Category: Home cinema
Sony launches Bravia Full HD VPL-VW40 projector
Sony has launched the Bravia Full HD VPL-VW40 projector for the ‘price-conscious’ consumer, offering high-end features at an affordable price – although that price point isn’t made clear by Sony.
Pioneer LX01 Home Cinema System – 'couture' for your living room
Pioneer wants to give your living room a makeover with its LX01 Home Cinema System.
Illuminaire offers flat TV ambient lighting
One manufacturer in particular has been offering an ambient glow with TVs – but now everyone can get one with the Illuminaire flat TV ambient lighting.
CES 2008: Panasonic's two world's largest Plasmas, side by side
We’ve shown you a video of the 150″ Panasonic TV, but how exactly does that compare to last year’s 103-incher? Just take a look at what 47″ difference makes.
Does anyone else…
CES 2008: Toshiba's thin bezel on Cinema series gets the hands-test
Just how thin are the bezels on Toshiba’s new Cinema series TVs?
Well, we know the specs, that the bezel is the world’s thinnest…
CES 2008: Samsung unveils more Bluetooth-enabled Home Theatre goodies
I am loving Samsung’s decision to slap Bluetooth into absolutely everything this year. The HT-X710 is another compact 2.1 virtual surround system, designed to match Samsung’s latest sexy looking HDTVs with A2DP and AVRCP Bluetooth included. The built-in DVD player will also upscale your movies to 1080p resolution.
CES 2008: ViewSonic launches Pro8100 Full HD/1080p home projector
ViewSonic has entered what it describes as the “luxury home theatre lifestyle” category with the Pro8100 home theatre projector.
CES 2008: Samsung Sound Bar – space saving virtual surround sound system with Bluetooth
Okay, it’s not much to look at, admittedly, but that’s part of the idea. The HT-X810 Sound Bar consists of one rather large speaker block and a subwoofer that’s designed to save you serious amounts of space in your lounge. The bar is wall mountable and has an in-built DVD player.
CES 2008: BT Vision to use Xbox 360 consoles as set-top boxes
One exciting snippet of news from Bill Gates’s keynotes speech last night, once again concerning us Brits, was that they’re partnering with BT to offer the Xbox 360 as their Vision set-top box.
This is yet another collaboration between the two giants, with Microsoft’s Mediaroom already actually powering their Vision broadband TV service since late 2006. This deal with Xbox 360 might be just what BT need to pull Vision…
CES 2008: Sharp press conference: surprise, surprise – more massive tellies are on their way
The Sharp CES press conference kicked off with the usual amount of backslapping and general optimism about the state of the HDTV market. And why not – according to Sharps figures and some really rather bland graphs the LCD market is skyrocketing. Sharp expects to have shipped over 74m units by the end of 2007 and 96m by the end of next year, which is probably a lot more than I can count on all my fingers and toes.
