Review: Samsung HW-K950 Dolby Atmos Sound Bar Brings Object-Based Audio Home
It’s really amazing to hear the level of sound quality coming from some of today’s sound bars. Once hollow and boxy sounding speaker TV add-ons with narrow sounding coverage and limited musicality, the genre has transformed in recent years into a full-fledged Hi-Fi contender….
Ultra HD Blu-ray Player Prices Come Down As Xbox One S Release Nears
The Philips BDP7501 Ultra HD Blu-ray Player. We’ve only seen two in the U.S. market so far, but Ultra HD Blu-ray players are already starting to appear from leading retailers at reduced prices, and not so ironically, just before the retail launch of Microsoft’s…
The Inbox Always Pings… and Pings
When not hunting for HDTV and 4K Ultra TV news, HD Guru is often busy addressing emails from our beloved readers, many of whom have issues, concerns and questions with their old, new or pending TV purchases. Understanding our answers to some of these…
Sony Pictures Technology Head: For HDR ‘One Size Doesn’t Fit All’
Bill Baggelaar, Sony Pictures Technology Senior VP, stands next to a new Sony XBR-100Z9D . In introducing its new flagship Z9D XBR line of 4K Ultra HD TVs this week Sony had Bill Baggelaar, Sony Pictures technology senior VP, tell members of the media…
‘Eddie the Eagle’ UHD Blu-ray Makes Colors Soar In HDR
Eddie the Eagle is a typical underdog-makes-good movie that like Rudy before it, was produced as a feel good distraction from more turbulent times and events. Here, the film uses an unlikely athlete who makes good to qualify as an English ski jumper in…
Dolby Vision Ultra HD Blu-ray Support Awaits Mediatek SoC
Roland Vlaicu, Dolby Labs consumer imaging VP. The format for high dynamic range (HDR) known as Dolby Vision is gaining momentum with a growing library of content available via over-the-top streaming of 4K Ultra HD movies and television programs carrying metadata for the system…
Panasonic To Ship Ultra HD Blu-ray Player In September
Panasonic formally unveiled Friday the third Ultra HD Blu-ray player to hit the U.S. market, in a solidly built premium multi-disc deck designed to deliver high-quality video, sound and music performances. The player is the first Ultra HD Blu-ray player to be THX-certified for…
`In the Heart of the Sea’ Offers Compelling Ultra HD Thriller
Now out in Ultra HD Blu-ray, In the Heart of the Sea is a fascinating theatrical account of Nathaniel Philbrick’s non-fiction bestseller about the story of the Nantucket whaling ship, the Essex, upon which Herman Melville based his American classic novel, Moby-Dick. But where Melville…
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