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Parent Company PML of Paradigm, MartinLogan Buys GoldenEar From Audioquest

— December 20, 2024 00:00

Parent Company PML of Paradigm, MartinLogan Buys GoldenEar From Audioquest

PML Sound International, parent of Paradigm, Anthem, and MartinLogan, acquired GoldenEar from The Quest Group. Will engineering-focused leadership unlock GoldenEar's full potential post-AudioQuest?

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Sony at E3 ‑ Our Future Is So Bright...

— July 17, 2008 16:16

Sony at E3 - Our Future Is So Bright...

We Promise to Have Games. Sony's 90 minute press conference was full of talk about their technology. They bragged about crushing HD DVD and they had many testimonials about how much more powerful the

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Sony BDP‑S350 Blu‑ray Player to Support BD‑Live

— July 17, 2008 10:51

Sony BDP-S350 Blu-ray Player to Support BD-Live

Sony has announced it’s shipping the BDP-S350 Blu-ray player that’ll support all the promised features for the new format. The good news it’s going for $400, making a new BD player even more

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PlayStation Video Store to Counter Netflix on Xbox LIVE

— July 16, 2008 13:31

PlayStation Video Store to Counter Netflix on Xbox LIVE

Not to be outdone by Microsoft’s recent announcement that it’s teaming up with Netflix on LIVE for streaming movie downloads – Sony has a movie announcement of its own. Sony one-ups the Washington

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Netflix, FFXIII, & Xbox 360

— July 15, 2008 11:03

Netflix, FFXIII, & Xbox 360

What's going on at E3 right now? Clean up from all the minds blown at yesterday's Microsoft press conference. If Gears of War 2, Fallout 3, and Resident Evil 5 weren't enough for you, a new Portal

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Japan OLED Co‑operative for Eco‑Responsibility

— July 11, 2008 10:12

Japan OLED Co-operative for Eco-Responsibility

The Japanese government is initiating a collaboration of the nations top electronics firms including Sony, Matsushita and Toshiba. The goal is to get HDTV buyers of the near future considering OLED

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Belkin FlyWire HDMI Transmitter

— July 10, 2008 10:24

Belkin FlyWire HDMI Transmitter

Finally an HD-ready wireless video transmitter solution for that picture perfect home theater installation. Belkin has officially announced FlyWire and FlyWire R1 audio/video transmitters that are

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Columbia House Blu‑ray: Convenience or Curse?

— July 09, 2008 04:42

Columbia House Blu-ray: Convenience or Curse?

No official announcement has been made on the Columbia House website but the largest DVD club is finally bringing its mail order offers to Blu-ray. An amazing opening deal and its ad garnished with

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Sony Releases PS3 Firmware 2.41

— July 08, 2008 12:24

Sony Releases PS3 Firmware 2.41

Last week Sony released firmware 2.40 for the Playstation 3. Unfortunately, the feature filled update was also causing problems with various PS3 consoles and Sony pulled the update by the end of the

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Pioneer Readies Blu‑ray Recorders Overseas

— July 08, 2008 09:35

Pioneer Readies Blu-ray Recorders Overseas

Pioneer Corp reported today that it is releasing set-top Blu-ray DVD recorders by the end of the year. The company is developing the Blu-ray recorders with help from Sharp Corp who owns 14 percent of

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Pioneer Builds Blu‑ray Disc at 400 GB

— July 07, 2008 10:30

Pioneer Builds Blu-ray Disc at 400 GB

A math problem for 21st Century grade school student might look like this: At 25 GB per layer, how many layers would it take to provide a Blu-ray disc with a 400 GB capacity? The answer is 16 layers

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Nokia Wants Piece of Apple iTunes Pie

— July 02, 2008 12:11

Nokia Wants Piece of Apple iTunes Pie

The Finnish cell phone giant is determined to kick its way into the content market. Nokia has already bought handheld operating system Symbian and made deals for a Social Online Network collaboration

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New $199 iPhone is Just $599

— July 02, 2008 09:53

New $199 iPhone is Just $599

Fans of the newly announced $199 iPhone will soon be able to get it... for $599. Huh? According to a report on Reuters today, U.S. consumers who want the new iPhone but cannot or do not want to sign

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Pioneer Kuro LCD... Oxymoron?

— July 01, 2008 10:05

Pioneer Kuro LCD... Oxymoron?

If you go to the Pioneer website and look up Kuro, they talk about one thing - black levels. Pioneer has recently announced that Kuro LCDs will begin shipping in the UK in August with a US release

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Yamaha Introduces the YSP‑3050 Digital Sound Projector

— June 30, 2008 21:50

Yamaha Introduces the YSP-3050 Digital Sound Projector

The new YSP-3050 features 21 beam drivers, and two woofers, 23 corresponding digital amplifiers, three Cinema DSP programs (movie, music and sports), analog to HDMI video upconversion, high

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Emotiva Audio’s Summer/4th of July Sale!

