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Big Screens, Big Decisions: Finding the Right TV
Mark Henninger  |  Dec 05, 2024
Here's the deal with buying a new TV: it’s easy to fixate on just one thing—maybe you want the biggest screen possible, or the absolute best picture quality, or maybe you're just hunting for the best deal. But the real trick is finding the sweet spot between screen size, picture quality, and cost that fits your space and needs.
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Sound & Vision Magazine Takes a Bow
Mark Henninger  |  Sep 29, 2024
I know you’ve heard this one before: All good things must come to an end. To quote The Doors, “This is the end.” The final print issue of Sound & Vision magazine has left the printer. We are a purely digital property now.
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Upgradeitis: Is It Worth It?
Rob Sabin  |  May 21, 2015
I received an e-mail recently from reader Francesco Tenti in Huntington, NY, politely complaining about the speed with which AV technology seems to be progressing...
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Are U Ready For 4K?
Rob Sabin  |  Feb 23, 2015
UHD Blu-ray and HDR on the Horizon

As I reflect back on our annual pilgrimage to CES last month in LasVegas, the most exciting news for home theater buffs was around Ultra HD (UHD), both the launch of the first HDR (high dynamic range) UHD televisions and the announcement of details on forthcoming UHD Blu-ray Discs.

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The Top of the Crop
Rob Sabin  |  Jan 30, 2015
And Some Personal Faves…

We’ve just posted our annual Top Picks of the Year list of the best products from among all those we tested in 2014, culled from all the Top Picks named throughout the year in consultation with our staff of reviewers. Even from among this list, though, there are a few that really stand out for me, not just because of their performance but because of what I think they represent in the evolution of our hobby and the AV marketplace. Here are some of my personal highlights...

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A Theater and a Gentleman
Rob Sabin  |  Jan 01, 2015
The Closer Is a Class Act

Last summer, Sound & Vision was invited to visit retired Yankee relief pitcher Mariano Rivera to profile a renovation that had been done, with JBL’s help, to his private home theater. Baseball fans know Rivera as the Major League’s all-time leader in saves, and undoubtedly a future Hall of Famer. As a New Yorker, I knew him as a fixture in my city for the nearly two decades he played here, when, on any given day from April through September (and frequently, October), he might be the figure gracing the back-cover sports page of the New York Daily News or Post. The very nature of Rivera’s work as a closer—to be trotted out in the late innings to hold a slim lead or demoralize the competition and give his team a chance at the tying or walk-off run—made him an exciting figure.

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Atmos vs. Auro: How High Can You Get?
Rob Sabin  |  Nov 21, 2014
This year’s CEDIA Expo in Denver could have been dubbed “Dolby Atmos Expo,” with no fewer than a dozen active demos at the show including Dolby’s own. It makes sense that CEDIA would be the Atmos coming-out party. As compelling as Atmos can be (check out Dan Kumin’s impressions of our first Atmos system), I’m of the mind that the customer shopping for a soundbar isn’t about to toss that idea in favor of a discrete component system just because he’s heard Atmos. On the other hand, custom integrators building media and theater rooms are in good position to bump what would have been a conventional 5.1-channel or 7.1-channel system to a 5.1.4- or 7.1.4-channel Atmos system. They, along with enthusiasts like you and me who map our own upgrade paths, will drive this market.
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Welcome to the Revolution
Rob Sabin  |  Oct 24, 2014
If This Is Hell, Count Me In

I got a good belly laugh as I was proofreading our Perfect Focus section for the November print issue. I’d just finished putting together our Letters section, in which I’d responded to a reader inquiry about Dolby Atmos with one of my usual geeky diatribes. Then I turned to Perfect Focus and saw...

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It Was the Best of Times, It Was the Worst of Times
Rob Sabin  |  Jan 29, 2014
Panasonic’s Departure from the Plasma Market is Heartbreaking, and Inevitable

There is both irony and tragedy in the fact that this year’s much-deserved prize for our Top Pick product for all of 2013 goes to TC-P65ZT60, whose short life and lineage will begin and end with the 2013 model year...

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2112 in 5.1
Mike Mettler  |  Jan 25, 2013

This one's been 36 years in the making - or you could call it 100 years ahead of schedule, depending on how you look at it. I'm talking about the DTS-HD Master Audio 96-kHz/24-bit 5.1 Blu-ray version of it's-about-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Rush's 1976 epic 2112 (Anthem/Mercury).

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Giveaway: Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Box Set
Mike Mettler  |  Jan 04, 2013

Happy New Year, S+V friends! What better way to break in that new turntable you got over the holidays than with a nice big vinyl box set that we're giving away?

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Steven Wilson's Raven: The New 5.1 Benchmark
Mike Mettler  |  Feb 25, 2013

How does he do it? How does Steven Wilson continue to create original, envelope-pushing, mind-blowing, mind-expanding music for the surround sound arena?

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Justified Riffing: Olyphant and Goggins Talk High-Def TV Magic
Mike Mettler  |  Mar 29, 2013

Why is Justified so damn good? Simply put, it’s one of the best written, best acted, best sounding, and best looking shows there is, season in and season out. Based on a character sprung from the brilliantly unique mind of Elmore Leonard, Justified stars Timothy Olyphant as U.S.

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High Fidelity, First Class: Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon Turns 40 Page 2
Mike Mettler  |  Apr 19, 2013

The Dark Side of the Moon has long been considered to be the audiophile benchmark. It’s been remastered and reissued a number of times over the years since it was initially released March 1, 1973 and proceeded to spend a record 741 weeks (that’s 14.25 years!) on the album charts.

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High Fidelity, First Class: Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon Turns 40
Mike Mettler  |  Apr 19, 2013

The Dark Side of the Moon has long been considered to be the audiophile benchmark. It's been remastered and reissued a number of times over the years since it was initially released March 1, 1973 and proceeded to spend a record 741 weeks (that's 14.25 years!) on the album charts.

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