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Upgrading to Denon AVR-X8500HA — is an “A” Worth $600?

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My home theater serves a test bed for various devices for Techsponential and Home Theater View, and while I was able to test the latest display resolutions on TVs in my soundbar test rigs, my main home theater setup was based on a Denon AVR-X8500H with older HDMI inputs. My main game console is an XBOX Series X and my reference display is an LG C2 OLED 4KTV, so I already had the content and display to fully support 4K/120 gaming, I was just lacking the thing in the middle to connect them while providing extensive surround sound. Most solid-state …

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Computing / Games / Industry / Television

E3 Wrap-Up

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I'm in charge of Consumer Devices at Current Analysis, which is actually composed of two separate groups: Mobile Devices and Digital Home. I've been in charge of the devices portion of our Digital Home service since the beginning of this year, and while I intend to continue posting here about home theater, I thought I'd plug noteworthy Digital Home reports on this blog as well. This year's E3 (the electronic gaming show) crossed over both of my coverage areas. I stayed home this year – I'm on the road a lot as it is – but Bruce McGregor, our Senior …

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Games

Happy New Year

- by Avi Greengart - 1 Comment

Everyone else is doing retrospectives at the end of the year… Ten years ago, I was single, living in an apartment, and my home theater consisted of a 27" CRT TV, Dolby Pro Logic receiver, HiFi VHS VCR, and a cobbled-together surround speaker system from Acoustic Research, Yamaha, and an AudioSource subwoofer.  Despite non-discrete surround sound and letterboxed VHS — probably the lowest resolution format for movies of all time — it rocked!  Other than the lack of a laserdisc player, it was reasonably cutting edge. DVD, digital front projectors, HDTV, home THX, Dolby Digital EX, automatic room callibration, DLP …

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Displays / Games

DLP Ideal Display for Gamers

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Joe Wilcox saw Samsung’s DLP promotional tie-in with Halo2 for XBox and liked the notion but asks whether it could be more than just marketing.  Samsung does note that their sets offer easy A/V hookup for video game consoles (like nearly every TV on the market today) and digital image processing. But Samsung and TI, the makers of DLP technology, have really dropped the ball here, because it turns out that DLPs may be the ideal display technology for videogames, and I’ve yet to see any marketing pushing that message. Here’s what they should be saying: DLP sets are big …

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