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California Passes Anti-Flat-HDTV Legislation To Try To Save Energy
As a resident of California who owns a "green home" complete with new windows, high efficiency air conditioners, space-age insulation and drought tolerant planting on over two acres of hillside - today's decision to toughen standards on HDTVs is a......Read More
Warner Brothers To Buy Back DVDs For Blu-ray Discs
After Hollywood super-studio, Warner Brothers, ended the HD disc format war on "Blu-Friday" at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show they offered a trade-in program where end users could swap out their HD DVD titles for Blu-ray. Now the studio is......Read More
HD Video Games Are The Gateway Drug For Generation Y To High End Home Theater and Surround Sound
These days nobody is questioning the economic power and generational reach of video games as they have long surpassed theatrical movies in overall revenue. Amidst the worst recession since the stock market crash of 1929, total hours spent playing video......Read More
Too Big To Fail: AV Manufacturers Look To Big Distributor AVAD For Their Future
Anybody who listens to the news in the last year or so has heard the term "too big to fail" when it comes to America's banks. Just in 2009 alone 209 banks have failed while taxpayers have "bailed out" larger......Read More
AV's Next and Biggest Generation of Clients Deeply Affected By Unemployment and Under-employment
Baby Boomers have been the driving force behind both the audiophile business and most of the two-decade long rise in popularity of home theater. Economically for Boomers there have been far more good times than bad, with recessions feeling more......Read More
Hulu To Start Charging Users In 2010
Popular online video site, Hulu, announced at a television tradeshow last week that they plan to start charging users at some point in 2010. Hulu has gained popularity, especially with Millennial and Generation Y users for its free content (with......Read More10/20/09 - Consolidation Is Taking the "Special" Out of Specialty Audio-Video...
10/13/09 - What if HDMI Actually Worked?...
10/06/09 - Is 99 Cents the New Free For Movie Downloads?...
09/29/09 - AV Manufacturers Need To "Floor" High-End AV Gear for Dealers as Part of an ...
09/27/09 - Parks and Assoc. Say Consumers Intend To Spend More On AV Later in 2009...
09/22/09 - AV Identity Crisis: Radio Shack and Wilson Audio Abandon Well Known Names...
09/17/09 - Legendary Speaker Designer Jim Thiel Passes Away...
09/15/09 - CEDIA 2009 Show Report - Andrew Robinson...
09/15/09 - CEDIA 2009 Show Report - Ken Taraszka, MD...
09/14/09 - CEDIA 2009 Show Report - Jerry Del Colliano...
09/11/09 - Parent Company of Sunfire, Panamax, Speakercraft To File For Chapter 11 Bank...
09/03/09 - The $2,500 and Under Room - How To Sell Audiophile Gear To a New Generation ...
09/01/09 - Home Theater Review Launches New Facebook Fan Page...
09/01/09 - What Defines an AV Receiver These Days Anyway?...
08/25/09 - The 10 Best Audiophile Speakers List - 2009...
Latest Home Theater News
11/18/09 - California Passes Anti-Flat-HDTV Legislation To Try To Save Energy...
11/18/09 - Warner Brothers To Buy Back DVDs For Blu-ray Discs...
11/16/09 - Rumor: You Tube To Be Releasing 1080p Video...
11/16/09 - Meridian Opens a Concept Store in Bangkok...
11/16/09 - Canton's New Vento 810 and 880 Speakers...
11/16/09 - Plasma Group Fights Back On Energy Issue This Holidays...
11/16/09 - Marantz To Offer $100 Rebate on Blu-ray Players...
11/16/09 - HD Video Games Are The Gateway Drug For Generation Y To High End Home Theate...
11/09/09 - Aerosmith To Replace Steven Tyler As Frontman?...
11/09/09 - Marilyn Manson, Santana, Billy Idol and Earth Wind & Fire Coming To Blu-ray...
11/09/09 - Oppo Offers Special Edition Of Their BDP-83 Blu-ray Universal Player...
11/09/09 - Netflix To Offer Download System on Sony's PS3 Game System...
