Archive for the 'Receivers' Category
Learning Center
January 18th, 2010OneCall has some great information listed in the “Learning Center”. It has good general information about many subjects that can be a big help when you are researching product that you are considering purchasing. Information is the best tool to help you make the best buying decision possible, so check it out.
Subjects include:
Speaker Bar Buying Guide
Digital [...]
Audyssey in your Home Theater
January 11th, 2010Have you felt the rush of excitement watching a show at a world-class movie theater? Do you want the same experience at home? Thanks to Audyssey, led by Prof. Tomlinson Holman (an Academy Award winner for his work developing THX at Lucasfilm Ltd), now you can. Select Denon, Marantz and Onkyo receivers featuring this cool [...]
12 Top-Rated Home Audio Receivers!
December 11th, 2009On the seventh day of the 12 Days of Christmas at OneCall here are 12 Top-Rated Home Audio Receivers ready to power your home audio system.
HDMI 1.4 What’s new and What you need to know.
July 16th, 2009Oh No! Have you heard that there is a new version of HDMI coming out? Now before you run home in a sweaty panic and list all your current HDMI devices for sale on craigslist, you should know that 1.4 is going to add some capabilities to the cable functionality but not going make anything obsolete.
First, it [...]
Onkyo HTS5100 Home Theater Surround System
February 26th, 2009Considering the price on this system, it sounds pretty good. My only complaint, which is something that can be remedied by upgrading to the 6100, is that the HDMI is video pass through only. If you intend on using this as a switcher, get the 6100. With this system, the HDMI cords need a digital [...]
Streaming Music Wirelessly
February 26th, 2009The internet can be harnessed as a source of content for your home theater system. If you think music from Pandora, LastFM, or Slacker (internet websites that stream music) are awesome on your computer or iPhone, imagine how much better it would sound going through your home theater system!
The Denon AVR-4308ci Receiver has 802.11 b/g [...]
Buy a TV and get a Free Universal Remote
February 12th, 2009With the purchase of select HDTVs OneCall is including a Free Universal Remote Control model RF20. It can control up to 10 components, so you can get rid of all the other remotes and truly control everything from just one remote! It is pre-programmed and is nearly ready to go right out of the [...]
Cable Upgrade
February 10th, 2009Being that I like to move furniture around, my husband was not suprised when I told him I planned to switch around our entire house and move our home theater system to a different room for the third time in the last year. I told him that although he would have to do some [...]
Wireless Speakers?
February 9th, 2009So you’re finally ready to upgrade your sound system to surround sound. Your primary living room with the TV is in the basement on a concrete slab . You do not have access to run the speaker wires in the ceiling. So you think “wireless speakers.” Sounds like the easy solution.
Here’s the rub. There is [...]
CES Countdown
December 31st, 2008It’s that time again. CES 2009 – the Consumer Electronics Show – is kicking off next week “shrouded in a nimbus of recessionary gloom.” Some rumored products that I’m excited to see being released into the wild are the first-ever USB 3.0 Drive, LG’s skinny LH95 HDTV and LED backlit, net-enabled TVs. There doesn’t seem [...]
