Crave Say goodbye to sci-fi video visors like the chunkers on Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation. (Credit: Paramount Pictures) Finally, here's a video visor that doesn't look ...
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Review Though it's not as recognized for its design aesthetics as Bang & Olufsen, UK firm Bowers & Wilkins (B&W) has been churning out sophisticated speaker designs for years. At the pinnacle of this is the company's insane-looking Nautilus, but with products like the Zeppelin and CM speaker range, they...
Review Samsung was the first manufacturer with a standalone Blu-ray player, but in 2008 it often felt like the company was struggling to keep up with Panasonic. When Panasonic released the first Profile 2.0 player, Samsung was still shipping Profile 1.1 players with promises that future upgrades would get...
Review The Philips 56PFL9954 a.k.a. Cinema 21:9 is a new class of HDTVs that render films in their cinematic ultra-wide aspect ratio. This eliminates the black letterbox bars commonly occupying the top and bottom screen edges on a regular 16:9-formatted panel. What's more, this 56-incher's onboard Web...
Features Change the factory default settings on your new LCD for smooth home-theater viewing.
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Review The Panasonic Viera TH-P50V11 is a high-end plasma TV in the company's 2009 range second only to its flagship Z-series. In fact, both lineups share many identical features, including NeoPDP energy-saving technology, THX certification and Viera Image Viewer. That said, the TH-P50V11 has a smaller...
Review The Panasonic Viera TH-L37V11S may be unusually petite for a flagship LCD TV, but this 37-incher features some of the best visual technologies available under the company's belt. Its key propositions include a premium In-Plane Switching (IPS) Alpha panel, 100Hz frame interpolation engine and...
Review The Aquos LC-40LE700M is conceived by Sharp to "bridge" the huge price premium between a traditional and an LED-lit LCD TV. To achieve this feat, this 40-incher is stripped bare of all value-added features such as Integrated Digital TV (IDTV), multimedia playback, etc. In fact, what the Japanese...
Features From sound bars to HTIBs and mix-and-match A/V components, we show you what it takes to set up your dream home cinema in high definition.
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If you're on the fence deciding between buying a desktop gaming PC and monitor or going with a less powerful but more mobile laptop, let us introduce you to the Asus W90Vp. It isn't much to look at as gaming notebooks go. But it has everything we expect and more in the features department,...
Crave Here are some things that aren't dead: Jeff Goldblum and plasma TVs. Of course, if you're reading this in 2050 there's a good chance that Jeff Goldblum is now dead, but ...
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Features Are you overwhelmed by the huge selection of LCD, LED and Plasma TVs from the Korean chaebol? Here's our guide to help you make sense of your options.
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Review
Keeping the same revised look and feel as the recent 17-inch M17x version, the Alienware M15x is an imposing black slab of computing power that's thicker and heavier than most 17-inch laptops.
We love having high-end options such as Intel's uberpowerful Core i7-920XM CPU, and it's a plus...
Review When Onkyo announced the TX-SR607, the company made a big deal that it was the first A/V receiver to include onboard Dolby Pro Logic IIz processing. Dolby's new format relies on "height" speakers--two satellite speakers situated above the standard front right/left speakers--to create a more "airy"...
Features We've compiled a list of most frequently fielded questions regarding HDTVs, under key topics, to spare you the usual sales speak in stores.
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