11/09/09 - JVC's New Sub-$200 Blu-ray Player...
11/09/09 - Too Big To Fail: AV Manufacturers Look To Big Distributor AVAD For Their Fut...
11/01/09 - Paradigm Offers Special Edition Speaker Line...
11/01/09 - VIZIO Licenses Digital TV Patent Portfolio to SONY - Ends Dispute...
11/01/09 - New High End Runco LED Projectors Save Energy...
11/01/09 - Leon's New 1.5-Inch Deep Horizon Soundbar For Thin LED HDTVs...
11/01/09 - Boston Acoustics New Thin VS344 Speakers...
10/30/09 - AV's Next and Biggest Generation of Clients Deeply Affected By Unemployment ...
10/25/09 - Peter Jackson's District 9 Coming To Blu-ray...
10/25/09 - SANYO's New Two Lamp Projector...
10/25/09 - Sony's New Blu-ray Player Offers Download Functionality...
10/24/09 - Hulu To Start Charging Users In 2010...
10/24/09 - NAD's New M15HD Masters Series AV Preamp...
10/21/09 - Samsung and Blockbuster Ink VOD Deal For HDTVs and Players...
10/21/09 - NAD Introduces Modular Audiophile Preamp- Tuner-Processor...
10/21/09 - NuForce Introduces Their Third-Generation Class-D Amplifier ...
10/20/09 - Consolidation Is Taking the "Special" Out of Specialty Audio-Video...
10/19/09 - Sony Introduces The New VPL-VW85 Video Projector...
10/16/09 - SANYO Donates Its 3,000,000th Projector Sold...
10/15/09 - Toto and Eminem Coming To Blu-ray On October 20, 2009...
10/13/09 - What if HDMI Actually Worked?...
10/12/09 - Paradigm's $299 Perfect Bass Kit Can Help All Of Their Subwoofers...
10/12/09 - Denon's New AVR-4810CI 9.3 Channel Receiver...
10/12/09 - Dynaudio's Puccini Sound System For The New Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport...
10/12/09 - Panasonic's New PT-AE4000U $2,495 1080p Projector...
10/12/09 - EASY RIDER coming to Blu-ray on October 13...
10/06/09 - Is 99 Cents the New Free For Movie Downloads?...
10/03/09 - Marantz Adds Flagship Blu-ray Player To Its Lineup...
10/03/09 - Polk Introduces New Nearly Invisible In-Wall Speakers...
10/03/09 - Godzilla Coming To Blu-ray on Nov. 10...
10/03/09 - Sherwood Starts Shipping The Netboxx R-904N Internet AV Receiver...
10/03/09 - Paradigm Ships New Hexagonal Shaped Signature Subwoofer ...
09/29/09 - AV Manufacturers Need To "Floor" High-End AV Gear for Dealers as Part of an ...
09/27/09 - Integra's New 9.2 Channel AV Receivers...
09/27/09 - Krell Introduces New S-275 and S-150M Power Amps...
09/27/09 - Parks and Assoc. Say Consumers Intend To Spend More On AV Later in 2009...
09/27/09 - New DVDO iScan Duo Video Processor Has Dual HDMI A/V Outputs...
09/27/09 - IMAX Chooses Audyssey Laboratories For Theaters in 2010...
09/22/09 - Control4 Unveils New Operating System - OS 2.0...
09/22/09 - All Six Rocky Films Coming To Blu-ray...
09/22/09 - Denon's New 9.3 Channel AVR-4810CI AV Receiver...
09/22/09 - Runco Releases New "Affordable" LightStyle Projectors...
09/22/09 - Wireworld Introduces New Glass Optical Cables For Use With Mac Computers...
09/22/09 - AV Identity Crisis: Radio Shack and Wilson Audio Abandon Well Known Names...
09/17/09 - Legendary Speaker Designer Jim Thiel Passes Away...
09/15/09 - CEDIA 2009 Show Report - Andrew Robinson...
09/15/09 - CEDIA 2009 Show Report - Ken Taraszka, MD...
