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Audio Advice Buys The Audio Lab, Opens New Wilmington NC Showroom

— July 20, 2024 00:00

Audio Advice Buys The Audio Lab, Opens New Wilmington NC Showroom

Audio Advice has acquired The Audio Lab, a Wilmington, NC store that served audiophiles for over 30 years. Audio Advice is now positioned to better serve customers up and and down the east coast.

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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

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Sony Intros New "BiNA" HTPS LCD Panels

— March 01, 2005 19:00

Sony Intros New "BiNA" HTPS LCD Panels

Representing the latest technology in precise liquid crystal alignment, Sony Corporation announced today the successful development of the world's first HTPS LCD panel for front projector TV sets,

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Vutec Introduces Retracta‑Vu Theater System

— March 01, 2005 18:00

Vutec Introduces Retracta-Vu Theater System

Vutec Corporation has just launched Retracta-Vu Theater, a motorized, completely retractable and disappearing home theater that houses a screen, an NEC WT610 projector, audio equipment and

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Boston Acoustics Intros New MicroSystem CD

— February 27, 2005 19:00

Boston Acoustics Intros New MicroSystem CD

Boston Acoustics, Inc., a premier manufacturer of high-performance audio solutions for home entertainment, automobiles and personal desktop audio systems, introduces the breakthrough P400 High

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Fujitsu Statement on Sale of Plasma Assets

— February 21, 2005 19:00

Fujitsu Statement on Sale of Plasma Assets

Fujitsu General America today issued a statement that last month's announcement by its parent company, Fujitsu Limited, regarding the impending sale of assets in Fujitsu-Hitachi Plasma Inc. (FHP),

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Kreisen Delivers Affordable 40‑Inch HDTV LCD

— February 20, 2005 18:00

Kreisen Delivers Affordable 40-Inch HDTV LCD

In a bold step forward to delivering stunning home theater to the masses, Kreisen, who manufactures quality affordable high definition television displays, today announced the availability of

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Energy Announces New Take Series Speakers

— February 19, 2005 18:00

Energy Announces New Take Series Speakers

Energy Speaker Systems, manufacturer, designer and global distributor of speakers for more than 30 years, is proud to announce the new Reference Connoisseur Series. This striking series fuses the

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Panasonic DVD‑S97 DVD Player with HDMI

— February 17, 2005 19:00

Panasonic DVD-S97 DVD Player with HDMI

Panasonic recently introduced the new DVD-S97 DVD player. It features a 216MHz/11-bit Video D/A converter and is able to fully transmit the a 13.5MHz video signal guaranteeing that it can deliver

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Proview Intros MH‑462SU Super‑Thin Plasma TV

— February 15, 2005 19:00

Proview Intros MH-462SU Super-Thin Plasma TV

Proview's new 46-inch Model MH-462SU plasma display offers all the features of today's flat-panel TV revolution, for a suggested retail price of just $3,199. That's hundreds or even thousands of

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Dolby Labs IPO Coming This Week

— February 13, 2005 19:00

Dolby Labs IPO Coming This Week

Dolby Laboratories Inc. is readying its initial public offering this week and industry is poised for a big show. Dolby Labs is a San Francisco company whose logo and name are recognized in both the

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Panamax Introduces 8 New Protection Modules

— February 11, 2005 19:00

Panamax Introduces 8 New Protection Modules

Recognizing the need to protect sensitive electronic systems from electrical surges transmitted through remote lines, Panamax, the industry-leading manufacturer of power conditioning and protection