The outcome of Home Theatres has revolutionized the world as a luxury item and the LG HB954PB 5.1 Blu-ray home cinema systems has been specially tuned by Mr. Mark Levinson for superior surround sound quality, Blu-ray high definition experience and surround sound as well as enjoying YouTube videos directly from the Internet and playing back DVDs with improved picture quality. (more…)

The JVC NX-F3 can be defined as a 2.1 speaker entertainment system which has an awesome DVD up grader, good quality sound, a great selection of connections and a very simple installation. This JVC product consists of a controller unit, two 50W speakers and a 150W subwoofer. Putting this system together can be a very simple issue as every connection is colour-coded. Apart from the slot for DVD, other connections are a USB port, digital optical sound in/out, stereo / analogue RCA connections, component video in/out and composite video in/out. When talking about the audio quality, the NX-F3 is a very strong home cinema player. (more…)

This High Definition multimedia interface DVD player from the Sony Corporation is a 1080p resolution device with Bravia sync. It is extremely reasonable and has an appearance which is sleek and comes in a polished black finish. The front portion of the DVD player has a good looking aluminium front panel adding to the attractive appearance. The Sony DVD player is compatible with various formats of discs like DivX, JPEG, MP3 and JPEG HD. It also supports S/VCD format along with JPEG to view your favourite photos on a HD screen, MP3 to listen to your music and DivX for those internet shared Discs. This device weighs around 1.2 kg and is compatible with television form of NTSC or PAL. (more…)

The Denon DVD-1730 is a DVD player, reasonably priced around £100 -150 with a classy design and great performance, ideal to use with other HD ready TV screens. The DVD-1730 from the Denon company has a thick design, giving it a solid appearance with even thicker and more prominent control buttons and a large front display. These bigger sized buttons are easy to use than the trendy tiny buttons seen on other models. (more…)

The giant Korean electronic manufacturer, Samsung, has introduced its range of 2009 LCD and plasma products that will put an end to upscaling of DVDs. The Samsung Company has invested over a billion dollars in order to launch this product with their own scaling technology. Earlier Samsung would source chips from Taiwan for their products. This upscaling technology and chip will make a drastic change and improvement with the quality of the picture on screen along with the capabilities of switching from an auto sense original resolution of any sourced material or to go back to the original resolution. This chip and upscalling technology will be a part of all the up market and mid market Samsung products this year. (more…)

I won’t deny I was a bit sceptical in the beginning, then I read what it is supposed to be endowed with like Freeview, full HD up-scaling, Divx, and the like and I thought it is worth a try. On its part DRT389H, LG’s combo of digital TV recorder and DVD recorder turned out to be a nice and useful product. (more…)

One notion that people had with the arrival of high-definition disc formats and HDTV was that it would make the DVD format obsolete. Some estimates in 2004 put the DVD format as obsolete in 10 years, and by the looks of things they were correct. Today if we look around we will see that it is hardly the case, as the DVD market is still booming and is even taking the format to virgin territories. This turn around of fortune can be attributed to the inclusion of radical looking upscaling DVD players, which have given the customers the opportunity to squeeze the best-possible picture quality from their existing movie collections. However, quality apart, the budget price of the products is the single most contributor in enhancing their reputation and sustaining power. It is precisely for this reason that people bunk the expensive Blu-ray players in favour of the more conventional DVD players. (more…)

There is a slight respite with the Toshiba SD-580E DVD Player as compared to the previous disappointing model, the XD-E500. This model comes with 720p, 1080i and 1080p upscaling for DVDs. This should please the HD TV owners who are looking to get the most out of their DVD collection. (more…)

There is a proverb that goes the more the merrier. It seems that Pioneer has taken a leaf out of this proverb and accordingly come up with the Elite VSX-94TXH A/V Receiver, which hosts an amazing array of features and options. The good thing about all these is that they represent an assembly of unusual, interesting, and downright useful functions that should allow you to derive the maximum benefit out of the device. (more…)

There are valid reasons why brands like Denon are still lurking in the fringes while prominent brands like Sony, Samsung, Panasonic maintain their enviable position under the sun. Take for example, the Denon DVD-1740 which has pretty much done all the things right, especially with its performance, which is simply marvelous. Where it went wrong is that it doesn’t have DVD-A, SACD, WMV and AAC playback features which happen to be trade mark feathers of products in its price category. Furthermore, the absence of a USB port turns out to be an even bigger disappointment. (more…)