Future cinema on display in Japan

June 9, 2005

In what could be a precursor to the cinema of the future, Sony, NEC and Canon (among others) have teamed up to create some remarkable sights and sounds for the Expo 2005 show in Aichi Japan. Among the various attractions and exhibits is The show which runs through June 19th is described as a tribute [...]

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Sound & Vision reviews four plasmas

June 8, 2005

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Your Aviator DVD isn’t defective, don’t panic

June 7, 2005

I’m sure many of you have by now rented or purchased a copy of Martin Scorsese’s Technicolor films which used a two-component (red blue-green) process. This process was extremely advanced for its day, but by modern standards leaves much to be desired. Later in the film (as time moves on) the three-color Technicolor effect is [...]

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BenQ PE8720 projector, preview

June 6, 2005

The Texas Instruments DarkChip 3 is currently the DMD of choice in upper-mid to high end home theater projectors, having personally reviewed two such DC3 projectors I can attest to the chips accurate color reproduction, black level and overall excellent image quality. Joining the small but growing ranks of DC3 projectors is the DMD, 8 [...]

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Mark Cuban on high definition DVD

June 4, 2005

So I’m reading the new issue of

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InfoComm 2005 preview

June 3, 2005

It’s hard to believe that this years indicates just such a product but it’s touted as being geared for commercial use, not home theater. The SuperNova Screen is said to be an “optical front projection screen for brightly-lit meeting rooms. It delivers an extraordinary ten times higher contrast and two times brighter images than standard [...]

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Blockbuster planning movie downloads

June 2, 2005

Competition from Netflix, DVR’s and menagerie of other distractions, would appear to leave Blockbuster trying to regain their once unshakeable hold on the home video front. Blockbuster UK is planning an

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Best Buy wants your home theater business, again

June 1, 2005

Best-Buy stores in 12 national markets have built a store within a store, in hopes of catering to a slightly more upscale clientele than their usual home-theater-in-a-box crowd. I’m so heartbroken to learn mine wasn’t one of those 12 markets, snicker. But seriously under the moniker of “

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