Dolby Digital
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HTF DVD REVIEW: Dillinger Is Dead
Home Theater Forum &bull Yesterday
The Dolby Digital 1.0 audio track is very typical of its era. The dialogue, what little there is, was all post-dubbed, so there is that dryness and flatness to the sound that's emblematic of the process. There is mildly prominent… Full Story »
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- Distortion
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- Hiss
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Samsung Unveils Full Suite of 3DTV-enabled Products: Plasma, LCD and LED HDTVs, Blu-ray, HTiB and More
Home Theater on BigPictureSound.com &bull Mar 9, 2010
The 2010 lineup from Samsung is clearly built around its 3D-enabled products. Today, at a press event in New York City, the company announced plans to sell 17 different Full HD 3D-enabled products, ranging from 3D-ready displays, Blu-ray 3D players and even 3D-ready home theater in a box… Full Story »
Apple iPod touch 3rd Generation (64 GB) MP3 Player
sponsored listing • Shopping.comiPod touch is a great iPod for enjoying music, television shows, movies and podcasts. iPod touch has incredible features for music fans such as Cover Flow®, Shake to Shuffle™, and access to the legendary iTunes® Store. The iPod touch supports Genius Mixes, which automatically creates up to 12 endless...Full Story »
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HTF DVD Review: Midsomer Murders, Set 14
Home Theater Forum &bull Mar 9, 2010
Set in fictional Midsomer Country, a rural countryside community on the outskirts of London,Midsomer Murdersis one of the longest running crime dramas on British television, and based on a series of novels by Caroline Graham. Each movie-length episode is a… Full Story »
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Midsomer Murders: Set 14
Home Theater Forum &bull Mar 9, 2010
Set in fictional Midsomer Country, a rural countryside community on the outskirts of London,Midsomer Murdersis one of the longest running crime dramas on British television, and based on a series of novels by Caroline Graham. Each movie-length episode is a… Full Story »
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HTF DVD REVIEW: Bigger Than Life
Home Theater Forum &bull Mar 9, 2010
The Dolby Digital 1.0 audio track mixes the dialogue, music, and sound effects quite well with neither of the latter overpowering the former. You'll likely be impressed with the above average spatial dimension of this nicely rendered mono audio track.… Full Story »
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- Dolby Digital
- Output
Apple iPod touch 3rd Generation (8 GB) MP3 Player
sponsored listing • Shopping.comEnjoy everything you love about an iPod, and then some. Watch your movies and TV shows on a brilliant 3.5-inch display. Use the revolutionary Multi-Touch interface to flick through your music in Cover Flow. And anytime you're itching for more entertainment, just tap iTunes to browse and buy on the fly...Full Story »
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South Park The Complete Thirteenth Season Blu-ray
Home Theater on BigPictureSound.com &bull Mar 4, 2010
Dialogue actually sounds diminished in the Dolby TrueHD track 5.1 when compared with the Dolby Digital 2.0, but the more room-filling mix of the high-resolution option more than compensates for this disparity. Cheering fans at a Jonas Brothers concert fill… Full Story »
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Bitch Slap (Unrated)
Home Theater Forum &bull Mar 4, 2010
The Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track is loud, loud, loud. Users are cautioned to decrease the volume level a bit before beginning the film as the volume is loud enough to cause equipment damage. On the limited budget at their… Full Story »
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HTF DVD REVIEW: Bitch Slap (Unrated)
Home Theater Forum &bull Mar 4, 2010
The Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track is loud, loud, loud. Users are cautioned to decrease the volume level a bit before beginning the film as the volume is loud enough to cause equipment damage. On the limited budget at their… Full Story »
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Ponyo Blu-ray
Home Theater on BigPictureSound.com &bull Mar 3, 2010
Disney brought in a lot of big names to Americanize Ponyo. Sure, we love Tina Fey and Matt Damon and even Betty White. However, there is something weird about having all of these celebs do the voiceover work. As we… Full Story »
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- Dolby Digital
Apple iPod touch 3rd Generation (32 GB) MP3 Player
sponsored listing • Shopping.comiPod touch is a great iPod for enjoying music, television shows, movies and podcasts. iPod touch has incredible features for music fans such as Cover Flow®, Shake to Shuffle™, and access to the legendary iTunes® Store. The iPod touch supports Genius Mixes, which automatically creates up to 12 endless...Full Story »
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HTF DVD REVIEW: Make Way for Tomorrow
Home Theater Forum &bull Mar 2, 2010
The Dolby Digital 1.0 sound mix is very typical for its era. There isn't a great deal of fidelity to the sound with rather limited high and low ends though dialogue is certainly clear and distinct enough. There is constant… Full Story »
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Why Can't I Get 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround from Blu-ray, HDTV?
