ReQuest Adds Hulu TV and Movie Downloads To Their IMC

Leading media server company, ReQuest, has announced that their new Intelligent Media Client will be updated on January 31, 2009 with the ability to stream hundreds of hours of free television shows and movies courtesy of Hulu. Hulu is a......Read More

Harman Kardon Introduces Flagship AVR 7550HD and Advanced-Technology AVR 3550HD Audio/Video Receivers, and Showcases a Wide Range of Custom-Installation Home Entertainment Solutions at CEDIA Expo 2008

At CEDIA Expo 2008, Harman Kardon, Inc., is exhibiting a wide selection of home entertainment components, including its new top-of-the-line AVR 7550HD 7.2-channel audio/video receiver, and AVR 3550HD 7.1-channel audio/video receiver. The following products will also be showcased: the Harman......Read More

Sony's New OLED Walkman

At the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show, Sony unveiled its latest Walkman MP3 players. They include the W-series Walkman® MP3 player NWZ-W202, featuring a cord-free, wearable design, and the X-series Walkman Video MP3 player NWZ-X1000 models that not only support......Read More

5 Reasons Why You Need To Go See The Movie April Showers (in theaters 4/24/09)

HomeTheaterReview.com's managing editor, Andrew Robinson, and our production team are about to release a film in about 20-25 theaters called April Showers that speaks directly to the AV needs, wants and desires of home theater enthusiasts and videophiles on many......Read More

ADDRESSING TODAY'S EXPANDING DIGITAL MUSIC LIBRARIES, NILES UPGRADES DIGITAL MUSIC SERVER

DMS4, featuring reliable, plug-and-play integration with the IntelliControl® ICS system, to incorporate expanded 400GB hard drive. Niles Audio Corporation announced today that it has upgraded the DMS4 four-stream digital music server to include a new 400GB internal hard drive at......Read 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......Read More

Apple Denies Rumor About 1080p Video on iTunes

Rumors have recently surfaced that Apple is quietly adding higher-resolution HD video content to their increasingly popular iTunes download platform. 1080p video resolution is currently the highest level of high-definition content available to consumers today and is found only on......Read More

Apple Rumored To Be Adding Blu-ray To Computers and iTunes 8.2

Apple Computer is notoriously secretive about their future technology which has created a whole world of Mac gossip and rumor sites. Computer super-site, CNET.com, is not one of these gossip sites and they are reporting that there is talk that......Read More

Apple To Lower The Price of More Songs To $0.69 Per Track

As part of Apple Computer's last Mac World Expo press conference, the company's vice president (not its founder and unquestioned leader, Steve Jobs) Phillip Schiller announced that they would have two pricings for single songs on their wildly successful iTunes......Read More

April Showers Goes Wide Via iTunes The Same Week It Is In Theaters

Today is a big day for April Showers, my first movie as an executive producer. Cinco de Mayo is not only my anniversary with my lovely wife, but this year, it is also the day April Showers goes live on......Read More

Audiophile Download Firm In Germany Raises $3.3m

Soundcloud, according to TheStandard.com, has raised an additional $3,300,000 (USD) in funding to expand its audiophile download service. Soundcloud is a web based service that is targeted to music professionals, record producers and music enthusiasts specifically for those who don't......Read More

Avoca Introduces the VIP Music Edition™ Residential Music System

New System Brings Voice Control and Voice Search to Home Listening and Personal Music Collections Avoca Semiconductor Inc. (Avoca), a provider of voice-enabled user interface solutions, will launch its new VIP Music Edition™ at the CEDIA Expo in Denver, Colorado,......Read More

Avoca VIP Music Edition adds Voice User Interface

Music Player and Handheld Controller adds voice search and voice control commands Avoca Semiconductor Inc. (Avoca), a provider of voice-enabled user interface solutions, announces the launch of its VIP systems family. Avoca systems provide owners of music collections with an......Read More

Ayre Acoustics First To License Wavelength Audio's USB DAC Technology

High end audio brand, Ayre Acoustics is the first licensee of Wavelength Audio's new "asynchronous" USB technology called Streamlength software. USB Technology is needed to connect Apple iPods, iPhones and other computer based sources with more traditional audiophile products. With......Read More

Benchmark Media Unveils Their Flagship DAC1 HDR with Remote Control

Benchmark Media Systems, the designers of the award-winning DAC1 family, has announced the release of their flagship stereo preamplifier, the DAC1 HDR. The DAC1 HDR incorporates several of Benchmark's proprietary designs: the AdvancedUSB computer audio interface, the DAC1 digital-to-analog converter,......Read More

