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Face Lift for Katie Couric's CBS Set
- By sandv blog
- Posted July 15, 2008
As the country gets ready to pull the analog plug, CBS is finally putting the finishing touches on its new HD sets and control room. The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric will debut in HD later this month, and just in time, the 1080i control room is ready for the launch.

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Only HDTV For Me
- By sandv blog
- Posted July 9, 2008
Nielsen Media Research — you know, the company that's tracked viewing habits for years — has come out with a fascinating new survey report. In a study for the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing, twenty percent of owners of high-definition television sets will only watch programs that are broadcast in HD. 20 percent! They won't watch any standard def programming.

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Your eyes suck. Step up to HD Glasses!
- By sandv blog
- Posted July 8, 2008
All these years you've been wandering around like a schmuck looking at the world with plain old "regular" vision. Live in shame no more! The time has come to step up to . . . HD VISION!

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HD: An Opera in Three Acts
- By sandv blog
- Posted June 11, 2008
Not too long ago, the only way to experience opera, if there was even an opera company in your area, was to pay up to hundreds of dollars to sit in a lousy seat next to a guy with a persistent cold trying to open the world's largest cough drop.

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Brits Get Live Formula 1 at Odeon
- By sandv blog
- Posted June 9, 2008
If your Lear Jet is grounded and you missed the Grand Prix at Monte Carlo, fear not. If you're living in the UK, you'll be able to watch Lewis Hamilton try to make up for his disappointing crash at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. How?

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Court TV? Voom Sues EchoStar/DISH
- By sandv blog
- Posted June 4, 2008
Voom HD has a bone to pick with EchoStar, now a division of DISH Network. A $1 billion bone. Mighty big bone.

Back in May, DISH dropped Voom HD, a collection of 15 HD channels, all commercial-free. Apparently, they forgot that they had a 15-year contract with Voom. Oops.

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Has The Whole Grain Trend Gone Too Far?
- By sandv blog
- Posted May 22, 2008
The very thing that people love about Blu-ray could very well be the thing that people are going to hate. For the first time, home theaters are able to display every single, subtle detail of your favorite old films, as they've only been visible before in theaters. Part of that detail is film grain. And people are not happy.

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TiVo HD gets Unbox'ed with Amazon
- By sandv blog
- Posted May 12, 2008
While it's not big news that Amazon's Unbox has partnered with TiVo, it is news that HD content will also be available. Unbox is the service that lets you buy and download movies and TV shows directly from Amazon to your PC or broadband-connected TiVo DVR.

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Dishing on DISH Network
- By sandv blog
- Posted May 5, 2008
Competition is a good thing, right? Competition fueled the growth of cable and satellite services as each one tries to outdo the other. Unfortunately, at least one lucrative market is a virtual monopoly, and one competitor has been sitting back, getting fat, rich, and lazy.

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HD Radio - The Other White Meat
- By sandv blog
- Posted April 30, 2008
First, let's get the uncomfortably "truthy" stuff out of the way. HD Radio doesn't have anything to do with HDTV, and it doesn't really have anything to do with "High Definition" in general.

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Questioning the History of HDTV
- By sandv blog
- Posted April 23, 2008
Enthusiast site Cdfreaks.com published a hit-or-miss list of ten things so-called high definition fans might not know about their favorite form of entertainment.

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HD Viewers to Double between 2007 and 2008
- By sandv blog
- Posted April 14, 2008
The whole world is slowly upgrading to high-def. While many countries can't compete with the U.S. in terms of adoption speeds, they're still latching on at their own pace.

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