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Today's Top Stories #1 Don't buy what Neil Young is selling   By Mario Aguilar, Gizmodo   Neil Young's "high resolution" PonoPlayer goes on sale for $400 today. You shouldn't buy it. The recalcitrant rocker isn't wrong for wanting to reclaim audio quality in the digital age, but in the service of that goal he's peddling junk science, and supporting expensive gear and music files you don't need. More» Why This Matters: Junk science is stuff people want to be true. For more, here are Neil Young's own engineers expressing their doubts about the market. –Cynthia Wisehart #2 Sony Symphonic Light speaker: combines a lamp and a speaker   By Dieter Bonn, The Verge   Sony pulled out a small, clever surprise at its CES 2015 keynote. It's called a "Symphonic Light speaker," and it does pretty much what you'd expect it to. It's a tower-shaped lamp with a speaker at the base, and it actually looks really well-designed. More» Why This Matters: The light bulb glass is the tweeter. –Cynthia Wisehart #3 Chevy's insane power wall display has more pixels than an Imax theater   Via iol Motoring   They call it the PowerWall - a 22 square metre solid glass screen with two Christie Mirage 4K25 DLP 3D projectors, powered by eight computers and two Christie Spyder X20 video processors. Its display has more pixels than an Imax theatre and it takes a crew of five - three visualisation specialist, an IT technician and a Christie hardware engineer - to run it. More» Why This Matters: It's a fascinating way to do design, and something we will no doubt see more of given how much more efficient and cost effective it is compared to physical prototyping. –Cynthia Wisehart 4. CES 2015: Sony's showstopper the 5mm 4K LED TV (video via CNET) 5. Rohinni's LED lightpaper is incredibly thin and printable (Tyler Hayes, Fast Company) 6. Apple to bring order to home control chaos (Stewart Wolpin, Twice) 7. Google's Chrome Remote Desktop app now let's you access a remote PC from your iPhone (Chris Welch, The Verge) 8. Samsung's 110-inch, glassless 8K 3D TV is half beautiful (Mario Aguilar, Engadget) 9. Google Cast for audio will compete with AirPlay (Tyler Hayes, Fast Company) 10. Superpixel tricks make Sharp's 4K act like 8K (Tim Moynihan, Wired) Find Us Online Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Jobs this Week Electrosonic USA » Verrex » Whitlock » Sybatek » JOBS FROM TWICE.com » Upcoming Events Integrated Systems Europe (ISE), Feb. 10-12, Amsterdam RAI AES 56th Conference, Feb. 11-13, London Sound Reinforcement For Technicians, February 2015, Portland NSCA Business & Leadership Conference, Feb. 26-27, Tampa, Fla. For more events, see our calendar. Was this copy of Pro AV Today forwarded to you? Start your own subscription by clicking here. Pro AV Today Editorial Team SOUND & VIDEO CONTRACTOR CYNTHIA WISEHART, Editor Phone: (212) 378-0400 x526 | Send Email JESSACA GUTIERREZ, Senior Associate Editor Phone: (212) 378-0400 x527 | Send Email DIGITAL SIGNAGE DAVID KEENE, Executive Editor Phone: (512) 480-9473 | Send Email RENTAL AND STAGING SYSTEMS DAVID KEENE, Executive Editor Phone: (512) 480-9473 | Send Email

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