Scott Wilkinson

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RPTV, KEF, Kuro
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 24, 2009
RPTV & PC
I'm planning to buy a 60- or 70-inch HDTV in a few months. The room where it will live is not totally darkened like a home theater. Besides watching TV and DVDs, we also want to hook it up to a PC. With this requirement, is LCD TV the way to go?
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Premiere Design
The HOST with the Most
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 24, 2009

Italian projector maker <A href="http://www.sim2.it/home/en/">SIM2</A> specializes in combining high style and high performance, especially when it comes to the high end. The company's C3X Lumis HOST 1080p projector is a perfect case in point&#151;curvaceous cabinet on the outside and 3-chip DLP imaging engine on the inside.

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Vizio VP505XVT Plasma HDTV
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 23, 2009
Price: $1,500 At A Glance: Razor-sharp detail with HD content • Solid blacks and shadow detail • Less-than-inspiring performance with DVD

Best Value at the Warehouse

In the six short years that Vizio has sold flat-panel TVs in the U.S., the company has risen to third place in flat-panel sales (plasma and LCD combined) in the North American market. This tremendous and rapid success is because of the high value that these TVs offer—in particular, they offer surprisingly good picture quality for surprisingly little money.

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PS3, Blu-ray, Mom
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 19, 2009
PS3 PCM
I was getting ready to buy a new A/V receiver to take advantage of the new audio formats Blu-ray has to offer, but I found out my PS3 will not pass Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD bitstreams—instead, it decodes them to PCM internally. Will the PCM signal be as good in quality? Or do I need to buy a new Blu-ray player and receiver? Or should I buy a Blu-ray player with 7.1 analog outputs and hook that up to my existing Denon receiver's multichannel inputs? It does not have HDMI inputs.
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Audio Video News
Panasonic 2009 Line Show
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 17, 2009  |  Published: Mar 18, 2009
As we saw at CES in January, Panasonic is bullish on plasma, a point that was driven home at the company's product showcase held last week in New York and this week at the Panasonic Hollywood Labs (PHL) in Los Angeles. The 2009 Viera TV lineup includes no less than 17 new plasmas with screens measuring 42 to 65 inches diagonally and seven new LCDs with screens in the 26- to 37-inch range.
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Panasonic 2009 Line Show
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 17, 2009  |  Published: Mar 18, 2009

As we saw at CES in January, Panasonic is bullish on plasma, a point that was driven home at the company's product showcase held last week in New York and this week at the Panasonic Hollywood Labs (PHL) in Los Angeles. The 2009 Viera TV lineup includes no less than 17 new plasmas with screens measuring 42 to 65 inches diagonally and seven new LCDs with screens in the 26- to 37-inch range.

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Ultrawide LCD
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 17, 2009  |  Published: Mar 18, 2009

If CES 2009 was any indication, it looked like Philips was getting out of the consumer-electronics business, seeing as how the company had no booth or press conference this year. We know for sure it won't be selling TVs in North America, having reached a deal whereby Japanese electronics manufacturer Funai will market Philips and Magnavox TVs in the US and Canada while Philips concentrates on Europe and key emerging countries.

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Separates, Wall Color, HTIB
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 16, 2009
The Perennial Question
Would it be better with a thin budget to buy an AVR rather than separates? I was thinking about getting Denon's flagship AVR-5308CI receiver, but there are separates from Integra, Anthem, Marantz, and Denon that all seem to have similar features but are somewhat lower in price. What would be a good solution?
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Audio Video News
Blu-ray Discs on Sale from Amazon
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 13, 2009


If you've been wanting to expand your library of Blu-ray discs but are put off by their high prices, now's a good time to stock up. From March 9 through March 22, Amazon is reducing the price on over 300 Blu-ray titles (roughly a third of the entire Blu-ray catalog), including Iron Man, Transformers, and WALL-E; for a complete list of titles on sale, click here. A few titles are under $10, but most are $10 to $20, representing an average savings of around 50 percent over regular Blu-ray price tags. I'm so there!
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Premiere Design
Is it Live or Wilson?
Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 13, 2009

<A href="http://www.wilsonaudio.com">Wilson Audio</A> is well known for ultra-high-end speakers, but most of its products are designed for 2-channel listening. To create a full surround system, all you need do is mate any of Wilson's superlative L/R models with a center, surrounds, subwoofer, and controller from the WATCH (Wilson Audio Theater Comes Home) lineup.

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