Articles on Adjustment

Samsung UA46B7000WM (46-inch LCD)

Review The Samsung B7000-series is one of the latest LED TVs from the Korean company. It sits right between the no-frills B6000- and flagship B8000-series, offering the best value within the lineup. For S$300 less than the UA46B8000XM, the UA46B7000WM packs all the features found in its higher-end...

Philips 56PFL9954 (56-inch LCD)

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...

JVC DLA-HD350

Review After years as a small player in the home theater projector market, JVC suddenly brought its D-ILA technology to prime time with the introduction of the DLA-HD1. This revolutionized the sort of black-level response that could be expected from a reasonably affordable beamer. As the first...

Samsung LA46A750R1M (46-inch LCD)

Review The Samsung Series 7, 8 and 9 HDTVs are truly in a league of their own. Like most Korean consumer electronic products, they are absolutely stunning with eye-catching aesthetics. Their new connected TV functions also set them apart from the competition, enabling entertainment hub-like capabilities...

Denon AVR-1909 A/V receiver

Review Setting up an A/V receiver isn't for the faint-hearted. Stripping speaker wire, multitudes of cables, inputs and outputs, confusing configuration--even the most grizzled A/V nerd is likely to make at least one mistake during the process. And even after you've completed the installation, the...

Denon DHT-FS3 home theater system

Review After you've heard a few virtual surround speakers, you realize there's not a whole lot of surround sound coming out of these things. Yes, the better ones project sound beyond the width of the speaker and well into the room, but only if you're sitting directly in front of the speaker. Move over to...

Nikon Coolpix P80

Review Frequent travelers will know the importance of needing a camera with both wide-angle lenses and telephoto optics. While a dSLR may come to your mind now, there is a class of shooters in-between point-and-shoots and its interchangeable lens siblings: Megazoom cameras. Typically, these snappers were...

Samsung BD-P1600 Blu-ray player

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...

Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ7

Review Earlier this year, Panasonic announced the Lumix DMC-TZ7 along with five other shooters at the Photo Marketing Association (PMA) tradeshow in January. The compact megazoom TZ7 succeeds the TZ15, and features an upgraded zoom range and HD video encoding which enthusiasts will appreciate. However,...

Nikon Coolpix P90

Review Nikon joins the ranks of manufacturers ramping up their top-of-the-line megazoom models to 24x. The replacement for the Nikon Coolpix P80, the P90, outdoes its 18x predecessor with a 24x optical zoom lens. The new model also has increased resolution from 10 to 12 megapixels. But what's really...

Sony Bravia KDL-46X4500 (46-inch LCD)

Review Now into its third run, the 2008 Sony Bravia X4-series is available in two flavors: The regular X450 and the HD digital broadcast-enabled X4500. The latter is the subject of this review as we pit this ultra-high-contrast, LED-backlit LCD against our reference Pioneer Kuro plasma TV. Will this...