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Samsung's Blu/HD Combo Player: BD-UP5000

Al Griffin | Nov 30, 2007

Samsung's Blu/HD combo player: BD-UP5000 36725607873 Samsung BD-UP5000 Both Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD deliver fantastic picture and sound, and their onscreen menus and interactive features are light-years ahead o

Pioneer Kuro PDP-5010FD 50-inch Plasma HDTV

Al Griffin | Nov 04, 2007

Pioneer Kuro PDP-5010FD 50-inch plasma HDTV 12562864785 Pioneer PDP-5010FD While most TV manufacturers have struggled through the years to deliver acceptable black levels in their flat-panel TVs, Pioneer cruised ov

Axiom Epic 80/500 Home Theater Speaker System

Al Griffin | Nov 04, 2007

Any apprehension I may have had about buying speakers off the Internet faded a few years back when I scored some great-sounding bookshelf speakers from a Web-only audio company. Those remain in use today, and I'd be game to match them up performance-wise against any current model in their price range.

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Anatomy of a Speaker Test Report

Al Griffin | Nov 03, 2007

Have you ever looked at one of our speaker test

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reports and wondered what that funny-looking graph with the squiggly lines is for? Or have you ever thought about how the information conveyed by that graph relates to what a reviewer hears? Given the many, many new speaker systems that get produced each year, maybe you've wondered what methods we use to differentiate between them.

Reading > Toshiba Regza Cinema Series 52LX177 52-inch LCD HDTV Al Griffin | Oct 03, 2007

Toshiba Regza Cinema Series 52LX177 52-inch LCD HDTV 22265000700 Toshiba 52LX177 Toshiba has long been an all-purpose TV company making sets in virtually every display category.

52-inch-lcd-hdtv">Continue Reading > Mitsubishi HC4900 1080p LCD Front Projector Al Griffin | Oct 02, 2007

Mitsubishi HC4900 1080p LCD front projector 82400025722 Mitsubishi HC4900 Over the past few years, traditional TV companies such as Sony, Panasonic, and Sharp have done a brisk business in the home theater front-pr

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Anatomy of an HDTV Test Report Al Griffin | Sep 06, 2007

Newcomers to Sound & Vision's HDTV test reports are likely to come across some tech talk that might seem confusing or arcane at first. The truth is, video technology has become much more complex since TV started to go digital and high-def nearly a decade ago, and a side effect of all that increased picture resolution and clarity has been mounds of strange new jargon.

Reading > Samsung LN-T5265F 52-inch LCD HDTV Al Griffin | Sep 03, 2007

According to a recent report, in the last year Samsung finally managed to snag the largest share of the worldwide flat-panel LCD market. Taking a look at the new Samsung LN-T5265F 52-inch LCD HDTV, that's easy to understand.

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Custom Installation How-To

Sony BDP-S300 Blu-ray Disc Player Al Griffin | Sep 02, 2007

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Canon XH A1 HDV Camcorder

Al Griffin | Jul 03, 2007

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