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Sound bars vs home cinema & surround sound systems: which is best?

TV sound systems – do I need one?

Modern super-slim TVs look great compared to boxy CRT televisions of yesteryear, but this often comes at the cost of sound quality. Simply connecting a compact sound bar can vastly improve your TV listening experience – and a surround sound system could do more still, giving an immersive feeling more akin to being at the cinema. Which you choose will depend on your budget, room size and requirements.

You may already have an idea of which type of home entertainment setup would suit you best, but to help you decide we did some head-to-head lab testing to see how sound bars compare with multi-speaker home cinema systems for sound quality. We also compared both with the built-in speakers of several TVs, and also some mini hi-fis to see whether you need to buy a separate TV sound system at all. Read on to find out the differences between product types.

TV sound systems compared

We tested examples of each product against each other using our expert listening panel. They rated sound quality by listening to a range of different audio samples, including blockbuster films, TV dramas and music.

 

By Elisa Roberts

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Epson’s New Home Cinema 1450 Projector Wants to Be Your Everyday TV with 4200 Lumens of Color Brightness

If you want a huge TV screen on the cheap, projectors offer great bang for the buck. $3,000 for a 65-inch TV? Please! Home theater projectors can give you a 100-inch image – or even larger – for half the price. But the big drawback with projectors is limited light output. If you want to watch TV with the living room lights on – or during the day with the drapes open – most projectors just can’t compete with that ambient light. Colors get washed out and images look faded.

Epson has been on a mission lately to address this issue. And their latest projector, the Home Cinema 1450 ($1,499), is one of their brightest consumer projectors ever, rated for a whopping 4,200 Lumens of both white output and color output. That last bit is important. With Epson’s 3-Chip LCD design, there’s a separate LCD display unit inside for each of the three primary colors: red, green and blue. This gives the projector the ability to maintain high brightness for color content as well as white content. Other technology such as single-chip DLP, which uses a spinning color wheel to create colors on the screen, may get decent brightness for white images (when the color filter is out of the loop) but tend to have a dimmer image on content with actual color in it.

The Home Cinema 1450 features two HDMI inputs (one with MHL support), two PC/VGA inputs, a composite video input and analog audio inputs. It also includes two USB ports, an ethernet jack and an RS-232C port for use with an external control system. Although there is no lens shift capability, there is a 1.6:1 optical zoom and automatic digital keystoning to adjust for less than ideal placement. The projector’s native resolution is 1920×1080 pixels (1080p) with a standard HD aspect ratio of 16:9. The 1450 includes a built-in speaker powered by a 16-Watt amp so it’s ready to rock right out of the box. For best results, we’d recommend hooking it up to a powered soundbar or receiver and there’s an analog audio output on board to help make that happen.

By Chris Boylan

See full details at www.bigpicturebigsound.com

 

Does Wireless Home Cinema C REALLY Work in 2017?

Does Wireless Home Cinema Projection REALLY Work in 2017?

It’s a truth universally (if reluctantly) acknowledged that for the most part wireless technology still isn’t all that reliable. But with more and more tech in our lives, the demand for great wireless solutions is growing – if only to avoid transforming our living rooms into a sea of wires.

If you’re among those on a quest to set up a wireless home cinema projector as part of this wire cleanse, then read on. We’ve put together a few tips on how to get the most out of a wireless setup along with our guide to the best wireless projectors on the market.

The Projector

First up, the star of the show: the projector. We know as well as anyone that wireless projectors don’t have a great reputation when it comes to holding a signal and delivering the high quality visuals we demand from our devices these days. However, the experts at Projectorpoint had a welcome surprise when testing the latest projectors from Epson.

The company’s new home cinema projectors, the EH-TW6700W and the EH-TW9300W, really impressed us with results that equalled those of their wired counterparts. So much so, in fact, that even us tech buffs struggled to tell the wired and wireless video apart.

Epson’s Home Cinema Heroes

Already in high demand, the Epson EH-TW6700W offers flexible projector placement combined with a wireless HDMI transmitter to created versatile home cinema streaming and video playback anywhere in the home. Practically indistinguishable from its wired counterpart, the device delivers flawless video at the touch of a button for the ultimate home cinema experience.

