TV & Home Theatre

  Flat panel TV’s keep getting more incredible. Clearer pictures with Ultra HD 4K, and bigger screens that keep getting thinner and thinner. While the picture keeps getting better, the sound isn’t improving much because it is next to impossible to put decent speakers in a very thin panel. This is why sound bars have become extremely popular. They are very easy to set up, they look good, are non-obtrusive, and very cost effective. But are they really worth the investment? Like so many things – it depends!

The new, 4th generation Apple TV certainly isn’t the first media streamer to hit the market. It’s not the cheapest, the smallest, nor the first to offer voice control. However, the new Apple TV 4 stands out from competing media streamers and represents a revolutionary step forward for these devices.

I walk about an hour a day to the SkyTrain and home, rain or shine. It’s a great time to listen to new music on Spotify or call friends and family; I’ve spend the past few years flipping between headphones from Bose, Monster, and my Apple EarPods. The one thing that most of them have had in common is that they have a cable running from the earphones to my phone. That cable gets snagged, pulls and will either rip out of the audio jack or pull my phone out of my pocket on a bad day. For the last week I’ve been using the Sony Bluetooth® Wireless Sports Headset on my walk. Have they solved the cable problem and are they worth buying? Read on to find out!

Dolby Laboratories has been in the business of improving and perfecting the sound experience since 1965. They started with Dolby Noise Reduction, which got rid of the hiss on audiocassette tapes. In the early 90’s they introduced Dolby Digital, which gave rise to ever-improving surround sound, ultimately evolving to Dolby TrueHD, which further improved the purity of sound reproduction. Their latest sound technology is Dolby Atmos, which has taken the sound experience to yet a new level. Atmos is to sound what 4K is to TV resolution.

BenQ projectors are a great gift, and that's why we're looking a few different types of BenQ projector for Day 6 of our 12 Days of Christmas.

The BenQ GP100A is a charmingly diminutive projector that packs quite the punch with 1080p resolution, 4K playback, good audio, and built-in Android TV.

You're shopping for speakers; you think you've graduated from the tiny super portable wireless versions to something bigger and better, but where to begin? There are some excellent choices in a mid-to-large sized wireless speakers from top manufacturers like Sonos and Harman Kardon.

 Two new TVs just out are widening the options for smart TV shoppers. Toshiba has just launched two new smart sets that use the Google Cast TV platform.

Let’s say money is no object and you have the time and freedom to really create the home theatre of your dreams. Where do you begin? Here are some tips.

Bowers & Wilkens, Pioneer, Klipsch and Marantz, along with relative newcomer Devialet, push the limits of amazing sound for home audio.