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- Denon DVD-2930CI
- Denon's high-end upscaling DVD player, the DVD-2930CI ($850 list), is initially a somewhat confusing product. With Toshiba's HD-A1 HD-DVD player going for $500 and upscaling DVD players costing about $150, who wants to spend $850 for a non-high-def DVD player? Well, plenty of videophiles still aren't quite ready to spend...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, Media players, Denon DVD-2930CI, DVD, DVD player, Denon
- Product reviews 2006-09-07
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- Onkyo SKS-HT870
- Onkyo is known for having speaker expertise, even though it's not primarily a speaker company. That's because of Onkyo's success selling home-theater-in-a-box systems HTIBs, which combine a speaker system and an AV receiver in a single box, taking some of the confusion out of putting together your own system. The...
- Tags: center channel, speaker, Onkyo
- Product reviews 2009-10-30
- Ultrasone Edition 8
- We've reviewed a number of Ultrasone headphones over the years--everything from iPod-inspired iCans to the luxurious HFI-2200s. But the new Edition 8s are, in so many ways, a very different Ultrasone. First, the Edition 8s have, according to Ultrasone, a completely original design that doesn't share any parts with...
- Tags: Ultrasone, headphone
- Product reviews 2009-10-21
- Klipsch HD Theater 500
- Few speaker manufacturers know as much about true movie theater sound as Klipsch. The Indianapolis-based company starting making speakers for movie theaters decades before the words "home" and "theater" were ever uttered together in the same sentence. But for better or worse, the company's home products had a reputation for...
- Tags: Network technology, subwoofer, speaker, Klipsch HD Theater 500, HD Theater 500, satellite
- Product reviews 2009-03-25
- News to know: Exectweet, Twitter, Intel options, iPhone 3.0, Vista share
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft + Federated Media + Twitter = ExecTweets Exectweets: Nice, but not the revenue plan for...
- Tags: Revenue, Apple iPhone, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Sam Diaz, Netbook, Intel Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Operational Accounting, Hardware, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
- Gadget Gal's daily deals: Denon DVD player, Sony earbuds, Garmin GPS navigator, Asus Eee PC netbook
- Don't let the fact that it's Monday get you down. Look on the bright side, at least there's a whole new week of bargains to look forward to. Here are your morning deals for Monday, March 23, straight from the Gadget Gal: 1....
- Tags: ASUS, Sony Corp., Best Buy Co. Inc., PC, Garmin Ltd., Buy.com, Netbook, GPS, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Speech Recognition, Hardware, Emerging Technologies, Jennifer Bergen
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- Energy Take Classic
- Judging from our past encounters with speaker manufacturer Energy, it's no secret that we think the company makes terrific small speakers. We recently raved about the amazingly tiny RC-Micro 5.1 System ($1,000) and mentioned how it actually reminded us of the original Energy Take 5 satellite/subwoofer system we reviewed in...
- Tags: Network technology, sub, speaker, satellite, Take Classic, Take 5
- Product reviews 2009-02-20
- Denon AVR-789
- Editors' note: The Denon AVR-789 is nearly identical to the AVR-1909, therefore the reviews are very similar. The AVR-789 lacks the smaller remote for second zone usage and a wired RF input, but is otherwise functionally identical. Setting up an audiovisual receiver isn't for the faint of heart. Stripping...
- Tags: Overall IT, Denon AVR-789, receiver, Denon
- Product reviews 2009-01-23
- Denon AVR-1909
- Setting up an AV receiver isn't for the faint of heart. Stripping speaker wire, multitudes of cables, inputs and outputs, confusing configuration--even the most grizzled AV nerd is likely to make at least one mistake during a setup. And even after you get it set up, it can be a...
- Tags: Overall IT, LCD Display, Denon AVR-1909, receiver, Denon
- Product reviews 2009-01-20
- Zvox Z-Base 550
- Let's start with a clarification: Don't confuse the Zvox Z-Base 550 Low-Profile Single Cabinet Surround Sound System ($500) with any of those seriously svelte sound bar speakers crowding the market. It's not even comparable with Zvox's previous single-speaker soundbars, the 415 ($400) and 425 ($600). Those speakers were designed to...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Cable, Z-Base 550, Zvox Z-Base 550, speaker, TV, PhaseCue
- Product reviews 2008-12-12
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: High-end home theater setups
- Holiday Gift Guide 2008: High-end home theater setupsDid this article say "High-end" home theater??High-end by whose standards...someone who usually shops at Walmart? I mean c'mon - high end Blu Ray player for $350.00? Denon and Marantz both have Blu Ray players that are over $3,000.00 to start. The stuff listed...
