Home Cinema
CEDIA Awards 2012: From invisible TVs to swimming pool cinemas
Whether you're planning to fit a new flatscreen, or plotting how you can have true home cinema without burying your room in wires and boxes, you can learn a lot from the CEDIA professionals tackling such projects every day. These guys have ...
The Week in HD - Monday 2nd April
Hello everyone, welcome to another week of the best of HD and 3D films, TV shows, sports and Blu-ray releases. Here's our pick of what to watch this week: Monday 2nd April Hugo - Blu-rayMartin Scorsese's Oscar-winning ...
Bigger is better in Amsterdam
Size, as a visit to ISE in Amsterdam can make pretty plain, is important. In among the customer installers, the doyens of digital signage and the household names in consumer electronics, presentation specialist Lang was on a straightforward ...
DLNA: The AirPlay alternative aiming for two billion streaming devices
If you're looking to stream music, movies and images around your home, Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) technology could be the answer. And the good news is that your TV, Blu-ray player, smartphone or other AV device, may already have the ...
JARGON BUSTER: All you need to know about upscaling
Upscaling? That’s about making your TV picture better, right?Sort of. Upscaling – the process of digitally manipulating the resolution of a given image into another, higher-resolution image – can certainly look very impressive, but don’t ...
CEDIA Awards 2011: Dream systems without a cable in sight
* NOW UPDATED WITH MORE JUICY SYSTEM DETAILS *From sleek sounds systems on a superyacht to the ultimate games room - these are not movie sets but real homes, fitted out with the latest technology by custom-install experts.The Custom Electronic ...
In detail: Onkyo's budget 2011 multichannel receiver range
Onkyo has just announced its 2011 range of budget multichannel receivers, as we've reported in news, so here in more detail are the pictures and tech specs for you to ponder over.All models except the entry-level TX-SR309 are network-capable, ...
ISE 2011: The art of projector screens
More news from the ‘sad-but-true’ department: despite the burgeoning popularity of home cinema projectors, consumers don’t pay anything like as much attention to the screen they’re projecting onto as they do to all the other aspects of their home ...
Diary of a Blu-ray virgin
John's got himself a shiny new Sony TVAs many of you know, I'm not a huge fan of (waggles fingers) "Home Cinema". Don't get me wrong, I love the movies. I used to watch three or four a week without fail, I review films for a local free rag and ...
Foehn and who? Hands-on with Ebuyer's £60 Blu-ray player
Day oneForum member Garth Man posts a find. A multiregion Blu-ray player, selling for just £57.99. We follow the link, have a quick look at the Foehn & Hirsch BD2101, and within an hour someone with more credit limit than sense – ie me – ...