By Geoffrey Morrison If you’ve recently bought, or are thinking of buying, a new TV, you’ve probably heard about refresh rate and may have wondered what it meant. This number, usually in some multiple of 60 (120, 240, 600, etc.), is an indication of how often the television changes th...
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By Al Griffin Like it or not, 3D is here to stay. Movies produced in 3D remain big box-office earners, and most 3D titles eventually see distribution on Blu-ray Disc. TV manufacturers have also started to incorporate 3D as a standard, rather than step-up, feature in new HDTVs and Blu-ray players,...
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By Geoffrey Morrison When it comes to truly huge-screen entertainment in your home, there are two choices: TV or Projector. Of course, everyone knows about the TVs. Flat-panels come in sizes all the way up to 90-inches these days, and they’re often not terribly expensive. But projectors ...
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It doesn't take special ears to become an audiophile... just perhaps some doctor's orders to listen to music. Join our marketing associate Jo for a week of product testing and reflection on what the word "audiophile" truly means. Check out her previous entry, on listening to PSB...
Read MoreThis post takes a quick detour from the topics so far (information about several of the choices available to add better sound to your flat screen). In it we discuss “The Numbers Game”: From my last post – “But don’t judge the quality of any system only by its po...
Read MoreQuestion: I just got a new flat-screen TV over the Holidays. Should I consider some kind of sound system for it? Answer Part V: This post continues to proved general information about several of the choices available to add better sound to your flat screen: Choice 4 – Install ...
Read MoreQuestion: I just got a new flat-screen TV over the Holidays. Should I consider some kind of sound system for it? Answer Part IV: This post continues to proved general information about several of the choices available to add better sound to your flat screen: Choice 3 – Get a c...
Read MoreQuestion: I just got a new flat-screen TV over the Holidays. Should I consider some kind of sound system for it? Answer Part III: Our last post was about several of the choices available to add better sound to your flat screen. Here are some more details: Choice 1 &ndas...
Read MoreQuestion: I just got a new flat-screen TV over the Holidays. Should I consider some kind of sound system for it? Answer Part II: Our last post was about why you’d dramatically step up your TV viewing experience by adding better sound to your high definition flat screen ...
Read MoreQuestion: I just got a new flat-screen TV over the Holidays. Should I consider some kind of sound system for it? Answer Part I: Boy, don’t ya just love the new TV sets? After all those years of Popular Science and Popular Mechanicsmagazine covers showing “Th...
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