Boston Acoustics' New Horizon i-DS2 iPod® Speaker System

System Lets Users Share their iPod® Music Boston Acoustics, Inc., a manufacturer of loudspeakers, recently announced the introduction of the Horizon i-DS2 iPod Speaker System (MAP: $179.99). With built-in dual 3 1/2" full-range speakers and 60 watts of power,......Read More

Boston Acoustics' New Horizon i-DS3 Flagship iPod Speaker System With Wireless Sub

Boston Acoustics, Inc. is expanding its line of award-winning loudspeaker solutions for iPod® with the introduction of its new Horizon i-DS3 Powered Speaker System with Wireless Subwoofer for iPhone /iPod® (MAP: $499.99). The i-DS3 gives iPhone/iPod users a simple and......Read More

Can The Home Theater Business Re-price Itself Back Into The Hearts and Wallets of Consumers?

This recession is a bitch. The talking heads on the Sunday morning shows were shooting off this weekend about the fact that the American economy was headed into recession no matter what, but the collapse of the real estate market......Read More

Cary Audio Design Announces $1,500 Xciter DAC

After a year of development, Cary Audio Design, with collaboration from AKM and National Semiconductor, just announced the release of the Xciter DAC. The Xciter DAC is a state-of-the-art 32-bit digital-to-analog converter with inputs to connect four digital sources to......Read More

Cary Audio Design's New Xciter Headphone Integrated Amp

Cary Audio Design today annouced the launch of their new Xciter integrated amplifier. This new school integrated power amplifier was conceived to be a small desktop integrated unit, and designed to please the discerning headphone fanatic and the high-end audiophile......Read More

CEDIA 2009 Show Report - Andrew Robinson

While not quite as jammed packed or exciting as previous years, CEDIA 2009 still proved to be the place to be for new product launches, as understated as those launches may have been. Before I get into what excited me......Read More

CEDIA 2009 Show Report - Jerry Del Colliano

For most of the past decade CEDIA has been picking up steam while the winter Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has struggled with its identity as it struggled to digest COMDEX and the computer geeks that came along with the merger.......Read More

CEDIA 2009 Show Report - Ken Taraszka, MD

CEDIA has been blowing up with new video technology over the last few years. 1080p was the big news just years ago, and while talk of 2K, 1440p and other formats have been thrown around and to some extent even......Read More

CodexNovus Launches Second Generation of Digital Media Servers and Players at CEDIA Expo 2008

Enhanced Digital Media Library/Players offer increased storage, intuitive operation, expandability and unmatched import options. CodexNovus, a provider of stand-alone and networked high definition media server and media player products, is proud to introduce its second generation of Digital Media Library/Players.......Read More

Critics Say All HDMI Cables Sound The Same - And They Are Wrong!

I love it when people get so absolute with their opinions on audio-video. How can an HDMI cable sound different than another one? Its digital they argue. And they argue wrong. I spent some time on Friday in the listening......Read More

David Wiener Selling a $1,500 iPod Dock

David Wiener Ventures has begun shipping the Art.Suono Wireless Music Enhancing Transmission System and iPod Dock. Art.Suono is a limited edition, luxury entertainment product ideal for desktops, tabletops, and anywhere else the need for convenience, performance and slick design coincide.......Read More

David Wiener Ventures Introduces the Art.Suono Wireless, Music Enhancing iPod Dock

Music Transmission System Boasts First Consumer Use of APHEX Technology David Wiener Ventures (DWV), an international design house developing exclusive products under the DWV and Ferrari brands, introduces the Art.Suono Wireless iPod Dock and Music Transmission System. The second offering......Read More

Denon DP-200USB Turntable Turns LPs into MP3s Via Front USB Connection

Denon Electronics recently introduced its DP-200USB (SRP: $250) fully automatic turntable, allowing users to easily convert all their favorite LP records to modern MP3 digital audio tracks. Playing vinyl LPs in classic style and sound, the Denon turntable gives the......Read More

Denon's Three New High Performance Earbud Headphones

Denon Electronics just introduced three stylish and high-performance "earbud" in-ear headphone models, bringing the total number of headphones in the company's line to 15. The new additions include the company's first in-ear noise-cancelling headphones, Model AH-NC600 (SRP: $199), scheduled for......Read More

Electrocompaniet's New High End Internet and HD Radio Tuner With Balanced Outputs

Electrocompaniet recently introduced their new ECR 1 Tuner. This model has been developed to extend the Electrocompaniet product range with a long awaited FM/RDS/HD/Internet radio for audiophile and home theater applications. A fully fledged 192kHz/24bit DAC section including sample rate......Read More

