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- Sony BDV-E500W
- Now that Blu-ray players are officially a $100 commodity, it's no surprise that manufacturers are trying to cram the technology into home theater systems at the lowest price possible. Sony's BDV-E500W ($800) takes a decidedly more high-end approach, offering Blu-ray playback in a 5.1 home-theater-in-a-box HTIB system, with step-ups like...
- Tags: Home entertainment, Consumer electronics, surround speaker, Sony BDV-E500W, Sony Corp., speaker, home theater
- Product reviews 2009-07-20
- Sony DAV-HDX589W
- The big upgrade in home-in-a-box systems for 2009 is a built-in Blu-ray player. But those models start at $500. If you don't want to spend that much--and you're not ready for Blu-ray--there are still plenty of home theater systems with "just" DVD. Sony has three such models, each of which...
- Tags: surround speaker, speaker, subwoofer, satellite, DCAC, Digital Cinema Auto Calibration, Sony Corp.
- Product reviews 2009-05-29
- Rocketfish Universal Wireless Rear Speaker Kit
- The speaker cable requirements of today's multichannel home theater systems have created a sizable market for wireless speakers. It seems like everybody wants these things, but the engineering challenges of wireless speakers are steep, and a lot of wireless speakers sound pretty awful. There's a lot of truly awful products...
- Tags: receiver, Rocketfish Universal Wireless Rear Speaker Kit, speaker, transmitter, wireless, surround speaker
- Product reviews 2008-02-26
- Sony DAV-HDX267W
- It might be an overly simplistic view, but the balance of design, features, and performance is generally all that separates one home theater in a box HTIB from another. Sony's Dream systems have traditionally prioritized design over the other two factors, but the new Bravia series aims to emphasize its...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, speaker, Sony Corp., IR Receiver, transmitter, Sony DAV-HDX267W, wireless, surround speaker
- Product reviews 2007-05-24
- Paradigm Cinema 110 CT 5.1
- Paradigm is a midsize Canadian company with an affinity for producing superb small speakers. Case in point: the brand's top-of-the-line Cinema 110 CT system. The six-piece package is designed to look great whether straddling the wall next to a flat-screen TV or sitting on stands next to a bulky, old-school...
- Tags: speaker
- Product reviews 2006-10-19
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- Zvox Z-Base 575
- Photo gallery:Zvox Z-Base 575Sound bars feel like they've been around forever now, but they're still a relatively new product; consider that the groundbreaking Yamaha YSP-1 debuted back at CES 2005. Since then, the exterior design of the units hasn't changed much, with the vast majority still consisting of a long...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Zvox Z-Base 575, HDTV, TV
- Product reviews 2009-11-16
- Zvox Z-Base 525
- Photo gallery:Zvox Z-Base 525Surround sound and its accouterments tend to dominate a living room, requiring an AV receiver, several speakers, stands, and wires to make the whole thing work. That's why many people choose to skip surround sound, opting instead for the tinny acoustics of their TV speakers. Single-speaker solutions...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Zvox Z-Base 525, speaker, HDTV, TV
- Product reviews 2009-11-11
- 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
- 2010 Infiniti QX56
- Photo gallery:2010 Infiniti QX56Compared with sporting and agile cars such as the Infiniti G37 and FX50, the 2010 Infiniti QX56 is an odd throwback, a journey into yesteryear before the first hybrids strode the earth. Built on a truck frame, it rides like a railway car. The engine, big enough...
- Tags: Infiniti QX56
- Product reviews 2009-10-30
- Onkyo HT-S7200
- Photo gallery:Onkyo HT-S7200"True" home theater fans may look down on home-theater-in-a-box systems, but sometimes that elitist attitude is unwarranted. The Onkyo HT-S7200 may technically be an HTIB, but that's just because it comes in a giant box; the system is composed of two separate components, the SKS-HT870 7.1 speaker package...
