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LG’s Smart TV Platform First to Support Dolby Atmos Via Apple Music App

— May 21, 2024 00:00

LG’s Smart TV Platform First to Support Dolby Atmos Via Apple Music App

Owners of LG TVs can now listen to Dolby Atmos via Apple Music. The latest update to the app added support for the immersive sound format. The update covers TVs going back to 2018 models. Read on.

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Roskhilde Releases Audiophile Ears Listening Accessory

— April 01, 2009 10:41

Roskhilde Releases Audiophile Ears Listening Accessory

Roskhilde Audio, a high-end Danish company of some notoriety in the audiophile circles has come out with a new invention that is sure to bring about some excitement and controversy amongst naysayers

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Warner Starts HD Format War on a New Front: China

— March 30, 2009 03:20

Warner Starts HD Format War on a New Front: China

With the format war that Warner abruptly ended little more than a year past, the studio has now announced an unfathomable move: revive the corpse of HD-DVD in the China Blue High Definition (CBHD)

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Does OnLive Mean Game Over for Consoles?

— March 26, 2009 16:27

Does OnLive Mean Game Over for Consoles?

A new Palo Alta company wants to stream video games the way Netflix streams movies. OnLive will allow you to play current video games with all the latest eye-candy graphics. But a Cloud Computing

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Blockbuster Runs Hail Mary, Quarterbacks TiVo

— March 25, 2009 10:52

Blockbuster Runs Hail Mary, Quarterbacks TiVo

As the weather gets warmer we may be more willing to go outside. But fewer of us are going outside to rent movies. That’s been the source of Blockbuster’s woes since it’s heyday in 2002 when it was

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Spears Munsil High Definition Blu‑ray Benchmark

— March 23, 2009 17:10

Spears Munsil High Definition Blu-ray Benchmark

Stacey Spears and Don Munsil, acclaimed creators of the DVD Player Benchmark and Progressive Scan Shootout at Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity, announce the release of the Spears & Munsil

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UK Family has HT Kit Confiscated over Noise Complaints

— March 21, 2009 03:00

UK Family has HT Kit Confiscated over Noise Complaints

Apparently local city authorities in Rochdale, Lancashire have too much time on their hands and not enough real crime so they raided the house of a local family and confiscated the TV and sound

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Comcast Shares Subscription TV Kool‑Aid

— March 18, 2009 11:05

Comcast Shares Subscription TV Kool-Aid

The future of TV industry pricing has been a hot topic lately and Comcast COO Steve Burke did an interview with TechFlash.com to air his views. He wanted to set the record straight as to why Cable

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Onkyo TX‑SR607 with Dolby PLIIz

— March 15, 2009 19:40

Onkyo TX-SR607 with Dolby PLIIz

Onkyo announced three new receivers in their lineup headed by the TX-SR607. The new '07 models include the TX-SR307 and TX-SR507. All of the models support 1080p resolution, Deep Color, and

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Attention Deficit + Foul Economy = Interesting Future for Broadband Services

— March 13, 2009 06:00

Attention Deficit + Foul Economy = Interesting Future for Broadband Services

In-Stat has published some interesting research that attempts to peer into the crystal ball for broadband services. They say an increasing number of viewers are watching TV and surfing the Internet -

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Philips to Roll Out OLED in 2010

— March 13, 2009 05:10

Philips to Roll Out OLED in 2010

According to DisplaySearch, Philips is set to roll out OLED production starting in 2010. In a report detailing the future of OLED in general, Philips was shown to be currently in Sample/Small volume

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DVIGear Introduces HDMI Over Coax Extenders

— March 11, 2009 23:09

DVIGear Introduces HDMI Over Coax Extenders

DVIGear and Gennum Corporation today announced that DVIGear has deployed a new high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) coaxial extender based on Gennum's ActiveConnect technology. Fully

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Hitachi Pleads Guilty in LCD Price Fixing Scheme

— March 11, 2009 14:06

Hitachi Pleads Guilty in LCD Price Fixing Scheme

Remember when Sharp and LG were fined for price fixing? Well, add Hitachi Displays LTD. to the list of the LCD manufacturers that took orders from the Smoking Man in backroom deals. Hitachi has

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Kids Prefer Poor Quality MP3

— March 11, 2009 02:10

Kids Prefer Poor Quality MP3

Audioholics has raved against what Gene calls the dumbing down of audio and warned that no good is coming of it. Well, it’s now official. A new generation of music listeners has had their ‘listening

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Amazon Trade‑In Takes on GameStop

