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Win $100 in Music from HDtracks

Tell us about your high-rez listening habits and plans and pick up a C-Note's worth of better-than-CD-quality music
- By Michael Berk
- Posted October 28, 2011
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Changing directions a bit from last week's Peel remote giveaway, we turn again to music — high-resolution music, in particular, and we're giving away $100 worth of downloads courtesy of HDtracks, the Web's leading purveyor of lossless, uncompressed, and better-than-CD

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Digital Media Receiver Roundup

Four inexpensive boxes vie for your streaming dollar
- By Geoffrey Morrison
- Posted May 9, 2011
DEFINING A NEW PRODUCT CATEGORY
I'm struggling with this: What do you call these things? Digital Media Streamers? Digital Media Receivers? How about media extenders, media streamers, or digital media adapters? Maybe Internet Streaming Devices? If you abbreviate that last one, it sounds a bit sinister. "Dude, I got an ISD." Annnnnnnd, you're on a list somewhere.

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The Royal Wedding: the digital album

Loved that little ceremony? Loved the music even more? It's online right now.
- By Ken Richardson
- Posted April 29, 2011
Loved that little ceremony? Loved the music even more?
It's online right now.
According to a press release, The Royal Wedding: The Official Album is ready for purchase from "the world's foremost download and streaming platforms."

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Anywhere, anytime, anyhow

New Neilsen study suggests streaming video is the primary music experience of our day; TV On The Radio are already on the case.
- By Michael Berk
- Posted April 13, 2011
An interesting argument about the future of the music market is brewing over a newly released Nielsen study of online music li

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Are 24-Bit Downloads Good for Digital Music?

Will the rumored shift to high-resolution 24-bit downloads make for a difference you can hear?
- By Brent Butterworth
- Posted February 24, 2011
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The Internet has come alive with cheers of audiophiles and jeers of audiophobes since CNN.com reported unconfirmed rumors that download services such as iTunes and Amazon MP3 would soon begin offering music files with 24-bit resolution.

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Coldplay's live album to be free May 15

Fans of Chris Martin and co. will be glad to know that they can download the band's nine-track live record, Left Right Left Right Left, for free starting on May 15.
- By sandv blog
- Posted May 1, 2009
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Blu-ray & Downloads: Can't We All Just Get Along?
- By sandv blog
- Posted September 17, 2008
Must we make a choice? While DVD is still king, Blu-ray and digital downloads seem to be battling for second place attention. Why?

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Survey Says Digital Downloads Gaining Popularity
- By sandv blog
- Posted July 24, 2008
I took a statistics class in college, but maybe things have changed. I was taught that to have statistical significance, a survey had to pull from a broad spectrum of the population. Would you poll on the popularity of smoking in the smoking lounge at the airport? Poll on vegetarian vs. steak at a steakhouse? Pop vs. classical at the Met?

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Little Boxes
- By sandv blog
- Posted June 13, 2008
Lots of little boxes, all lined up on your television set. All the little boxes you need to download movies from the Internet, satellites and cable systems, and none of them talk to each other. What is it going to take to get one source and one format for all the movies you want to watch?

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How to get free music, legally . . . from the government!
- By sandv blog
- Posted April 20, 2008
Ahh, who doesn’t remember the Golden Age of Napster? When music was “free” and just a click away. Then those pesky record labels had to come along and ruin everything. And whether it is fear of Big Music showing up on your doorstep with a subpoena for your hard drive or just displaying solidarity for musicians, many people have wisely chosen to stop illegally downloading music.

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