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IMAX Enhanced Audio Examined, Part 2

Last week I shared my first impressions of the new IMAX Enhanced audio format, available on select A/V receivers and two movie discs to date. Additional testing has answered some of the questions I...

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IMAX Enhanced Audio Examined, Part 3

As I’m still trying to figure out the new IMAX Enhanced audio format, I’ve done some additional playing around and discovered a strange use that was likely not intended by the designers. If you really...

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Dolby Atmos Beyond 7.1.4 – Part 5: The Front Wide Experiment

It’s been a while since I last provided an update on my ongoing attempt to expand my home theater beyond the conventional channel limits allowed by Dolby Atmos or DTS:X. Never satisfied, I’ve now...

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JVC and Panasonic Try to Figure Out HDR Tone Mapping

High Dynamic Range video is both the most exciting aspect of the 4k Ultra HD format and also the most confusing. With their new flagship products, JVC and Panasonic have teamed up to simplify HDR tone...

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IMAX Enhanced Audio Examined, Part 4

Earlier this year, the IMAX Corporation and DTS introduced the new IMAX Enhanced variant of the DTS:X sound format, and I wrote a few articles trying to get to the bottom of what it really is or does....

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Unboxed: JVC DLA-NX7 4K HDR Projector

For a longtime self-professed videophile, you’d think I would have upgraded my home theater to 4k quite a while ago. I hesitated for a few reasons, chief among them that I was waiting for the right...

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Is an Anamorphic Lens Still Useful in a Modern 4k Home Theater?

After about a month of breaking in my new JVC DLA-NX7 projector, I finally decided to remove it from the shelf it was sitting on and move it to my ceiling mount, which I guess means that it’s a keeper....

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Is There Still Room for Laserdisc in a 4k Home Theater?

For obvious reasons, my home theater has primarily focused on Blu-ray and Ultra HD content, plus cable TV and streaming at a minimum of high definition quality. Even so, I still like to keep older...

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JVC Makes Major Improvement to HDR Tone Mapping

HDR tone mapping remains the most confusing and frustrating aspect of 4k High Dynamic Range video, and is especially difficult on home theater projectors. Always at the forefront of the best projector...

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Bringing Old Game Consoles Back into Service

Lately, I feel like my home theater is moving backwards. Despite upgrading to a high-end 4k projector, I’ve also felt compelled to pull some very old equipment back into usage. First was a Laserdisc...

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Dolby Atmos Beyond 7.1.4 – Part 6: Reconfiguring Everything (Again)

My seemingly never-ending project to incorporate an absurd number of speakers into my home theater has undergone another major overhaul since I last provided an update. While, no, I haven’t squeezed...

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Anamorphic Lens in a Modern 4k Home Theater, Part 2 – The Panamorph Paladin DCR

After installing a 4k projector in my home theater, I questioned whether an anamorphic lens is still the best way of achieving Constant Image Height display. Although my first tests using an older...

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