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Samsung Shows Off DLNA Dongle & Freshly Opened AllShare

Samsung Wasn't Just Showing Phones At Their London Event, With A Side Note For AllShare & DLNA Besides
By on Thursday, 3. May 2012

While the big news of the day for Samsung was the official unveiling of the Samsung Galaxy S III, what will almost certainly be their new flagship smartphone for some time to come, there wasn’t just phones in the offing at the big show Samsung put on in London, but [...]

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Apple Television Won't Come This Year, Say Reports

Apple Television Plans Look To Take A Back Seat, Won't Bring Many Hoped-For Features
By on Thursday, 3. May 2012

For those of you out there who, like me, were hoping that the introduction of the Apple television, still known by many names including iTV and iPanel, would shake up the home theater world as we knew it, the newest reports will likely be at least somewhat disheartening. JP Morgan, [...]

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Dish Network Partners With C Spire Wireless

C Spire Announces Retail & Marketing Partnership With Dish, Means You Will Soon Be Seeing Dish Products In C Spire Retail Stores
By on Tuesday, 1. May 2012

Dish Network and C Spire Wireless have officially announced a partnership. The partnership looks like it will bring some of the Dish offerings into the C Spire Wireless retail locations and while it seems a bit one-sided from the beginning — it does look like C Spire is using this [...]

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Apple Reportedly In Talks With One Big Movie Channel For Future Devices

Apple May Be Getting A Big New Boost In Movie Channels Soon If A Current Deal Goes Through, Deal Also Refers To "Upcoming Devices"
By on Friday, 27. April 2012

Admittedly, there are plenty of great sources for streaming video online. Seems like more of them get to cropping up most every day. But one thing that’s been in a bit shorter supply as far as streaming goes is movies. Apple, though, may well be getting a big boost in [...]

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Panasonic & NHK Team Up To Bring Out Massive Plasma Display

Panasonic / NHK Coalition-Built Television Offers Unbelievable Size & Resolution
By on Friday, 27. April 2012

We’ve seen a lot of big televisions here before. In fact, big televisions are getting to the point where they’re almost as cheap now as small televisions were even just five years ago. It’s even getting to the point where some sneer at anything smaller than a 40 inch as [...]

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Dolby Unveils Atmos Audio Platform

Dolby Atmos Looks To Bring Big Sound Back To Big Theater Spaces, Coming Soon To Home Theater As Well
By on Tuesday, 24. April 2012

Even the most ardent home theater buff like myself must admit, if sufficiently pressed, that there are just some things a home theater cannot do that a regular movie theater can. Screens measured in multiple feet, and of course, that room-filling sound just aren’t quite possible–or even feasible or necessary–for [...]

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Dish Network Makes Unexpected Addition To Its Hopper DVR

The Hopper From Dish Network Gets A Little More Kick From A Surprise Musical Addition
By on Friday, 20. April 2012

Interesting news for those of you Dish Network subscribers who were thinking about adding Dish’s Hopper to their home theater lineup. Dish has added a little something extra to the Hopper’s function set, and it’s going to give those of you who want a little more music in your home [...]

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Sony & Regal Theaters Introduce Access Glasses

Sony & Regal Theaters' Access Glasses Put Closed Captions Before Your Eyes In Theaters
By on Thursday, 19. April 2012

I never thought I’d actually see the movie theaters manage to find a way to recover their relevance, but the discovery of Sony and Regal Theaters’ Access Glasses goes a long way as far as I’m concerned. While theaters have been having a rough go of things in recent years, [...]

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Ikea Implants Home Theater Gear In Furniture

Ikea Brings Out Line Of Furniture, The Uppleva, With Major Home Theater Components Built Right In
By on Wednesday, 18. April 2012

In the course of writing about home theater hardware and home audio gear and all those other great gadgets, I’ve seen a lot of nifty things. I’ve seen a lot of disturbing things. And I’ve seen some things that baffle me so deeply that I can’t for the life of [...]

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Sony Nasne To Put Extra Punch In Home Theaters

Sony's Nasne Brings Several Important Home Theater Functions To One Small Box
By on Tuesday, 17. April 2012

We all know that things haven’t exactly been champagne and roses for Sony of late. In fact, things out at Sony have been downright miserable these last couple of years. Hackings, awkward apologies, mass layoffs…Sony has just not been looking good. But if they can keep bringing out stuff like [...]

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