The AACS or Advanced Access Content System is the consortium behind HD DVD and Blu-Ray's content protection.  Companies making hardware to playback these formats must play ball.  Last week the AACS came to an agreement about downrezzing, a longtime bogeyman of videophiles. Basically downrezzing is the act of downgrading ...

This ad is typical of what you find from some retailers, particlaur the big box shops like Best Buy where the marketers get the better of common sense.  This one is actually flirting with truth in advertising issues and is certainly guilty of exaggerating, if not guilty of some worse infraction for lying to customers. I picked this up from ...

People are obsessed with so called future proof purchases when they go to the electronics super-mart.  Marketers and sales people alike try to sell the idea of future proofing by pushing features that will supposedly allow you to upgrade or will be compatible with the next big technologies.  But the reality is that future proofing is a ...

Beware of specifications in all things; don’t get caught up in the details and try to look at the whole performance of anything before you buy.  Using your ears and eyes in a hands on test of any new product is the ONLY way to properly gauge performance.  This is always true in speakers, receivers, amps and display ...

“What sucks about HDTV” is regular feature on the HomeTheaterFocus Blog that will illuminate common complaints, shortcomings and general misconceptions about HDTV.  Of course, we all love our HDTV, but many have shelled out thousands on an HD monitor expecting total viewing nirvana only to find its limitations.  ...

 “What sucks about HDTV” tries to illuminate common complaints, shortcomings and general misconceptions about HDTV.  We all love HDTV but many people have shelled out thousands on an HD monitor expecting to be in total viewing nirvana only to find there are limitations.  What sucks about HDTV has its own category so you can compile ...

Welcome to a new recurring feature on the HomeTheaterFocus blog, “What sucks about HDTV” is going to try to illuminate common complaints, shortcomings and general misconceptions about HDTV.  We all love HDTV but many people have shelled out thousands on an HD monitor expecting to be in total Television/Movie viewing nirvana only to ...