- Tags: speaker, Onkyo HT-S7200, Onkyo, HTIB
- Product reviews 2009-10-27
- Tritton AX900
- Among all the video game accessories available today, no other market seems to be expanding as rapidly as the video game headset. With most current-generation consoles able to produce 5.1 surround sound, finding a headset solution to handle such a request is now much easier than before. We've tested a...
- Tags: Games, Tritton Technologies, headphone, headset
- Product reviews 2009-10-22
- Apple unveils major Mac upgrades
- Looks like the rumors had it pretty closeIt is getting harder for Apple to really keep things secret before a new launch. I was still hoping that Blu-ray would make it in, at least as an option on the high-end, but as the rumors predicted, it is not available...
- Tags: Mice, Desktops, eSATA, Apple Inc., mouse, display, Apple Macintosh
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Acer Aspire Z5610: Acer's first all-in-one multi-touch desktop
- Acer is finally getting into the multi-touch game with its first all-in-one desktop with multi-touch input support. The company announced the Acer Aspire Z5610 yesterday, which will be on sale in time for the holiday season. The clincher is that it will be going for only...
- Tags: Desktop, Multi-touch, Acer Inc., Jennifer Bergen
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Malibal Veda series
- It seems that boutique notebook builder Malibal (pronounced mal-la-bull) is ready to see desktops die. The company specializes in custom-built desktop replacements. No thin-and-lights. No ultraportables. No "mainstream" models. The Veda series is its largest, with an 18.4-inch LCD that can be loaded with Core 2 Quad Extreme QX9300 (ours...
- Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, Desktops, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), NVidia Corp., DDR3, desktop
- Product reviews 2009-10-02
- Onkyo HT-RC160
- Photo gallery:Onkyo HT-RC160Comparing the features of competing AV receivers is already a difficult chore, but many manufacturers, such as Denon and Yamaha, invite more complexity by offering two lines of nearly identical AV receivers: a custom-install-friendly line and a more-consumer-based line. For better or worse, Onkyo has followed suit with...
- Tags: Onkyo HT-RC160, receiver, Onkyo
- Product reviews 2009-09-30
- Sony STR-DN1000
- Photo gallery:Sony STR-DN1000Last year, Sony's STR-DG920 was our top midrange AV receiver pick. Its graphical user interface was a step above the text-based displays of competitors and its analog video upconversion featured solid image quality--a rarity among AV receivers. The STR-DN1000 is the STR-DG920's successor, featuring a new sleek design...
- Tags: Sony STR-DN1000, Sony STR-DG920, Sony Corp.
- Product reviews 2009-09-18
- Nokia 7705 Twist (Verizon Wireless)
- We can safely say that we've never seen a phone like the Nokia 7705 Twist. Sure, we've reviewed square handsets before, and swivel models were in style a few years back; however, we've never had the two design aesthetics combined onto one device. We're not quite sure if it works--it's...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Verizon Wireless, Nokia Corp., phone, display
- Product reviews 2009-09-16
- A bravo for Brammo
- Saw oneOn Saturday I accompanied my friend to BB to purchase a new surround-sound receiver and speaker setup for him. We saw this weird "bicycle" while walking through the store. Looked like a bicycle but with a very beefy frame batteries and a swollen rear hub motor. ...
- Tags: bicycle
- Discussion threads 2009-09-01
- LG LHB953
- Photo gallery:LG LHB953When Blu-ray HTIBs first hit the market, they really didn't make sense as a product type. They were slow, and the value just wasn't there, as it was easy to put together superior systems from separate components. One year later, everything has changed; there are several excellent HTIBs...
- Tags: subwoofer, speaker, LG LHB953, LG Electronics Inc., center channel
- Product reviews 2009-08-14
- Samsung HT-BD1250
- Photo gallery:Samsung HT-BD1250DVD home-theater-in-box systems seem to offer a lot of value from the spec sheet, but are often seriously disappointing in use, with lackluster audio and video being the norm. So far our experience with Blu-ray HTIBs has been the exact opposite; almost all of the systems we've tested...
- Tags: TV & Home Theater, subwoofer, center channel, Samsung HT-BD1250, Blu-ray HTIB, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., speaker
- Product reviews 2009-08-14
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