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  2. Vitaphone - Wikipedia

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    Warner Bros. stopped making live-action short subjects in 1956, and The Vitaphone Corporation was officially dissolved at the end of 1959. Warner then used the brand names for various purposes, to keep them active legally. In the 1950s, the Warner Bros. record label boasted "Vitaphonic" high-fidelity recording.

  3. Vitaphone Varieties - Wikipedia

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    Vitaphone Varieties is a series title (represented by a pennant logo on screen) used for all of Warner Bros. ', earliest short film "talkies" of the 1920s, initially made using the Vitaphone sound on disc process before a switch to the sound-on-film format early in the 1930s. These were the first major film studio -backed sound films, initially ...

  4. High fidelity - Wikipedia

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    High fidelity (often shortened to Hi-Fi or HiFi) is the high-quality reproduction of sound. [1] It is popular with audiophiles and home audio enthusiasts. Ideally, high-fidelity equipment has inaudible noise and distortion, and a flat (neutral, uncolored) frequency response within the human hearing range. [2]

  5. Victor Orthophonic Victrola - Wikipedia

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    The Victor Orthophonic Victrola, first demonstrated publicly in 1925, was the first consumer phonograph designed specifically to play electrically recorded phonograph records. The combination was recognized as a major step forward in sound reproduction. Electrical recording was developed by Western Electric, although a primitive electrical ...

  6. High Fidelity (magazine) - Wikipedia

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    ISSN. 0018-1455. High Fidelity — often abbreviated HiFi — was an American magazine that was published from April 1951 until July 1989 and was a source of information about high fidelity audio equipment, video equipment, audio recordings, and other aspects of the musical world, such as music history, biographies, and anecdotal stories by or ...

  7. Warner Records - Wikipedia

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    Early Warner Bros. singles had distinctive pink labels, with the WB logo at the top center and "WARNER" in white Hellenic font to the left of the WB shield and "BROS." in the same color and style font to the right. Below the shield in white Rockwell font, it read "VITAPHONIC HIGH FIDELITY;" this 45 label was used for two years, 1958 – 1960.

  8. High Fidelity (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    High Fidelity is an American romantic comedy television series developed by Veronica West and Sarah Kucserka for Hulu. Based on the 1995 novel of the same name by Nick Hornby and its 2000 film adaptation, it stars Zoë Kravitz (whose mother Lisa Bonet appears in the original film) as Robyn "Rob" Brooks, a young record store owner who revisits her past relationships through music and popular ...

  9. High Fidelity (film) - Wikipedia

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    Budget. $30 million [1] Box office. $47.1 million [1] High Fidelity is a 2000 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears, starring John Cusack, Jack Black, and Iben Hjejle. The film is based on the 1995 British novel of the same name by Nick Hornby, with the setting moved from London to Chicago and the protagonist's name changed.