The Home Theater receiver is being called on to do more and more, from simple connection to audio and video sources, to accessing satellite and internet radio, and to connecting...
Posted: July 9th, 2007 under HDTV News, .
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Although DVD is the most successful home entertainment product in history, ever since it was introduced in 1997, it lacks True High Definition playback and recording capability. Two competing camps...
Posted: July 8th, 2007 under HDTV News, .
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With declining sales of Rear Projection Televisions and the surge in LCD and Plasma Flat Panel sets, Hitachi has announced that it will discontinue making Rear Projection CRT, LCD, and...
Posted: July 7th, 2007 under HDTV News, .
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If you own a recent model Home Theater, Surround Sound, or AV Receiver that comes with XM Satellite Radio Connectivity, then this is the accessory for you. The XM Radio...
Posted: July 6th, 2007 under HDTV News, .
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This week, Samsung re-announced ( see previous report ) that it may bring its BDP-UP5000 Blu-ray Disc/HD-DVD player to market by October of this year, with a price tag about...
Posted: July 6th, 2007 under HDTV News, .
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Hackers have had a field day breaking the "unbreakable" copy-protection codes for Blu-ray and HD-DVD discs. However, this may now change, at least for the Blu-ray Disc format. The Blu-ray...
Posted: July 5th, 2007 under HDTV News, .
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DTS-ES refers to two 6.1 channel surround encoding/decoding systems, DTS-ES Matrix and DTS-ES 6.1 Discrete.
DTS-ES Matrix can create a center rear channel from existing DTS 5.1 encoded material, while DTS-ES...
Posted: July 4th, 2007 under HDTV News, .
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Although the vast majority of home theater setups incorporate separate components: AV receiver, DVD player or Recorder, CD player, etc... the all-in-one Media Center PC (also called a Home Theater...
Posted: July 3rd, 2007 under HDTV News, .
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The proliferation of devices, such as DVD/Blu-ray/HD-DVD players, DVD recorders, Cable and Satellite TV Boxes, TIVO, and Satellite Radio Tuners, is really crowding a lot of shelves in consumer's...
Posted: July 3rd, 2007 under HDTV News, .
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If you have components with HDMI connections, you have found that cables and additional accessories are very expensive. XtremeMAC's XtremeHD-brand HDMI cables and HDMI Switcher are excellent performers while maintaining...
Posted: July 2nd, 2007 under HDTV News, .
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