09/14/09 - CEDIA 2009 Show Report - Jerry Del Colliano...
09/13/09 - Samsung's New 65 Inch LCD HDTV...
09/13/09 - NAD's New Flagship M56 Blu-ray Player...
09/13/09 - LG To Add VUDU To Its Blu-ray Players...
09/13/09 - Two New Wireless LCD HDTVs From LG...
09/13/09 - RBH Introduces a Unique In-wall Surround Speaker...
09/13/09 - Onkyo's New HT Series of Receivers...
09/13/09 - Atlantic Technology and Solus/Clements Introduce H-PAS™ Bass Technology...
09/13/09 - Angels & Demons Coming to Blu-ray...
09/13/09 - Sherwood's New Netboxx R-904 Internet AV Receiver...
09/13/09 - Panasonic Ready To Release 85 Inch Plasma In October 2009...
09/13/09 - JVC's New Line of D-ILA Projectors Are ISF Approved and Boast High Contrast...
09/11/09 - Parent Company of Sunfire, Panamax, Speakercraft To File For Chapter 11 Bank...
09/04/09 - New Paradigm Reference Signature Series v.3 Speakers ...
09/04/09 - Samsung Announces YouTube Service for Select Blu-ray Players...
09/04/09 - Meridian Reveals the Next Gen Meridian Sooloos: Sooloos 2.0 ...
09/04/09 - Wisdom Audio's New Sage Series Speakers For Behind Video Screens...
09/04/09 - Procella Audio Launches With High End Horn Loaded Speakers For Home Theater ...
09/03/09 - The $2,500 and Under Room - How To Sell Audiophile Gear To a New Generation ...
09/01/09 - Home Theater Review Launches New Facebook Fan Page...
09/01/09 - Runco Introduces New VX-33i and VX-33s Projectors...
09/01/09 - CEA and CNET Say Consumer Confidence Increased In August 2009...
09/01/09 - Niveus' New Zone Pro Multi-room Media Server...
09/01/09 - 2L Records Release Piano Music of Edvard Grieg on Blu-ray and SACD in Surrou...
09/01/09 - Original Star Trek Season 2 Coming To Blu-ray With Content For iPhones and ...
09/01/09 - What Defines an AV Receiver These Days Anyway?...
08/25/09 - The 10 Best Audiophile Speakers List - 2009...
08/24/09 - Study Says HDTVs in More Than 50 Percent of American Homes...
08/24/09 - Family Guy Star Wars Parody Coming to Blu-ray...
08/24/09 - Red Wine Audio's New Battery Powered Stereo Preamp...
08/24/09 - Onkyo's Three New Network Internet Radio AV Receivers...
08/24/09 - Linn Updates Software For Their Media Servers...
08/18/09 - Sony and Best Buy To Sell Exclusive ALTUS Line of Electronics...
08/18/09 - Definitive Technology Launches Super-thin On-wall Speakers...
08/18/09 - Niveus Offers Free Windows 7 Upgrade For New Clients This Fall...
08/18/09 - In-wall Speaker Company, SpeakerCraft To Sell an AV Receiver...
08/18/09 - Cash For Clunkers - Meet The AV Business...
08/14/09 - Kaleidescape Loses Legal Appeal - Might Be Forced To Stop Making Products...
08/13/09 - Musical Innovator and Guitarist Les Paul Dead at 94...
08/11/09 - Digital Projection Offers Their Value Calculator ...
08/11/09 - Dish Network's Profit Dips 81 Percent...
08/11/09 - Hitachi To Acquire Remaining Shares of Hitachi Maxell Ltd. ...
08/11/09 - Toshiba To Make Blu-ray Players Late in 2009...
08/11/09 - Onkyo's New AV Receiver Plays Back Internet Radio and Network Sources...
08/11/09 - Going Direct - The Gold Rush in Today's Specialty Audio-Video Business Has a...
08/07/09 - Winning and Losing In Las Vegas - Why The AV Business Desperately Needs More...
08/04/09 - Sony's Quarterly Profit Dives $390,000,000...
