Onkyo ships three new high end A/V components
Onkyo announced today that it has expanded its product line with three new high end THX Certified components including the company’s first A/V preamplifier/processor, a matching 150-watt nine-channel amplifier, and a Blu-ray Disc Player.
The network-capable Onkyo PR-SC5508 9.2-channel AV preamp/processor features a 3D-Ready HDMI-1.4a interface, HQV Reon-VX video processing, ISF Video Calibration, Audyssey MultEQ XT 32 sound correction technologies
This Week on Blu-ray (August 24th)
Digital Home’s top pick on Blu-ray this week is “The Square,” a 2008 thriller from Australia about how sexual temptation turns a man’s life upside down.
The result is a robbery, a murder and an intricate mystery.
Best Buy Canada launches retail iPhone app
Best Buy Canada, owners of big box consumer electronics retailers Best Buy Canada and Futureshop, has released two iOS apps for the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad which let users search the respective retailers products.
The nearly identical Best Buy Canada and Futureshop apps let iOS users search the respective retailers entire catalogue as well learn more about each product through ratings, reviews and enlarged views.
This Week on Blu-ray (August 17th)
In a very quiet week for new releases, Digital Home’s top pick on Blu-ray this week is “The Good, the Bad, the Weird,” a 2008 South Korean comedy inspired by Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Set in Japanese occupied Manchuria in the 1930’s, the film follows three bandits who get their hands on a treasure map but are pursued by the Imperial Japanese army who believe they have stolen a map for a new railway from them.
This Week on Blu-ray (August 10th)
Digital Home’s top pick on Blu-ray this week is “Crumb,” a 1994 special interest documentary about underground cartoonist Robert Crumb.
Crumb is a moving film about the experiences and characters of the Crumb family, particularly Robert Crumb’s brothers, Maxon and Charles, his wife and children
This Week on Blu-ray (August 3rd)
Digital Home’s top pick on Blu-ray this week is “The Ghost Writer,” a British 2010 political thriller film directed by Roman Polanski and starring Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan and Kim Catrall.
Adapted from the Robert Harris novel The Ghost, the movie follows a unamed Ghost Writer, played by Ewan McGregor who agrees to complete the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan).
This Week on Blu-ray (July 20th)
In another slow week for new movie releases, Digital Home’s top pick on Blu-ray this week is “Mother,” a South Korean drama about a mother who desperately tries to prove her son’s innocence in the murder of a local high school girl.
The movie currently has a 96% approval rating among top critics on the Rotten Tomatoes website and was selected as South Korea’s official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s Academy Awards.
Onkyo ships 3D-Ready Home Theatre in a Box Systems
Onkyo has recently begun shipping the Onkyo HT-S6300 and HT-S7300 3D ready Home Theatre in a Box (HTIB) systems.
Features of both systems include four HDMI-1.4a inputs, support for 1080p video upscaling, lossless Dolby & DTS high definition audio, Dolby height processing, and Audyssey automatic room equalization.
