Review: Samsung Q90R 4K TV Goes Ultra Wide
Samsung has introduced 8K Ultra HD as the highlight of its 2019 QLED TV lineup, but at the same time it is making big advancements in its 4K QLED TVs, like the top-end Q90R series, offering excellent picture quality and robust smart TV features. In…
Review: Hisense H9E Plus TV Is A Colorful Bargain
Holiday shoppers looking for a reasonable bargain on a better performing 4K Ultra HD LED-LCD TV should consider the Hisense H9E Plus series, which is currently available in screen sizes of 55- and 65-inches. The Hisense H9E Plus is very good at presenting most content,…
Review: Samsung Q7FN 4K UHD TV Excels With Color
For those looking for a very good performing and affordable 4K Ultra HD/HDR quantum dot television, Samsung’s QN55QFN QLED model has both the color and brightness performance to warrant serious consideration. We found the model we tested to be a surprisingly bright television with deep…
IMAX Enhanced Certification Coming To Your Home Theater
The folks at that giant-screen movie company known as IMAX, used the recent custom electronics “CEDIA” Expo to unveil a new certification program designed to bring the IMAX experience home. Dubbed IMAX Enhanced, the new certification program focuses not only on delivering the big-screen high-resolution…
Calibration Expert: `Is 10,000 Nits Of Brightness Enough?’
Although some experts have warned against going too far with peak luminance in next-generation televisions designs, Tyler Pruitt, technical evangelist with display calibration specialist Portrait Displays/SpectraCal and a SMPTE member, said existing standards aren’t nearly high enough. Speaking at the Insight Media/Samsung-sponsored QLED and other…
CEDIA Gives ISF’s Joel Silver Lifetime Achievement Award
Joel Silver, a founding member of the Imaging Science Foundation (ISF) has been given the Custom Electronics Designers and Installers Association (CEDIA Lifetime Achievement Award, the organization announced Monday. Silver founded the ISF in 1994, to introduced video image quality calibration services into consumer electronics….
Elite VSX-LX503 Network AVR Supports Multiple Multi-Room Audio Platforms
Pioneer & Onkyo Corp. this week began offering its Elite VSX-LX503 9.2-channel network AV receiver, billed as the first Elite-branded AVR carrying the new “Works with Sonos” certification for multi-room audio playback. The Elite VSX-LX503 ($999 retail price) is also compatible with the DTS Play-Fi and…
Onkyo Unveils Sonos-Ready RZ-Series Network AVRs
Onkyo introduced this week some of the first fruits of its recently announced collaboration with wireless multi-room music system giant Sonos by introducing a trio of Sonos-ready AV receivers. Onkyo AV receiver models TX-RZ830 ($1,399 suggested retail), TX-RZ730 ($1,099), and the TX-RZ630 ($899), will distribute…
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