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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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Digital TV for Cell Phones & Handsets from Texas Instruments

— October 21, 2004 20:00

Digital TV for Cell Phones & Handsets from Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments (TI) is developing the wireless industry's first digital TV on a chip, which captures broadcast signals and allows cell phone users to watch live broadcasts.

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Vidikron Model 60 3‑Chip D‑ILA Projector Shipping

— October 21, 2004 20:00

Vidikron Model 60 3-Chip D-ILA Projector  Shipping

Vidikron, designer and manufacturer of high definition home theater video display technology, is now shipping its new D-ILA™ (Direct Drive Image Light Amplifier) Model 60 . The Model 60 offers

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Energy Speaker Systems Announces New act sub

— October 20, 2004 20:00

Energy Speaker Systems Announces New act sub

Energy Speaker Systems is proud to introduce the act sub. The Energy act sub is an 80 Watt RMS, 300 Watt Dynamic powered subwoofer that compliments the extremely successful S8.3, S10.3 and S12.3

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Universal Remote Control Offering $30 Rebate

— October 20, 2004 20:00

Universal Remote Control Offering $30 Rebate

Universal Remote Control, Inc., the leader in remote control design and manufacturing for home and professional entertainment systems, is helping consumers to "take control" of their home

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Velodyne DD‑10 Sub Wins Prestigious EISA Award

— October 20, 2004 20:00

Velodyne DD-10 Sub Wins Prestigious EISA Award

Velodyne Acoustics, Inc. announced that the European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) has named the Digital Drive ® DD-10 as the European Subwoofer of the Year 2004-2005. The subwoofer was

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Cambridge SoundWorks Ships PlayDockXM Speaker System for Delphi XM Radio

— October 19, 2004 20:00

Cambridge SoundWorks Ships PlayDockXM Speaker System for Delphi XM Radio

Cambridge SoundWorks, a leading audio manufacturer and retailer, today announced shipment of its PlayDock(TM)XM Speaker System. Designed exclusively to support Delphi XM Roady(TM) and Roady 2

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Chief Manufacturing, Inc. Announces Merger with Sanus Systems

— October 19, 2004 20:00

Chief Manufacturing, Inc. Announces Merger with Sanus Systems

Chief Manufacturing Inc., an industry leader in technology mounting solutions for the professional and home theater audiovisual market, and Sanus Systems, a leader in retail audio/video furniture,

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Cirrus Logic Launches Feature‑Packed, Cost‑Effective Home Theater Recorder Chipset

— October 19, 2004 20:00

Cirrus Logic Launches Feature-Packed, Cost-Effective Home Theater Recorder Chipset

Cirrus Logic Inc. released its CRD92688-RX reference design, a feature-packed, cost-effective digital home theater recorder chipset platform that leverages Cirrus Logic's leadership position in

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New HDMI & DVI Switchers from Gefen

— October 18, 2004 20:00

New HDMI & DVI Switchers from Gefen

Gefen's new HDMI Switchers provide control of two or more audio/video components, including DVD players, satellite set top systems and now video gaming consoles. Using a single HD display is made

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Sonance Introduces Cinema Select In‑Wall Speakers

— October 17, 2004 19:00

Sonance Introduces Cinema Select In-Wall Speakers

Focusing on high performance home theater surround sound systems for moderately-sized rooms, Sonance unveiled its new Cinema Select line of THX Select certified in-wall home theater loudspeakers. The

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Windows Media Center Edition 2005 & the MS Strategy

— October 15, 2004 19:00

Windows Media Center Edition 2005 & the MS Strategy

The good old days of home electronics weren't so good for the Analog family. Those were the days when each room of their home and each of their electronic devices was an independent island in a vast

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Humax Announces TiVo‑Powered DRT‑800 DVR and DVD Recorder

— October 14, 2004 20:00

Humax Announces TiVo-Powered DRT-800 DVR and DVD Recorder

Humax USA, the "Easy-Digital" company, in its partnership with TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO - News), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVR), today redefine the DVD

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Pinnacle Loudspeakers Unveils SUBcompact 6: The World's Smallest Powered Subwoofer!

— October 13, 2004 20:00

Pinnacle Loudspeakers Unveils SUBcompact 6: The World's Smallest Powered Subwoofer!