HD Giants Files Chapter 11

HD Giants, the company founded to sell high definition music to the burgeoning Media Center PC market, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company known for its Airstream trailer demo and its often 96 kHz 24 bit resolution tracks......Read More

HD GIANTS Offers New Software To Help Get HD Content on Media Servers

HDGIANTS announced today the release of a new version of its HD MediaStore™ Software Developer Kit (SDK) which provides the technology for embedding its HDGIANTS' high definition entertainment store inside media server devices. Partners can expect a simplified implementation process......Read More

HDtracks To Release 
a 96kHz/24bit download of Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' Raising Sand Album

HDtracks recently announced its exclusive release of an audiophile-quality, DRM-free 96kHz/24 bit FLAC remaster of Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant and bluegrass and country icon Allison Krauss' Raising Sand album. Raising Sand won five Grammy Awards, including Album of the......Read More

Howard Stern Banned From Sirius-XM App on New iPhone

Talk about forgetting who brought you to the prom - ailing satellite radio provider Sirius XM (SIRI) has decided to leave the racy Howard Stern off of their newly released and highly anticipated Apple iPhone app. Sirius argued to government......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 More

Is 99 Cents the New Free For Movie Downloads?

It's no secret the film industry is hurting these days. While the month-to-month theatrical earnings seem to fluctuate compared to previous years, overall earnings are down. Home video is no different as DVD continues its downward spiral aided by the......Read More

Kaleidescape Loses Legal Appeal - Might Be Forced To Stop Making Products

Kaliedescape, a leading maker of ultra-high-end standard definition video servers, today in a surprising decision lost an appeal on its ability or rights to rip DVD-Video material onto their well regarded videophile movie servers. The company had won a case......Read More

Klipsch's New Affordable Audiophile Ear Buds

Imagine yourself on a loud, crowded bus or a stuffy airplane full of chitchat and all you want to do is phase out the public and tune into your own private world. The new Image S4 and S2 in-ear......Read More

Legendary Music Photographer Jim Marshall Launches

Recognized worldwide as one of the preeminent music photographers -- from rock to jazz and almost all points in between -- Jim Marshall has captured dozens of iconic images and shot more than 500 album covers in his 50-year career.......Read More

Life-ware Media Center PCs Power Disneyland House of the Future

Exceptional Innovations, the parent company behind media center and home automation brand Life-ware, just completed a massive project at Disneyland in Anaheim, California to update the "House of Tomorrow" to the Innoventions Dream Home exhibit. Gone are the dated robots......Read More

Linn Updates Software For Their Media Servers

Linn Products is set to launch its most advanced software to date for its range of Linn DS players. Linn Cara, a new family of software, enriches the way Linn DS owners interact with their music collection and lets them......Read More

Marantz Shows New Bluetooth iPod Doc

Marantz America recently annouced the introduction of its Bluetooth-capable IS301 Wireless Dock for iPod (SRP: $250). The Marantz IS301 system offers simple connection and wireless audio playback through a home entertainment system, allowing users to access their familiar iPod interface......Read 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, &......Read More

Meridian Buys Media Server Company Sooloos

British electronics firm Meridian Audio Ltd. bought the New York-based media server company Sooloos today. Financial terms were not disclosed. The new brand will be called Meridian-Sooloos and will match the naming structure of Meridian-Faroudja, the company's highly respected video......Read More

Meridian Offers Summer Trade-up Promotion

Meridian Audio has announced that it is offering owners of its CD players and Surround Sound Controllers a unique opportunity to trade-up to a higher level of performance this summer. The "Excellence to Perfection Program" will run from June 15th......Read More

Meridian Reveals the Next Gen Meridian Sooloos: Sooloos 2.0

Meridian, next week will debut an exciting series of updates that dramatically increase the power and flexibility of the Meridian Sooloos media-management system. A Meridian Sooloos system creates a centralized, shared source of music for everyone in the home with......Read More

Microsoft's Xbox 360 To Offer 1080p Movie Downloads This Fall

"Hello I am a Mac." "And I am a PC." Today the PC smacked back with an announcement that Microsoft's highly popular Xbox 360 video game platform that is also now an effective movie download system - will this fall......Read More

Music Labels Ignore Blu-ray For Back Catalog and Focus on Lower Resolution Downloads

The fall of the music business is still to this day blamed on Napster and "free" peer-to-peer music downloading yet anyone who has followed the multi-decade fall from grace of popular recorded music knows downloads were never the cause of......Read More

Netflix To Offer Download System on Sony's PS3 Game System

Not to be outdone by Microsoft's Xbox 360 game system, Netflix just announced that for $8.95 their subscribers will be able to rent movies via their Playstation 3 game console. This download service will not interfere with Netflix rent-by-mail service......Read More

