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I've had a pair of Active 40s on order for about 10 weeks now. When I asked my dealer what she knew about the Active line being discontinued, she decided to give the distributor a call. The distributor had heard nothing of this rumor, in fact he had just come back from a show where Paradigm had...

Richard, Here are some of the notes I made while calibrating my TV. They were used on a Sony KV32XBR450 and I'm not sure if they apply to other models in the Wega line. The VE comments refer to the title and chapter of a test pattern on the Video Essentials DVD. Mark Device Item Item...

I bought the Panasonic CT32HX41 set and replaced it about a week later with the Sony FV-32XBR450. The Panasonic had a large number of serious geometry problems that I wasn't convinced could be fixed. In addition the color temperature and white level was set so high, and the black level so low...

On Title 17 Chapter 13 of the Video Essentials disk there is an SMPTE pattern that I've used to set the overscan. This yields a 5% overscan on the top and right and a 3% overscan on the bottom and left of the overscan image. This seems to center the picture better than the overscan image.

Home Theater is much more dangerous than Stereo. The technology is changing much more quickly, there are 3, maybe 4 times as many channels and probably 10 times as many cables.

Hello, my name is Mark and it's been 4 days since my last upgrade. The problem began just a few short months ago... It had been over 15 years since my last upgrade and my former addiction was just a distant memory. I had kicked my habit cold turkey. My subscriptions to TAS and Stereophile had...