— June 30, 2008 21:41

Emotiva Audio’s Summer/4th of July Sale!

Take advantage of big savings and free shipping on Emotiva's award winning, acclaimed loudspeaker system and the classic LPA-1 amplifier! Act now or regret it this weekend! Now, through July 6th:

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Hancock's Proprietary Download Experiment with Sony Bravia

— June 30, 2008 09:44

Hancock's Proprietary Download Experiment with Sony Bravia

We've been sounding the death knell of traditional disc-based media for some time, but Sony Pictures seems to truly be ushering it along - at least in an experimental trial fashion. This week's

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Rhapsody Gunning for iTunes with DRM‑free Music

— June 30, 2008 07:55

Rhapsody Gunning for iTunes with DRM-free Music

Rhapsody, an online subscription music company-turned MP3-download service, is spending $50 million in marketing to take on #1 retailer iTunes, offering DRM-free songs online and working with such

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OLED in the News

— June 30, 2008 07:28

OLED in the News

Recently there has been a flurry of activity centered around OLED, not the least of which were rumors that Matsushita (Panasonic) was attempting to mass produce the technology (for cheap) as early as

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Sony loses $3.3 Billion, Xbox Price Drop Imminent?

— June 27, 2008 13:16

Sony loses $3.3 Billion, Xbox Price Drop Imminent?

While Sony has lost an estimated $3.3 billion on its PS3 console sales, that isn't all that surprising. Consoles routinely lose money at the beginning of their life. Software sales and eventual

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Sony's New ES Receivers ‑ STR‑DA4400ES Tops Line... So Far

— June 27, 2008 10:03

Sony's New ES Receivers - STR-DA4400ES Tops Line... So Far

Sony’s new ES line of receivers may bring to mind the words of the Who’s Pete Townsend: Meet the new boss – same as the old boss. The company’s new ES line of audio/video receivers looks suspiciously

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Onion Prophesizes latest RIAA Strategy ‑ It's all Pirate Radio

— June 26, 2008 16:23

Onion Prophesizes latest RIAA Strategy - It's all Pirate Radio

As an age old battle, as old as the dawn of radio and the phonograph, between the RIAA and the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) over royalty payments heats up with a pending bill in

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PlayStation 3 Movie Downloads Announced

— June 26, 2008 11:01

PlayStation 3 Movie Downloads Announced

Soon your options for movie viewing won’t be limited to media-streaming, Blu-ray and extended cut-scenes in your favorite games. Sony Computer Entertainment Pres. Kaz Hirai announced that a movie

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Blu‑ray to Outsell DVD in 2012?

— June 26, 2008 10:33

Blu-ray to Outsell DVD in 2012?

There are two ways to look at a report filed by the Entertainment Merchant Association: 1) Somebody is really excited and optimistic about Blu-ray, or 2) The fact that everyone already owns a DVD

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MPAA asks Judge to Eliminate Burden of Proof, Constitutional Guarantees of the Accused

— June 25, 2008 18:28

MPAA asks Judge to Eliminate Burden of Proof, Constitutional Guarantees of the Accused

Pesky legalities like having to prove copyright infringement is too hard says the MPAA, therefore they and other copyright holders should be allowed to just accuse anyone they see fit, provide any

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Panasonic to Mass Produce OLED in 2011

— June 25, 2008 00:14

Panasonic to Mass Produce OLED in 2011

According to the Sankei Shimbun daily (a major Japanese newspaper), Japan-based Matsushita Electric Industrial Co (Panasonic) let out that it is finalizing plans to mass-produce 37-inch organic

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Beatles Music Coming to Video Games

— June 23, 2008 11:35

Beatles Music Coming to Video Games

Beatles music is coming to video games like Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and more. Gaming platforms Wii, XBOX 360 and Sony Playstation will have Beatles games supported.

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Denon AVP‑A1HDCI & AVR‑5308CI Firmware Update

— June 23, 2008 04:00

Denon AVP-A1HDCI & AVR-5308CI Firmware Update

Denon has just announced firmware updates for their flagship AVP-A1HDCI 12CH A/V Processor and AVR-5308CI receiver. There are two updates which are tabulated below. The updates will only benefit

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Denon Electronics Bought by Mitt Romney Corporation

— June 20, 2008 22:44

Denon Electronics Bought by Mitt Romney Corporation

Missed it by that much. D&M Holdings and Bain Capital Partners LLC today announced that they have entered into an agreement, under which Bain Capital Partners will launch a tender offer for all of