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Which 40

I’m a bit confused by the difference between the Sony Bravia KDL-40W2000 and the KDL-40X2000. …

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Home theatre screens capture cinema experience

At the CEDIA 2007 Expo on the Gold Coast last week, home theatre systems distributor Mareor demonstrated projector screens that aim to bring the cinematic experience into the home. Hurdles in traditional home theatre set-ups include perforated screens that distort audio, screens that aren’t in Cinema Scope format (2.35:1 aspect ratio), and moire patterns appearing in the picture, said Gerben …

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Denon DVD

As much as we’d hoped high-end AV companies such as Denon and Arcam would choose to support both HD DVD and Blu-ray, it doesn’t seem to have panned out like that. Instead Denon seems to have plumped for Blu-ray only, with two models recently announced in the US, the DVD-3800BD and DVD-2500BT. The DVD-3800BD boasts on-board decoding of Dolby TrueHD …

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