There are good and bad sides to soundbars. The biggest selling feature would be the price. Soundbars are relatively cheaper than full home theater systems. Another selling feature, especially for smaller home theaters is the space factor. Soundbars do not take up a lot of space. Wha sets soundbars apart is the audio quality. Listen to a few of them and you will be amazed just how good they sound. We all want quality sound when sitting in our home theater.

The not so good side of soundars is just the fact that you will not have true surround sound. You cannot have a 5.1 or 7.1 sound system since the physical unit of a soundbar is just one piece. Soundbars don’t give the consumer a true surround sound system.

When you compare the pros and cons of soundbars, it’s ultimatley up to the consumer. If price is important than soundbars are perfect but if true surround sound is important, you may not want one. Regardless of which one you prefer, you cannot ignore the rise in popularity with soundbars.

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Capabilities:
-Record up to 4 channels with the Ceton InfiniTV TV tuner (Cable Card not included)
-Store up to 3.6 TB of media
-Watch Blu ray movies in 1080p via PowerDVD12 Game
-Stream web video wirelessly from Youtube, Netflix, and Amazon
-Connect a media extender like Xbox 360 for whole home entertainment

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Sonos has stated that the six mid-woofers deliver deep, rich low-frequenc sounds and three tweeters for crystal clear high-frequency detail. Sonos has stated this soundbar provides crisp and clear audio, not just loud sounds.

It connects directly to your TV with an optical cable and plays audio from everything connected to it, (Blu-ray DVD players, game consules, and cable boxes). The free Sonos app lets you control your Playbar from your smartphone or tablet to stream music from a home computer, or other music services like Spotify, Pandora, Rhapsody, and Amazon Cloud Player.

According to PCMAG.com, “Sonos said the Playbar was designed for easy setup and use. It can lie flat on a TV stand or be mounted on the wall above or below the TV”. “Sonos has transformed the way people listen to music throughout the home and now we’re bringing our wireless HiFi [high fidelity] approach to home theater,” Sonos CEO John MacFarlane said in a statement. “Playbar will change everything about the sound experience in your living room, bringing together amazing HiFi sound for your TV and wireless access to the world’s music in a radically simple way.”

Watch for the Playbar to hit stores on March 5, 2013. We always appreciate your comments and feedback so contact through Facebook, Twitter, email or by phone.

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Mr. Lee was a part of the LG project, AMOLED TV. For those of you that are unawar of what this is, AMOLD TV creates printed products using a 3D printing process that builds the item layer by layer. So with Mr. Lee now employed by Apple , does this mean they are working on the iTV? AMOLED stands for Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode, and it is  an advanced version of OLED with higher screen refresh rates, lower power consumption, and higher contrast  ratios. 4K televisions have four times the resolution of standard high-def TVs,  with a resolution of 3,840 pixels by 2,160 pixels. Apple’s existing 15-inch  retina MacBook Pros have a resolution of 2,880-by-1,800 pixels.

If you haven’t seen what the OLED TV is like, please watch the clip below.

With Jueng-jil Lee now working for Apple , we are open to speculate exactly what his role is. We all know Apple is secretive so let the rumours begin! Regardless of what the rumours are, we are all anxious for the release of the Apple TV (aka iTV).

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Flight is  presented in 1080p high definition with English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, French  5.1 Dolby Digital, Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital, Portuguese 5.1 Dolby Digital and  English Audio Description and English, English SDH, French, Spanish and  Portuguese subtitles. The DVD in the combo pack is presented in widescreen  enhanced for 16:9 TVs with English 5.1 Dolby Digital, French 5.1 Dolby Digital,  Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital and English Audio Description and English, French,  Spanish and Portuguese subtitles.

Flight will be available in a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack with UltraViolet and  special features that give the  audiences a behind-the-scenes tour about the film and how the filmmakers created the ever so scary plane crash. The combo pack includes access to a digital  copy of the film and the following bonus content:

� Feature  film in high definition
� Origins of Flight
� The Making of Flight
� Anatomy of a Plane Crash
� Q&A Highlights

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The RedRayplayer streams ultra HD content from the internet. There is a one TB hard drive which can be upgraded to save more content, based on your own preference. The RedRay player comes with 1 HDMI 1.4 output, 3 HDMI 1.3 outputs, and an additional HDMI output for 7.1 surround sound.

