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Happy Birthday Television!
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 26, 2009
Not only is today the start of the year of the Ox - Happy New Year, China, but it's also the birthday of the television. Way, way back in 1926, John Baird demonstrated the device in London.

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Affordable Ultimate Ears
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 23, 2009
Ultimate Ears has been producing some wonderful earphones. You can read about our thoughts on one pair here. But, they're usually quite pricey, and folks might shy away from them, fearing losing or damaging a costly investment.

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Boxee Gets Lost
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 23, 2009
We just showed off the prototype boxee set-top box, and now, boxee is in the news again. If you missed the premiere of Lost this week (no you didn't!) fear not: boxee just added support for ABC.com streaming.

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Boxee In a Box
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 23, 2009
Boxee is the software program that streams Internet content from your computer to your TV set. Easy breezy. For some folks. If you don't have the right connections, cables, etc., it's not so simple.

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VUDU Releases iPhone and iPod Touch App
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 23, 2009
VUDU has just come out with a free app for the iPhone or iPod Touch, allowing users to search through their ever increasing library. Until now, this required a VUDU or a trip to VUDU.com. You can add to your queue, but you can't add to your wish list, and you can't rate titles. But, pick a title, and when you get home, your pick, in all its 1080p glory will be waiting.

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YouTube Allows Ads on Network Partners
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 22, 2009
In what could be viewed as a direct attack on Hulu, YouTube is going to allow advertisements on its major partners YouTube channels. It's already been doing this with some partners, such as CBS. If YouTube's copyright detection determines something is also a CBS or other partner's program, it will insert their ads there too. Quite fascinating.

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Shopping Alert: $6 HDMI Cables
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 22, 2009
Monster who? No, you don't need to spend more than the cost of a Blu-ray movie just for the cable to connect your Blu-ray player to the TV. Meritline.com is selling packages of two HDMI cables for a whopping $5.99.

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Sony's HDD DRV with DTV Tuner
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 22, 2009
Sony has just released the BRX-A320, a hard-disc drive DVR with an impressive 320 GB storage capacity. It comes integrated with a digital tuner to capture OTA digital broadcasts. With that much storage, the BRX-A320 can record up to 27 hours of HD TV, 55 hours of standard-def TV, or up to 249 in a long-playing standard-def, lower-quality mode.

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Flat Panels: Green is the New Thin
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 22, 2009
For years, it seemed like the only thing consumers cared about when buying a new TV was how thin it was. You could never be too thin. However, last year, 20% of the flat panel TVs sold has some kind of "green" feature.

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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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Pills Could Replace Earplugs
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 22, 2009
This is still strictly in the lab, but a pharmaceutical pill could possibly replace earplugs to prevent heading damage caused by noisy concerts, clubs, or just turning your iPods volume up too high. Not that you would ever do that.

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RIAA Fears File Manipulation
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 22, 2009
It seems that the RIAA isn't happy at all about the recent ruling allowing a webcast of their upcoming trial against an alleged file-sharer in a copyright infringement case. Their fear?

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