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The Modern Golden Age of Television: Coming to an End?
Television is looking like it may take a slip in quality, both in terms of creative story telling and technical adeptness. But there are ways to combat this trend and help keep television worth watching and looking good.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Making Sense of New Movies That Change Aspect Ratios
There are an awful lot of aspect ratios that exist in modern AV software. There are even movies that contain changing aspect ratios within the film. So what is the best way to deal with this? Here's a suggestion.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Hollywood Comes to 2011 CES
Entertainment Matters at CES, a program sponsored by Cricket and the venerable entertainment industry publication Variety, will be launched at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), aimed at the film, television and digital industries.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Campus MovieFest and Panasonic Team Up for the First National 3D Student Film Festival
Electronics giant Panasonic has joined with the largest student film festival in the world, CampusFest, to bring forth the birth of the new student film exhibition CMF 3D.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Star Wars Returns to the Theaters - This Time in 3D
Not sure if this will be hailed as good news or bad by the "Han Solo shot first" set, but the Los Angeles Times Hero Complex has confirmed that Star Wars creator George Lucas has decided to bring his box office champions back to theaters, utilizing new 3D technology.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Sony Launches DVD On Demand Service - Screen Classics By Request
Jonesing for some of your favorite old films that have never been released on DVD? Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is delving into the Columbia Pictures vault (Sony owns Columbia, one of its theatrical distribution arms) to bring forth movie classics of yore.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
An Insiders Guide To DVD/Blu-ray Rental Services Like Netflix, Blockbuster & Redbox
With all those video rental companies out there, ever wonder and/or get confused by which one offers what? This exclusive HomeTheaterReview.com article is here to help you figure out who you want to rent from, depending on your specific needs.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
The Long Term Effect On Animals In Hollywood Movies
Plenty of human beings really want to perform in films, and even when they get the job, the work can take a real toll on their health and psyches. Animals are not capable of giving informed consent for acting work or anything else; when they are mistreated, the results can be deadly.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Sony Pictures introduces Andrew Garfield as the next Spider Man
After starring as the title character in three Spider-Man films, Tobey Maguire is hanging up the web. Enter young British actor Andrew Garfield (Eduardo Saverin in The Social Network) as the new Peter Parker/Spidey for Sony's reboot of the film franchise.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Audio Video Guru Writes Book About Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood is one of the most enduringly popular and revered figures in the film industry for his work as both an actor and a director. Audio One founder David Frangioni has now written a new book, entitled Clint Eastwood ICON: The Essential Film Art Collection.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Dracula Novelist to Direct Jimi Hendrix Film for Transformers Producer
There's a good conversation to be had about what Dracula and Jimi Hendrix may have in common. One link is writer R.H. Greene, whose novel Incarnadine is written from the point of view of Dracula; Greene has now been hired to write and direct a film about Hendrix.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
IMAX Chooses Audyssey Laboratories For Theaters in 2010
MultiEQ is the name of a new calibration and tuning system designed by Audyssey Laboratories to improve the sound quality in IMAX theaters. Audyssey and IMAX have announced their partnership in applying MultiEQ to IMAX systems, beginning in 2010.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
3D Is Exciting But Not Appropriate For All Films
Yes, 3D is sweeping the film world off its feet these days and all of Hollywood is talking about it. But the fact remains, although the technology has a lot of potential to take films to another level, there are some films that really wouldn't benefit from the use of 3D.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
April Showers Goes Wide Via iTunes The Same Week It Is In Theaters
April Showers, the drama about the Columbine tragedy written and directed by Andrew Robinson and produced by HomeTheaterReview.com's publisher/editor Jerry Del Colliano, will be available both theatrically and on iTune-compatible devices within the same week.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
5 Reasons Why You Need To Go See The Movie April Showers (in theaters 4/24/09)
Andrew Robinson, managing editor of HomeTheaterReview.com, has written and directed the dramatic feature film April Showers, based on Robinson's experiences and memories as a survivor and witness to the Columbine school shooting tragedy.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Paramount, MGM & Lionsgate Looking at Epix To Compete With Netflix and iTunes
In an effort to stave off the complete and utter domination of Netflix and iTunes, movie studios, specifically Paramount, MGM, and Lionsgate, are turning to Epix for help, beginning with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Five Times the Resolution of 1080p - "4k Video" and the Digital Cinema Standard
Blu-ray won the HD wars, but it has yet to really take hold because it took awhile for the price of players to come down and for quality titles to become available to consumers. The next frontier in HD video will be something called 4Kwhich is a digital cinema format with a resolution of approximately 4,000 horizontal pixels.... Click Here To Read The Full Review
Featured Audio-Video News
Are AV Retailers To Blame For Lofty High End AV Prices? -
The audio video has been in a state of flux or some time, splitting sales up between specialty dealers, big box stores, and online sellers. However, the dealers may have had more to do with this than they think.
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