The RedRay connects to Odemax’s cloud-based content delivery system where you can find all of their 4K content. The negative of the RedRay is that it can’t play any of your existin movies unless you upload them to an externam hard drive. Don’t forget you will need to have a 4K TV to view this content because you won’t be able to enjoy the 4K qualities without it.

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The app can work in two different ways:  connect directly to your home entertainment system with an Apple Digital AV adapter or wireless through Apple TV. The camera on your  iPad or iPhone is used to set up the number of parameters on your TV, (colour, brightness, etc.) The app will ensure that your speakers are connected effectively with the proper sound levels of your home entertainment system.

The app was free until today but now is available from the iTunes store for $1.99. According to iTunes, the app is compatible with:

- iPhone 4
- iPhone 4S
- iPhone 5
- iPod touch (4th generation)
- iPod touch (5th generation)
- iPad 2 Wi-Fi
- iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G
- iPad (3rd generation)
- iPad Wi-Fi + 4G
- iPad (4th generation)
- iPad Wi-Fi + Cellular (4th generation)
- iPad mini and iPad mini Wi-Fi + Cellular

For an indepth review courtesy of PCMag.com, please click here.

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Since home theaters can be used for many different things, from movies to concerts and sports, games like the Super Bowl are a perfect combination. It brings friends and family together to spend an afternoon or evening rooting for one of the teams while sharing a few snacks and beverages with one another. The Super Bowl is also child-friendly so people of all ages can be together and enjoy the game. With this game, people are just as excited to watch the commercials!  Super Bowl commercials can be more exciting than the game itself.

Some people have dedicated sports themed home theater rooms, click here to read our blog about this! There’s something about sports and home theaters that just go perfectly together. This Sunday’s Super Bowl game between the Baltimore Ravens and San Francisco 49ers will be no exception. Let us know what you will be doing for this upcoming Super Bowl game. There are going to be parties all around North America this Sunday.

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Disc 1: Die Hard (1988)
Disc 2: Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990) 
Disc 3: Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)
Disc 4: Live Free or Die Hard (2007)

Disc 5: Decoding Die Hard 
Modern-Day Hero — Casting, evolution and legacy of John McClane
Along For The Ride — Engaging sidekicks who have teamed up with McClane
Bad To The Bone — McClane’s well-armed and formidable foes
Punishing Blows — Creating the intense action sequences, fistfights and stunts
Explosive Effects — Role of groundbreaking visual and special effects including some of the biggest explosions on screen
Reinventing The Action Genre — Development of the franchise from concept to character to story
The Right Hero For The Right Time — Appeal and influence of Die Hard films on pop culture

Here’s the trailer for part 5, A Good Day To Die Hard (2013) (not included in this anniversary edition as it will be in theaters this year)

Die Hard is an action packed franchise with amazing action sequences, car chases, explosions, and great casts. Your home theater or your man cave has one necessity (besides the home theater seating and equipment) and that is Die Hard!

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Personally, I cannot see streaming services replace blu-ray because of the audio and video quality. The difference is substantial and for those who love home theater systems, they too also won’t settle for subpar sound and video. It’s true that streaming has now started streaming HD content but the clarity is just not the same. If you stream content to a smartphone or a tablet, the quality is amazing but for a large screen projector or TV, there is a difference.

There is also the concern of available content. When you own a blu-ray, you can access it anytime however with streaming services, you are limited to what they provide thus causing an issue if there is something you love to watch but they don’t provide it.  

Personally I do not think streaming services like Apple TV and Netflix will ever take over entirely. Home theater enthusiasts want the best quality and as of right now, blu-ray DVD’s are the best. Comparing the quality to streaming services doesn’t even make sense since the quality of streaming is good but nothing like the clarity of a blu-ray disc.

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