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Anamorphic Lens in a Modern 4k Home Theater, Part 2 – The Panamorph Paladin DCR

Josh Zyber — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:00:15 +0000

After installing a 4k projector in my home theater, I questioned whether an anamorphic lens is still the best way of achieving Constant Image Height display. Although my first tests using an older model suggested that I was better off without it, our friends at Panamorph were gracious enough to lend me a new Paladin...

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Dolby Atmos Beyond 7.1.4 – Part 6: Reconfiguring Everything (Again)

Josh Zyber — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 17:00:17 +0000

My seemingly never-ending project to incorporate an absurd number of speakers into my home theater has undergone another major overhaul since I last provided an update. While, no, I haven’t squeezed any more speakers into the room, I have rewired and re-assigned several of them – hopefully for the better. Most home theaters are content...

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Bringing Old Game Consoles Back into Service

Josh Zyber — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 15:00:52 +0000

Lately, I feel like my home theater is moving backwards. Despite upgrading to a high-end 4k projector, I’ve also felt compelled to pull some very old equipment back into usage. First was a Laserdisc player, and now a bunch of my old video game consoles. I’ve mentioned in this blog plenty of times before that...

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JVC Makes Major Improvement to HDR Tone Mapping

Josh Zyber — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 12:00:49 +0000

HDR tone mapping remains the most confusing and frustrating aspect of 4k High Dynamic Range video, and is especially difficult on home theater projectors. Always at the forefront of the best projector image quality, JVC has issued a firmware update for its current line that may not completely solve the problem, but comes pretty close....

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Is There Still Room for Laserdisc in a 4k Home Theater?

Josh Zyber — Thu, 10 Oct 2019 16:00:58 +0000

For obvious reasons, my home theater has primarily focused on Blu-ray and Ultra HD content, plus cable TV and streaming at a minimum of high definition quality. Even so, I still like to keep older formats around. Recently, I dusted off my old Laserdisc player and hooked it up again. Laserdisc was the format that...

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Is an Anamorphic Lens Still Useful in a Modern 4k Home Theater?

Josh Zyber — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:00:49 +0000

After about a month of breaking in my new JVC DLA-NX7 projector, I finally decided to remove it from the shelf it was sitting on and move it to my ceiling mount, which I guess means that it’s a keeper. In doing so, I was also forced to decide whether to reinstall my anamorphic lens...

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Unboxed: JVC DLA-NX7 4K HDR Projector

Josh Zyber — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 17:00:11 +0000

For a longtime self-professed videophile, you’d think I would have upgraded my home theater to 4k quite a while ago. I hesitated for a few reasons, chief among them that I was waiting for the right home theater projector that met all my needs and requirements. With the arrival of a new JVC DLA-NX7, I’ve...

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JVC and Panasonic Try to Figure Out HDR Tone Mapping

Josh Zyber — Wed, 27 Mar 2019 12:00:19 +0000

High Dynamic Range video is both the most exciting aspect of the 4k Ultra HD format and also the most confusing. With their new flagship products, JVC and Panasonic have teamed up to simplify HDR tone mapping (the process by which an HDR signal is adapted to fit within the limitations of an HDTV or...

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Dolby Atmos Beyond 7.1.4 – Part 5: The Front Wide Experiment

Josh Zyber — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 18:00:22 +0000

It’s been a while since I last provided an update on my ongoing attempt to expand my home theater beyond the conventional channel limits allowed by Dolby Atmos or DTS:X. Never satisfied, I’ve now crammed 17 speakers into my room. If you can believe it, in some ways this has actually simplified matters since my...

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The Backup to My Backup

Josh Zyber — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 12:00:11 +0000

I reported yesterday that not just one, but both of my home theater projectors died on me, one right after the other. This definitely leaves me in a bind, but I’m not completely out of options quite yet. As an emergency stopgap while I try to figure out what to do next, I pulled an...

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Two Projectors Down

Josh Zyber — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 12:00:31 +0000

Most home theater owners would consider keeping two projectors installed at the same time overkill. However, doing so has allowed me to feel pretty confident that even if something went wrong with one, I’d have a backup at the ready until I could get the other fixed. Of course, that doesn’t work so out so...

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Poll: What Brand Is Your A/V Receiver?

Josh Zyber — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 12:00:48 +0000

In the home theater world, brands tend to inspire a lot of loyalty, especially when it comes to A/V receivers. Often, the brand of receiver you’ve used in the past will dictate what you buy in the future. What’s your preference? I’ve long been hooked on the Denon brand. I bought my first A/V receiver...

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