R.I.P. RPTV
When Mitsubishi announced earlier this week that it is exiting the TV manufacturing business, this not only marks the end of a television brand name, but the end of an entire product category. Mitsubishi was the last company still...
Tag Archives: Home Theater
Why We Don’t Actually Own the Things We Own
In an act of stunning contradiction and irrationality, the Library of Congress ruled last week that, while it’s acceptable for iPhone or smartphone owners to “jailbreak” (to crack hardware limitations in order to...
Steaming Up Your Living Room: Valve’s Big Picture Mode
Just this week, Valve rolled out a Public Beta for Steam’s “Big Picture Mode,” which is an alternative interface designed to stream videogames to big screens in living rooms. It also allows for navigation with ju...
DarbeeVision Announces High-End Darblet Successor – Where’s...
The DarbeeVision Darblet, which I reviewed a couple months ago, may be the home theater product of the year. This clever little gizmo improves the picture quality of pretty much anything you throw at it on any display, and does so...
Weekend Roundtable: Oldest Equipment in Your Home Theater
We home theater fans have a habit of constantly replacing or upgrading our electronic equipment with the latest and greatest new models, always in the hopes of eking out some small bit of performance improvement. On the other hand...
My 3D Conversion
In the 14 months that I’ve been contributing to The Bonus View, I should have made my personal opinion about cinematic 3D more than clear: I don’t like it. It adds nothing to a movie. It’s inconsistent. It’...
The DarbeeVision Darblet – Home Theater’s Magic Bullet?
We home theater enthusiasts have a tendency to be obsessive tinkerers, constantly upgrading our equipment, recalibrating and adding new devices to eke just a smidge better performance out of our audio and video gear. Over the year...
Mid-Week Poll: Will You Upgrade Your Home Theater to 4k?
Now that 1080p is pretty well entrenched as the current home theater standard for HDTV and display resolution, the consumer electronics industry is already making moves to push us to new 4k screens. At a resolution of 4096×23...
“Folded Space” Squeezes More Resolution into a Blu-ra
Constant Image Height projection may still be a small niche within the home theater hobby, but its advocates (myself included) are passionate about the benefits of a proper “scope” presentation for movies on a 2.35:1 s...
My Week of Audio: Part 4 – SRS Labs Multi-Dimensional Audio
My trip to California last week had already brought me to both Dolby and DTS to experience new home theater product demos. Knowing that I’d be in L.A., however briefly, my friend (and occasional Roundtable contributor) Chris...
My Week of Audio: Part 3 – DTS Tour
After spending two days in San Francisco witnessing the latest products that Dolby Labs wanted to showcase, I next jetted off to the Los Angeles area to visit Dolby’s biggest competitor: DTS, Inc. I’ll be honest that I...
My Week of Audio: Part 1 – Dolby 96k Upsampling Explained
While last week wound up being a lot busier around here in The Bonus View than I initially expected (thanks to our staff of regular bloggers and special guests), I was absent for much of the week to attend not one, but three audio...