American companies we associate them with....
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Four Words: Led Zep Goes Digital
SV Staff  |  Oct 15, 2007
Just got the press release 10 minutes ago. Reprinted in full below. -Ken Richardson LED ZEPPELIN TO RELEASE DIGITAL CATALOG The Legendary Band's Original Albums Available for the First Time at All Online Music Retailers November 13 LOS ANGELES -...
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TiVo, Rhapsody Hook Up
SV Staff  |  Oct 09, 2007
It's all about the relationship. That was the message at the official rollout of TiVo and Real Networks' new partnership at  the Arena club in Manhattan this week. Emcee Chris Harrison, host of The Bachelor, opened the festivities, leaving...
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DLP: Tales from the Dark Side
SV Staff  |  Oct 04, 2007
At the CEDIA Expo, Texas Instruments announced the latest generation of its Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) technology, dubbed DarkChip 4. The company claims even better reproduction of black and dark grays than achieved by its current DarkChip 3...
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Read This
SV Staff  |  Oct 02, 2007
There's something about the electronic book that holds a lot of appeal. When Sony launched its first-edition Reader at the Consumer Electronics Show a few years ago, reporters flocked around the device - to the surprise of the Sony PR team, who...
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