Best Buy purchased Magnolia Home Theater to add a high-end element to its HDTV lineup. Obviously, if you’re shopping in that special section of the store, you can afford sets that cost ,000 or more, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be comparison shopping. That’s because you can usually find a better price online, often [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Best Buy’s Magnolia Home Theater Super Bowl HDTV deals: Don’t believe the hype
Posted January 31st, 2010 by Admin | No CommentsTarget Super Bowl HDTV deals include 42-inch 1080p LCD for $499
Posted January 30th, 2010 by Admin | No CommentsNow that Walmart has revealed its Super Bowl HDTV deals, Target is back with its second weekend of specials, upping the ante a little bit over last week’s offers. If you don’t mind a second-tier brand in Magnavox, Target is offering the 42-inch 1080p 42MF439B for just 9. To put that in perspective, the lowest [...]
Bastanis DIY Firebird Loudspeaker is Now Shipping
Posted January 29th, 2010 by Admin | No CommentsIf you’ve got a thing for do-it-yourself speaker kits, the Firebird from Bastanis might be right up your alley. The German speaker company is a specialist in the DIY market, selling several different models of loudspeakers that you can put together yourself. While the company is based in the UK, there are a few [...]
Mitsubishi to Demonstrate 149” OLED Display
Posted January 29th, 2010 by Admin | No CommentsIt’s a shame, really. Mitsubishi’s got enough 10cm OLEDs laying around that they can make an enormous 149” screen out of them, but we can’t get a nice 42” OLED for the living room. Mitsubishi talked a lot about the idea of a scalable model for OLEDs last year, and they’ll be showing it [...]
Walmart rolls out its Super Bowl HDTV deals on Sony, Vizio LCDs
Posted January 29th, 2010 by Admin | No CommentsMuch like Peyton Manning does, retailing giant Walmart has waited for the competition to show its strategy before reacting with its own plan for Super Bowl Sunday. Its special pricing on HDTVs for the big game won’t be available until Monday, but we were given a sneak peek at some of the deals, including three [...]
In Theaters January 29th 2010
Posted January 29th, 2010 by Admin | No CommentsThe January slump continues. Only two movies are releasing wide this week, and they’re not that impressive. Still, this should give you plenty of time to catch up on all those Oscar nominees you missed in December.
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Projectiondesign Creates First Remote Light Source Projector
Posted January 29th, 2010 by Admin | No CommentsThe name Porjectiondesign will be familiar to a lot of home theater buffs. They’re a Norwegian company that’s obsessed with being first. They made the first commercially available 1080p DLP projector, the first WUXGA resolution DLP projector and now the first projector that relies on a remote light source.
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Samsung 3D Blu-ray Player Priced
Posted January 29th, 2010 by Admin | No CommentsIf you’ve been looking around on Amazon today, you may have noticed that Samsung’s new Blu-ray players – including their first 3D player, the BD-C6900 – are now listed. Though, at the moment of this writing, all but the BD-C6900 appear to have been pulled.
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Marantz SR 6004 A/V Receiver Review
Posted January 28th, 2010 by Admin | No CommentsMarantz has long been associated with stereo receivers and has produced an extensive line of components over the last 40 years. Times have certainly changed from when all-one-receivers were at the heart of many a 2-channel stereo system and were called upon to serve as amp, tuner and phono stage. Nowadays, a receiver can hardly [...]
[Updated] Apple iPad: What will it mean for your TV watching?
Posted January 28th, 2010 by Admin | No CommentsA few thoughts now that the iPad has been announced.
1. No Adobe Flash means video viewing will be limited. (Probably no Silverlight support either, as it doesn’t work with Safari.) You’ll be able to watch YouTube videos, including in HD, just as you can on the iPhone through a dedicated app. Will Netflix or [...]
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