If high definition isn’t quite enough for you then how about the EH-TW9300W? Capable of delivering enhanced 4K UHD resolution video via a wireless transmitter, this clever device can connect wirelessly to up to four HDMI sources.

See full details at www.projectorpoint.co.uk

Sony VPL-HW40ES home cinema projector announced with ‘affordable’ price tag

Sony VPL projector

Sony unveils its latest 2D and 3D home cinema projector that includes tech from its 4K projectors without bumping up the price.

The Sony VPL-HW40ES is a projector with one aim. To make the prospect of building a home cinema not such a bank balance-destroying prospect and all without scrimping on the best specs.

Watch our Sony VPL-HW40ES first look video below

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Underneath the glossy, 10kg white exterior of the HW40ES lies technology used in Sony’s more expensive projector range including the SXRD panels used to create the super-sharp, HD images.

Reality Creation has also been included from its 4K projectors to help reproduce the punchy colours while Contrast Enhancer helps generate rich images by analysing scenes in real time.

At the heart of the HW40ES is its 1700 lumen brightness that can deliver the high quality images whether the curtains are closed or the room is well-lit. The fan helping to keep the system cool rattles at a not so loud 21db so it shouldn’t interrupt your viewing.

By Michael Sawh ***See Full Story on www.trustedreviews.com

Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 5030UB Home Theater Projector Review

ProjectorThis year’s CEDIA trade show in Denver saw Epson refresh its entire home theater projector line. The Epson PowerLite Home Cinema 5030UB is this year’s upgrade to the Home Cinema 5020UB, one of last year’s hottest projectors. While the 5030UB is in many ways an incremental improvement over its predecessor, it is an impressive machine in its own right.

The Home Cinema 5030UB is one of three new home theater projectors released at this year’s CEDIA show. The others, the Pro Cinema 4030 and Pro Cinema 6030UB, are restricted-distribution products sold through specialized dealers and custom installers. The Home Cinema 5030UB, on the other hand, is in open distribution — meaning you can find it at a number of authorized resellers online. Currently priced at $2,599 from authorized sellers, the Home Cinema 5030UB is an excellent value in today’s market.

The Viewing Experience
While the projector is laden with features that make it easy to install and use, the primary draw of the Home Cinema 5030UB is image quality. The 5030UB’s image in both 2D and 3D is the best we’ve ever seen from Epson, and the picture on screen makes it clear where every single dollar of the projector’s purchase price went. In other words, it looks more expensive than it actually is.

The Home Cinema 5030UB is built primarily for use in a light-controlled home theater environment, and it is tailored to deliver maximum impact in such a situation. The “UB” in the projector’s name stands for Ultra Black, a designation that does not disappoint once you have the projector properly configured. For part of this review we set up the 5030UB on one of Stewart’s new screens, the Cima by Stewart Filmscreen using the 1.1-gain Neve white fabric. This screen is a superb complement to the 5030B for dedicated home theater, and it costs less than the Studiotek 130. The 5030UB already has very deep black levels and light output is highly adjustable, so this neutral white screen with low gain and a very wide 80-degree half-gain angle is ideal for dark theater installations.

In 2D, the 5030UB’s image is smooth and life-like. Highlights are bright, but not blown out, while shadow detail is excellent and overall dynamic range makes the image appear three-dimensional. Black level, which has long been the strong point of Epson’s home theater projectors, is as deep as it has ever been once the projector’s automatic iris is turned on. The Home Cinema 5030UB shares the color performance of its predecessors, with good color saturation and comprehensive color adjustment controls. The projector’s factory configurations need a little bit of fine-tuning, but this isn’t unusual in home theater projectors.

The 5030UB produces a bright, engaging 3D image that makes large-screen 3D display attainable. The projector has three dedicated 3D color modes that can be fine-tuned independently of their 2D counterparts. Bright, well-saturated colors and good shadow detail make 3D viewing a pleasant experience, even for this jaded reviewer.

If you still watch a lot of standard-definition content, technologies like Frame Interpolation and Super Resolution improve image quality and give new life to your DVD collection. And while no amount of image processing can turn SD into HD, the Home Cinema 5030UB can clean up standard-definition material enough to make it easier on your eyes, now that you’re used to high definition.

By Bill Livolsi
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