Home Theater on BigPictureSound.com &bull Mar 2, 2010
Hi. I just bought a Samsung Blue ray with the DTS-HD MASTER AUDIO and I have an older receiver that has regular DTS and Dolby Digital. Now when I connect the HDMI cable from Blue Ray to TV (a Samsung… Full Story »
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Would anyone recommend the BDP-80 Oppo region-free PAL/NTSC player?
Home Theater Forum &bull Mar 1, 2010
For audio, the BDP-80 supports internal decoding and bitstream output of the latest sound formats including Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master audio. The BDP-80 also features a configurable 7.1-channel analog output that can be set as 7.1-channel, 5.1-channel, or stereo.… Full Story »
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Weird Denon AVR-3200 problem
Home Theater Forum &bull Mar 1, 2010
I have a Denon AVR-3200 that's about 5-6 years old and wanted to know if anyone had heard of the following problem. When listening to Dolby Digital material, the center channel either is gone, or comes in and out sounding… Full Story »
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- Center Channel
- Dolby Digital
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Need Surround Sound for PS3, thinking ONKYO 6200...what else is comparable?
Home Theater Forum &bull Feb 28, 2010
Need Surround Sound for PS3, thinking ONKYO 6200...what else is comparable? I am new to home theatre and was recommended the onkyo 6200, for my ps3 blu ray player, to my led backlit lcd tv, for the Dolby TrueHD, Dolby… Full Story »
Apple iPod nano 5th Generation Silver (8 GB) MP3 Player
sponsored listing • Shopping.comThe new built-in video camera is ready for anything. Yet iPod nano is the same ultraportable size — perfect for spontaneously shooting video....Full Story »
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HTF DVD REVIEW: Have Gun - Will Travel: The Fourth Season, Volume One
Home Theater Forum &bull Feb 28, 2010
The Dolby Digital 2.0 audio track is decoded by Prologic properly into the center channel. The show has a great deal of talk, and it's delivered clearly and distinctly along with sound effects and music cues though fidelity is naturally… Full Story »
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- Center Channel
- Dolby Digital
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HTF DVD Review: Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Home Theater Forum &bull Feb 26, 2010
The Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack, encoded at 448 kbps, has good fidelity with intelligible dialogue and decent LFE response. However, it is a rather uninspired mix, surprisingly front-heavy for a genre film. Surrounds are used sparingly for music and ambiance,… Full Story »
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Noob question
Home Theater Forum &bull Feb 26, 2010
I finally recieved my Denon AVR-790 and its already frustrating me with the setups and I am using one of the very first blu-ray Sony players with the upgraded firmware. Its currently setup in HDMI output through the reciever to… Full Story »
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Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths Blu-ray
Home Theater on BigPictureSound.com &bull Feb 25, 2010
This Blu-ray continues the Warner Premiere label's mounting trend of supplying Dolby Digital 5.1 as the only audio option, as on Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, a step back from the high-resolution Dolby TrueHD standard of the Green Lantern: First Flight and… Full Story »
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HTF DVD REVIEW: Flashforward: Season One Part One
Home Theater Forum &bull Feb 25, 2010
Flashforward?s first 10 episodes come with a relatively good Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound option. As with many television dramas, the show has a tendency to use an ambient rumble to set an ominous atmosphere. That, coupled with only a… Full Story »
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- Dolby Digital
- Surround Sound
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Bryston BDA-1 D/A converter
Stereophile &bull Feb 23, 2010
The BDA-1 ($1995) is the Canadian company's first standalone DAC. It's slim, only 2.75" high, with the engraved company name, model number, and infrared sensor grouped at the extreme left of a front panel of polished aluminum. Farther to the right are two columns of four LEDs each that comprise the sample-rate indicator, which identifies the selected input's signal frequency and whether the BDA-1 has locked to it. Closer to the center is the Upsample control, which governs the conversion of the incoming digital signal synchronously to 192kHz or 176.4kHz. The Upsample LED turns green for 192kHz, red for 176.4kHz.… Full Story »
