AVForums.com has produced what is probably the most comprehensive guide to 3DTV and the technology behind it yet. This video explains the two most common systems coming to the UK market just in time for 3DTVs hitting store shelves. You can view the video here… … Continue Reading
AVForums have published three reports from this year’s Bristol Sound and Vision show 2010. The show was held over the weekend of the 26th to 28th February 2010. … Continue Reading
In a recent series of 10 videos, Phil Hinton explored THX and how the certification process is carried out. … Continue Reading
We spent some time with THX at their San Rafael offices in mid January … Continue Reading
Mark Botright looks at the changing face of cinema and games…
As is the case with most AV enthusiasts, I have whiled away many an hour tweaking and fiddling with equipment in order to wring out every last ounce of enjoyment from my kit. … Continue Reading
Panasonic Hollywood Labs (PHL) are one of the premier Blu-ray authoring houses in Hollywood with many award winning … Continue Reading
AVForums have completed their CES 2010 reports by providing the most comprehensive video coverage to be found anywhere. … Continue Reading
Why do some question Calibration to the industry standards? Phil Hinton gives us his musings on the subject… … Continue Reading
Phil Hinton reports on the first AVForums HD World event held at JVC UK. … Continue Reading
Russell Williams reports on the recent Inaugural National Audio Show – Whittlebury Hall, Northampton.
The spiritual successor to the Hi-fi News show at the Heathrow Park Inn, Chester Group upped sticks and plonked it in the sprawling Whittlebury Hall Hotel & Spa next to Silverstone. This new venue has the simultaneous benefit of being more central to the country as a whole and offering up considerably larger rooms for the exhibitors. … Continue Reading
We have just received the first full production sample of the new JVC DLA-HD950 DILA projector and are prepping the review room as we write. … Continue Reading
AVForums Editorial Manager and reviewer Phil Hinton asks some questions of the industry, journalists and consumers when it comes to display calibration.
AVForums Calibration Workshop 2009
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OLED TV, it’s the future. Well that is what we’ve been told for the last 5 years, at least. However, it seems to have taken longer than anticipated for the technology to mature and develop and yet, even now, large screen sizes are still technically difficult to manufacture, with an acceptable lifespan and failure rate. [...]
Philips has had a habit of doing things their own way and releasing TVs with features not seen from any other manufacturer. Just look at their 21:9 LCD TV, for example. But doing things your own way can sometimes fly in the face of how things should be done. So with that in mind we [...]
Having looked at the very impressive budget CCFL based EX403 a few weeks ago we turn our attention to the EDGE LED KDL-40EX703 model.
Everybody wants everything these days. Each year the consumer electronics industry feeds us with new reasons to render our latest pride and joy obsolete, which gives us ever-lengthening lists of features that (we think) we need. The problem is that expectations are so high we get upset when we don’t get it. Receivers seem to [...]
With all the ‘Quattron’ advertising in the press and online, and with Sulu on the TV, you could be forgiven for thinking that Sharp were repositioning themselves as a high-end, high price, brand. But as you can see from the model we have here for review, the Aquos range of TVs for 2010 also includes [...]
Phil Hinton tests the flagship 3D LED LCD from LG and is pleasantly surprised at the results…
Over the last few years I have been impressed by LG’s attempts to both produce more accurate displays and include comprehensive calibration controls. Obviously LG has had no choice but to jump on the same band wagons as the other manufacturers and this has seen them
At the inaugural National Hi-fi Show, in 2009, there were some impressive demonstrations, in what was a stereo hi-fi dominated show. It wasn’t without its AV highlights with several traditional hi-fi, plus some more naturally AV focused manufacturers, demoing full multi-channel systems to varying degrees of success. As I wrote on the AV Enthusiast Blog, [...]
With so much fuss made about the launch of Apple’s latest gadget, Andrew Mogford sat back for a week with his own iPad to give us his in-depth thoughts; so what was the outcome?
Panasonic, like many other manufacturers, has begun to roll out their 2010 lineup in anticipation of this month’s World Cup and the TX-L37V20B is one of the most anticipated. The TX-L37V20B represents the apex of current LCD display design incorporating as it does an IPS panel for improved off-axis performance, LED Edge backlighting, Internet TV, [...]