— March 09, 2009 19:15

Amazon Trade-In Takes on GameStop

While there are a number of local businesses that will accept game trade-ins, one of the best known (and with the widest distribution) is GameStop. Often players on a budget will come with a stack of

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HDTV Prices on the Rise

— March 09, 2009 01:40

HDTV Prices on the Rise

According to the Retrevo CE Index HDTV prices are on the rise in February. This is the first rise in prices since May 2008. Prices in February were up 10% after dropping approximately a total 35%

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PlayOn Adds Amazon On Demand and Revision3

— March 06, 2009 00:35

PlayOn Adds Amazon On Demand and Revision3

PlayOn is a $40 program for your computer that allows you to access online streaming services such as Hulu.com and YouTube in your home theater via your PS3 or XBox 360. Recently, Roku strove to

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AH Forum Contests ‑ Win Gear from SLAPPA and tSc Headphones!

— March 05, 2009 17:16

AH Forum Contests - Win Gear from SLAPPA and tSc Headphones!

Everyone like free right? Especially in this economy! Right now, Audioholics has your back. In our forums, we're running two contests with some great manufacturers. First, from SLAPPA you can win a

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NHT to Close Doors, Enters Self‑Imposed Chrysalis

— March 05, 2009 03:45

NHT to Close Doors, Enters Self-Imposed Chrysalis

Now Hear This Audio, commonly known as NHT, is looking to sell off remaining stock and close their doors as of March 31st, 2009; at least according to inside information from CE Pro. The good news

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Audiogurus Unveils Weekly Power Buy Deal Program

— March 04, 2009 06:55

Audiogurus Unveils Weekly Power Buy Deal Program

In order to help out in these dire economic times, Audiogurus will be unveiling a new power buy deal program with exclusive discounts on some of the hottest products in the home theater industry.

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Roku Adds Amazon On Demand Video

— March 03, 2009 11:55

Roku Adds Amazon On Demand Video

The little box that could is making a comeback. After getting a large portion of their market co-opted by the XBox 360 and newer Blu-ray players with Netflix streaming ability, a lot of people

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Blu‑ray Price Drop Conspiracy

— March 03, 2009 10:34

Blu-ray Price Drop Conspiracy

What do Panasonic, Philips and Sony have in common? The companies are all Blu-ray patent-holders and now they want to pimp the format by dropping cost and simplifying licensing. But they need other

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Panasonic Plasma to be DivX and Web‑Enabled

— March 02, 2009 10:09

Panasonic Plasma to be DivX and Web-Enabled

The plasma technology funeral arrangements can be delayed awhile. At least for now, Panasonic shows no sign of abandoning the display technology. It’s even adding a clever new feature to its Viera

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Yamaha RX‑V'65 A/V Receiver Preview

— February 25, 2009 18:40

Yamaha RX-V'65 A/V Receiver Preview

The new and improved RX-V565, RX-V465 and RX-V365 surround receivers from Yamaha have arrived. These receivers feature a host of improvements from their predecessors. Click to read all the details.

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Blockbuster Changes Total Access Policy

— February 23, 2009 22:37

Blockbuster Changes Total Access Policy

Blockbuster has changed its terms of service for its Total Access DVD-by-Mail-or-Store service. As far as we can tell it's potentially a good or bad change depending upon how you typically use the

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Guitar Hero Takes Lynyrd Skynyrd Down a Letter

— February 22, 2009 08:50

Guitar Hero Takes Lynyrd Skynyrd Down a Letter

If there is one thing makers of popular video game franchise Guitar Hero should know, you’d think it would be their classic rock bands. But that knowledge didn’t stop a small goof from appearing in

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Man Shoots TV Over Broadcast Switch Confusion

— February 20, 2009 22:39

Man Shoots TV Over Broadcast Switch Confusion

An article over at Broadcasting & Cable had us wondering if this DTV switch just might be more than some people can handle... Apparently, while most of the early market transitions have been going

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Vizio Proves Cheap HDTV Sells

— February 20, 2009 13:37

Vizio Proves Cheap HDTV Sells

Some are hailing it as a sign of good-news in this foul economy! Vizio, maker of the sort of cheap HDTVs you’d find at Wal-Mart, is actually growing and breaking sales records. But the real success

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Best Buy Cuts Jobs, Refocuses on More Online Sales

— February 20, 2009 10:50

Best Buy Cuts Jobs, Refocuses on More Online Sales

Best Buy laid off 250 employees at its Richfield, Minnesota headquarters today, while simultaneously creating 210 new positions.These layoffs are a pretty quick succession to 500 workers being