Audyssey in your Home Theater

January 11th, 2010

Have 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 [...]

Ultra-thin LCD HDTV revealed at CES

January 8th, 2010

LG unveiled a LED HDTV that is less than one inch thick at CES this week!  Previously, LG’s thinnest TV was 23.3 millimeters thick, or about three times as wide as the new hyper-slim television, said Woo Paik, LG’s chief technology officer.  They tout two new LED technologies (Full LED Slim and LED Plus) that [...]

12 Top-Rated and Top Selling Blu-Ray Players!

December 16th, 2009

Much more than a DVD player these Blu-ray players feature the latest technology for your home entertainment experience with incredible 1080p video resolution.

Sexy New Samsung BDP4600 Blu-ray player

July 29th, 2009

Streaming Movies: The Next Frontier

February 9th, 2009

The line between home theater components and computer hardware has become hazy in the past few years. With many households on high-speed internet, manufacturers are making devices that have an RJ45 ethernet connection on the rear jack pack. Potentially, the most exciting aspect of networkable A/V components is the ability to stream video over the [...]

E3 News for Home Theater

July 14th, 2008

The first day of E3 has produced one major home theater announcement – Netflix streaming on the Xbox 360! Basically the Roku box functionality will be recreated in the new Xbox dashboard update coming this fall. This will allow Xbox 360 Gold members who are also Netflix subscribers to instantly stream over 10,000 movie and [...]

The Netflix Player by Roku

May 22nd, 2008

We were all in a twitter the other day when the first set-top Netflix box was announced. Having extensively used Netflix over the years (and the Watch Now feature more recently) this product created a lot of buzz around our end of the office. Being an early adopter and Netflix fanatic Scot ordered one immediately. [...]

Blu-ray Player or Upscaling DVD Player? Netflix helps you decide.

April 23rd, 2008

I love Netflix. I’ve been an extremely happy member since March, 2003. (And I even “used” Netflix before then by sometimes borrowing movies from a friend and then mailing them back for him after I watched them. Hey, I never said I was proud of it.) I normally keep 490+ movies in my queue (max [...]