Category Archives: Equipment

DVI wobbles

Posted on October 31, 2003 by Stephen Dawson

I’m presently working on a review of the InFocus ScreenPlay 5700 projector — a widescreen model aimed squarely at the PAL market since it uses Texas Instruments’ 1,024 by 576 pixel ‘Matterhorn’ DMD — for Best Buys. And nice as … Continue reading →

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Harman Kardon comes up with a winner

Posted on September 30, 2003 by Stephen Dawson

Harman Kardon claims that its new DVD-30 actually does DVD Audio properly. Well, I’ve just completed a review of it and, I have to agree, it does. And does it well. Yep, finally Denon has some competition. The DVD-30 offers … Continue reading →

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Denon bringing proper mutichannel SACD, and future DVI to these shores

Posted on September 26, 2003 by Stephen Dawson

Look forward to the introduction by Audio Products Australia of the Denon DVD-A11 everything* player this month. Recommended retail price: $3,999. I am drawing here on information about what I take to be the equivalent US model, the Denon DVD-5900. … Continue reading →

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My Denon DVD-2900 review on-line

Posted on September 23, 2003 by Stephen Dawson

The DVD User Group has come to arrangment with Sound and Image magazine to reproduce some of the magazine’s hardware reviews on-line. My review of the Denon DVD-2900 DVD player is now there (you need to become a member — … Continue reading →

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The CRT projector lives

Posted on September 21, 2003 by Stephen Dawson

Yesterday I finished a review of the Barco Cine 7 LT projector, which should appear in a couple of weeks in the ‘Livewire’ section of The Age newspaper. I had thought that CRT projectors were big, heavy and expensive. The … Continue reading →

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Pioneer’s new Australian line-up

Posted on September 8, 2003 by Stephen Dawson

Pioneer Australia is flying me down to Melbourne tomorrow for the release of its new product line up. The company is strong in Plasma displays and DVD players, although its budget DVD Audio/SACD DV-655A is a disappointment (no real setup … Continue reading →

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Lileks notices Sony … and Sony suffers

Posted on September 5, 2003 by Stephen Dawson

The Bleat is a regular stopping point for me. As a professional writer myself, it brings me back to earth to read James Lileks, a writer who is, oh, at least three orders of magnitude better. Fortunately he doesn’t write … Continue reading →

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Room deadening and CRT projectors

Posted on September 2, 2003 by Stephen Dawson

Gary from Spectra Engineering in Western Australia writes: An idea for your reader Dave would be to add some acoustic deading material to his sound room. This would cut the reflections and make the Bass sound field more even throughout. … Continue reading →

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Plasma advice

Posted on August 27, 2003 by Stephen Dawson

Neil writes: … making sense of the plasma thing. We are getting conflicting messages from different hifi magazines. The last online review we found sang the praises of the Hitachi 32 pd3000. The size is right for our room. Any … Continue reading →

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It’s about time: the perfect projector for PAL DVDs?

Posted on August 12, 2003 by Stephen Dawson

In September InFocus will release its ScreenPlay 5700 projector in Australia. Could this be the perfect home theatre projector? It uses what is apparently Texas Instrument’s newest DMD, the Matterhorn. I say apparently because TI has seen fit not to … Continue reading →

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