March 11, 2010
£9,000 is a lot of money for most home cinema enthusiasts – add in another £5,000 for a bespoke anamorphic lens solution and we are talking real high-end projection. And that’s exactly what we have here for review.
“The JVC HD990 offers a slight step up in overall contrast and image depth over the HD950 as [...]
March 11, 2010
Philips’ 9000 series sits at the top of a fairly large selection of LCD TV ranges. Although that top-end range does include LED backlit displays, today’s 47PFL9664 is a 47” LCD HDTV which uses standard CCFL backlighting. Philips’ AmbiLight Spectra 2 is on board and claims to provide more immersive viewing, and there are a [...]
March 11, 2010
Russell Williams gets to grips with the flag-ship Onkyo AV Receiver for 2010. Boasting THX Ultra2, Audyssey DSX and Dolby PIIz Technologies along with huge power reserves, is it the best AVR yet?
If I were forced to go back to a receiver, at least I now know that I wouldn’t be committing musical Hari Kiri [...]
March 11, 2010
Sony has recently released a new line of LCD TVs in it’s range to feature Freesat HD tuners. David Mackenzie reviews the 32inch KDL-32V5810 HDTV from Sony…
Sony’s introduction of Freesat-capable displays adds a good amount of value to the BRAVIA LCD lineup. Normally, I would find it hard to specifically recommend Sony’s implementations of [...]
February 5, 2010
David Mackenzie investigates Toshiba’s updated DVD upscaler.
“Earlier this year, when Toshiba introduced their XD-E500 upscaling DVD player, I remarked that my review of it was probably the last assessment of a DVD player that you’d likely read on AVForums.com. As it happens, I was wrong, because Toshiba has seen fit to introduce an updated model, [...]