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Silicon Image (SIMG) Show First HDMI 1.4 Parts For "Liquid HD" Over Ethernet Systems

Silicon Image has introduced the SiI9387 port processor and SiI9334 transmitter, the first semiconductor products to incorporate the latest HDMI 1.4 specification features. Continue Reading

Is Brighter Better? LED HDTVs Are Flying Off Of Store Shelves

"LED TVs" are all the rage. An LCD TV that uses an LED-based lighting system instead of a CCFL backlight, this new design can allow for high brightness, improved energy efficiency, and sleeker form factors. But how do they measure up in the performance realm? Continue Reading

Howard Stern Banned From Sirius-XM App on New iPhone

They call him the King of All Media but just not smartphones - thanks to Sirius XM. Shock Jock Howard Stern is being kept off of Sirius XM's phones for now because of the nature of his show. He is also kept from broadcast in many rental cars that have satellite radio. Continue Reading

Solutions For Recycling Your Televisions As You "Transition" To A New HDTV

With the transition from analog to digital and CRT televisions to flat panel, older models need to be disposed of. Home Theater Review offers some help. Continue Reading

HDMI 1.4 - Another New Example of Planned Obsolesce Imposed On The Home Theater Market

HomeTheaterReview.com publisher/editor Jerry Del Colliano weighs in on the way that a lot of home video products, including HDMI L4, are designed in ways that mean they will either not be compatible with newer items or fail to work altogether in the foreseeable future. Continue Reading

3M's New Vikuiti Film Aims To Help Save Power For Flat HDTVs By Up To 30 Percent

3M has created a new film for monitors that is designed to regulate light management, which in turn helps energy efficiency, amongst other benefits. Continue Reading

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

Without question the most successful new product for Microsoft in 10 years has been Xbox 360 which competes favorably with Sony's Playstation 3. Now it downloads movies right onto the game console in 1080p resolution. Continue Reading

What The AV Business Can Learn From Chef Alice Waters and The Slow Food Movement

HomeTheaterReview.com's publisher/editor Jerry Del Colliano talks about why, even though they would seem on the surface to be completely different topics, the audio/video industry and the slow food movement have certain similarities that can benefit the former. Continue Reading

Krell Releases S-1200 and S-1200u Surround Sound Preamp/Processors

The S-1200 surround sound preamp/processor is now available from Krell Industries. This new model took more than two years to design and is the latest addition to the Krell HMI 1.3 capable surround sound processor lineup. Continue Reading

Bang & Olufsen launches $111,000 BeoVision 4 103-inch Plasma HDTV

The new BeoVision 4 103-inch plasma from Bang & Olufson is one of the biggest televisions on the market and the only one of its stature to include a stand that can tilt or lift the screen so owners can achieve an optimum viewing position with just the touch of a button. Continue Reading

Circuit City To Relaunch As An Online Play

Circuit City, which feels to most of us like it went into business back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, has been gone from the landscape for awhile now. However, as HomeTheaterReview.com expected, the company is making a return on the Internet. Continue Reading

Sirius XM Shows Loss In Overall Subscribers (404k) For First Time

Sirius XM has been a big hit with listeners for a long time - it offers both better sound quality and better music/listening choices than commercial radio. Therefore, the company has been surprised by a quarter that saw its subscriber base recede by over four hundred thousand. Continue Reading

A New World Order - Where and How To Sell Specialty AV Gear Going Forward

HomeTheaterReview.com publisher/editor Jerry Del Colliano examines where a number of specialty audio/video manufacturers and dealers have gone wrong in marketing their wares to consumers and offers advice on how to start closing the deals again. Continue Reading

HDTVetc.com Relaunches Online HDTV Educational and Review Site

Del Colliano Enterprises, Inc. announces the relaunch of HDTVetc.com. Formerly a print magazine aimed at the home theater enthusiast, the new HDTVetc.com site will be an online research tool for anyone who has questions about HDTV and related categories. Continue Reading

First Annual Loss for Sony in 14 Years

There is good news and bad news for the Sony Corporation today. The good news is that financially, the company is in better shape than expected. The bad news is that for the first time in almost a decade and a half, Sony has posted annual losses. Continue Reading

Denon Introduces Two New Value Priced Blu-ray Players

The DBP-2010CI and the DBP-1610CI are two new Blu-ray players from Denon Electronics in the company's Profile 2.0 series. These players are designed to give consumers high-performance audio and video without a commensurately high price. Continue Reading

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. Continue Reading

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

Although the big Mac company doesn't like anybody to talk about its doings before it is ready to make an announcement, generally credible computer news site CNET.com is reporting that Apple is likely to bring Blu-ray to its computers and iTunes 8.2. Continue Reading

Krell Takes On An Investor To Make New Future-Minded Products

The acclaimed high-end audio firm Krell is bringing KT Capital Partners aboard as an equity partner in order to finance upcoming innovative projects, a spokesperson from Krell recently confirmed for this article by HomeTheaterReview.com. Continue Reading

Parent Company of Stereophile & Home Theater Mag Files Chapter 11

In a startling development that means a lot of bad news for technophiles who like to read, Source Interlink, a vast company partially owned by Ron Burkle, which owns a great many magazines aimed at the audio/video market, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Continue Reading