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That's Ultra HD To You (But Not Sony) 23 Oct 2012 | 12:53 am
In a move intended to bring clarity to the market, the Consumer Electronics Association has selected "Ultra High-Definition or Ultra HD" as the official name for TVs with "4K" resolution capability. ...
4K TV: Savior Or Silliness? 26 Sep 2012 | 12:15 am
Just when you thought HDTV couldn't get any better or any cheaper, you find out that it can get a lot better and a lot less cheap. The next big thing in video is 4k, which has quadruple the resolutio...
New Rotel Receiver: Sonic Breakthrough For Home Theater? 25 Sep 2012 | 11:48 pm
There are a lot of great A/V receivers out there, but once you get to a certain level of sophistication and price, your eyes and ears begin to glaze over. The features can be so complex they're only...
Meet The Newest A/V Component: The Wi-Fi Router 25 Sep 2012 | 11:42 pm
With streamed media being so central to today's video landscape, you've got to look at your Wi-Fi router as another source component, just like your disc player or cable box. Anyone who's endured an ...
Monster N-Ergy Headphones Live Up To Their Names 25 Sep 2012 | 11:20 pm
Monster, with no small help from Dr. Dre, changed the headphone game in 2008 with the now-ubiquitous Beats. Four years later, there are hundreds of me-too wannabes hawking thousands of headphones -- ...
Dolby Looks To Make Mobile Video Sound Better 25 Sep 2012 | 06:45 pm
Ever try listening to a big-sounding Hollywood blockbuster through headphones? Not very satisfying compared to the real thing, is it? Dolby Laboratories didn't think so either, so their resident gen...
A/V Giants Struggle To Stay Relevant 28 Aug 2012 | 04:53 pm
Beset by heavy losses, shrinking workforces, crushing competition from China and Korea and an oversaturated consumer market, some of your favorite electronics brands are on the ropes. Or on the floor....
Guess Who Wants To Be Your Cable Company? 26 Aug 2012 | 02:57 pm
The TV delivery wars are heating up, and as if big cable companies like Comcast, Cablevision and Time Warner didn't have enough headaches already, a new name has dipped its toes in the water -- none o...
Thinking Of Cutting The Cord? 16 Aug 2012 | 02:34 pm
The average household cable TV bill is now around $86 per month, and satellite charges can run even higher. That's more than a $1000 a year. With the rise of streamed programming, web access to popu...
This Just In - Bigger TV Is Better. 10 Aug 2012 | 08:00 pm
Sharp has hit the market with a line of huge Aquos LED TVs that go all the way up to a whopping 90 inch screen size. All this while being about 2 inches thick and compared to most anything else on th...
