For a while I’ve been promising to do a review of a product called Paint On Screen. The idea behind it is that rather than buying an expensive projection screen you get the same results by painting a wall with their special paint. Actually, in some ways you get a better result. I’ve already explained…
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Review: I’m enjoying the harman/kardon AVR254
As I said in my post on Upgrading to 7.1, a few weeks ago I set out to upgrade my amplifier and speakers to 7.1 – hoping to keep it under a grand. Initially the amp I was looking at was the Sony STR-DG820 which retails for $399. I considered Sony because my Projector is…
Upgrading to 7.1 – The Real Deal
So you’ve bought a nice big 1080P HD TV and a Blu-ray player. You’ve hooked it all up to your 5.1 amplifier, which didn’t suck last year, and you put in an action flick. It looks amazing, but it sounds a little flat. You might even convince yourself that it sounds good, but it doesn’t….
HD TiVo Day-Count wars
My buddy Andrew sent in this photo. He has the same HR10-250 that I have, but his days-without-a-daily-call count trumps mine by almost a year. He was wondering if he gets a prize. Hey, maybe as a reward I’ll play some Xbox with you.
A Blu-ray Drive in a Mac Pro?
When my Xbox HD DVD drive wouldn’t mount under windows inside of VM Ware (gosh, why would I need that?) I decided to pick up the LG GGW-H20L. It is a Super Multi-Blue optical drive that reads basically every disc format including Blu-ray and HD DVD and also burns Blu-ray RW’s and RE’s. I picked…
Home Theater Projector Screens
Here is my bottom-line advice on home theatre projector screens: depending on your setup you’re probably better off not having one. Save your money! When I wrote my review of the Sony Bravia SXRD 1080P VPL-HW10, I knew my opinion on projector screens would draw some criticism. I only covered it briefly in that post, but I’ve decided to…
PART 2 – Sony Bravia SXRD 1080P VPL-HW10 = FREAKING AWESOME!
Yesterday in Part 1 I covered the unboxing and reported that the HW10 is awesome. Today I’m going to continue the review and talk about my home theatre setup and show some high quality photos of the amazing 1080P picture projected on my wall.
Unbox and Review – Sony Bravia SXRD 1080P VPL-HW10 = FREAKING AWESOME!
Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas indeed! For the past 3 or 4 years I’ve had a Sony Cineza HS-51 front projector and loved it. There’s something special about having a movie theatre in your living room. The HS51 is 720P, which from mostly NTSC upconverted sources, has been sufficient. With HD-DVD and Bluray I got to…
Unbox and Review Tease – Sony Bravia SXRD 1080P VPL-HW10
Look what Santa brought! Tuesday my new Sony Bravia SXRD 1080P VPL-HW10 arrived. I’ll have the complete unboxing, review and comparison to my previous 720P projector, the HS51, ready very soon. I’ve been working on that post all day but it’s not complete and we’re about to sit down to a screening of The Dark Knight. Look…
Deal – HD Battlestar and Heros $14.99 each
If you are one of the dozens of people like me who early adopted HD DVD over Blu-ray, you might want to head over to Fry’s Electronics. Tonight I stopped at the one here in Las Vegas and picked up the HD DVD box sets of Battlestar Galactica Season 1 and Heros Season 1 for $14.99…