Tag Archive for 'home-entertainment'
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. [...]
With a name like HomeTroller I half expected HomeSeer’s new gadget to leave attention-seeking and argumentative messages daubed on your interior walls, but in actual fact it’s their second-generation plug and play home automation and monitoring system. Basically HomeSeer’s software packed into a fanless box, it can hook up to multiple wired and wireless setups including [...]
As home entertainment PCs go, Acer’s new Aspire X1200 isn’t exactly going to win any awards for its looks, but considering it’s been cleverly shaved so as to be rack-friendly you’re probably not really meant to leave it out on show. Inside lurks an AMD Athlon X2 2850e processor, NVIDIA GeForce 8200 graphics and an [...]
In what would seem at first glance a surprising move, Roku have opened up their Netflix Player box to tinkerers by releasing the GPL code for the Linux-based download device. It turns out that the DRM decoding is all handled by the NXP PNX8935 chip, probably satisfying any of Netflix’s concerns that opening the box [...]
Canton’s latest speakers aren’t as discrete as Yamaha’s new YSP-3050, perhaps, but they’re likely to offer a whole lot more performance if you can stomach the extra room clutter. Saying that, Canton are certainly trying to minimize that too: the Chrono 501 has a new, low-profile design as well as pricing reduced by 30-percent over [...]
Yamaha have unveiled another model in their Digital Sound Projector range, the YSP-3050. Offering the usual pseudo-surround sound effect from a single array of 23 individual speakers, the 3050 slots in underneath the existing flagship model but still packs analog to HDMI video upconversion, high-def video upscaling to 1080i/720p and full 1080p (24Hz and 60Hz) compatibility.
