Sound & Vision

WHAT A difference a year makes. Just 12 months ago, I was thinking about UST projectors in the living room, but saw evidence that TVs would compete in the 100-inch size category. Now it’s a year later, and 100-inch TVs are multiplying like rabbits wh

Q I have Dali Euphonia MS5 speakers, each powered by Parasound Halo amps. I also have a center channel powered by a Classé amp. We’re moving into a new house and would like to add surround sound speakers, as well as place Atmos modules to get Dolby A

Trevor Rabin is all in on leaping directly into the Atmos-mixing universe, having immersed himself in composing in surround sound for the 50 or so films he’s scored over the past three-plus decades—plus the DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 mix he supervised f

In my previous two columns I discussed how to improve your outdoor entertainment systems. Whether you want to upgrade your audio (“Creating an Audio Oasis”) or your video (“Creating a Video Oasis”), there are tons of solutions at varying price points

This is my last communication. Outer walls breached. Door is splintering. Hinges giving way. Out of ammo. Just one grenade left. I’ll take as many as I can with me. God have mercy on my soul. This holiday season was another last hurrah. One of the la

IN JUST a few short years the home projector landscape has undergone a radical revolution in terms of price and selection. There’s the proliferation of UST (ultra-short-throw) DLP projectors with laser light sources over the past few years. Even more

For movie lovers, there’s nothing that can beat a dedicated home theater space and a projector designed to do its best work in a dark room with the lights out. Grab some popcorn because with these projectors, it’s showtime! JVC is the go-to brand for

USTs come in many variations now. Some aim to please the cinephiles of the world. It is in the UST category where we have seen DLP native contrast ratios pushed beyond what was previously thought possible. Other USTs are all about replicating that “g

When UST projectors first came out and introduced laser light sources at prices well below what the home theater long throws offered, I wondered how long it would take before lifestyle long throw projectors that leveraged these light sources appeared

OVER THE YEARS I’ve reviewed hundreds of audio and video products covering all the usual bases. But not up to now a soundbar. While there are thousands of audio and video fans willing to invest in a home theater, either modestly priced or obscenely e

OPTOMA BOASTS of being both the top 4K UHD projector brand globally and the number one Digital Light Processing (DLP) brand in the United States for 2022, citing the PMA Research Worldwide Projector Census, making the company no stranger to the world

THE MOODY BLUES had no choice but to take a huge gamble as the calendar turned to 1967. While the Birmingham, England-bred band had made an initial splash during the first wave of The British Invasion in late 1964 and on into early 1965 with “Go Now”

LOOKING BACK at 2023 and our Top Pick selections, what becomes clear is it was a great year for speakers. Whether passive or active, bookshelf or tower, we saw and heard high-performance designs that deliver the goods both sonically and aesthetically

Not long into Christopher Nolan’s latest opus we begin to understand that, despite its three-hour runtime, Oppenheimer isn’t bloated, it never drags, and in fact it dares the viewer to keep up with the many characters and plot developments. There’s l

SET IN the year 2065, The Creator tells of a war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence that ensues after a nuclear device levels Los Angeles, killing millions. Joshua, a former special forces operative sent to track down AI

STEVEN SPIELBERG’S The Color Purple became one of the moviemaker’s most remarkable successes, winning the National Board of Review’s Best Picture Award and garnering eleven Academy Award nominations including Best Picture while earning him Best Direc

WIDELY REGARDED as one of the most beautiful films ever photographed, writer/director Terrence Malick’s second feature film, Days of Heaven, is a dramatically minimalist affair elevated by its often jaw-dropping visuals. The plot involves a long con

OF COURSE when Weird Al makes his biopic, he’ll take something preexisting and turn it into something uniquely his and rather funny. Put another way, the king of musical parody has gone and parodied the entire medium of celebrity biographies. Weird p

FRAMED FOR killing the most admired and respected gang leader in New York City during a landmark announcement, The Warriors suddenly find themselves unarmed and on the run, with every cop eager to lock them up and every other gang member looking to f

MINNESOTA NICE turns dark in this Academy Award-winning (Original Screenplay, the Coen Brothers; Best Actress, Frances McDormand) from Joel and Ethan Coen. William H. Macy plays bumbling car salesman Jerry Lundegaard who lands himself in debt embezzl

AN ESTEEMED doctor on the run (Harrison Ford), a dogged U.S. marshal (Tommy Lee Jones) on his trail, a one-armed killer, and… F. Lee Bailey? These disparate elements all come together to form a delectable whole in Andrew Davis’s thrilling crime drama