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Spotify Premium Is Lossless Listening At Last, But with Caveats?

— September 15, 2025 00:00

Spotify Premium Is Lossless Listening At Last, But with Caveats?

After years of delays, Spotify is finally rolling out lossless audio quality to subscribers of its Premium plan. Lossless audio is offered via FLAC, but it maxes out at 24-bit/44.1kHz. Any caveats?

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Xbox 360 Dashboard Update to Include Instant Messaging

— May 08, 2007 22:39

Xbox 360 Dashboard Update to Include Instant Messaging

Your Xbox LIVE friends list is about to get a whole lot bigger. Microsoft Corp. today announced the launch of Windows LIVE Messenger on Xbox 360, connecting friends across Xbox 360 consoles,

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Usher Debuts The Be‑718 Tiny Dancers Featuring Beryllium Tweeters

— May 04, 2007 12:56

Usher Debuts The Be-718 Tiny Dancers Featuring Beryllium Tweeters

Usher has been producing speakers in Taiwan for more than thirty years, and makes a number of specialized in-house drivers featuring Be beryllium ceramic diaphragms. The spectacular stand-mounted

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Hilton Tests the Home Theater Hotel Room

— May 03, 2007 21:42

Hilton Tests the Home Theater Hotel Room

Ever wonder why you never see 5.1 systems in a hotel room. I mean, it doesn't cost much to put in even a basic system - so why not spec it into the build of a new facility? Ok, I'm "geeking out" as a

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Yamaha's New Flagship YHT‑780 HTiB System

— May 03, 2007 14:12

Yamaha's New Flagship YHT-780 HTiB System

Yamaha Electronics introduces the YHT-780, a 5.1 channel Home-Theater-in-a-Box (HTIB) system that provides consumers with four pre-set SCENE modes, iPod and XM Satellite Radio compatibility, YPAO,

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Move Over Plasma, LCD... OLED and SED are in Town

— May 02, 2007 17:25

Move Over Plasma, LCD... OLED and SED are in Town

Few consumers can spot the difference between plasma and LCD picture quality. But what's coming down the proverbial pike is different indeed, enough to impress the jaded enthusiast and bowl over the

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DMC‑1 Processor for $1299 from Emotiva Audio!

— May 01, 2007 20:00

DMC-1 Processor for $1299 from Emotiva Audio!

For the month of May, Emotiva Audio is offering their DMC-1 Processor for the unbelievable price of $1299. Utilizing Motorola’s top of the line DSP, broadcast quality video up-conversion circuitry

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Is Wal‑Mart Pushing HD DVD?

— May 01, 2007 16:35

Is Wal-Mart Pushing HD DVD?

Amidst a flurry of conflictive reports in A/V sites and blogs across the net, Fuh Yuan the Chinese manufacturer that reported the initial news that Wal-Mart had placed an order for 2 million low

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Velodyne Intros MiniVee 10 Subwoofer

— May 01, 2007 14:34

Velodyne Intros MiniVee 10 Subwoofer

Velodyne Acoustics today expanded its product line with the introduction of a new 10-inch, 2000-watt powered subwoofer. The MiniVee 10 fills the needs of homeowners who want to fill larger rooms with

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Sling Media SlingPlayer Available for Mac!

— April 30, 2007 10:17

Sling Media SlingPlayer Available for Mac!

Sling Media today announced the availability of SlingPlayer for Mac, a software client for Slingbox customers who want to view their home TV or Apple TV on their Apple Macintosh desktop or laptop

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Ready Acoustics Absorption Products

— April 30, 2007 08:52

Ready Acoustics Absorption Products

Ready Acoustics announced today a series of new acoustic treatment products aimed at providing user-customizable aesthetic options for Home Theaters, Studios, Church’s and other critical listening

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NHT Intros New PVC Passive Volume Control

— April 27, 2007 22:56

NHT Intros New PVC Passive Volume Control

NHT is introducing a new PVC (Passive Volume Control) model to its line of high performance PC Hi-Fi products. The new NHT PVC is targeted to consumers who listen to music and enjoy movies on their

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FCC Ruling Requires Labeling Analog TVs

— April 27, 2007 12:43

FCC Ruling Requires Labeling Analog TVs

This past Wednesday, the FCC ruled that electronic retailers will have to post warning stickers on any left-over analog televisions that are still being sold out of inventory. The Commission already

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Microsoft Launches Games for Windows Live

— April 26, 2007 15:45

Microsoft Launches Games for Windows Live

Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling. Human sacrifice, Consoles and PCs living together - mass hysteria. Could this be the end of civilization as we know it? Or the

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Harman Agrees to $7.8 Billion Buyout

— April 26, 2007 13:31

Harman Agrees to $7.8 Billion Buyout

Harman International Industries Inc. said it agreed to be acquired by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the private-equity arm of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in a deal valued at roughly $7.8 billion. The

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Laptops to Eliminate Spinning Hard Drives?

