It was the sound of cinema for an entire generation.

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For artists, it is not a disruptive technology, as sound was in the late 1920s, when an entire generation of movie-stars suddenly found themselves jobless.

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The next generation of videogames features eye-popping graphics, piercingly loud sound effects and inventive game play.

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Its top speed would be 0.8 Mach that is, 0.8 times the speed of sound or around 600 miles per hour, slightly slower than the coming generation of airliners.

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"A lot of people in my generation are very turned off by the glossy campaign ads, sound bites on television news shows, and politicians basically acting like politicians and not like real human beings, " he says.

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Each new generation of Apple hardware gets just enough of a boost to make it sound incredible.

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Though it may sound like science fiction, a renowned South Korean robotics expert believes he has developed the first generation of technology to give robots human-like qualities.

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However, my experience as a viewer and as a listener of high quality sound and viewer of high quality video is and has been beyond that promised by the new generation smart TVs.

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