New VIZIO Higher End XVT Line Offers LED, 240 Hz Refresh and More

VIZIO has unveiled details for its Fall 2009 Extreme VIZIO Technology, (XVT) series lineup, with 8 new models ranging in sizes from 32" to 55". The comprehensive range includes cutting-edge technologies like 240Hz scenes per second, TruLED™ with Smart Dimming™......Read More

NILES IM-NET BRINGS DIGITAL MUSIC FILES AND ONLINE MUSIC SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES TO WHOLE-HOUSE AUDIO

New IntelliControl® ICS Network Audio Integration Module Provides Access and Control of Digital Music Libraries and Online Music Subscription Services. Niles Audio Corporation has announced the introduction of the IM-NET Network Audio Integration Module, a source integration card which allows......Read More

Niveus Media Offers Aggressive Trade-Up Program

Niveus Media just introduced a 'Trade-In Trade-Up' program that allows existing Niveus Media Server owners to trade-in any Niveus Media Server to redeem a credit towards the purchase of a new, 2009 Niveus Media Server. This exclusive offer provides Niveus......Read More

Niveus Media's "Zone" Multi-room Media Solution

Niveus Media just introduced the all new "ZONE" media player. Featuring the Niveus Movie Library, and other proprietary Niveus features, the ZONE delivers upscaled DVD and native 1080p Blu-ray movies to any room of the house. The bundled music and......Read More

Niveus Offers Free Windows 7 Upgrade For New Clients This Fall

Niveus Media just announced a new program that provides customers who purchase a Niveus Media Server product between August 13th, 2009 and October 21st, 2009, with a free factory upgrade to Windows 7 Professional or Home Premium (64-bit), scheduled to......Read More

Niveus' New More Affordable "Vail" Media Server Includes Blu-ray

Niveus Media has teamed up with ADI to distribute the Niveus Media Server to custom electronics installers across the country. Now available at ADI branch locations, the Niveus Media Server - Vail Edition is an energy-efficient entertainment server designed to......Read More

Niveus' New Zone Pro Multi-room Media Server

Niveus Media just released the all new "ZONE PRO" media player. The ZONE PRO is now the fastest product in the ZONE family, featuring a 3x speed increase over the original ZONE. Faster speed equals faster applications, snappier movie library......Read More

Onkyo's U-Port iPod Dock Connection

Onkyo today introduced a line of audio-video accessories, including the first to take advantage of the company's new proprietary Universal Port (U-Port) connection. The U-Port enabled models consist of a dock for iPhones and iPods, and an HD Radio module;......Read More

Paramount, MGM & Lionsgate Looking at Epix To Compete With Netflix and iTunes

With the success of Netflix in the forth quarter of 2008, it comes as no surprise that other home video and home entertainment companies are willing to test out new delivery options for selling movies and content to consumers. New......Read More

R.E.M To Release Reckoning and Murmur On 180 Gram Vinyl

In a recent trend that shows a small volume (but large percentage) uptick in sales for vinyl - the original "emo band" R.E.M. is set to release its critically acclaimed album Reckoning and Murmur. The releases will be on audiophile......Read More

Radio Shack Earns New Sales With Green Trade-in Program

If you thought sex sells then wait until you see how green sells. Radio Shack is the latest player in the consumer electronics space to cash in on the opportunity to open a sales dialog with consumers by suggesting that......Read More

Red Wine Audio's New Battery Powered Stereo Preamp

Audiophile up-and-comer, Red Wine Audio, just unveiled the Isabellina HPA integrated Headphone Amplifier and Digital-to-Analog Converter -- combining their highly-acclaimed Isabellina DAC with the headphone stage originally developed for their award-winning Isabella vacuum-tube preamplifier. Featuring simplicity in design, coupled with......Read More

ReQuest Launches iPhone & iPod Touch Control For Their Media Servers

ReQuest has introduced a touch screen controller so convenient, their customers probably already have the hardware in their pockets - the iPhone / iPod Touch ReQuest application. ReQuest's iPhone store application puts control of the popular F, N and S.Series......Read 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......Read More

Russound To Unveil New Collage System At 2008 CEDIA Expo: Multizone/Multisource Entertainment In Any Home with AC Wiring

New PLC-based Series Distributes Home Audio Via AC Wiring, Minus the Need for an Existing System Russound, a provider of multiroom audio, will soon ship a new IP-based system that utilizes the Home Plug Alliance's Power Line Carrier technology for......Read More

