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…
Review: Samsung QN65Q9FN Offers Game Breaking Black Levels
One of the bigger announcements from Samsung for 2018 was the return of full-array LED backlighting with local dimming in select 4K Ultra HD QLED TVs and after having had a few days to run through the brand new 65-inch QN65Q9FN, we can confidently say…
Sony Releases Pricing On 2018 Premium 4K UHD TV Lines
Sony Electronics offically released pricing and availability Thursday on its 2018 A8F 4K OLED TVs and 85-inch X900F and X850F 4K Ultra HD LED-LCD TVs. Originally unveiled at CES 2018 in January, the new4K Ultra HD OLED and LED-LCD models will hit stores in coming…
LG Leverages Hollywood To Validate OLED TVs As Production Tools
LG’s Tim Alessi prepares to demo the Alpha 9 processor in LG’s 2018 OLED lineup at CES. In preparing to launch its 2018 4K OLED and Super UHD LED LCD TV lines, LG Electronics used a product reviewers event in Hollywood last week to underscore…
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