At the start of each new year we look into our high def crystal ball to make our best predictions on what we think the coming year will bring in the way of HDTV and Home Theater.
The ball tends to be a bit cloudy, and each year we struggle to even get close to 50%.
So let�s take a look at how we thought 2013 would shake out to see how we did.
In our last episode we spelled out the reasons the Blu-ray disk, and the DVD for that matter, may not be around for much longer.
That sparked some healthy debate at the watercooler and in our email.
As you can imagine, pristine, high quality audio and video aren�t the only reasons to hang on to the disk format.
In the interest of point-counterpoint, �we report, you decide,� this week we�ll cover the reasons why Blu-ray could hang around for a while.
There�s a lot of buzz in the home theater industry around the forthcoming Ultra High Definition, or UHD televisions, sometimes called 4K TVs.
It turns out the UHDTV specification, often referred to simply as Rec.
2020, gives us quite a bit to be excited about, quite a bit more than just a bump in resolution.
When we�ll ever get content for it, or whether or not televisions will really be able to take advantage of it anytime soon remains to be seen.
But the spec looks good.
A few weeks ago we received an email from a good friend of the show, Jack, telling us about an article he read about HDMI cables.
He pointed us to a comment to the article where a reader said that with better HDMI cables changing channels resulted in the tuner locking onto it about a ½ second faster than with cheap cables.
(Note: in the accompanying video we credit Michael with sending us the email and actually seeing a difference in lock speeds.
Michael helped us with the setting up the test cases).
We love looking for speakers that make whole house audio simple and provide high quality sound.
There are plenty of choices out there, but few can fill a large room with sound and deep bass all from a package that measures 10.75" (27cm) x 7" (18cm) x 7.75" (20cm).
We are talking about the Audioengine A5+ powered speakers.
