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Mistakes People Make Buying a TV For the Super Bowl
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 29, 2009
Not even a bread bowl full of onion dip can impress your Super Bowl guests like a snazzy new TV. But, as our moms taught us, pleasing your buddies is no reason to do anything, especially when it comes to buying pricey electronics. So, as people with home theater knowledge, it is our duty to help prevent our friends and families from making a big, flat mistake.

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HDTV Owners Not Watching HD
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 27, 2009
Want a staggering fact? There are 39 million households in the US, yet 17 million of them aren't watching HD programming. Isn't that kind of like buying a Ferrari and leaving it in the garage?

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Sony's Super Bowl Bundle
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 22, 2009
Come on - you know you want to watch the Super Bowl on a shiny new HDTV, right? Your friends want it too.

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CES 2009: News Flash - Economy is down!
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 8, 2009
Wonder what LG, Toshiba, Sharp, Panasonic, Samsung and Sony all had in common at their press events yesterday? Besides launching new TV, Blu-ray players and describing Green initiatives to help save the planet, they all acknowledged the tough economy.

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You Get What You Pay For
- By sandv blog
- Posted December 11, 2008
Who doesn't love a bargain? But, how can you really tell what you're getting? Remember when generic products were all the craze? You would buy a box of chocolate chip cookies, and the cookies would have like one scrawny "chocolate-flavored" chip in it. Not such a bargain, right? Gimme a real cookie, with real chocolate chips.

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150 Inches, Not the Sky, is the Limit
- By sandv blog
- Posted December 8, 2008
Well, I might as well cancel my tickets and hotel reservations now. Looks like no one is going to attempt to out-size the 150-inch TV display at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) this year. Why bother going if not to gawk at the latest prototype monstrosity being shown as the "World's Largest Display" at the show?

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Sony HDTVs Star in Survey
- By sandv blog
- Posted December 4, 2008
Most people compare things like contrast ratios and black levels. As I stare at my flickering TV screen, I'm glad that PC World has done a study on HDTV reliability.

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HDTV Study: Got HD?
- By sandv blog
- Posted November 25, 2008
A new study of HDTV owners reveals rather surprising results. Frank N. Magid Associates polled first-time HDTV set owners. Of the households who just purchased HDTVs, 41 percent don't have any way of viewing HD content from their cable or satellite provider. Compare that to the 80 percent of long-time HDTV owners who already have HD cable or satellite.

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Tough Times Everywhere: FED Factory Falls Through
- By sandv blog
- Posted November 13, 2008
If you thought you were the only one with financial woes these days, well . . . you're not alone. When Pioneer stopped doing their own manufacturing of their plasma panels, their factory was left empty, and their workers looking at the unemployment line. (Actually, not sure if they have unemployment lines in Japan?)

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Surprise, Surprise: Flat Panel TV Growth Slowing
- By sandv blog
- Posted November 11, 2008
This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who's taken a peak at the economy. While there's some growth, the flat panel TV markets are slowing, according to the latest report from DisplaySearch.

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Allio TV Does it All
- By sandv blog
- Posted November 10, 2008
You remember those awful TV's with built-in VCR's, right? The sets with the DVDs were a step up from that.

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I Want My HDTV
- By sandv blog
- Posted October 29, 2008
Times are tough. Sometimes a man will do anything to feed his family. Just ask Jan Valjean. And sometimes a man will do anything so his family can watch TV. Especially HDTV.

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