Tag Archive for 'home-entertainment'
While speaker-bars aren’t particularly new - they sit underneath your TV and aim to create pseudo surround-sound from an array of angled cones - they’re usually marketed as convenience tech rather than something for audiophiles. In fact it’s taken an ex-NASA scientist to make that claim, with the soundmatters SLIMstage40: 170 Watts from eight internal [...]
Gefen have unveiled three new component video distributors, intended to make connecting multi-room A/V straightforward. First, the 4×4 Component Audio over CAT5 Matrix enables a direct connection between any four component video sources and four displays while supporting digital and analog audio inputs and outputs. Meanwhile, the two new distribution amplifiers from Gefen enable A/V systems [...]
People interested in technology and home entertainment like to get their hands on the latest, greatest products. Before, it was all about having the top of the line DVD player, receiver and speaker system. And though those things still hold serious importance, there’s one product type that seems destined to swoop in on the home [...]
Case manufacturer Antec has taken the wraps off of its latest HTPC case, together with a new range of “Multimedia Station” add-ons to make existing computers more home-entertainment friendly. The Micro Fusion Remote 350 is compact 4.5 x 15.1 x 16.1-inches and includes an aluminium front panel with IR receiver, remote control and LCD display. [...]
High-end home entertainment manufacturer Xperinet has shut up shop, blaming the US economic downturn and the fragile housing market. We only wrote about the company once before here at SlashGear, at the launch of its clever but indecently-expensive Xperinet RAIDsync system that promised to synchronise various media servers whether in the same or spread across [...]
Sony has announced what it’s calling a “home theater in a stand”, the RHT-G500, which includes front stereo and center channel speakers, together with a subwoofer, designed to mimic full surround sound. Suitable for BRAVIA TVs from 32 to 40-inches in size, the G500 has three HDMI sockets and a monitor output, together with the company’s [...]
Blockbuster has begun small-scale trials of their online movie rental service, using the Movielink video-download technology the acquired last year. Starting this week, 500 beta testers have been invited to start using the service; the company will charge $2 per rental and $8 per full movie purchase.
Yet another home media option from Samsung, this time aiming to connect your shiny new LCD or plasma TV up to your media center PC. The Samsung MediaLive is an extender that brings the Vista Media Center to your HDTV screen; that means you can watch recorded or downloaded media, pause live TV and also watch [...]
Onkyo have announced a number of new home entertainment products, including two THX-certified receivers and two new “Home Theater in a Box” systems. The receivers - the TX-SR806 and TX-SR706 - both include the new THX Loudness Plus audio processing technology for improved low-volume-level listening, while the SR806 has THX Ultra2 Plus certification and the [...]
Scarily high-end A/V manufacturer Goldmund have announced a new luxury processor capable of extending to an infinite number of channels. Intended for private screening and home cinema rooms, with seating for up to fifty viewers, the Goldmund U-32 Processor contains digital signal processors the company claims are each fifty times as powerful as their predecessors. [...]
