If you prefer your Blu-ray movies served up in style, then your interest should be piqued by the Samsung BD-P4600 – one of the most fetching Hi-Def players around… and the world’s slimmest, fastest, wall-mountable Blu-ray player to boot.
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The heavyweight Pioneer BDP-LX71 costs big bucks (over half a grand), but that’s because it’s one of the best Blu-ray players around capable of squirting out the full range of DVD formats, DivX and AVC-HD and upscaling to 1080p!
If there’s one thing flat TVs slip up on it’s making blacks look black. Atom-sharp details no problem, but give giving Batman’s cape a the correct ebony sheen has all too often been a problem. Not so the Philips 37PFL9603D, which boasts some of the best black levels you’ll ever see thanks to a dynamic 30,000:1 contrast ratio. Come to think of it, this full-HD TV handles all colours so well, it’ll leave your mouth agape and your eyes on stalks.
The Mitsubishi HC6500 is a piece of cutting-edge projector technology that splatters huge, 1080p images on your wall. You just have to ask it nicely, and feed it right…
Eye-popping upscaled pictures? Check. Ear-pounding sound? Check. 10.1 virtual surround sound? Che… wait. What? That’s right, the the LG HT953TV may be a 5.1 surround sound home cinema system, but it also has 10.1 virtual surround sound.
Why squint at your television like a myopic octogenarian when you could be gazing in awe at the full-HD images thrown from the InFocus X10 projector?
The superbly spendy IN82 is made by projector specialists InFocus and is capable of throwing out a full-HD image on any wall in your house with no discernable lack in quality, thanks largely to a manual adjustable iris that can sacrifice brightness for deeper, richer blacks.
The Denon DVD-3800 enters the Blu-ray ring with some impressive credentials, from 1080p/24fps output via a HQV video processor and HDMI 1.3a to internal decoding of all High Definition audio tracks. There’s just one thing holding it back: the price.