Hollywood DVDACT1010

Advantages: Great Looks, Ease of Use and Set-up, brilliant picture and sound quality
Disadvantages: Cheap looking HDMI Cable

...for the umpteenth time) VERY EXPENSIVE up to 4 x the price of a HD DVD player The backing is huge with the likes of Samsung, Sony, Philips, Pioneer, Panasonic, Hitachi, Sharp, Dell and LG all giving it the thumbs up. HD DVD The GOOD Much cheaper and easier to manufacture, Excellent quality on even the early disks. The BAD About half the storage spave of Blu Ray Limited choice of players Not as much support from Hollywood studios (This could very well as none of the Hollywood studios have ruled out producing HD DVDs) The backing, although smaller than Blu Ray, has Toshiba, Sanyo, NEC and the heavyweight MICROSOFT in it's corner. Because of the price issue most experts believe that HD DVD will sell more units than Blu Ray, especially when the Chinese start producing it. Both formats upscale normal DVD's so the picture quality... Read review

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Advantages: Compact & Powerful, Excellent Sound, Robust Bass, Good Build Quality, Ergonomically Designed, Less Expensive ( £250)
Disadvantages: Bland Aesthetics.

...and simulate the complex directional and spatial information that we hear in real life. It does a decent job of reproducing a musical event, even fairly impressive at times. But it is limited to those two boxes up front, and two directions, give or take a bit. Even as early as the 1930s, Bell Telephone scientists concluded that a minimum of three channels were necessary to convey a reasonable simulation of an orchestral performance--two channels at the left and right, and one in the middle. In the late 1950s and '60s, Hollywood sound engineers realized that more channels of sound were better, and added magnetic stripes to the edge of epic 70mm wide screen movies, which delivered up to six separate "tracks" or sound channels. Audiences loved the effect: Multiple channels more closely approximated the multidirectional sounds our ears pick up... Read review

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Advantages: Great TV, what more can I say.
Disadvantages: Not a 34 incher.

...in Hollywood” what quality, what a difference. More technically, about the stuff that should make you want to grab one! SCREEN FORMAT: If set to AUTO and you receive transmissions in WSS Format (Wide Screen Signaling) then all of your pictures will jump out from the normal 4.3 compression - that is normal telly size to 16.9 "Big Mutha" size! If you do not get WSS, then screen format PANORAMIC will adequately emulate "Big Mutha" size! Yawn! other formats, 16.9 L, for this read "Really Big Mutha", 14.9L, I have no idea why you would want any of these! Lastly SUBTITLES for viewing... you tell me, no prizes. ANY DISADVANTAGES? In some screen shots, people look wider than they would appear normally, my wife loves this because "Steps" and "S Club 7" look positivly fatter! I love it because Kylie, ahem well there is more... Read review

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