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Sonus faber Custom Designs Audio System for Lamborghini

— October 21, 2024 00:00

Sonus faber Custom Designs Audio System for Lamborghini

Sonus faber has custom designed a new audio system for the Lamborghini Revuelto. The new Revuelto sound system boasts 7 independent speakers, powered by a formidable 750 watts of amplification.

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Design Your Own Seating on Elite HT Website

— April 17, 2005 19:00

Design Your Own Seating on Elite HT Website

Elite Home Theater Seating offers a new innovative option to home theater designers and builders. With its interactive but user friendly website, today's home theater aficionados can customize

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LCD Display Costs Expected to Drop 62% by 2008

— April 13, 2005 20:00

LCD Display Costs Expected to Drop 62% by 2008

DisplaySearch, the worldwide leader in flat panel display (FPD) market research and consulting, has developed a new report which reveals current and future panel costs, material prices, depreciation,

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Portable MP3 Players to Achieve Critical Mass in 2005

— April 13, 2005 20:00

Portable MP3 Players to Achieve Critical Mass in 2005

JupiterResearch, a division of Jupitermedia Corporation (Nasdaq: JUPM), today reported that U.S. shipments of MP3 players will grow 35% to 18.2 million in 2005 and maintain a compound annual growth

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Meedio Essentials HTPC Software only $20!

— April 13, 2005 19:00

Meedio Essentials HTPC Software only $20!

Meedio announced today that its developer community has submitted 200 plugins, themes, and extensions to the Meedio Add-In Directory (MAID). To celebrate, the company is discounting its Meedio

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Xbox 360 to be Shown on MTV May 12

— April 12, 2005 20:00

Xbox 360 to be Shown on MTV May 12

MTV: Music Television and Microsoft Corp. today announced a global marketing alliance to unveil the next-generation Xbox(R) video game system on MTV channels in the United States, Asia Pacific and

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ViewSonic Introduces 2 New Commercial Flat‑Panels

— April 11, 2005 19:00

ViewSonic Introduces 2 New Commercial Flat-Panels

ViewSonic(R) Corp., a worldwide leader in visual display products, today introduced two large-screen, flat-panel displays designed for digital signage, videoconferencing and other commercial

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Mitsubishi Introduces 1080p DLP HDTVs

— April 10, 2005 20:00

Mitsubishi Introduces 1080p DLP HDTVs

Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc., today unveiled the consumer electronics industry's most advanced HDTV receiver/controller, the HD-6000. The HD-6000, which will be available at selected

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Denon Adds XM Satellite to AVR‑4806

— April 06, 2005 19:00

Denon Adds XM Satellite to AVR-4806

Denon Electronics today announced that it has added XM Satellite Radio functionality to its recently introduced AVR-4806 multi-zone audio/video receiver. With the addition of an optional XM antenna,

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Panasonic Intros 9 VIERA Flat Panel TVs

— April 06, 2005 19:00

Panasonic Intros 9 VIERA Flat Panel TVs

Panasonic, the leading brand by which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is known, today unveiled its new line of VIERA series digital high-definition flat panel TVs. The line includes three

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Syntax Groups New Olevia 42‑inch LCD TV

— April 04, 2005 20:00

Syntax Groups New Olevia 42-inch LCD TV

Syntax Groups Corporation, one of the fastest-growing manufacturers of LCD TVs in North America, today announced the new 42-inch Olevia widescreen HD built-in LCD TV, its first model to include

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New Yamaha RX‑V4600 Receiver with HDMI

— April 04, 2005 19:00

New Yamaha RX-V4600 Receiver with HDMI

Yamaha Electronics Corporation today introduced the RX-V4600, a new A/V digital home theater receiver with HDMI, Dual i.LINK, HD Radio technology, and YPAO (Yamaha Parametric Room Acoustic

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AgileTV Promptu Voice Activated‑Controlled TV

— April 03, 2005 19:00

AgileTV Promptu Voice Activated-Controlled TV

AgileTV Presents Promptu Voice Activated-Controlled Television AgileTV is aiming to change the way people watch TV, with…

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Scientific‑Atlanta MCP‑100 HD DVR with DVD Burner

— April 03, 2005 19:00

Scientific-Atlanta MCP-100 HD DVR with DVD Burner

Building upon its award-winning Explorer 8300 digital video recorder (DVR) platform, Scientific-Atlanta today announced its new MCP-100 Media Center DVR with a built-in DVD burner. This

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RBH Sound MC Series Loudspeakers

