Kevin Collins
"IMAX" vs Dolby Cinema: Your experiences?
I am familiar with the new scaled-down IMAX that have proliferated cinemas the last ten years and have seen many movies in them, but just this past month, our local AMC installed a "Dolby Cinema" theater that seems very much to...
At CEDIA 2015, Sony announced two new UHD HDR projectors.
The VPL-W5000ES was announced as the industry’s first 4K laser projector designed specifically for home theaters. The 4K laser is supposed to produce 5K lumens of brightness and is the first 4K laser to support HDR. What is interesting...
If you have never seen an OLED display, you are missing out on some wonderful tech. OLED has incredible contrast ratio without the use of LED based zones.
OLED is not cheap to manufacture due to the low yield rates and many have bowed out entirely from making OLED displays (last big...
Panasonic will soon begin selling their UHD BD player. The first in the world. Unfortunately, it will start being sold in Japan. The DMR-UBZ1 will go on sale on Nov. 15 this year in Japan and was on show on Tuesday at the Ceatec electronics show near Tokyo.
This player larger than some...
Today in NYC, Vizio and Dolby announced pricing and availability of the industries first complete HDR (High Dynamic Range) monitor using Dolby Vision technology.
The display is equipped with Ultra Color Spectrum™ for a wider color gamut, and a quantum dot panel in the 65" class model. It...
I've been a long fan of Sonos and did a review of them back in 2011 (unfortunately that seems to be lost at the moment from the Huddler to IPB conversion...).
At any rate, I now have 12 Sonos speakers in my house. 9 of them being the original Play:5's and three of them being the Play:3's. I...
Hello fellow Asian and Red Head tribute readers.
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FotoKem restoration of Twentieth Century Fox's The Sound of Music will kick off the sixth annual TCM Classic Film Festival on 3/26/15.
FotoKem completed the restoration of the 65mm classic through 8K scans from large-format film elements and then down-sampled to 4K for restoration and digital...
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that a drop in TV viewership is directly related to streaming services. Those services are primarily compromised of the big three: Amazon, Hulu and Netflix. The data came from the Cabletelevision Advertising bureau and is reported for the 3rd and 4th...
While the BDA has NOT yet finalized the specifications for 4K BD discs and players, there are some things that I am pretty excited about that seem to be on the plate regardless if the t's are cross or the i's are dotted. The features I am referring to will require hardware to support, but these...
Earlier this week there were numerous reports that the BDA had finalized the 4K specification. Strange how rumors spread.
Victor Matsuda, chair of the BDA's global promotion group was quite surprised by the news telling MESA that are still incomplete and that there isn't any new information...
The rise of South Korean TV manufacturers continues to increase while Japanese firms continue to lose market share according to TrendForce
Samsung now maintains 22.8% market share, a 1.8% increase from 2013 which represents 215.2 million displays.
LG increased 1.2% to a market share of...
Come this spring time, Netflix will start having a logo display on 4K/UHD displays that "certify" that the TV's meet a set of Netflix defined requirements. This logo / program will be dubbed "Netflix Recommended"
The requirements for the logo don't seem to be based at all on things that would...