Audio
Integra Adding MQA, Google Cast, Networked Multiroom To AVRs
Integra is bringing multiple technologies to its audio/video receivers for the first time, including networked multiroom audio, Google Cast for audio, and Master Quality...
Dolby Atmos
Audio
Yamaha Expands Dolby Atmos, DTS:X In Aventage AVR Series
Yamaha is expanding Dolby Atmos and DTS:X object-based surround decoding to all models in its step-up Aventage audio/video receiver series, which ranges from a...
Audio
Definitive Technology Expands Dolby Atmos, DTS:X Support
Speaker maker Definitive Technology is expanding its support of Dolby Atmos and DTS:X surround with a ground-up redesign and re-engineering of its bipolar-speaker lineup....
Audio
Onkyo Goes High & Low With HT-S3800 & HT-S7800 Home-Theater Systems
Onkyo introduced two new home-theater systems on Monday, including one geared toward consumers still sitting on the soundbar/home-theater system fence. The HT-S3800 5.1-channel home-theater...
Audio
Pioneer Brings Wireless Multiroom, Google Cast To VSX-1131, VSX-831 AVRs
Pioneer Home Entertainment is bringing wireless multiroom audio, Google Cast and Tidal streaming to its Pioneer-series audio/video receivers for the first time, joining the...
Audio
Emotiva Prepares For Big Year With BasX, Other Audio Products
It’s turning out to be a big product year for Emotiva Audio, the high-performance component-audio supplier that sells direct to consumers and through retailers....
Audio
Dolby Atmos, DTS:X Spread In Yamaha AVR Lineup
Yamaha is bringing Dolby Atmos and DTS:X object-based surround decoding for the first time to its RX-V series of low- to mid-price audio/video receivers,...
Audio
Denon, Marantz Add Auro-3D Surround To Select Components
D+M Group is making Auro-3D surround processing available for the first time as a $200 firmware upgrade available today for four high-end networked audio...
Audio
Onkyo Adding More AVRs With Google Cast, Tidal, Wireless Multiroom
Onkyo is bringing wireless multiroom-audio, Google Cast, and Tidal streaming to three RZ series audio/video receivers priced from a suggested $799 to $1,299. The...
Audio
Entry-Level AVR Hints At Yamaha’s Full AVR Lineup
Yamaha is offering a peek into its 2016 lineup of audio/video receivers with the launch of the opening-price RX-V381, which brings HDR-capable HDMI 2.0a...
Audio
Pioneer Adds Wireless Multiroom, Google Cast, Tidal To LX101, LX301 Elite AVRs
Pioneer Home Entertainment is bringing wireless multiroom audio, Google Cast, and Tidal streaming to its audio/video receivers for the first time. The company also...
Audio
Onkyo AVRs To Get Wireless Multiroom, Google Cast, Tidal
Onkyo is bringing wireless multiroom-audio, Google Cast, and Tidal streaming to its audio/video receivers for the first time. In unveiling four AVRs priced starting...
Audio
Dolby Atmos Discs Nearing 50 From Major Studios
The selection of physical video discs with Dolby Atmos soundtracks grew to 46 yesterday with the release of 12 UHD Blu-ray titles, and the...
news
Vudu Expands Selection Of 4K Titles With Dolby Vision, Atmos
Vudu has expanded its selection of 4K streaming titles in Dolby Vision to 33 with the launch of Warner Bros. Pictures’ “The Intern” and...
news
Dolby, DTS Make More Inroads Into Mobile Devices
Dolby and DTS audio technologies aren’t just for the home, as underscored by mobile product announcements at the Mobile World Congress. Lenovo expanded its...
Audio
Yamaha Readies DTS:X Firmware Upgrades For Audio Products
Yamaha is joining Denon and Marantz in announcing DTS:X firmware updates for currently available products that feature Dolby Atmos. The Yamaha products consist of...
Audio
PSB Gets In On Dolby Atmos Action With Imagine XA Height Speaker
Speaker maker PSB is getting in on the Dolby Atmos action with the launch of its first Dolby Atmos-enabled speaker, a height-speaker module that...
Audio
James Loudspeaker Gives Audio A Wedgie
James Loudspeaker has developed its first two wedge-shaped home-audio speakers, both designed to mount vertically in the corner of a wall and horizontally where...
Audio
CES 2016: Fourth Dolby Atmos Soundbar Appears With Creative Technology’s X-Fi Sonic Carrier
Creative Technology came to CES 2016 with a soundbar whose 17 drivers are said to deliver an 11.2.4 Dolby Atmos soundfield via an array...
Audio
CES 2016: Dolby Atmos Comes To Philips Fidelio Soundbar
Another Dolby Atmos-equipped soundbar will come to market in the summer when Gibson Innovations ships a Philips-brand model. Yamaha already offers a high-end Atmos-equipped...