- Tags: Home entertainment, Consumer electronics, TV & Home Theater, Blueray, home theater, Holiday Gift Guide 2008, home theater setup
- Discussion threads 2008-12-05
- Denon DHT-FS5
- Denon's DHT-FS5 is an unusually compact single speaker surround system with an unusually compact list price--just $500. That means it sells for less than half the asking price of its big brother, Denon's up market DHT-FS3. Even so, the two units have a lot in common: they're almost the...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, DVD, Denon DHT-FS5, Denon, speaker
- Product reviews 2008-12-04
- Polk Audio I-Sonic ES2
- When the Polk Audio I-Sonic was released in the fall of 2006, it offered a then-unbeatable combination of features for a product in the tony "executive stereo system" genre: AM/FM radio with HD Radio compatibility; CD and DVD playback; and XM satellite radio support. Yes, the I-Sonic suffered from less-than-intuitive...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Digital music, Digital media, Monitors & displays, Polk Audio I-Sonic ES2, Polk Audio I-Sonic, radio, Apple iPod, original I-Sonic
- Product reviews 2008-06-02
- Denon S-52
- In the past few years, the addition of an iPod dock or a CD player has constituted a major upgrade to the tabletop radio category. Polk Audio upped the ante in 2006 with the I-Sonic, which included HD Radio, XM satellite radio compatibility, and even a DVD player in one...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Denon S-52, Apple iPod, Denon, radio
- Product reviews 2008-04-07
- Acoustic Research AWD510 Wireless Headphones
- "Wireless headphones" can mean different things to different people. Many envision Bluetooth portables--either the one-ear cell phone headsets or lightweight stereo models designed for on the go use. But there's also a large market for wireless home headphones, those larger models that are designed to be used around the house...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, headphone, Acoustic Research AWD510s
- Product reviews 2008-03-26
- HDMI survival guide for home theater
- HDMI survival guide for home theaterUm,the 1960s ended ;)It was UHF not UHV and it is still there.That is where the digital channels are placed.We still got them, but it's blocky when the signal is badWe still got them, but it's blocky when the signal is bad or insufficient. ...
- Tags: Network technology, home theater, HDMI, cable
- Discussion threads 2008-03-21
- Cambridge SoundWorks i765
- Remember when clock radios were merely clock radios? That was long before the iPod-ization trend took the world by storm. Outboard docks are yesterday's news and integrated docks have become de rigueur. Witness the new Cambridge SoundWorks i765 with an iPod/iPhone dock molded into its top panel. The i765 is...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Consumer electronics, DVD, display, back-panel, i765, radio, Apple iPod, dock, Cambridge SoundWorks
- Product reviews 2008-02-15
- Is Blu-ray worth it?
- Is Blu-ray worth it?AgreedI'm glad this didn't degenerate into something about bitrates, etc. :)RE: Is Blu-ray worth it?I don't even bother with the upconversion! I bought a Sony XBR tube TV with fantastic upconvert circuitry - my Onkyo DVD player's upconversion isn't nearly as good as the native Sony...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, Media players, TVs, TV & Home Theater, DVD, HDMI, Sony Corp., DVD player, TV
- Discussion threads 2008-02-13
- LG BH200
- When LG introduced the first HD DVD/Blu-ray combo player at CES 2007, it was a groundbreaking moment in consumer electronics. Nobody expected a combo player to be released so soon, and at the time it seemed that maybe it was a way to avoid a long, protracted format war. Fast-forward...
- Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, setup menu, LG Electronics Inc., clicker, LG BH200, HD-DVD
- Product reviews 2008-02-13
- Don't believe the low bit-rate 'HD' lie
- Don't believe the low bit-rate 'HD' lieWhat IS HD?HD is not a standard, the term high-definition only refers to the resolution of the image that is displayed, not the quality of the image. So I can't fault apple for saying their content is HD, because, it IS.. it's a high...
- Tags: HD DVD, DVD, Consumer electronics, 1080p
- Discussion threads 2008-01-18
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