On the streets of London you can’t throw a scone without hitting a dozen museums. One, though, isn’t on the streets. It’s below. The Churchill War Rooms are actually two museums in one. The Cabinet War Rooms are an underground complex where the businesses of government and war were conducted in relative safety beneath steel, …

LG (Screen Image: Geoffrey Morrison) We’ve been saying for a while that OLED TVs offer the best picture quality ever , with infinite contrast ratios and perfect black levels that put plasma and LCD to shame. We’d worried that 4K/Ultra HD OLED would be too expensive to bring to market, but LG did it anyway. So now that we have …

Geoffrey Morrison The state of the OLED TV is good. Not great, but good. In the past year we’ve seen a dramatic decrease in prices, an expansion of sizes, and perhaps most interesting, the availability of 4K OLEDs. But that doesn’t mean everything is rosy and supergreen in OLED TV world. There’s a bit to be blue about too. A …

Geoffrey Morrison The Custom Electronic Design & Installation Association Expo is a yearly event that highlights the latest in custom installation products, predominantly in-wall speakers, home automation, projectors, and so on. This year, there were a bunch of products for a more mainstream audience, like LG’s 105-inch $100,000 LED LCD. Kidding. There were a bunch of cool products for every …

Geoffrey Morrison/CNET When Sony says the VPL-GTZ1 ($50,000) is an “ultra-short-throw” projector, it’s not kidding. It can project a massive image from 0 inches away. Zero. The case can be against the wall you’re projecting on. At the CEDIA Expo, we were able to put our eyeballs on it. Also in their booth, they had a 220-inch screen reflecting the …

Epson DENVER–Epson’s new high-end LS10000 and LS9600e projectors will use lasers reflecting off something that’s not quite unlike LCOS, to create a massive image on your screen. Boasting 1,500 and 1,300 lumens respectively, a potentially huge contrast ratio, motorized lens shift (with memory), and more, they represent a big step up from the Epson projectors of yore (yore being last …

Geoffrey Morrison At the CEDIA Expo in Denver, LG revealed pricing and availability information on their highly-anticipated 4K OLED TVs, as well as a pair of ultra-massive LED LCDs. The biggest, a 105-inch curved LCD, costs a cool hundred grand. Though all of them were previously announced, both at CES and more recently at IFA, this was the official US …

Dolby With any luck you’ve at least heard about the latest surround-sound standard, Dolby Atmos. Maybe you’ve even had a chance to hear it, in one of the 650 theaters so equipped. It’s a different way to do movie surround sound, not just with additional speakers, but changing the way movie sound is mixed and adding a new dimension — …

Audio Return Channel, or ARC, uses a single HDMI connection to send audio from a TV to the sound bar or AV receiver. In theory, this could simplify your setup, and reduce the number of cables you need. Unfortunately it’s not that simple. Here are the good — and bad — aspects of Audio Return Channel. The basics In theory, …

A lip-sync error occurs when the video of a person speaking on your TV doesn’t match up with the sound of them speaking. This can make it look like someone else is doing the voices on your movie, like a badly dubbed foreign-language film. Most commonly the video lags behind the audio, but the reverse can also happen. It can …