— March 31, 2005 18:00

RBH Sound MC Series Loudspeakers

RBH Sound's MC Theater Series has turned it up a notch introducing interchangeable speaker systems for home theater and audio enthusiasts, without the bank-breaking investment. Featuring high-quality

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Hitachi Acquires Fujitsu Hitachi Plasma Display Shares and Patents

— March 27, 2005 19:00

Hitachi Acquires Fujitsu Hitachi Plasma Display Shares and Patents

Hitachi, Ltd. today reached an official agreement with Fujitsu Limited concerning Fujitsu Hitachi Plasma Display Limited (FHP), a joint venture of the two companies, in accordance with a basic

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Pace Micro Announces Tahoe High Definition DVR

— March 27, 2005 19:00

Pace Micro Announces Tahoe High Definition DVR

Pace Micro Technology, a leading digital set-top box provider specializing in the development of emerging technologies across all television platforms, today announced the launch of its Tahoe High

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Digital Video Cable Extender from Gefen

— March 24, 2005 18:00

Digital Video Cable Extender from Gefen

Gefen today announced the release of its DVI Booster, a small unit that corrects video signal degradation that occurs over stretches of DVI copper cables used to extend a display away from its high

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Consumers Changing the Way they Access Media

— March 22, 2005 19:00

Consumers Changing the Way they Access Media

Consumer media habits are changing as people watch video-on-demand services through their cable or satellite provider (10 percent in the past month), access news online (11 percent in the past

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Turn Your PC into a Satellite TiVo System

— March 21, 2005 19:00

Turn Your PC into a Satellite TiVo System

KWorld Computer Co. Ltd., manufacturer of a full line of multi-media processing equipment for the PC marketplace, announces the DVB-S Satellite Receiver System, a single PCI card conversion system

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Yamaha Launches 8 New XM‑Ready Receivers

— March 20, 2005 18:00

Yamaha Launches 8 New XM-Ready Receivers

Yamaha Electronics Corporation today introduced four new affordable A/V digital home theater receivers equipped with XM Satellite Radio capability (XM-Ready) that will enhance and diversify the

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Optoma H79 DLP Projector with DarkChip3

— March 17, 2005 19:00

Optoma H79 DLP Projector with DarkChip3

Optoma Technology, Inc. announced the availability of its next-generation, high performance digital projector for home theater enthusiasts. With an MSRP of $9,999, Optoma's H79 delivers stunningly

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Sony ES Receivers and DVD Players

— March 16, 2005 19:00

Sony ES Receivers and DVD Players

Delivering a definitive multi-room home theater experience, Sony Electronics recently announced its updated ES (Elevated Standard) audio/video receiver lineup. The 2005 lineup includes three new

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Atlantic Steel CD Case Collection

— March 16, 2005 18:00

Atlantic Steel CD Case Collection

Atlantic Inc's portable CD Steel Case collection offers consumers a durable and attractive way to protect CDs, DVDs and CD-ROMs on the go. Available in three models, the cases are made of a hard

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Parasound NewClassic Amps & Processor

— March 15, 2005 18:00

Parasound NewClassic Amps & Processor

Parasound has announced the introduction of five new power amplifiers and a 7.1 channel A/V surround controller as the first of the company's "NewClassic" line of products for professional custom

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Sony Debuts 42‑inch PlasmaPro Display

— March 14, 2005 19:00

Sony Debuts 42-inch PlasmaPro Display

Sony Electronics today introduced a 42-inch flat panel plasma professional display. The FWD-42PV1 plasma flat panel display has several features that make it well-suited for the demands of today's

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802.11n IC Shipments to Top 90 Million Worldwide by 2007

— March 08, 2005 19:00

802.11n IC Shipments to Top 90 Million Worldwide by 2007

A new report from consumer technology think-tank, The Diffusion Group, suggests that Ultra Wide-Band (UWB) will face tough obstacles on the way to widespread market penetration. UWB versus 802.11n

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Sony Introduces New DVD Players & 400‑disc Changer with HDMI

— March 08, 2005 19:00

Sony Introduces New DVD Players & 400-disc Changer with HDMI

The DVP-CX995V 400-disc DVD/Super-Audio CD (SA-CD) changer up-scales video to high definition (1080i/720p) resolution and transmits high quality audio through a High Definition Multimedia Interface

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Olevia LT26HVE 26‑Inch LCD TV New from Syntax Groups

— March 08, 2005 18:00

Olevia LT26HVE 26-Inch LCD TV New from Syntax Groups

Syntax Groups Corporation, manufacturer of the high-quality, affordable Olevia brand of widescreen HDTV-ready LCD TVs, announced the launch of its newest 26-inch Olevia model (LT26HVE), highlighting