CES

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Couples Who Dock Together, Rock Together
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 9, 2008
If last year’s CES made the iPod slot the new must-have input on clock radios, this year it’s two slots.

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BD Live Goes Live
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 9, 2008
The specs for Blu-ray discs and players hold the promise of loads of cool features, including stuff like games, Web-based interactivity, and video picture-in-picture where you can see the director discussing the movie on an inset box onscreen while it plays in the background.

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Where's Brian?
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 8, 2008
I raced back from the Las Vegas Convention Center to fire up the computer I’d left in my hotel room to catch the East Coast feed of the Nightly News at 3:30 pm thinking that Brian Williams would be broadcasting live from the CES convention floor.

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DualView for Extreme Gaming
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 7, 2008
As an extension of the 3D capabilities Texas Instruments displayed at the 2007 CEDIA Expo, TI demonstrated an incredibly exciting new possibility, which might end up making DLP the hard-core gamer’s best technological friend.

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A Kinder, Gentler Sony
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 7, 2008
Back in the day, Sony had a reputation for being, um, independent minded.

The company was notorious for its stubborn nonpartisanship when it came to developing products. Its partnership with Philips famously succeeded with the invention of the CD. But Sony’s “our way, or the highway” attitude also brought forth the Betamax.

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A Sony Blu-ray With an ES Upgrade
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 7, 2008
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Sony Rollys Along
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 7, 2008
If you can, try to imagine a football having sexual relations with a hard-boiled egg. Their offspring might be a Rolly — making its Sony CES debut this year.

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Cell Service
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 7, 2008
Despite the air being sucked out of the room by the HD-DVD presentation that kicked-off today's Toshiba’s CES press conference (you’ll recall Warner just dumped Tosh’s HD DVD format for Blu-ray), there was one non-HD-DVD nugget of information that really caught my attention.

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Designing Women . . . Sort Of
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 7, 2008
“A TV designed by women, for women.”

While that isn’t exactly what Philips said at their CES press conference today, it might as well have been.

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One — Singular Sensation?
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 6, 2008
When you're Harmony, the world's leading manufacturer of universal remote controls, what do you do for an encore to replace your best selling model ever? You start by listening to what your legion of satisfied customers and loyal dealers have to say about making improvements, then you tweak everything to near perfection.

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The Unbearable Heaviness of Being HD DVD
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 6, 2008
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Pioneer Stays True to Its Name
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 6, 2008
What's this? Pioneer's Kuro line isn't the final word in the blackest TV blacks after all? Not according to Russ Johnston, the company's executive VP of marketing for Home Entertainment.

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