All Articles Tagged D Box

Julie Jacobson | 12/15 09:52 AM, 0 Comments

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) may be known as a gadget expo, but there are pockets of custom electronics if you know where to look. CEPro CES in the south hall is one of those places; the Venetian is another. There you will find loads of custom-oriented vendors demonstrating (mostly) high-performance audio and video gear. For many years, CES has provided a place to explore such technology. “Even so, there really hasn’t been a good immersive-theater experience for CES-goers for many years, if ever,” says Michael Bridwell, marketing director for… View this story

Jason Knott | 07/29 07:28 AM, 7 Comments

With all the hoopla out there about 3D and its ability to immerse viewers in the movie or game, it will be challenging for integrators to properly demo it. In the case of 3D and other immersive technologies, an “in-your-face” demo it is not necessarily wise. For example, I recently saw a 3D TV demo with a movie trailer for a teenie-bopper dance flick that almost sent me into an epileptic seizure. It was nothing but extremely fast edits and bright strobe lights flying at your face. Likewise, there are… View this story

Robert Archer | 05/28 08:28 AM, 1 Comment

In the world of consumer electronics geography, areas like Boston, Southern California, and Japan have been longstanding hotbeds of manufacturing activity. A strong case could be made that Montreal should be added to that list. Recently CE Pro editor Jason Knott and I took a trip to the large eastern Canadian city to visit Audio Plus Services (APS), the U.S. distributor of brands like Focal, Cambridge Audio and Dream Vision, as well as the companies Totem Acoustic and D-Box Technologies. In addition, to the companies we visited, the region is… View this story