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August 21, 2009 From Product Reviews
The 7.2-channel HT-RC160 is one powerhouse of a receiver with the ability to handle any type of music I threw at it, and it seemed perfectly suited to our studio's reference system, NTH speakers and NAD source component
July 2007 From Product Reviews
While we’ve been paying an extra lot of attention to the new crop of home theater projectors sporting 1080p resolution, we don’t want readers to get the impression that anything less is, well, crap. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, except for Blu-ray and HD DVD titles, there’s no 1080p content to watch anyway. Projectors with 720p resolution have been getting raves from users and reviewers for several years, and let’s face it, 720p is high definition. Optoma’s new HD73 projector makes a good case for going 720p. It’s essentially an upgrade of the company’s HD72 which last year earned
June 2007 From Product Reviews
VIZIO, which began as V inc, got into the digital electronics world four years ago with DVD players. More recently, VIZIO has gotten attention for being a price leader product in flat panels. The company’s commercial showing a man with several TVs in his car chatting with his neighbor who only scored one major brand TV for the same amount of money left a strong impression on many shoppers. In March the research/analyst firm Displaysearch announced that VIZIO was the fastest growing brand of flat panel TVs. In the last quarter of 2006 VIZIO ranked in the top 5 of LCD TV shipments. That’s
HDTV Projector Shopping: It’s Not All About Specs, Sometimes It’s About Logos
April 17, 2007 From Grant Clauser
I was lucky enough to miss last week’s cold blast on the East Coast because I was comfortably reclining in a Mexican hotel with a bottomless margarita in my hand. In fact, I was at a home theater dealer retreat sponsored by Runco, which gathers its best dealers and a handful of magazine editors every year and brings them out to a Mexican beach to talk about issues in the industry and chase a few tequilas in between formal sessions. One topic that came up several times was the ongoing spec war in home theater projectors. I’ve written in the past that resolution
April 17, 2007 From Grant Clauser
I was lucky enough to miss last week’s cold blast on the East Coast because I was comfortably reclining in a Mexican hotel with a bottomless margarita in my hand. In fact, I was at a home theater dealer retreat sponsored by Runco, which gathers its best dealers and a handful of magazine editors every year and brings them out to a Mexican beach to talk about issues in the industry and chase a few tequilas in between formal sessions. One topic that came up several times was the ongoing spec war in home theater projectors. I’ve written in the past that resolution
LG KU-17WDVD, A Feature-Packed LCD TV
September 2004 From Product Reviews
The growing world of small LCD TVs is drunk—positively smashed, even—on variety. There are models designed for just about any use or space, so know how you're going to use it makes all the diffeernce when selecting you flattie. Is the set going to be in the kitchen for watching standard TV? Is it going to be an HDTV set for a small room? Will it be used mainly to watch DVD movies? Do you want to use it as a PC monitor as well? What components and other devices would you like to connect to it? LG's KU-17WDVD suits certain applications well but
September 2004 From Product Reviews
The growing world of small LCD TVs is drunk—positively smashed, even—on variety. There are models designed for just about any use or space, so know how you're going to use it makes all the diffeernce when selecting you flattie. Is the set going to be in the kitchen for watching standard TV? Is it going to be an HDTV set for a small room? Will it be used mainly to watch DVD movies? Do you want to use it as a PC monitor as well? What components and other devices would you like to connect to it? LG's KU-17WDVD suits certain applications well but
Four New DVD Recorders
September 2003 From E-Gear
DVD recorders are suddenly everywhere ... but unique features can complicate choosing one By Joe Paone You may have heard that the DVD recorder is "the new VCR"; just as you rent DVDs (instead of VHS tapes) and watch them on a DVD player (instead of a VCR), now you can record TV shows and camcorder content to DVD instead of tape. Sounds simple, but there are big differences between VCRs and DVD recorders circa 2003. Whereas VCRs are such commodities that they're actually placed near cash registers at grocery stores as impulse buys, DVD recorders remain far from commodity status. The reasons go
September 2003 From E-Gear
DVD recorders are suddenly everywhere ... but unique features can complicate choosing one By Joe Paone You may have heard that the DVD recorder is "the new VCR"; just as you rent DVDs (instead of VHS tapes) and watch them on a DVD player (instead of a VCR), now you can record TV shows and camcorder content to DVD instead of tape. Sounds simple, but there are big differences between VCRs and DVD recorders circa 2003. Whereas VCRs are such commodities that they're actually placed near cash registers at grocery stores as impulse buys, DVD recorders remain far from commodity status. The reasons go
Samsung 61-inch DLP HDTV
