Sonos and Sonance Partner on Architectural Speakers

Sonos today announced a new line of in-wall/ceiling and outdoor speakers designed and built in partnership with Sonance and optimized for use with the Sonos Amp.

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Cortana, I Would Like to Introduce You to Medea

"Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive. Medea, Euripides, 431 BC.

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InFocus to Relaunch ScreenPlay Projector Line

InFocus today announced plans to reintroduce the ScreenPlay line of DLP projectors at the Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) show that opens tomorrow in Amsterdam.

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Best Gear of January 2019

Speakers are front and center in our January 2019 mix of Top Picks — from a full-on audiophile-approved 5.1 speaker system to a Dolby Atmos-enabled soundbar system that provides an easy path to immersive surround sound plus two distinctly different takes on the ever-popular wireless speaker. Rounding things out is an impressive (and long overdue) update of the original Sonos Connect:Amp and an AVR that nabbed Top Value Pick status for packing an insane level of performance and features into a $700 piece of gear.

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Download 8K/HDR Video From Space!

Need something to watch on that new 8K TV? (You have one of those, of course, don’t you?) Florian Friedrich, a developer who creates HDR mastering software and who has worked with video expert Joe Kane to develop UHDTV test content, has created a reformatted 8K version of the 8K footage NASA recently made available for download on its website.

It apparently was necessary for Friedrich to reformat the original NASA 8K footage because it wouldn’t play on the Samsung 8K TV that he initially tried it with. Why not? According to Friedrich, “The whole encoding was not optimized for playback with CE-devices: wrong video levels, incompatible MPEG profile, critical bitrate.”

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Ladyland Deluxe Edition

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The nomenclature of the key line that appears within the credits of the original October 1968 double-vinyl release of Electric Ladyland tells quite the prescient tale: “Produced And Directed By Jimi Hendrix.” The most crucial word in that phraseology, of course, is Directed, as the ace guitar slinger spent a good bit of his in-studio time in 1968 thinking in purely cinematic terms.

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Q Acoustics’ Announces ‘Most Progressive' Speaker Yet

U.K.-based Q Acoustics’ today announced a stand-mount speaker that builds on the success of its $6,000/pair flagship speaker, the floorstanding Concept 500.

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