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Serving up Blu-ray
- By sandv blog
- Posted August 27, 2008
With complex processing, Tera-sized storage and slick user interfaces to pull all your movies and music together, movie servers are among the rarest and coolest breed of A/V gear.

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Finally! Something Worth Talking About
- By sandv blog
- Posted August 21, 2008
Sure, iPods, Kaleidescapes and other media servers are great if you’ve got lots of extra energy for all that button pushing. But if your fingers are busy doing other important things or you just really want to veg out and lie around doing nothing more strenuous then breathing, control systems have left you pretty much out in the cold.

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No NuVo Wires
- By sandv blog
- Posted August 19, 2008
With a name that sounds more akin to a nighttime wrinkle cream solution than a breakthrough multi-room audio distribution system, NuVo Technologies Renovia is designed to make adding music to existing home a far simpler proposition. With new construction starts down across the country, a “no new wires” solution will allow installers to tap into the potentially huge retrofit market.

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Burn this flag!
- By sandv blog
- Posted August 18, 2008
Several months ago, I lamented about how my Scientific Atlanta cable box repeatedly refused direct orders to record Survivor. Week after week I would say, “Record all showings,” and week after week I looked in vain through my recorded list.

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Sharp: Thin, Wireless and X-rated!
- By sandv blog
- Posted April 30, 2008
Think you can’t have a flat-panel TV because you can’t get the wiring from your components to your TV? Is lack of running an HDMI cable keeping your Blu-ray player blue? Today, Sharp announced, “Yes!” or probably more accurately, “Hai!” to wireless HD video transmission.

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No more sick touchpanels!
- By sandv blog
- Posted April 30, 2008
Don’t you hate it when people come over to your house and they get their grubby hands all over your perfectly clean touchscreens? Or if they grab your brand new iTouch and start. . . touching!!! I mean, you don’t know where their hands have been!

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Velcro. . .secret to world's thinnest TV mount!
- By sandv blog
- Posted April 29, 2008
I’m not gonna lie; it’s nice to be proven right. For the “CES 2008 in Perspective” article, I wrote, “Note to flat-panel wall-mount manufacturers: 2-inch-thick mounts aren't going to cut it anymore. Start working on new designs now!”

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Old-School MP3 Player
- By sandv blog
- Posted April 25, 2008
Have you been looking for a way to recapture the glory days of your youth that doesn’t involve Botox or having someone cut and paste your face back together?

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Kaleidescape price drop! Cash in your stocks!
- By sandv blog
- Posted April 25, 2008
Few products invoke the raw, carnal “I must have you!” lust like Kaleidescape. They invented the concept of the DVD movie server and then wrapped it in an interface that would get Steve Jobs hot and bothered. Let’s face it; their system is awesome.

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