Pinnacle introduces a new solution for space saving subwoofers: the SUBcompact6. Like its brothers (the SubSonic, the Baby Boomer, the Digital Sub 600, Baby Boomer Plus and SuperSonic), this is an

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Atlantic Technology Debuts FS‑3200 Speakers

— October 13, 2004 19:00

Atlantic Technology Debuts FS-3200 Speakers

Atlantic Technology has introduced two new loudspeaker models that are sonically and visually optimized for use with the latest generation of flat screen video displays. The Model FS-3200LR and

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Logitech Harmony 680 HTPC Remote Control

— October 12, 2004 20:00

Logitech Harmony 680 HTPC Remote Control

Logitech today unveiled the first Harmony remote specifically designed to control a PC running on Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition (Media Center PC) - and any devices that may be connected

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LSI Logic DiMeNsion 1st Single‑Chip DVD Recorder to Receive DivX HT Certification

— October 10, 2004 20:00

LSI Logic DiMeNsion 1st Single-Chip DVD Recorder to Receive DivX HT Certification

LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI), a leader in innovative digital media processing technologies for the Digital Home, today announced that the second-generation LSI Logic DiMeNsion(TM) DVD recorder

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Terk Introduces Compact Outdoor HDTV Antenna

— October 10, 2004 20:00

Terk Introduces Compact Outdoor HDTV Antenna

TERK Technologies Corp., a leader in antenna technology for TV, satellite, radio and mobile communications applications, announced the introduction of its HDTVo, a highly compact amplified outdoor

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Antex Electronics Introduces MultiZone XM Satellite Receiver

— October 07, 2004 20:00

Antex Electronics Introduces MultiZone XM Satellite Receiver

Expanding their line of TriplePlay satellite radio receivers designed for multi-room and multi-zone distributed audio systems, Antex Electronics, a leading developer and supplier of OEM

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SRS Labs' Added to MSI MEGA Home Theater PCs

— October 07, 2004 20:00

SRS Labs' Added to MSI MEGA Home Theater PCs

SRS Labs, Inc., a leading provider of innovative audio, voice and semiconductor technology solutions, today announced that Micro-Star International (MSI), a global leader in personal computer

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D2Audio MXR and MXM Digital Amplifiers

— October 06, 2004 20:00

D2Audio MXR and MXM Digital Amplifiers

D2Audio today announced two new amplifier products targeting mainstream audio systems: the MXM for multi-room distributed audio systems and the MXR for audio video receivers and home theaters. These

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Canon Introduces Realis SX50 LCOS Projector

— October 05, 2004 20:00

Canon Introduces Realis SX50 LCOS Projector

After years of research and development, Canon today introduced a product intended not only to impact the presentation and multimedia industry but also to add new light to advances in projection

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DTS 96/24 and DTS‑ES Software Encoders

— October 05, 2004 20:00

DTS 96/24 and DTS-ES Software Encoders

October 6, 2004 - DTS (Digital Theater Systems, Inc.) (NASDAQ: DTSI) announces the availability of two new DTS pro audio software encoders: the Pro Series 6.1 Surround Encoder, which is the

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Candlestick Park Renamed by Monster Cable

— September 29, 2004 20:00

Candlestick Park Renamed by Monster Cable

Some fans think 44-year-old Candlestick Park is already a dinosaur. Now the San Francisco 49ers' home stadium has the name to match. The team announced Tuesday a 4-year agreement with Monster Cable

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MultEQ's Immersive Sound: Sweet Spots All Around

— September 29, 2004 20:00

MultEQ's Immersive Sound: Sweet Spots All Around

A new upgrade for home theater enthusiasts provides as many as eight listeners with the same surroundsound experience. The new system is one of the first to apply "fuzzy logic" to audio, assigning

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Logitech Z‑5500 Speakers ‑ Wake the Neighbors!

— September 29, 2004 19:00

Logitech Z-5500 Speakers - Wake the Neighbors!

Logitech, a leading manufacturer of multimedia PC speakers, today announced two new speaker systems designed to shake the rafters -- of the house across the street. The Logitech Z-5500 Digital and

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Energy Speaker Systems Announces New EAS In‑Wall Speakers

— September 27, 2004 19:00

Energy Speaker Systems Announces New EAS In-Wall Speakers

EAS Architectural Series Energy Speaker Systems is proud to introduce the new EAS Architectural series of in-wall and in-ceiling loudspeakers. The EAS Series has been designed with the custom

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DTS Mandatory Format for Blu‑ray Disc and HD‑DVD

— September 26, 2004 20:00

DTS Mandatory Format for Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD

DTS (Digital Theater Systems, Inc.) (NASDAQ: DTSI) today announced that its DTS Coherent Acoustics coding system has been selected as mandatory audio technology for both the Blu-ray Disc (BD) and

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FCC Pushes High Speed TV over Internet

— September 15, 2004 20:00

FCC Pushes High Speed TV over Internet

U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael Powell on Wednesday said technology and telecommunications companies are racing to develop ways to pipe television shows into consumers' homes