08/03/09 - This Is Spinal Tap! Now Out On Blu-ray ...
08/03/09 - Marantz Adds New Blu-ray Players To Product Lineup...
08/03/09 - Home Theater Review Celebrates Its First Year With 128,500 Monthly Readers i...
08/01/09 - Runco's New Line of Plasma HDTVs With OPAL Technology...
07/31/09 - Audyssey Room Correction Going Into New Jaguars...
07/30/09 - Anthem Offers Two New LCOS Front Video Projectors...
07/28/09 - The Lost Art of The High End Audio-Video Demo...
07/23/09 - Large LCDs Break Sales Volume Record in June 2009...
07/23/09 - PSB Introduces Completely New Image Series Speakers...
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California Passes Anti-Flat-HDTV Legislation To Try To Save Energy -
As a resident of California who owns a "green home" complete with new windows, high efficiency air conditioners, space-age insulation and drought tolerant planting on over two acres of hillside - today's decision to toughen standards on HDTVs is a... Click for more...
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California Passes Anti-Flat-HDTV Legislation To Try To Save Energy -
As a resident of California who owns a "green home" complete with new windows, high efficiency air conditioners, space-age insulation and drought tolerant planting on over two acres of hillside - today's decision to toughen standards on HDTVs is a... Click for more...
Warner Brothers To Buy Back DVDs For Blu-ray Discs -
After Hollywood super-studio, Warner Brothers, ended the HD disc format war on "Blu-Friday" at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show they offered a trade-in program where end users could swap out their HD DVD titles for Blu-ray. Now the studio is... Click for more...
Rumor: You Tube To Be Releasing 1080p Video -
Online review site, Lifehacker.com, is reporting that Google's uber-popular, free video download site, YouTube.com, will be launching a 1080p HD video service in the next few days. This news comes as players like Microsoft and Apple jockey for position in... Click for more...
Meridian Opens a Concept Store in Bangkok -
Meridian together with its exclusive distributor in Thailand, MRD Audio Co., are launching the first Meridian Concept store in the world in the centre of one of the world's most vibrant and exotic cities, Bangkok. The Meridian Concept store, situated... Click for more...
Canton's New Vento 810 and 880 Speakers -
Canton just announced the introduction of two new models in its acclaimed Vento loudspeaker series. The three-way floorstanding Vento 880 and the two-way Vento 810 compact bookshelf speaker are the first models in the line to incorporate the company's 6-inch... Click for more...
Plasma Group Fights Back On Energy Issue This Holidays -
One of the best gifts to give your family this holiday season can also be a great energy saver at home. An energy saving and crowd pleasing option is the purchase of a flat-panel Plasma HDTV to replace a hulking... Click for more...
Marantz To Offer $100 Rebate on Blu-ray Players -
Marantz is gearing up to energize holiday sales with its "Get some GREEN by going BLU" rebate offer of $100 with purchase of its high-performance BD7004 (SRP: $799.99) and BD5004 (SRP: $549.99) Blu-ray players. The mail-in rebate offer applies to... Click for more...
HD Video Games Are The Gateway Drug For Generation Y To High End Home Theater and Surround Sound -
These days nobody is questioning the economic power and generational reach of video games as they have long surpassed theatrical movies in overall revenue. Amidst the worst recession since the stock market crash of 1929, total hours spent playing video... Click for more...
Aerosmith To Replace Steven Tyler As Frontman? -
Classic rock super-group Aerosmith is reported to be looking for a new frontman to replace the iconic and enthusiastic Steven Tyler. After a drug-induced collapse of the band in the late 1970s, the group cleaned up and had a nearly... Click for more...
Marilyn Manson, Santana, Billy Idol and Earth Wind & Fire Coming To Blu-ray -
Eagle Rock Entertainment will be delivering performances from Earth, Wind, & Fire, Carlos Santana, Billy Idol, and Marilyn Manson are released just in time for the holidays. Blu-ray discs will retail for $24.95. In 1997, funk-soul collective Earth, Wind, &... Click for more...
