Home Cinema

B&W's Panorama soundbarWorthing is an unsentimental sort of a town – the building where Oscar Wilde wrote The Importance of Being Earnest is, these days, a used-car showroom. It could well be the country's only second-hand dealership ...

Just announced in the States at Sony's Open House trade event is a trio of new DVD home cinema in a box systems, with two models having wireless audio capability.The new systems claim 1,000W total power output, and each has an integrated ...

Not content with rolling out a complete receiver line-up at its Open House trade show now being held in Las Vegas, Sony has launched two new Blu-ray Disc players. One is complete with built-in wi-fi connectivity, and there's also a pair of BD ...

It's that time of year again when the major manufacturers start having their big US trade shows, to introduce the products due in the shops over the next few months.One of the biggest is Sony's Open House, held in Las Vegas, and this year's is ...

It's a Blu-ray future: sales of discs are growing fast, with the UK leading Europe into the Blu-ray revolution.That's the result of research from Futuresource Consulting, a company not exactly known for keeping quiet about the success of Blu-ray ...

There’s a lot of discussion on the Forums at the moment about objective and subjective considerations of products, but one thing remains for sure – when it comes to the AV market, specifications sell. I’ve lost count of the number of threads ...

Regulars on our Forums may have noticed that I'm not HDMI's biggest fan. Actually, let me be a bit more specific: I've no problem with the connection system itself, carrying everything from hi-def pictures to hi-rez sound – well, unless you have ...

Hopefully you will have read the news story on our website that reported live from JVC's European Press Trip – a quick overnight jaunt to Prague where we were given the complete lowdown on the company's products for 2009. If you missed it, take a ...

 Having apparently learned nothing from 10+ years of DVD compatibility issues (anyone remember The Matrix DVD debacle?), we’re now starting to see some new Blu-ray discs that won’t spin in every player. Or, rather, they’ll spin, but ...

 We're still deep in the development belly of Sony Tokyo, and have had a hands-on play with a couple of new products that you'll all be interested in... First up is the BDV IT1000 home theatre system with Blu-ray ...