Now that CES 2010 is over and we’ve had some time to recuperate, we wanted to share some of favorite products from Las Vegas. We’ve already shown you the 3D TVs, 3D Blu-ray players, and coolest TV innovations, but here we round up some of the best overall products. From Blu-ray players, TVs, speakers and a plasma bigger than most houses, CES 2010 did not disappoint on the product front. Let’s take a look back… View this story

We’re huge fans of CinemaScope-type superwide movies. If the directors wanted to make them in more immersive 2.35:1 or 2.40:1 (or heck, even Ben-Hur-like 2.76:1) then he obviously had a good reason to stretch that image and fill it with important film features. But most high-definition TV is broadcast in 16:9 aspect ratio (or 1.78:1), as are a good deal of movie presentations ... so when home theater started to emerge with big-time projectors and… View this story

Is it live, or is it Memorex? That was the big hi-fi question back in the 80s when cassette playback was on everyone’s mind. The next big audio question might become, is it wired, or is it wireless? Today’s listening trend is a by-product of the ripping, storing and playback of music collections to and from a computer. At CES 2010 there were a number of companies joining the fray to make the transfer of… View this story

CES 2010 in Las Vegas was all about 3D. There were 3D Blu-ray players, 3D network announcements from ESPN, Discovery Channel, and DirecTV. And we had a slew of new 3D TVs from Vizio, Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, Toshiba, and LG Electronics. Tack on James Cameron’s “Avatar” exploding at the box office and signs point to 2010 being the year 3D home theater arrives. The TV manufacturers haven’t released many details about pricing and availability, but… View this story

Too much to see. Too little time. That pretty much sums up the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. CES 2010 was no different. With the onslaught of 3D TVs and 3D Blu-ray players, there were so many things that may have gone unnoticed. For example: Shrek walking around Microsoft’s booth The world’s biggest TV and biggest iPhone A Jaguar outfitted with Bowers & Wilkins That’s just a few of the things you… View this story

OK, so the headline is a little misleading ... the new Java Series JFV60 from Sanus Systems doesn’t magically float. But it does look pretty cool sitting legless mounted to the wall, snug under a wall-mounted flat-panel TV as the company showed at CES 2010. The unit of course can be kept on your floor if you choose, where it would support up to 350 pounds of A/V gear. But with three wall studs required… View this story

After several years of teasing us, XStreamHD finally pulled the sheet off its plans at CES 2010. XStreamHD is a new satellite media company, but don’t compare it to DirecTV or DISH Network. The service doesn’t offer standard TV programming; rather, it’s a video/music/game on-demand service dishing out extremely high bitrate media to a dedicated server and then allowing the user to network it around a home. While not announcing specific studio partners, the company… View this story

Definitive Technology looked at the diminishing thickness of today’s televisions and saw a great chance to develop a better on-wall speaker. According to the company’s Paul DiComo, most of the competing thin on-wall speakers rely on some kind of planar technology which can come with audio quality compromises. At CES in Las Vegas last week, Definitive was showing its own solution to the problem in the form of the Mythos XTR-50 on-wall LCR speakers. While… View this story

Less than a month after the Blu-ray 3D spec was finalized, a handful 3D Blu-ray players were announced during CES 2010 in Las Vegas. Panasonic, Samsung, Sony, and Toshiba are the first companies out of the gate. None of the 3D Blu-ray players announced made our list of super-expensive Blu-ray players. That’s because Panasonic, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba haven’t indicated prices for their 3D Blu-ray models. There are only vague 2010 release dates, but all… View this story

New innovations emerge every year at CES, but this year seems especially flush with big news from the major television manufacturers. And the big news isn’t about size. Panasonic did show a whopping 152-inch 4K2K plasma, but it wasn’t the company’s biggest news. After years of “my TV is bigger than your TV” battles on the CES floor, this year’s show was a refreshing change. So in an effort to ease digestion of all this… View this story