June 2003 From Product Reviews
Changing of the TV Guard By Grant Clauser There's an end of a rope somewhere with "CRT television" written on it, and that end is quickly coming closer. For the most part, the TVs in America's homes these days are based on cathode ray tubes (CRT) invented when Grover Cleveland was president. Now that we're well into our second Bush administration, we're finding other ways to watch the evening news and The West Wing. Among the latest successors to the CRT are displays based on Digital Light Processing (DLP) technology. Samsung's flagship rear-projection television, the HLN617W, is a widescreen HDTV-ready DLP television with the
June 2003 From Product Reviews
Changing of the TV Guard By Grant Clauser There's an end of a rope somewhere with "CRT television" written on it, and that end is quickly coming closer. For the most part, the TVs in America's homes these days are based on cathode ray tubes (CRT) invented when Grover Cleveland was president. Now that we're well into our second Bush administration, we're finding other ways to watch the evening news and The West Wing. Among the latest successors to the CRT are displays based on Digital Light Processing (DLP) technology. Samsung's flagship rear-projection television, the HLN617W, is a widescreen HDTV-ready DLP television with the
Denon DVD-3800 DVD-Video/Audio Player
September 2002 From Product Reviews
Everything but the kitchen sink (and SACD) by Mark Fleischmann If the United Nations ever needs a DVD player to show Harry Potter movies to the General Assembly, I'd recommend the Denon DVD-3800—its menus can be read in 125 different languages. Okay, its obvious appeal to Catalan, Moldavian and Samoan speakers may not be what interests you, but there are plenty of attractions here for both videophiles and audiophiles. One of those features is the Silicon Image/DVDO SiI504 video-processing chip. This is the same decoding engine found in Denon's top-of-the-line DVD-9000, which sells for $3,500, versus the 3800's relatively accessible price tag of $1,199
September 2002 From Product Reviews
Everything but the kitchen sink (and SACD) by Mark Fleischmann If the United Nations ever needs a DVD player to show Harry Potter movies to the General Assembly, I'd recommend the Denon DVD-3800—its menus can be read in 125 different languages. Okay, its obvious appeal to Catalan, Moldavian and Samoan speakers may not be what interests you, but there are plenty of attractions here for both videophiles and audiophiles. One of those features is the Silicon Image/DVDO SiI504 video-processing chip. This is the same decoding engine found in Denon's top-of-the-line DVD-9000, which sells for $3,500, versus the 3800's relatively accessible price tag of $1,199
Marantz 61-Inch Plasma Monitor
April 2002 From Product Reviews
The Picture Dreams are Made Of By Grant Clauser Unless you're a professional basketball player, a pop singer, a major CEO or a Hollywood star then you probably have little chance of owning a gorgeous 61-inch Marantz plasma display monitor like the one that showed up at E-Gear's offices. But you can dream. There's a lot to dream about on this baby. At about $30,000 or $491.80 an inch the PD6120D is the ultimate in high-tech home entertainment. It's also as big as these things get, at least for now. Smaller, 42-inch plasma monitors have caught on with up-market consumers (who says we're
April 2002 From Product Reviews
The Picture Dreams are Made Of By Grant Clauser Unless you're a professional basketball player, a pop singer, a major CEO or a Hollywood star then you probably have little chance of owning a gorgeous 61-inch Marantz plasma display monitor like the one that showed up at E-Gear's offices. But you can dream. There's a lot to dream about on this baby. At about $30,000 or $491.80 an inch the PD6120D is the ultimate in high-tech home entertainment. It's also as big as these things get, at least for now. Smaller, 42-inch plasma monitors have caught on with up-market consumers (who says we're
New Year New Gear A Report from CES
April 2002 From E-Gear
Every January hoards of electronics manufacturers, their executives, managers, public relations specialists and honored guests descend upon the quiet (sic) streets of Las Vegas to show the world what new wondrous technology they'll be offering throughout the year as well as some sneak peeks to a few things they've been experimenting with lately. If CES is a barometer of what's to come then we'll all soon have our homes filled with flat LCD televisions, we'll carry libraries of compressed digital music (aka MP3) everywhere and we'll never be out of reach of the wireless Web. Doesn't the future sound great? Recordable DVD technology
April 2002 From E-Gear
Every January hoards of electronics manufacturers, their executives, managers, public relations specialists and honored guests descend upon the quiet (sic) streets of Las Vegas to show the world what new wondrous technology they'll be offering throughout the year as well as some sneak peeks to a few things they've been experimenting with lately. If CES is a barometer of what's to come then we'll all soon have our homes filled with flat LCD televisions, we'll carry libraries of compressed digital music (aka MP3) everywhere and we'll never be out of reach of the wireless Web. Doesn't the future sound great? Recordable DVD technology