Audio
McIntosh Brings Wireless Multiroom To Luxury Market At CES
Luxury-audio brand McIntosh is bringing wireless multiroom-audio technology to new price and performance levels with the CES launch of two products equipped with DTS’s...
news
CES 2016: Samsung Goes All The Way With 4K, Smart Home Technology
Samsung expanded its selection of 4K SUHD and 4K UHD TVs, turned its smart SUHD TVs into home-automation hubs, and launched its first 4K...
Audio
Samsung Bringing Dolby Atmos Soundbar To 2016 CES
Samsung will go to CES to join the short list of suppliers offering a soundbar equipped with Dolby Atmos object-based surround sound. Samsung’s HW-K950...
Audio
SVS Primes Multipurpose Speaker For CES Launch
Speaker maker SVS is going to CES with a compact speaker that can be used in almost any application in a home theater, including...
Audio
Audio On Key For CES
Audio retailers will head for CES with the wind behind their backs, though the wind might not be as gusty as it was last...
Audio
Marantz Sets Timetable For DTS:X Updates
Marantz will offer DTS:X firmware upgrades for two audio/video receivers and two home theater preamp/processors in February and March. The updates will add DTS:X...
Audio
DTS:X Surround Coming To ‘The Last Witch Hunter’ Blu-ray Disc
“The Last Witch Hunter” will be the fourthBlu-ray disc available with DTS:X object-based surround soundtracks, DTS said. Other Blu-ray titles with DTS:X include “Ex...
news
Vudu Launches Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos Video Streams
Vudu became the first video-streaming service to offer 4K Ultra HD movies remastered in Dolby Vision high-dynamic range (HDR) as well as movies with...
Audio
CEDIA Expo: Dolby Atmos, DTS:X Options Grow From Indy Audio Labs, Triad Speakers
Object-based surround options for home theaters continue to grow at the CEDIA Expo, where Triad Speakers expanded its selection of Dolby Atmos speakers and...
CES-2016
CEDIA Expo: Sony Debuts 4K Laser Projector
Three new long-throw 4K home cinema projectors launched by Sony at the CEDIA Expo include the $59,999-suggested VPL-W5000ES laser projector said to deliver multiple...
Audio
Arcam To Offer Dolby Atmos, HDMI 2.0a, HDCP 2.2 In AVRs
Another high-end niche-audio supplier is following mainstream companies in offering audio/video receivers with object-based surround decoding and the latest HDMI technologies that pass through...
Audio
CEDIA Expo: AudioControl AVRs Ready For Latest 4K Sources, Object-Based Audio
AudioControl will go to the CEDIA Expo next week with nine new products, including its first two AVRs equipped with Dolby Atmos, HDCP 2.2,...
Audio
Pioneer Jumps On DTS:X Bandwagon
Pioneer launched its first three audio/video receivers that can be upgraded to decode DTS:X object-based surround soundtracks. Their predecessors featured Dolby Atmos object-based surround...
news
Lenovo Has First Tablets With Virtualized Dolby Atmos
Lenovo didn’t forget North America in launching a variety of communications and computing products at IFA 2015, where it unveiled the industry’s first tablet...
Audio
Marantz Expands HDMI 2.0a, Dolby Atmos, DTS:X With SR7010 & SR6010 AVRs
More Marantz A/V receivers are getting the Dolby Atmos and DTS:X object-based surround formats, HDMI 2.0a, and HDCP 2.2 copy protection, thanks to the...
Blogs
Klipsch/Dolby Atmos Demo: Duck, Dodge, And Hide
Dolby Labs and Klipsch co-hosted an impressive demonstration of the power of Dolby Atmos object-based surround at Dolby’s offices in Manhattan. Just one word:...
Audio
Pioneer Adds Low-Priced Dolby Atmos Speakers
Pioneer Home Entertainment expanded its selection of Dolby Atmos speakers with the launch of two low-priced models. The Pioneer-series models are a $199/pair Atmos...
Audio
Integra: No Objections To Object-Based Surround
Upper Saddle River, N.J. – Integra is expanding its selection of audio components equipped with Dolby Atmos surround and ready to deliver DTS:X surround...
Blu-ray/DVD
Sony Pictures To Release Classic Films In Dolby Atmos
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) will add two classics from visionary director Luc Besson to the Supreme Cinema Series with the addition of “The...
CES-2016
Ultimate Integration Unveils ‘Experience Center’ At Summer Event
Clifton, N.J. — Ultimate Integration, a value-added distributor of premium consumer and specialty electronics, showed off its newly remodeled headquarters showroom here last month...
Audio
Denon Does Dolby Atmos, DTS:X
Mahwah, N.J. – Denon will expand its selection of DTS:X-upgradable audio/video receivers with Dolby Atmos surround in August with the launch of two models...
Audio
Integra Adds First Two AVRs With Both Dolby Atmos, DTS:X
Upper Saddle River, N.J. – Three new Integra audio/video receivers bring the opening price point for Dolby Atmos surround decoding to $800 from a...