Two years ago if you had asked any home theater enthusiast to name the top subwoofers on the market, you would likely have heard reference to the JL Audio Fathom F113, perhaps a Velodyne, and the venerable SVS SB and PB-13 Ultra, and for good reason. SVS’ former top of […]
Slimline, and feature-packed: Marantz launches stylish new NR1608 and NR1508 network AV receivers
Mahwah, NJ May 15th, 2017 – Marantz®, a world leader in advanced audio technologies, announces two new slimline network AV receivers, the NR1608 and NR1508. Each combines the latest home theater features with the convenience of multi-room music playback – and all in designs built to slip into the tightest […]
Inspector Clouseau Blu-ray Review
Bud Yorkin’s Inspector Clouseau certainly can’t compare to any of the Clouseau efforts starring the legendary Peter Sellers, but on its own it contains enough comic inspiration and a decent enough leading performance to be worth a rental if for comparison’s sake if nothing else.
Weekly RoundUp 6-20-2017
Where to find the Best Deals on Movies & TV Shows on 4k/UHD, Blu-ray and DVD… The Features – Life – 2017 – Ten Little Indians – 1974 – Wilson – 2017 The Prices Click on the Amazon price to buy from Amazon and support HTF! Any clickable link […]
John Wick: Chapter 2 UHD Review
Keanu Reaves returns for more mayhem in John Wick: Chapter 2, picking up where the previous film left off. It’s a fan-pleasing sequel that, as you begin to scratch the surface, has some problems.
Europe Is Progressing In 4K Sets, However, China Still Leads
According to Dataxis, nearly 12 million of 4K TV were sold in Europe during the year 2016, which represents a growth of 102 per cent in comparison for the year 2015 (6 million of 4K TV shipped). The sales were driven by UK (2 million), Germany (2 million), France (1.7 […]
VIZIO Announces Retail Availability of All-New VIZIO SmartCast™ M-Series™ and P-Series™
Irvine, CA — June 13, 2017 — VIZIO, Inc. announced today the retail availability of its all-new 2017 VIZIO SmartCast M-Series Ultra HD HDR XLED Plus and P-Series Ultra HD HDR XLED Pro Display collections. Powered by VIZIO’s XLED high-performance full-array local dimming backlight technology, the 2017 collections dramatically enhance on-screen content with […]
“Large UHD TV” Just Got A Lot Larger: C SEED 262 – The World’s Largest 4K Widescreen TV
Los Angeles / Vienna, June 2017 Luxury electronics specialist C SEED introduces C SEED 262, the world´s largest 4k widescreen TV. Excellent news for the happy few whose living room is huge enough to accommodate a display with a world record diagonal of 262 inches or 6,65 meters: You can […]
All Nighter DVD Review
Gavin Wiesen’s All Nighter is obviously trying to be the zany, comic all night spree that made Martin Scorsese’s After Hours such a memorably bizarre but entertaining enterprise, but the film doesn’t have the story, characters, or likability factor going for it.
A few words about…™ The Pink Panther Collection — in Blu-ray
Shout Factory has released the six Pink Panther films on Blu-ray. Five of them available for the first time, as part of their Select label, and some niggling quality issues aside, the films are more than worth the $60 price of admission. This is especially true, as the original Blu […]
Ten Little Indians (1974) Blu-ray Review
An international co-production of one of Agatha Christie’s most famous stories, Ten Little Indians while not as adept as earlier filmed versions of the tale offers its own unique pleasures despite some definite weaknesses.
Weekly RoundUp 6-13-2017
Where to find the Best Deals on Movies & TV Shows on 4k/UHD, Blu-ray and DVD… The Features – John Wick: Chapter 2 – 2017 – The LEGO Batman Movie – 2017 – The Valachi Papers – 1972 – They Live By Night – 1948 – Hell and High […]
Ex Machina UHD Review
Perhaps one of the best independently made science fiction films in recent years, Ex Machina is also an intriguing game between three characters, trying to determine if a humanoid robot with artificial intelligence is sentient. The film won an Oscar for Best Visual Effects in 2015.
Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire Blu-ray Review
The fourth in the series of Dragonheart films, this third sequel to the 1996 original feature film, subtitled Battle for the Heartfire, is another made-for-home video effort, well enough done as these things go though no one will look to the writing here and confuse it for anything literary.
Father Dowling Mysteries: The Complete Series DVD Review
One of the real hard luck kids of network television was Father Dowling Mysteries, a middling crime series that never quite seemed to catch a break.
Video Will Comprise 82% of All Net Traffic in 5 Years, Says Cisco
Online video’s strong growth will continue for years, says Cisco. In 2021, 82 percent of all online traffic will be video, predicts the just-released Cisco Visual Networking Index (2016-2021). That up from 73 percent of all traffic in 2016. Live video streaming will increase by 15x in that time, growing […]