— April 26, 2007 13:13

Laptops to Eliminate Spinning Hard Drives?

Following up on Sony's announcement of a 32GB solid state drive (SSD) option in its new Vaio Type-G line, Dell yesterday announced the availability of an SSD option its Latitude D420 and D620

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User‑friendly DRM Around the Corner?

— April 25, 2007 06:37

User-friendly DRM Around the Corner?

In an event most would have thought unlikely, Dan Glickman MPAA CEO, called for DRM compatibility across the board. Sponsored by Variety and Lexis-Nexis, this ground-breaking conference brought to

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Onkyo Announces New HQV‑Reon Receivers

— April 24, 2007 19:13

Onkyo Announces New HQV-Reon Receivers

Silicon Optix announced today that Onkyo has significantly raised the bar for video performance in A/V receivers with the addition of the Reon-VX HQV video processor in two of their models. Onkyo’s

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Wal‑mart Cutting Back on CD Sales?

— April 24, 2007 10:06

Wal-mart Cutting Back on CD Sales?

According to a guy who knows a guy whose cousin married a stockholder who sits on the board of a former roommate of a guy who hangs out at Wal-mart... the store seems to be cutting back 500 feet of

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Blu‑ray Hits 1 million, HD DVD Poised for Comeback

— April 24, 2007 01:01

Blu-ray Hits 1 million, HD DVD Poised for Comeback

According to Business Wire, Blu-ray Disc has become the first high definition format to sell more than a million discs, a milestone it has achieved in less than one year. Blu-ray Disc sales also

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Has the Plasma Market Flattened?

— April 24, 2007 00:51

Has the Plasma Market Flattened?

Consumer electronics revenue took a hit in February. affecting the once skyrocketing category of plasma TVs. Industry watchdog NPD Group reported that it's retail tracking service found that plasma

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We Got What You Need!

— April 23, 2007 15:30

We Got What You Need!

What do you need? More cables? DVIGear is giving you up to 50% off your order! Need some new AV furniture? StudioTech wants you to win 50% off! How 'bout a killer screen for that brand new projector?

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Yamaha Announces RX‑V861 1080p HDMI Reciever

— April 23, 2007 11:35

Yamaha Announces RX-V861 1080p HDMI Reciever

Yamaha Electronics introduced the new RX-V861, an under-$1000 (but just barely) reeceiver with the latest functions and features available from the electronics giant. Featuring four "Scene” pre-set

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Independent Installers Beating Big Box on Tech Support?

— April 21, 2007 13:12

Independent Installers Beating Big Box on Tech Support?

A study released by NPD reveals an interesting perspective on service and how consumers react to the big box offerings. According to NPD, "Consumer technology products are becoming more advanced and

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Cirrus Debuts New CS49700 HD Chipset

— April 20, 2007 15:11

Cirrus Debuts New CS49700 HD Chipset

Austin, Texas based Cirrus Logic has released a new single chip processor for Blu-ray and HD DVD players supporting audio decode standards, DTS and Dolby Digital for surround sound. Cirrus announced

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Firmware Update for Panasonic DMP‑BD10 Blu‑ray Player

— April 20, 2007 14:45

Firmware Update for Panasonic DMP-BD10 Blu-ray Player

Panasonic released it's V2.0 firmware upgrade for it's DMP-BD10 Blu-ray Disc player. The update sports Dolby True HD and DTS-HD High-Resolution support for outstanding audio. According to Panasonic

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Introducing m‑commerce... Shopping via Mobile Phone

— April 20, 2007 14:28

Introducing m-commerce... Shopping via Mobile Phone

You may be content to shop online. Or, you may be the type who enjoys the occasional (or, God help you, chronic) visits to Home Shopping Network or QVC on the television. Perhaps you're old-school

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Is Europe Finally Going HD?

— April 19, 2007 17:23

Is Europe Finally Going HD?

You may assume that because we have a relatively high amount of HDTV content here in the US that the same is true for all other Western countries. This is not only far from true, it's... well, yeah

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LG Electronics Releases 6th Gen Digital ATSC Chipset

— April 18, 2007 21:19

LG Electronics Releases 6th Gen Digital ATSC Chipset

LG Electronics has launched it's 6th generation chipset in anticipation of it's 2008 television line up. The "super-advanced" chipset, which is to be incorporated not only in televisions, but digital