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SOUND & VISION TOP PICK RATING PERFORMANCE *** 1/2 FEATURES **** 1/2 ERGONOMICS *** 1/2 VALUE **** 1/2 AFTER WHAT felt like a lifetime since its last new home theater [...]

GIVEN THE current uncertain state of the world, I was truly surprised when JVC announced not one but three new projectors prior to the kickoff of CEDI A Expo 2021, [...]

KALEIDESCAPE SURE has been busy since I reviewed its Strata S 4K Ultra HD Movie Player late last year (October/ November 2020 issue). The company added three new servers to [...]

THREE YEARS AGO, Sony introduced the VPL-VW885ES, a 4K LCOS projector with a laser light engine. I found the 885ES to be capable of throwing high-quality images when I reviewed [...]

I'VE BEEN keenly aware of Kaleidescape since the company's start when I first laid eyes on its beautiful onscreen interface at a high-end A/V store in Seattle. Since then, I've [...]

I OFTEN FEEL that the screen is the most overlooked component of a video projection system. That's because the screen material itself lacks 'wow' factor, and It typically doesn't get [...]

BACK IN 2017 I had an opportunity to review BenQ's HT9050 DLP projector, a flagship 4K model featuring a spectacular all-glass lens, an LED light engine, and the latest Texas [...]

A RECENT ARTICLE I wrote for Sound & Vision on High Dynamic Range (HDR) technology ('HDR Explained,' April/May, and also on soundandvision.com) focused on what HDR is and how it [...]

JVC NATIVE 4K D-ILA PROJECTORS AT THE LAST CEDIA Expo in September 2019, JVC announced a firmware update for its native 4K D-ILA projectors that delivered true frame adaptive HDR [...]

IT'S BEEN interesting to watch the evolution of Monoprice in the home theater market following the introduction of its Monolith product line. Monolith encompasses a broad range of components, including [...]

IT TOOK a while, but JVC has finally updated its full consumer projector lineup to native 4K (4,096 x 2,160) resolution. Just over two years ago, Sound & Vision reviewed [...]

IN 2018, I reviewed Sony's VPLVW885ES 4K laser projector, a $25,000 model that I hoped would be the successor to previous Sound & Vision Top Pick winners from Sony, the [...]

THE BIGGEST complaint I hear from clients when I'm out in the field doing video display calibration work involves problems with remote control systems. You'd think this would be because [...]

WITH TODAY'S streamers and smart TVs offering myriad apps to watch movies from, one thing has become painfully obvious about discs: they're clunky. While I'm a firm believer in pre-recorded [...]

PRICE $25,000 THESE DAYS, IF YOU WANT A TRUE native 4K projector (no pixel-shifting required) that doesn't have a Sony badge on it, you'll have to spend $35,000 and up [...]

IT HAS NOW been a full year since Oppo Digital ceased production of its popular Ultra HD Blu-ray player lineup. Up until that point, Oppo was one of the few [...]

MY EXPERIENCE covering home video extends back to the early days of DVD. But of all the new technologies and formats I've covered in that time, none has generated as [...]

TODAY'S ULTRA HD BLU-RAY player market is drastically smaller than the one for the spinning-disc machines of old. In my early days reviewing DVD players, I could literally enter an [...]

JVC DLA-RS4500 D-ILA Projector PRICE $35,000 WHILE 4K HAS BECOME THE NEW norm for the flat-panel Industry, its adoption into the home projection market has been slow, to say the [...]

PRICE $7,000 WHEN NEW JVC PROJECTORS were announced at this past October's CEDIA, they basically looked the same as the models from two years ago, with only some modest differences [...]

PRICE $8,000 LAST YEAR'S CEDI A EXPO WAS A bit of a buzzkill for projectors. We continued to see a dropoff in the number of manufacturers, and two of the [...]

Sony VPL-VW1100ES 3D SXRD 4K Projector PRICE $27,999 TWO AND A HALF YEARS HAVE already passed since Tom Norton delivered the first review of Sony's initial salvo into the 4K [...]

PRICE $3,097 (as reviewed) YOUR VIDEO PLAYBACK SYSTEM is like any other part of your home theater: It is only as good as its weakest component. In the last five [...]

IN A departure for JVC, the company didn't announce new D-ILA projector models at CEDI A Expo in September 2019. Instead, JVC's key announcement at the show was a firmware [...]

JVC DLA-X700R 3D D-ILA Projector PRICE $8,000 MY DAD WORKED ON HELICOPTERS when I was growing up. in our garage was a picture of the latest Army Chinook, with the [...]

PRICE $850 I'LL BE THE FIRST TO ADMIT IT: I have become very jaded In my view of home theater projectors. Looking at my history with Sound & Vision (and [...]