Russound's iBridge Power Dock To Ship in August

Power Line Carrier Technology Uses AC Wiring To Distribute iPod® Music Throughout the Home Russound, a provider of multiroom audio, will soon ship the company's first iPod® dock to take advantage RNET PLCTM (Power Line Carrier) technology, based on the......Read More

Russound's iBridge Power Dock To Ship in October

Power Line Carrier Technology Uses AC Wiring To Distribute iPod® Music Throughout the Home Russound, a provider of multiroom audio, will soon ship the company's first iPod® dock to take advantage RNET PLCTM (Power Line Carrier) technology, based on the......Read More

Russound's New iPhone Home Theater Control

Russound just announced its first control solution designed to work with Apple's popular iPhone and iPod touch products. The new RNET Touchpoint user interface allows end users to control zones and source components in a Russound multiroom installation wirelessly, from......Read More

Samsung and Blockbuster Ink VOD Deal For HDTVs and Players

Samsung and Blockbuster just announced the immediate availability of Blockbuster's vast and growing library of premium digital entertainment for rent or purchase on select 2009 Samsung HDTVs, Blu-ray players and Blu-ray integrated Home Theater Systems. Specific models featuring the new......Read More

Samsung Announces YouTube Service for Select Blu-ray Players

Samsung Electronics America today announced the availability of YouTube on select Samsung Blu-ray players. Owners of the BD-P1600, BD-P3600 or BD-P4600 Blu-ray players will be able to enjoy user-generated content on YouTube by uploading the value-added service at no additional......Read More

Saving Audiophila: How To Get a Young, New Generation of Audio Enthusiasts Hooked

Let's be honest with each other - audiophila has become more of a geeky hobby than a serious business or luxury goods market like it was in its hey days in the late 1970's through the early 1990's. Baby Boomer......Read More

Sherwood's New Netboxx R-904 Internet AV Receiver

Sherwood America Inc. announced recently its initial shipments of the R-904N NetBoxx™ Internet A/V receiver. This highly compact and distinctively styled 7.1 channel receiver is equally adept at the playback of both physical disc media and Internet/streaming media, without requiring......Read More

Should Sirius-XM (SIRI) Fire Their Jocks?

In the early days of satellite radio, digital (non-terrestrial) radio was doing everything it could to be the anti-radio. One of the most heated debates in the digital radio sphere was over on-air talent. In order to compete with Apple......Read More

Sirius XM To Release iPhone App In June

Newly consolidated Sirius XM just announced what has been rumored for months now - the satellite provider will have an "App" for the Apple iPhone coming this June. The pay radio service is looking for ways to increase its reach......Read More

Sony To Add Netflix and ON Networks To BRAVIA Internet Video Platform This Fall

In the fall of 2009, Netflix members will be able to instantly watch more than 12,000 movies and TV episodes on Sony BRAVIA Internet Video-capable HDTVs and on previous BRAVIA models compatible with Sony's BRAVIA Internet Video Link module. With......Read More

Sooloos Releases New $7,900 Ensemble System Music Server

Sooloos recently announced their new entry-level digital music management and playback system. The Sooloos Ensemble System, which consists of the combined storage/playback Ensemble server and Sooloos' incredible Control:One touch screen interface, provides everything you'll need to make your entire digital......Read More

The $2,500 and Under Room - How To Sell Audiophile Gear To a New Generation of 200,000,000 Music Lovers

Boy did I ever grab the attention of the dealers in America during these hot summer months. I have received dozens of emails from AV retailers around the country objecting to calling (in general terms) dealers "lazy" and "entitled" while......Read More

The Limitation On Specialty AV's Next Generation Is Leverage

For decades Baby Boomers have been the driving force behind the audiophile market, and in even greater numbers, have been the power behind the twenty-plus year boom in the world of home theater that has stretched from the rise of......Read More

Two New Denon Network iPod Docks

Denon Electronics just introduced two new Network-Enabled iPod Docks, models ASD-51W and ASD-51N, both with Apple® iPod command and control, as well as a host of new capabilities and features. Both the ASD-51W (SRP: $299.99) and ASD-51N (SRP: $249.99) are......Read More

Wireworld Introduces New Glass Optical Cables For Use With Mac Computers

Wireworld has introduced a new series of optical digital cables that utilize conductors made of 280 glass fibers, rather than the common plastic monofilament conductor, to provide improved sound quality in home theater, computer audio and professional audio applications. In......Read More

Yamaha Introduces New MusicCast2 Multi-room Wireless Music System

Yamaha recently introduced the MusicCAST2 Network Music System. MusicCAST2 is a WiFi-based system with no unsightly wires that can be set up with ease. The system can distribute audio to up to 32 rooms from a vast array of sources,......Read More