All Articles Tagged Dolby Truehd

Robert Archer | 03/01 04:41 AM,

The British loudspeaker manufacturer Tannoy has an extensive history of developing products for the professional audio market and the high-performance consumer market, and recently the company announced that it has taken its engineering power and designed a compact speaker solution for the home theater market. Tannoy's new Technical FXcellence (TFX) line of compact speaker products are designed to resolve the detail of today's lossless surround sound formats, as well as high-resolution digital audio files. To accomplish the task of reproducing the detail of today's consumer audio formats the company employs… View this story

Robert Archer | 02/17 06:17 AM,

Since the advent of HDMI and the electronic industry's growing adoption of the format baluns have become an important part of many A/V installations. The New York-based manufacturer Key Digital is one of the industry's leading providers of connectivity and A/V processing products and its new KD-CATHDX Cat-5e/6 balun is engineered to enable electronics professionals to send and receive control signals, as well as audio and video signals long distances. Key says the balun supports the HDMI and DVI formats, which includes video resolutions as high as 4,096x2160/24Hz, and 3D… View this story

Robert Archer | 02/02 07:27 AM,

Over the past several months the momentum behind the HDBaseT transmission technology has grown with several manufacturers adopting the format and releasing new products into the marketplace. The latest company to launch a new HDBaseT product into the professional electronics market is Audio Authority. The Lexington, Kentucky-based manufacturer's new HBT200KIT is a HDBaseT solution that electronics professionals can use to address long-range signal transmission issues in commercial and residential system environments. Audio Authority says the HBT200KIT is capable of sending uncompressed HD video, lossless audio, IR and RS-232 control signals… View this story

Robert Archer | 01/24 09:06 AM, 9 Comments

It’s amazing how driven audio and video enthusiasts are to find the next great audiophile recording or reference-level video release. Joel Silver is president and founder of the Imaging Science Foundation (ISF), and a massive home theater enthusiast. So it’s not surprising when he says that custom installers have to know about a specific video because its quality is so good. Silver’s latest video recommendation is The Art of Flight, and according to the industry’s leading video authority, this Blu-ray is the newest ISF reference disc for sound and picture… View this story

Robert Archer | 06/23 05:46 AM,

Marantz holds a unique place in the world of home A/V in that its been able to maintain its legacy of providing affordable, high-performing products while keeping pace with the market's ever-changing technological landscape. Recently the company announced two new A/V receivers: the SR5006 and SR6006. Focusing on the SR6006, the receiver offers plenty of power with a rating of 110 watts per channel, but just as important as the ability to drive a multichannel speaker system are the rest of the receiver's options. Highlighting some of the receiver's options… View this story

Robert Archer | 03/16 04:23 AM,

As the home theater market continues to evolve to adopt new technologies, arguably no product bears a greater burden than A/V receivers. Sony's 2011 new A/V receivers are an example of how the market is evolving to meet the growing consumption of digital media by consumers. The company's four new receivers range in price from about $230 to $500 and they include features such as DLNA certification, HDMI 3D pass-through and lossless surround sound Dolby TrueHD and DTS HD Master Audio processing. The flagship model is the STR-DN1020 and it… View this story

Robert Archer | 03/02 04:14 AM,

For several years custom installers have loyally supported the brand Anthem because of the company's dealer-friendly policies and for its products' collective high levels of performance. Recently the company entered the home theater receiver category and now several of the receivers are shipping, including the MRX 300. The competitively priced MRX 300 offers dealers an all-in-one A/V component that incorporates 80-watt by seven channels of amplification, video switching and processing with functions that include upscaling to 1080p/60Hz and video component to HDMI transcoding. Its audio processing functions include Dolby TrueHD,… View this story

Robert Archer | 02/16 04:21 AM,

It seems that almost overnight the worlds of consumer A/V and networking merged to offer users streaming Web services and digital file compatibility, and now networking technologies are almost a standard amenity within traditional home theater products. With the announcement of Onkyo's TX-NR509 and TX-NR609 A/V receivers, the company is addressing the networked home theater category with two home theater receivers that are affordably priced and fully featured. In addition, the company has also introduced its cost friendly TX-SR309 receiver to further support Onkyo's effort to cover everything from entry… View this story

Robert Archer | 02/03 06:14 AM,

For much of the 1990s Theta Digital ranked among the most desirable audiophile manufacturers in the entire hobbyist world. Fast forward to 2011 and the brand through the leadership of Amplifier Technologies Inc. (ATI) is back and its ready to take a technology leadership position in the home theater category with the release of its Casablanca III HD preamplifier/processor. The original Casablanca pre/pro was released about 15 years ago and the new Casablanca III HD builds upon the original's foundation and adds a list of state-of-the-art features that includes Dolby… View this story

Robert Archer | 12/10 05:22 AM,

Back when Yamaha introduced its first-generation DSP-enabled soundbar products many audio enthusiasts shrugged the product concept off as inconsequential. Over the past several years many speaker companies have proven those opinion wrong by following Yamaha's lead and introducing their own soundbar products, which have proven to be popular with consumers. Yamaha's latest soundbar product is the YSP2200 is designed to complement the slim size and sleek appearance of today's flat-panel televisions and the company says it eliminates the need for multiple speakers and cabling, which can clutter up a home… View this story