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Click Here For Email Removal Instructions http://www.avrev.com/home/subscribe/ss_remove.html 12/15/06 RIAA Petitions Judges To Lower Royalities While The Agency Struggles To Adapt To New Music Markets Reports from the Internet including gaming website, IGN.com, report that the music industry group, RIAA, is petitioning judges to lower the royalties paid on music. This comes as the music industry has been suffering from eroding sales that has reduced their domestic yearly sales from north of 30 billion dollars per year in the early 1990's to reportedly around 11 billion dollars in 2005. Concurrently, other sales reports show downloads sold through legitimate vendors such as Apple's iTunes Music Store represent in the ballpark of 3 billion dollars in sales. 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Using a simple, user-friendly connector, the HDMI protocol supports standard, enhanced and high-definition digital video on a single cable. It transmits all ATSC and HDTV standards with bandwidth to spare. Shipping now and available for $3499 MSRP. http://www.sunfire.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ UNIDISK SC Integrated Universal Disc Player ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The UNIDISK SC player is a complete precision-engineered, high-fidelity audio and video source component with integrated surround-sound processing and control. The latest product to feature Linn's SILVER DISK ENGINE(tm) universal disc playing technology, the UNIDISK SC player is designed to facilitate access to all the new high-definition music and movie formats and deliver superb high-quality multi-channel playback. UNIDISK SC is a complete pitch-accurate AV source and control product offering by far the highest standards of performance and easily the best value product on the market. A new generation of Linn multi-channel product, UNIDISK SC provides all you need to access and control music and movies across all quality audio and video formats. Only Linn's integrated design and manufacturing capability can deliver such advanced technology.The UNIDISK SC is simply the most significant integrated product from Linn. 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