cinemas

DLP delights: budget projectors for home cinemas

Reviews Projectors -- once the pursuit of the rich, now available for just over £1,000. If you've ever harboured a desire to turn your living room into a full-blown cinema, start by getting a projector. Texas Instruments' DLP chipset, which acts as the...

19 July 2005, 12:56

DTS (Digital Theatre Sound)

Reviews A digital surround-sound format used in both home audio and in cinemas. This 5.1 format is not as common as AC-3 (Dolby Digital), but some adherents claim it offers better sound quality.

21 December 2006, 9:00

surround sound

Reviews In addition to being used in cinemas, this type of arrangement is now available in the home. A system for recording and reproducing sound that involves three or more channels and speakers. Such a system creates an environment in which the speaker...

3 January 2007, 10:23

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX9 review

Reviews This feature, common to all current Panasonic models, is useful for indoor spaces like museums or cinemas, where tripods and flash aren't usually allowed, as well as distant landscapes where a flash wouldn't reach anyway.

Editor's rating   7

Tags: panasonic, silver, shot, optical

15 December 2005, 14:57

Toshiba Regza 40ZF355D review

Reviews Even cinemas use a form of pulldown where each frame is shown twice, and a shutter on the projector opens and closes quickly enough to be unnoticeable. Consumers are a shallow bunch. As soon as we're presented with wonderfully thin TVs, we start...

Editor's rating   8.5

Tags: toshiba, film, motion, wait

13 May 2008, 15:10

Sim2 C3X review

Reviews In fact, the C3X is used in some cinemas to project the adverts before the main attraction. The world is full of big-screen plasma and LCD televisions trying to encourage us to part with our cash. But why bother with a 60-inch or above TV when you...

Editor's rating   8.9

Tags: sim2, high definition, contrast, italian

27 February 2006, 14:10