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 Las Vegas was yet again host to CES, where hundreds of industry folks, journalists, and just plain revelers converged to see the latest trends in technology, communications, entertainment, and lifestyle products. Every ...  Integrated amplifiers are probably more popular than ever before. Today, many companies offer a one box, convenient solution loaded with features and requiring fewer cables / less rack space, which allows for full system ...  Legendary British HiFi firm, Musical Fidelity, has been at it for about 25 years now. They have been widely praised for decades for their amplifiers, hybrid tube designs, and digital source components. Musical Fidelity&...  Bel Canto Design, out of Minneapolis, has an the envious reputation of making a full line of very well reviewed Class D amplifiers, preamps, DAC’s, CD players, and transports. Their ...  Very few categories in high end, perfectionist audio are as controversial as cables. There are endless debates about silver or copper,shielded or not, soldered or crimped, cryo’d or not, and ...  Pro-Ject, the company from Austria, whose Pre Box and Head Box I previously reviewed, has been expanding their product line while keeping true to their mission. That mission is producing great sounding, well ...  DH Labs is one of my favorite audio cable makers. As a matter of fact, their digital cables and the silver Revelation interconnect are two of my references. They have been at the ...  “Computer audio” is the current favorite buzz phrase in high end audio. Ironically, non audiophiles are probably not too familiar with the term since playing music files from a computer, internet ...  One of the biggest challenges a speaker designer has is making a very compact, low mass speaker sound lifelike. There have been a number of notable “book shelf” designs, like ...  Olive Media Inc. has gained quite a loyal, worldwide following for their user friendly, great sounding series of music servers they created from the point of view of non computer geeks and music ...  Bryston’s first two forays into digital source components, the BCD-1 CD player and the BDA-1 DAC , have been smashing successes, garnering rave reviews for sound, build quality, and overall value. Those ...  It's been over a decade since Napster changed the music industry forever. Or rather, since broadband Internet, faster computers, ever growing hard drive sizes, and new compression algorithms (like the mp3) ...
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Home Theater News Home Theater/Media Center PCs News
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Written by Dick Ward
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Tuesday, 09 February 2010 |
Let’s face it, no matter how good Blu-ray discs look, there’s something about not having to leave the couch that just draws you to the Netflix streaming service. It’s cheap, it’s quick and it’s easy. The only real problem with the service is that the video and audio quality just isn’t up to snuff.
Earlier this week it was rumored that Netflix would be kicking things up to 1080p, though that rumor was sadly denied by the company. They’ve still got 1080p streaming in their sights – Microsoft’s Zune service already does it using the same Silverlight platform – but audio will be their focus in 2010.
According to Netflix, streams will be upgraded to 5.1 channel surround by the end of this year. There’s no set release date, and details such as bandwidth requirements are unavailable. What we do know however, is that Netflix videos will be giving your surround speakers a workout by the end of this year.
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