LATEST CONSUMER ELECTRONICS NEWS
LCD or PLASMA, which is right for you?
As with any new technology, it took a few years to perfect flat panel displays. Modern plasma and LCD television sets are bright, offer high contrast ratios and display accurate colours. The latest flat panel TVs [...]
The Next Generation of Flat Panel TVs: OLED, SED and TDEL
The general public has finally caught the flat panel wave. We're not exaggerating. As unfortunate as it is, because at the top-end CRT still delivers the picture quality that plasma and LCD strive for, the death [...]
HDTV Primer
Television goes digital For a technology that has been around and virtually unchanged for 50 years, television is making huge leaps in quality and features. According to published sources, colour was added to television in 1953. [...]
Digital Television
Digital technology is the reason why modern large screen televisions can be hung like a picture on the wall. It is also the reason why you can take your music collection in your pocket anywhere you [...]
HDScape Blu-ray Discs
I love to entertain regularly at my house, whether it's a family get-together or an evening of cocktails with friends. Consequently I'm always on the look out for fresh ideas to keep my guests entertained. Naturally, [...]
Home Theater PCs (HTPCs)
Did your home theater system crash again while watching your favorite DVD? Just hit the reset button! Welcome to the age of the living room PC. That was hopefully a joke, not a foresight into the [...]
Hacking Your DVD Player
Living in a multicultural country like Canada, we have access to products from around the world including DVDs. Unfortunately most DVD players sold in Canada are unable to play DVDs from other parts of the world. [...]
(Renting) Movies in the mail
Life is busy enough, isn't it? What if you could eliminate having to go pick up your next DVD rental from the video store, and not have to worry about dropping it off? What if you [...]
Totem Acoustic
From left to right: Nico Bruzzese, Lucy Lentini, Suave Kajko, Vince Bruzzese and John Healey. Canada has an illustrious past in speaker and audio component design. Earlier this year, we highlighted many of these Canadian manufacturers [...]
Axiom Audio
Call it Ontario's little secret. Driving along scenic Highway 60, chances are you'd never notice it; Axiom Audio that is. Hidden behind tall trees, its appearance fits right in with the architecture of the small town. [...]
Transfering Film to Blu-ray/DVD
It is easy to see how you might be tempted to think that the quality of a movie on DVD is better than that in the movie theater. Today's DVDs do look good, especially if you [...]
Blue Laser Technology
You might have actually liked 8-tracks - or not even know what they are - and vinyl, and cassettes, but unless you're a DJ, you don't buy any of these anymore. Why? Because the trend over [...]
DLP Technology
With all the talk of Plasma technology and the great quality of television it produces, it seems that other competing technologies are getting left by the wayside. But one of these, DLP technology, is gaining huge [...]
Furutech DIY Power Cable Project
Have you ever thought about trying a DIY audio project but shied away from it because of its level of difficultly? Well, here's a power cable DIY project that just about anyone should be able to [...]
Building a Basement Home Theatre? Here’s What You Need To Know
Basement home theatres are the ultimate urban status symbol. This space has everything going for it: little natural light, away from the rest of the family’s activities, and likely a pristine space that gives you studs [...]
Connecting your Home Theater with the Proper Cables
So you’ve purchased all the best home theater gear you could afford and now it's time to hook it all up. Of course you've also set aside enough money for interconnect cables and speaker wires. Yes, [...]
Improve the Sound in Your Home Theatre
Improve the Sound in Your Home Theatre: Hot tips that every home theatre system can benefit from! It doesn't matter whether you spend two thousand or fifty thousand dollars on your home theatre - if your [...]
Latest Generation Video Game Consoles (and how to connect them properly)
I may not have any real-life combat training but if aliens ever attack our planet, I'll be more than happy to fight them; just hand me the latest blaster rifle. After all, I've saved the world [...]
