American blog Hollywood in High def are today reporting that Panasonic may have struck a multi-million dollar deal to offer the 3D version of AVATAR to its customers as early as November this year. … Continue Reading
Paramount Home Enetertainment has announced that it recalling the UK Blu-ray edition of Saving Private Ryan due to an audio sync issue … Continue Reading
Sky News Decision Time will challenge the traditional election night format as it launches in HD at 9pm on Thursday May 6th. Sky News’ groundbreaking election night coverage kicks off with Sky’s top presenters reporting live from the field in picture-sharp HD. Kay Burley will be tracking Gordon Brown, Jeremy Thompson will be tracking David Cameron and Anna Botting will be tracking Nick Clegg in the leaders’ respective constituencies of Kirkcaldy, Witney, and Sheffield Hallam. On Friday, Eamonn Holmes and Dermot Murnaghan take over as the counts finish and the story gravitates towards Westminster. An election this close is made for a 24-hour news channel, and Sky News will stay with the action until the result is clear. … Continue Reading
Loudspeaker manufacturer Crystal Audio has unveiled its new TX-2 5.1 surround sound speaker which takes THX Ultra2 certification to a truly remarkable price point of £1399, … Continue Reading
Denon has unveiled the first products in its new range of advanced audio/video receivers and both are 3D compatible. The seven channel AVR-1911 and the five channel
AVR-1611 build on their multi award-winning predecessors, and come with a wide variety of enhancements at the same attractive price points. Fully prepared for the latest technology, the two newcomers feature full 3D video connectivity and 3D surround sound options. In addition, the new machines provide a wealth of superior AV receiver features, including HDMI conversion, clear-cut on-screen displays and straightforward user operation. As with previous select Denon components the two new receivers have received extensive sound tuning at Denon’s UK listening facility. … Continue Reading
Sky has announced it’s latest subscriber figures which shows that one on four of it’s viewers are watching the HD service; that equates to 2.5m viewers of the total 9.77 million subscribers. … Continue Reading
Sharp Electronics UK today announces the launch of the new Aquos LED LCD TV series, which for the first time introduces a fourth colour sub-pixel, yellow, to the traditional red, green, blue format. The revolutionary new four colour technology enables billions of colours to be displayed, creating more sparkling golds, emerald greens and Caribbean blues. … Continue Reading
Sky News today announced that it will launch in High Definition on Thursday 6th May at 9.00pm to coincide with the channel’s election night show Decision Time. Sky News HD will be broadcast on Sky channel 517 and will be simulcast alongside Sky News’ existing Standard Definition channel 501. … Continue Reading
Best Buy is re-defining consumer electronics retailing in the UK by today revealing its new area in-store dedicated to energy saving and green, energy efficient technology. This “GreenTech” area will showcase everything from energy management products to solar chargers and even electric vehicles – a first for any UK consumer electronics retailer. … Continue Reading
Volcanic ash may have cast a cloud over much of Europe but it couldn’t dampen the spirits of those gathered at the UnderGlobe in London on Friday night to find out the winners of the CEDIA Awards 2010. Actor and comedian Chris Barrie, best known to some as Rimmer from Red Dwarf and Gordon Brittas from the Brittas Empire to others, was on hand to present the awards which were held in association with AWE Europe, KEF Audio UK, Philips Pronto and Sonos. … Continue Reading
Runco, the leading high-end home cinema projectors brand, and the first to gain THX Certification for its projectors, has again received THX acknowledgement for its latest range … Continue Reading
Denon has unveiled two new high-performance stereo components. Combining its 100 year audio pedigree with the latest playback technologies, Denon presents the PMA-1510AE integrated amplifier and DCD-1510AE CD/SACD player. The new amp features a newly developed construction with carefully selected parts for high quality sound, while the player uses unique technologies to ensure sonic delivery remains faithfull to the original recording. Both newcomers complete Denon’s new award-winning Advanced Evolution stereo series and will be available in late April 2010. … Continue Reading
Geoff Harrison, a director of photography and stereographer explains how 3D is filmed and the footage edited for playback on the new 3D TVs.
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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, [...]