I spent three hours with Jan Crittenden, the product brand manager for the HVX (and the SDX and DVX). Nobody is more authoritative than Jan. And the information I'm relaying comes directly from her. I wrote up a 7-page article based on my interview, and had her fact-check it before publishing it, so I'm pretty sure it's authoritative.
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