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JVC DLA-X55R 3D D-ILA Projector
Kris Deering  |  Feb 28, 2013

2D Performance
3D Performance
Features
Ergonomics
Value
Price: $5,000 At A Glance: Improved 3D performance • Quasi-4K performance at a lower price • Industry-leading contrast

JVC has been Home Theater’s standard bearer for reference quality, high-value displays these past few years, with one model or another finding its way into the reference systems of several members of our reviewing staff. There are projectors out there that outperform it in one way or another, but you’d be hard pressed to find any full line that performs as consistently well overall as JVC’s. This year’s lineup doesn’t introduce a lot of new features but does offer refinements to last year’s already strong line. For this review, I looked at the newest addition, the DLA-X55R. This is the only brand-new model, occupying a middle price point of $5,000 between the $3,500 entrylevel DLA-X35 and the more feature-laden DLA-X75R at $8,000. Notably, it brings JVC’s e-shift 4K technology to a new low price point.

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SmartStream
Dish Chairman: We're Not Trying to Destroy TV Networks With Our Commercial Skipping DVR
Barb Gonzalez  |  Feb 28, 2013
Dish co-founder debunks rumors that the comapny is trying to bankrupt TV networks with its AutoHop commercial-skipping DVR feature...
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3D Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
Chris Chiarella  |  Feb 27, 2013
Picture
3D-Ness
Sound
Extras
Interactivity
Escaped from the Central Park Zoo, four animal friends were “rescued” and sent back to the wild, a humanitarian effort that turned into a whirlwind global adventure. The quartet has been on the savanna since the end of Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, but lion Alex (Ben Stiller) still misses the zoo and so with his zebra, hippo, and giraffe chums, he’s off to collect the penguin master- minds from the birds’ Monte Carlo excursion and figure out a way home.
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Vintage Gear
Magnepan Tympani Speaker
Steve Guttenberg  |  Feb 27, 2013
Jim Winey didn’t set out to design a new type of speaker, just a better electrostatic speaker. He worked evenings, weekends, vacations, whenever he could starting in 1966, while he was still working for 3M as an engineer. His experiments with flexible bar magnets and Mylar led Winey to invent and patent the planar magnetic speaker.
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This Week
This Week New Movies for February 26th 2013: Society and Slaves
Josef Krebs  |  Feb 27, 2013

The Master

Continuing to push the boundaries of traditional narrative and character development, the latest film from director Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights), The Master, tells of Naval veteran Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) who arrives back stateside from fighting in the Pacific front in World War II troubled, un

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New Products
Yamaha Launches Next Generation of RX-V Series A/V Receivers
HT Staff  |  Feb 26, 2013
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Yamaha Launches Next Generation of Market-Leading RX-V Series AV Receivers; Extends Leadership with Superior Performance and Connectivity

—Networked RX-V775WA, RX-V675, RX-V575 and RX-V475 models offer Mobile High-Definition Link®, streaming services and top rated AV Controller App—

BUENA PARK, Calif. — Yamaha Corporation of America, AV Division, the consistent AV receiver market share leader, today unveiled its newest RX-V Series AV receivers.

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Tech2
Panasonic Low(ish)-Cost LED Projectors
Geoffrey Morrison  |  Feb 26, 2013

I am a vocal and unrepentant projector fanatic. I think projectors represent the best value in home entertainment, and wish more people would embrace the awesome as I have (for over 10 years now).

However, projectors aren’t without drawbacks, and the UHP lamps in nearly all of them are a big one. Hot, expensive, and not particularly long lasting, UHP lamp replacement is often cited as one of the biggest annoyances of projector ownership. The alternative, LED lighting, has mostly just been found in uber-high-end projectors, and inexpensive wee little projectors.

But not anymore.

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Soundbar Reviews
MartinLogan Motion Vision Soundbar
Mark Fleischmann  |  Feb 26, 2013

Performance
Features
Ergonomics
Value
Price: $1,500 At A Glance: Three folded-diaphragm tweeters, four woofers • 5.1 Dolby Digital, DTS processing • Wide dispersion, limited dynamics

My system is perpetually a work in progress. The speaker stands are always serving new guests (with martinis). Surround receivers slide in and out of the rack’s guest-receiver berth to bedevil me with the GUI of the week. But once in a while, I can’t resist the temptation to yank every cable out of every back panel, throw them onto the middle of the floor, and marvel as the mountain of copper snakes gets higher and higher. Last year, my system spring cleaning yielded a record haul: More than half the cables I pulled out didn’t go back in.

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Sweepstakes
Jan Wins an Oppo!
Ariel Bitran  |  Feb 26, 2013
As one of our most heralded sweepstakes yet came to a close, tensions ran high among HomeTheater.com members anxiously awaiting notification that they had won an Oppo BDP-105 3D Blu-ray Disc Player. Members emailed me riddled with anxiety: "When are you going to announce the winner?" and "Has the winner been announced yet?" Unfortunately for these nervous nancies, the winner had already been selected, and it wasn't them.
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Track One
Steven Wilson's Raven: The New 5.1 Benchmark
Mike Mettler  |  Feb 25, 2013

How does he do it? How does Steven Wilson continue to create original, envelope-pushing, mind-blowing, mind-expanding music for the surround sound arena?

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