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Projector Reviews
Hisense Laser TV 4K DLP Projector Review
Al Griffin  |  Apr 03, 2018

Performance
Features
Ergonomics
Value
PRICE $10,000

AT A GLANCE
Plus
Bright picture with excellent uniformity
Crisp detail with 4K sources
Powerful built-in audio system
Minus
So-so contrast ratio
Occasional banding artifacts
No extended color gamut coverage

THE VERDICT
Hisense’s Laser TV strikes a good balance between performance and price for a 4K-res ultra-short-throw projector-and-screen package.

Hisense has been slowly making headway in the U.S. TV market over the past few years, mostly through its lineup of affordable big-screen LCD sets. Another product that the company has teased at trade shows, and is now actively selling, is Laser TV, a flat-screen alternative that consists of an ultra-short-throw (UST) laser-driven DLP projector paired with a 100-inch screen. While other companies including Sony and Epson offer their own UST solutions, Hisense seems especially bullish on the category: At last CES, the company announced a second Laser TV offering that incorporates a dual-laser DLP light engine and comes with a 150-inch screen, and there’s also an 88-inch version in the works.

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Audio Video NewsNew Products
New BDI AV Cabinets Hide Your Gear Away in Style
SV Staff  |  Apr 03, 2018
BDI has introduced three stylish AV cabinets that let you hide your gear away while keeping it well ventilated and allowing sound to emanate clearly and evenly from within.
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Audio Video News
Oppo Shocks AV World With Plans to Exit CE Business
SV Staff  |  Apr 03, 2018
Oppo Digital, the Silicon Valley-based maker of award-winning Blu-ray players AV enthusiasts have relied on as the gold standard for more than a decade, announced late yesterday that it is winding down operations.
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Signals
What Do I Have to Do to Put You in This Piano Today?
Ken C. Pohlmann  |  Apr 03, 2018
When you buy a fine automobile such as a Rolls Royce, you have a chauffeur drive you around. When you buy a fine automatic Rolex, you store it in a watch winder so it winds itself. And now, when you buy a fine piano such as a Steinway, it plays itself.

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Audio Video NewsNew Products
Tivoli Announces Summer Colors for its PAL
SV Staff  |  Apr 02, 2018
Tivoli Audio is sprucing up the look of its most popular portable radio in time for Summer.
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Audio Video NewsNew Products
Polk’s Voice-Enabled Soundbar Available For Pre-Order
SV Staff  |  Apr 02, 2018
Polk Audio has announced that the voice-controlled soundbar it demonstrated in January at CES 2018 is now available for pre-order.
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Blu-ray Movie ReviewsUltra HD Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Justice League
Chris Chiarella  |  Apr 02, 2018
Haters be damned, Justice League is actually pretty good. I just wish it was great.

Picture
Sound
Extras
The theoretically-can't-miss combination of DC's legendary "trinity" of heroes — Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman — has a far greater chance of failure when two-thirds of that crew is already on difficult footing. In the rightly reviled Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, an irrational, homicidal Dark Knight (Ben Affleck) sets his sights on a mopey, defeatist Man of Steel (Henry Cavill), resulting in tedium and the sudden death of the Man of Steel. It did however introduce audiences to the new Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), who has since captivated audiences with her own solo movie and who now elevates this team tale.
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Grace Notes
Miley Cyrus Sued for Copyright Infringement: Word Up
Leslie Shapiro  |  Apr 02, 2018
What’s in a name? What’s in a lyric? Apparently, $300 million, according to a lawsuit filed against Miley Cyrus by Jamaican singer/songwriter Michael May, aka Flourgon.

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Sweepstakes
SoundandVision.com SVS Upgrade Sound to New Heights and Depths Sweepstakes
SV Staff  |  Apr 01, 2018
Register to win a SB-2000 Subwoofer and SoundPath Interconnect ($725.00 retail value) or Prime Elevation and SoundPath One Cable ($430.00 retail value) we are giving away

According to the company:

"The best-selling SVS SB-2000 subwoofer is a Sound & Vision 'Top Picks' winner for good reason. It unleashes effortless deep bass extension below 20Hz and room-energizing power while maintaining lightning-quick speed in transients and musicality. The world’s most versatile high-performance home theater speaker, the SVS Prime Elevation is a direct radiating height effects speaker for Dolby Atmos, DTS:X and Auro-3D formats and a brilliant solution as side/rear surrounds or even front stage LCR speakers."

[This Sweepstakes is now closed.]

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Editor's Eye
A History of Lirpa Labs
Rob Sabin  |  Apr 01, 2018
Audio had Loof every April, but Stereo Review had Rodrigues all year long.

In preparation for our April print edition , and in search of a subject for our retrospective flashback feature, I pressed deep into our 60-year archive for hints of the origin of Lirpa Labs and its mysterious, opinionated, and wildly creative founder, Loof Lirpa.

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