Category Archives: Equipment

Crosstalk free 3D and the art of Soccer

Posted on June 4, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

Through the miracle of pen and paper you are reading this many, many hours after I wrote it (actually on Wednesday evening, 2 June). I am in Sydney at a private home in the salubrious suburb of Rose Bay. Were … Continue reading →

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Energy Saving Switch

Posted on April 30, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

I’m just setting up a 52 inch Sony TV. After putting it on its stand, I loaded the remote with batteries, hit the remote’s standby switch, and nothing happened. That’s fine, all I had to do was find the hard … Continue reading →

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Three dimensional Panasonic

Posted on April 20, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

I went to Melbourne today courtesy of Panasonic to see its dancing girls and enjoy a lunch. Oh, and to see some products. Like 17 new plasma TVs, ranging from the $999 107cm 1,024 x 768 pixel Viera TH-P4220A, to … Continue reading →

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Saturday morning equipment abuse

Posted on April 11, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

TNT carriers seem to be a bit short staffed at the moment. Half an order for some review products failed to arrive with the other half, and another full order simply hadn’t arrived as this last week drew to a … Continue reading →

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Oppo benefits from Lexicon’s discomfiture?

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

Presumably Oppo makes a nice dollar or two out of selling  the guts of Oppo BDP-83 Blu-ray players to Lexicon, to which the latter affixes aluminium fronts and backs and resells for seven times as much as the BDP-83. But yesterday … Continue reading →

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S-Video, going the way of the Dodo

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

I’m presently reviewing the new Yamaha RX-V2065 home theatre receiver. One of the first things I do, before even plugging in a receiver, is put it on my desk and count up the inputs and outputs and other connections. I’ve … Continue reading →

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Unused features

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

The other day when I went to pick up my daughter from school, I decided to load Bach’s ‘Golderg Variations’, as performed by Glenn Gould, in the car CD player. All part of the ongoing musical education for my kids. … Continue reading →

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The continuing price reductions

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

One advantage of having to manually load all the old Blog entries into the new platform is that I rediscover some of them. For example, back in August 2005 I wrote about the reduction in price of a 40 inch … Continue reading →

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Oppo BDP-80 available

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

I quite stumbled upon this today: Oppo Digital has a new lower cost Blu-ray player available, the BDP-80. It is not as bulky and drops the Anchor Bay Technology VRS video processing, the dedicated stereo analogue outputs and the IR … Continue reading →

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Changes: LED in, Wireless video out

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

On Tuesday I went to Sydney, courtesy of Sony, to see Sony’s latest launch. I’ve written about it for Monday’s Canberra Times, with particular attention to the introduction of a 3D product line up in July this year. But a … Continue reading →

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