PRICE $14,999 HERE WE ARE NOW A FULL FOUR years beyond Sony's debut of the VPL-VW1000ES, the first consumer-level native 4K projector. And yet the bounty of 4K content that [...]

JVC DLA-X500R 3D D-ILA Projector PRICE $5,000 LAST YEAR, I WENT TO THE 2014 CEDIA EXPO hoping to see some new native 4K projector options from JVC, but unfortunately, I [...]

THE SPEARS & MUNSIL (S&M) UHD HDR BENCHMARK is a Video test disc developed with a wide range of users in mind. It has basic video setup and evaluation patterns [...]

Texas Instruments has upped the DLP game with the recent rollout of their newest digital micromirror device (DMD), claiming full Ultra HD performance. The 0.66-inch chip has nearly the same [...]

Reavon's higher-end UBR-X200 (below) features balanced XLR and both stereo RCA and multichannel analog outputs. The X100 features standard HDMI options (audio/video from the main output plus an audio-only HDMI out) along with optical and coaxial digital outputs, while the X200 adds analog stereo RCA and balanced XLR outputs plus a 7.1-channel RCA-jack output. REAVON UBR-X100 AND UBR-X200 ULTRA HD BLU-RAY PLAYERS RATING UBR-X100 PERFORMANCE FEATURES ERGONOMICS VALUE UBR-X200 PERFORMANCE FEATURES ERGONOMICS VALUE IT'S NO secret that the Ultra HD Blu-ray disc player market has become a barren wasteland over the past few years. [Extracted from the article]

But the ST100 is also a material that demands a near-perfect, black-hole viewing environment, and a projector that provides sufficient brightness - a difficult proposition when you move to larger screen sizes. The Verdict With dramatically improved performance over the previous generation StudioTek 130 material, Stewart Filmscreen's new ST130 G4 establishes a new reference standard for a gain screen. The ST130 G4 material's gain provided a 21% total brightness increase at the center of the screen. [Extracted from the article]

With a throw ratio of 0.19 - one of the shortest on the market - LG's projector can beam a 90-inch diagonal image when placed just two inches from a screen, and a 120-inch image at around seven inches. I was delighted to see that LG offers a multi-point adjustment for grayscale calibration, a feature commonly found on flat-panel TVs that I find missing from even the most expensive front projectors. Given the range of different viewing environments that the HU85LA might be used in, tone mapping could be more effective if the projector's processor was provided with a maximum light output to map to. LG's HU85LA ultra-short-throw projector has high cool factor, but its limited light output and modest contrast will leave movie fans wanting. INSET: Test Bench. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the video games "Forza Motorsport 7," "Halo," and "Rise of the Tomb Raider" and the Xbox One X game console from Microsoft Corp.

DVDO Quick6 HDMI Switcher PRICE $399 WHEN I THINK OF A VIDEO switcher, my mind's eye typically sees a boring little box (with some buttons on the front) that does [...]

Panasonic DMP-BDT500 Blu-ray 3D Player PRICE $350 HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED since Blu-ray arrived on the scene. Debut players from the larger electronics companies were pretty full-featured, with substantial build [...]

The article reviews the features of VPL-VW885ES LCOS Projector by Sony.

The article offers information on the high dynamic range (HDR). Topics discussed include difference between the lowest and the highest levels of information available in a signal describes by dynamic range in audio or video; ability to render much brighter highlights, deliver increased color volume and best video quality; and HDR10+ format introduced by Samsung.

The article evaluates the PowerLite Pro Cinema LS10000 three-dimensional (3D) liquid crystal display (LCD) projector from Epson. INSET: Test Bench.

The article offers brief information on equipment and supplies related to home theater from the company Vicoustic including the Wavewood hybrid panel, the Multifuser diffusors and the Super Bass Extreme bass trap, which were installed in author's home theater as part of its acoustic improvement.

The article evaluates the JVC DLA-X700R 3D D-ILA Projector from JVC Americas Corp. INSET: Test Bench.

The article evaluates the Sony VPL-VW665ES 3D SXRD 4K Projector from Sony.

After completing my StudioTek 130 G4 review, I found myself on a calibration tour in Southern California and took the opportunity to reach out to Stewart Filmscreen and arrange a visit to its headquarters and manufacturing facility in Torrance. I also saw new motorized screen options in the company's R&D facilities, including a screen that rises from the floor for ultra-short throw projection systems and an updated VistaScope for widescreen installations. My visit to the Stewart Filmscreen factory was a great opportunity to witness first-hand the focus and dedication the company puts into its products. [Extracted from the article]

The article evaluates StudioTek 100 Screen from Stewart Filmscreen Corp.

The article evaluates the DVDO Quick6 High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) Switcher from DVDO Inc.