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USA: Elite TVs about to reappear in Pioneer retailers (Calm down, dear – they're not Kuro)

By Andrew Everard | Thu, 4 Aug 2011, 5:56pm

It was hardly the best day ever to launch a premium TV range: as the world's stock markets went into freefall, the alliance of Pioneer and Sharp rolled out the long-awaited Elite TV line-up, the result of Sharp's licensing of Pioneer's high-end ...

EXCLUSIVE: Ken Ishiwata talks upgrades, keeping ahead of the game and why there's life in the old CD yet

By Andrew Everard | Thu, 4 Aug 2011, 2:44pm

As Marantz prepares to launch the successors to its Award-winning CD6003 CD player and PM6003 stereo amp – see news on the CD6004/PM6004 here – we caught up with the company's Brand Ambassador and all-round audio guru, Ken Ishiwata, to talk more ...

Spiders, the Disklavier and Aladdin Sane – Mike Garson's Bowie Variations

By Andrew Everard | Tue, 2 Aug 2011, 4:01pm

I don't often suggest you take a listen to a particular disc: after all, musical taste is a pretty personal thing, and one person's breathtaking piano jazz is another's lift-music.But there's a bit of a closet Bowie fan-base here in the WHFSV ...

Is 3D no longer captivating America? And can handheld devices reverse the trend?

By Andrew Everard | Thu, 28 Jul 2011, 2:04pm

You'd think with the non-stop onslaught of movies either made in or reworked into 3D, and the numbers of people apparently flocking to see them, that consumer demand for 3D TVs would keep on growing.Not so, says a report published in the States: ...

JAPAN: Dumped CRT TVs pile up as this weekend's digital switchover approaches

By Andrew Everard | Fri, 22 Jul 2011, 12:49pm

We've covered in past reports the unexpected upswing in demand for new TVs in Japan as this weekend's switchover to all-digital broadcasting approaches. But now there's the problem of getting rid of all the CRT TVs and early flatscreen models ...

Simpler streaming? Hands-on with Audio Pro's WF100 wireless solution

By Andrew Everard | Wed, 13 Jul 2011, 4:52pm

 Judging from the whathifi.com Forums and elsewhere, there's a lot of confusion about the hows and whats of music streaming. Do you need a NAS drive? Will Product X connect to Player Y? How do you set the whole thing up?You can see why ...

LG vs Samsung, passive vs active: 3D ping-pong, anyone?

By Andrew Everard | Mon, 11 Jul 2011, 10:19am

Been following the spats between LG and Samsung about the relative merits of the former's passive 3D technology, and the latter's dedication to active 3D? If so, here's the latest update from the all-Korean 3D ping-pong championship…LG's been ...

JAPAN: Sudden spike in TV demand catches out the big names

By Andrew Everard | Sun, 10 Jul 2011, 9:43am

Most of Japan's TV industry was beginning to suspect it had seen the glory days of domestic sales, with an eco-points scheme last year doubling demand in the run up to the New Year holidays.But now it seems the forthcoming switchover to digital ...

JAPAN: Drive your home entertainment system from anywhere in the world with iRemocon

By Andrew Everard | Tue, 5 Jul 2011, 12:49pm

Products to turn your smartphone into controls for all sorts of things are all the go at the moment: not only can you turn it into a home remote with the likes of ThinkFlood's RedEye or Gear4's UnityRemote, it can also become a security device ...

LG's latest shot in the 3D format war – 'our survey said…'

By Andrew Everard | Thu, 30 Jun 2011, 3:23pm

One of the most entertaining audio-visual sagas of recent months has been the ongoing 3D 'format war' between LG and – well, principally Samsung, but in reality any company making or selling 3D TVs reliant on battery-powered 'active shutter' ...