What Defines an AV Receiver These Days Anyway?
HomeTheaterReview.com's Jerry Del Colliano takes a look at the history of the AV Receiver and where this technology is heading in the future and how that will affect the home theater world Read More
The 10 Best Audiophile Speakers List - 2009
To make our list, the speakers must be currently made and must have a modicum of mainstream distribution, the speakers must be able to play a variety of music or movie generes and there must be a unique value or value proposition regardless of overall price. Read More
Study Says HDTVs in More Than 50 Percent of American Homes
According to a report supplied by the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing, 53 percent of U.S. households now own at least one HDTV. That's an 18-point jump from 2008. The report also shows that more HDTV owners are adding HDTV service. Read More
Cash For Clunkers - Meet The AV Business
HomeTheaterReview.com's publisher/editor Jerry Del Colliano talks about how a longstanding audio industry practice - giving cash or trade-ins on old jalopies so that their owners can afford new rides - can be applied to the audio/video business. Read More
Kaleidescape Loses Legal Appeal - Might Be Forced To Stop Making Products
In bad news for both the company and its consumer purchasing base, Kaleidescape has had a court judgment against it upheld on appeal. The judgment prevents Kaleidescape from digitally reproducing DVD-Video content onto its servers. Read More
Musical Innovator and Guitarist Les Paul Dead at 94
The world of luthiers - that is, makers of guitars - lost a giant with the passing of Les Paul, whose instruments have brought glory to their players. Paul, who was famous as a jazz guitarist in addition to his skill as a guitar-maker, died at the age of ninety-four. Read More
Going Direct - The Gold Rush in Today's Specialty Audio-Video Business Has a New Set Of Rules
HomeTheaterReview.com's publisher/editor Jerry Del Colliano talks about how the world of selling has changed, particularly when it comes to selling specialty audio/video products to spending-wary consumers in the new economic climate. Read More
Home Theater Review Improves On-site Search Functionality
After only one year in business, Home Theater Review has 130,000 monthly readers. The publication aims to better serve these readers, and attract more of them, by improving the functionality of the HomeTheaterReview.com home website. Read More
Winning and Losing In Las Vegas - Why The AV Business Desperately Needs More Consumer Demand
Okay, we all know the economy has trouble. But instead of working together to get consumers to buy products, it seems that all too often, audio/video manufacturers and dealers have an adversarial relationship, rather than a cooperative one that would benefit both. Read More
Home Theater Review Celebrates Its First Year With 128,500 Monthly Readers in July 2009
Happy Birthday to us! HomeTheaterReview.com turned a year old in July 2009, with 128,5000 monthly readers as part of the family buoyed by the site's reporting in the areas of audio, video, equipment, installation, automation and much more. Read More