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Polishing Apple TV
- By sandv blog
- Posted February 13, 2008
It was a blow to Apple TV owners when they realized their beloved extenders couldn't tap into the hot new rental service from iTunes that was announced at Macworld Expo last month.

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Now Playing: Pepsi and Bud Light
- By sandv blog
- Posted February 1, 2008
All the concern advertisers have expressed about reduced views due to time-shifted DVR recording may be overblown. No question that's true when it comes to the Super Bowl, where a good portion of viewers are as psyched to see the high-profile commercials as they are to watch the game.

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Panasonic Cameras Go High-Def
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 31, 2008
Panasonic has made it easier to leave the camcorder at home with two of its newest Lumix cameras announced this week before the Photo Marketing Association show in Las Vegas.

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TiVo and Comcast Hitch Up
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 27, 2008
It's the one-two punch TiVo customers have been waiting for but for now it's only available through Comcast in the Boston area.

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Glassy Loudspeakers
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 15, 2008
While everyone seems to be trying to minimize the look of the loudspeaker, a few companies including KEF, Martin Logan and Sonance are hoping to turn a few heads with theirs.

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THX to Bridge Content-Hardware Divide
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 9, 2008
THX wants to take the headaches and confusion out of the audio/video/gaming experience for consumers. The company is meeting with journalists and companies at CES to promote its fledgling Media Director program that's designed to take the digital information available on movies and games and make that decipherable to consumer electronics devices.

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The New Net TV
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 8, 2008
The days of waiting for information to come to you on TV are over. Samsung, Sharp and Sony announced at the Consumer Electronics Show TV services that enable you to instantly pull in data from the Internet for information such as news, stock quotes and weather.

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Wireless Goes Whoopsie
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 7, 2008
One of the buzzwords coming into the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show was the intriguing wireless TV. The idea is that you can shoot video or pictures from a digital video source to a TV without so much as an HDMI cable in between. But wireless TV may still be a work in progress as evidenced by demos on press conference day at CES.

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Gift Card, Sure, but for Whom?
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 2, 2008
Got a gift card for the holidays?

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Have a Merry Glitch-mas?
- By sandv blog
- Posted January 2, 2008
According to a Dec. 31 article in The New York Times, most buyers are still on the fence when it comes to the high-def disc battle, with neither camp reporting impressive numbers.

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Guitar Hero a Wii Bit Off
- By sandv blog
- Posted December 10, 2007
Wii users, stop banging on your speakers. It's not your system or your ears. Your Pearl Jam solo is suffering from a glitch in the Wii version of Guitar Hero 3 that's putting out mono sound rather than a multi-channel version advertised as Dolby Pro Logic II on the package.

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First Look: Amazon Kindle
- By sandv blog
- Posted November 25, 2007
I've always been intrigued by the electronic book, but none of the models that has hit the market to date--from Sony, RCA and others--has jazzed me enough to want to invest in the medium. After all, I like books. I like to store them on a shelf like trophies when I'm done reading the ones I hold dear. I give the others away.

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