Home Theater Systems

The prospect of stringing wires to rear speakers may be the number one impediment to turning your living room into a home theater. At least three manufacturers have stepped up with systems that transform the rears into wireless receivers. Two of the products presented here are wireless capable, while a third makes it optional. Two can also leverage your Wi-Fi network to stream digital entertainment without an Ethernet cable.

Blu-ray Disc (BD) is the latest generation optical disc format for movie players and computers. Though the disc is the same size as a DVD or CD, it can hold more than five times the amount of data of a DVD.

Think of the “3” in 3D as the third axis, a newly arrived Z dimension that joins the 2D screen geometry of X (width) and Y (height). You experience the sensation of depth in two basic ways: as “Deep 3D” in which the TV seems to become an infinitely receding tank. It’s almost as if you could reach through the glass; as “Pop-Out 3D” where objects appear be spilling off the screen.

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