Tag Archives: home theater

Slingbox 350 and 500 show up unannounced in Best Buy, flaunt 1080p and built-in WiFi

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You might say Dave Zatz just had a happy accident. While he was hunting for the as yet unofficial Logitech Harmony Touch in Best Buy, he discovered the Slingbox 350 and 500 — two more living room gadgets that have yet to receive an official introduc…


Panasonic PT-AE8000U projector touts brighter, smoother 3D for king-of-the-hill home theaters

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Panasonic wasn’t one of the quickest out of the gate with a 3D projector, having only unveiled the PT-AE7000 in the middle of last year, but it’s making up for lost time with a follow-up. The PT-AE8000 puts most of the focus on that extra dimension t…


VidaBox unveils vPlayer and vStreamer Media Extenders with slicker looks, green credentials

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Most VidaBox Media Extenders have borne a closer similarity to mini PCs than to the kind of equipment you’d stack on top of a home theater receiver. That’s already been changing, but the company’s new vPlayer and vStreamer are virtually invisible in …


Plex launches new Web Client and PlexPass subscription, updates Media Server

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Plex fans among us just got treated to a smorgasbord — albeit one that isn’t completely free. The media front-end developer hopes to boost its bottom line through PlexPass, a subscription service that amounts to a paid beta program. Shell out $4 per…


Toshiba tries its hand at home theater audio with the SBX4250 Sound Bar

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Toshiba has long been acquainted with the visual facets of home theater setups, and now the firm is entering the audio side of the equation with the SBX4250 — the first in a line-up of sound bar speaker systems. Featuring SRS TruSurround HD and acco…


Aperion Audio Intimus 4T Summit touts uncompressed surround sound without the cords

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See that little box next to those huge speakers? That’s Aperion Audio’s ticket to what’s reportedly a no-compromise approach to wireless home theater. The Intimus 4T Summit Wireless is billed as the only system of its kind to transmit uncompressed 24…


Belkin announces @TV, Slingbox-esque media streamer and companion app

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Belkin has unveiled @TVPlus, a media streamer that jacks into your home theater and pumps episodes of Community (or, other things, we guess) to your smartphone, tablet or laptop through the internet. Packing a built-in WiFi radio, you’ll connect to i…


LG’s 55-inch OLED TV gets official design, possible €9,000 price tag

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LG has been coy about details of its 55-inch OLED TV since we saw its hyper-rich organic colors at CES, but it just nailed down a number of details at a Monte Carlo event. The 55EM9600 has seen its display base get a bit bigger now that the screen is…


Dolby ups TrueHD lossless audio on Blu-ray to 96k, says every upsampled bit is amazing (video)

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Just because your home theater can handle lossless audio doesn’t mean the sound is as good as it could be. Dolby is now giving Blu-ray producers using Dolby Media Producer Encoder v2 the choice of premastering TrueHD surround sound at an upsampled 96…


Eyes-on Whiteman Technology’s Delta DVR, plus more hardware details

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Did the recent revelation of the Delta DVR, with its six tuners, AMD silicon running Windows Media Center embedded and 3TB HDD have you viewing your current DVR with disdain? Well, stop reading now, because we got to speak with the man who created th…