Home Theater
Blu-ray
2012 Holiday Gift Guide: Blu-ray Players (list)
Don’t be befuddled by the “Cloud,” because having content local and at-hand guarantees you can watch what you want when you want. A Blu-ray disc not only provides an uncompressed high-resolution 1080p picture, but gives you cho...
Holiday Gift Guides
2012 Holiday Gift Guide: Televisions (list)
There’s never been a better time to get a new TV to place in your living room, den or bedroom. Today’s TVs don’t just offer bigger screens, but there’s also high-definition to make the picture stand out like it was real. Then a...
Holiday Gift Guides
2012 Holiday Gift Guide: Soundbars (list)
Flat-panel TVs may look great, but the chassis doesn’t allow for the room necessary to add great sound to the mix. That’s the reason for a sound bar — it can go below the TV, if on a wall, or just in front of it if seated...
Home Theater
First Look at Sony’s XBR-84X900 84-inch 4K Ultra HDTV at Santa Monica’s Video & Audio Center
Big is better, but it’s not about size this time, it’s about resolution. Sony hosted an event at the Video & Audio Center in Santa Monica to present their XBR-84X900 84-inch 4K Ultra HDTV. The XBR-84X900 displays an image ...
Blu-ray
Sony BDP-S790 3D Blu-ray Player Review
There are those who say that a Blu-ray player should do more than just play discs, but also provide a conduit to the Internet and access to applications and websites in a manner similar to that of “Smart TVs” and mobile devices...
Home Theater
VIZIO SB4021M-A1 Home Theater Sound Bar Review
VIZIO is known for their TVs, but you wouldn’t say the same when it comes to stand-alone sound systems. In fact, when the UPS guy delivered the rectangular box to my door, I couldn’t figure out how VIZIO got a TV into the box. ...
Home Theater
Proficient Audio MaxTV MT2 TV Sound Speaker Review
Sound bars make a lot of sense, especially now that TVs have gotten so thin. There’s no space for large speakers or heavy-duty audio amplification of them. So a stand-alone set of speakers that don’t take up the space of a trad...
Displays
LG Ultra High Def TV Arrives in Time for the Holidays, Costs $20,000
How big is an 84-inch TV? Glue 42-inch TVs together and you’ll find out. Or you could just buy this 84-inch behmoth, the 84LM9600 Ultra HD LED TV from LG. Needless to say, it’s a massive set, and boasts a whoppi...
Computer Accessory Reviews
D-Link DIR-826L Dual-Band Gigabit Cloud Router Review
It may not be fair to say all routers are alike, but the fact is that the singular purpose at their core is the same: to modify an Internet signal so that it can be shared by multiple devices without concern. And with routers h...
DVR
Boxee TV Offers Unlimited DVR Storage Thanks to the Cloud
A few years ago Boxee was simply a piece of software. At one point the company had hoped to license their interface to major TV manufacturers. Needless to say that never came to fruition. Instead, Boxee partnered with D-Link...
Home Theater
Viewsonic VX2460h-led 24″ Monitor Review
There was a time when a high-definition monitor and a large monitor were two separate issues to consider: you bought a monitor that had one of these attributes only because the price would otherwise be astronomical. That was t...
Home Theater
DirecTV’s Genie Box Records up to 200hrs of HD, Streams Throughout Your Home Without Boxes
So, the inevitable problem with all cable and satellelite setups, is that you need a box in every room. That is assuming you want to access TV throughout your home, and watch your recorded content regardless of what box it is ...