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Ken C. Pohlmann

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    A Merger Made in Heaven

    It's official. You should receive your engraved invitation to the wedding (er, merger) any day now. On Friday, with a 3-2 vote, the FCC blessed the proposed merger of satellite radio companies Sirius and XM. This is the first marriage (er, merger) for each.

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    The Matrix Trilogy on Blu-ray

    Wake the kids. Call the neighbors. Mark your calender. October 14. The Ultimate Matrix Collection will be released on Blu-ray. Seven discs, $129.95, from Warner Home Video. This set has long been available on HD DVD, but that format is history. Now it's Blu-ray's turn. Warner straddled the HD/BD fence, but tended to release its big titles on HD.

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    Star Wars in 3D

    We told you that 3D movies were the next big thing. And you didn't believe us. Then, we told you again. And you still didn't believe us. Well, it's official now. 3D movies, for better or worse, are hurtling toward you (in 3D).

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    Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

    How many times has this happened to you? You're giving a big presentation to the boss, and the projector bulb burns out. The boss gets mad and fires you and you're poor and your wife leaves you and your kids hate you. Well, that's happened to me plenty of times. But no more.

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    Is There a Future in 3D?

    In our Top Five Tech Trends for 08, we picked 3D television as one the most exciting.

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    Got Fluorine?

    Recently, we reported on an environmentally unfriendly aspect of LCD screen manufacturing — the use of nitrogen trifluoride as a cleaning agent in the production process. (Some sites are incorrectly reporting that NF3 is contained in LCD TVs themselves; this is incorrect).

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    FiOS Invades Gotham

    Congratulations! It's a girl! It's a boy! Happy birthday! Bingo! You won the lottery! Happy New Year! Look — it's the Publisher's Clearing House van!

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    The Coming Telecom Competition

    The crystal-ball gazers over at SNL Kagan are predicting that the various new telecommunications building projects in the U.S. (and around the world) will lead to intense competition among programming providers.

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    Is Krell's Papa Dock Politically Incorrect?

    Krell is well known as a hardcore audiophile manufacturer. Their amplifiers in particular are the stuff of legend. With the introduction of the Papa Dock, they push the audiophile envelope, and possibly step over the line.

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    Audio Apocalypse

    Well, they did a survey, and it's official. The end of the world is near. Parks Associates surveyed 2,000 broadband households in the U.S. and Canada, and found that roughly two-thirds of them are regularly using PCs to play music at home, and one-third are listening to music through their televisions — a percentage equaled by MP3 players.

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    iPhone Phone Home

    Does it get any better?  The clever code jockeys at Millard Software have released a beta version of software that enables an iPhone or iPod Touch to receive XM Radio.

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    Pioneer's 16 'Blu-ray' Layers

    The Japanese Web site, AV Watch, is reporting that energetic Pioneer engineers have demonstrated an optical disc with 16 data layers, yielding a capacity of 400 GB.

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