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HDHomeRun Connect Review

October 19, 2016 by Chris Heinonen 3 Comments

I recently reviewed the Vizio P65-C1 and liked it to the point that I kept it. There was one drawback for us: no integrated TV tuner. As a household that ditched cable years ago, we rely on an OTA tuner to watch live sports, presidential debates, and other programming. We had an old TiVo HD […]

DarbeeVision DVP-5000S Review

September 4, 2016 by Mark Vignola Leave a Comment

The DarbeeVision DVP-5000S is the second generation of Darbee’s cost effective standalone image enhancement box. As an original owner of the Darbee Darblet, I can say that Darbee has done a nice job addressing many of my chief complaints of that unit. Gone is the chintzy, see-through plastic box and throw-away remote; the DVP-5000S is […]

DVDO AVLab TPG Review

April 24, 2014 by Chris Heinonen Leave a Comment

A common complaint about UltraHD is the lack of content for it. It is hard for us to review and test a TV when we don’t have anything that takes full advantage of what it can do. The same issue applies when it comes to setting one up. There are few UltraHD test pattern sources […]

AJA T-Tap and VirtualForge Review

December 15, 2013 by Chris Heinonen 2 Comments

If you calibrate a TV or projector often you probably want to invest in a pattern generator. You can use calibration patterns on Blu-ray discs, including the free AVS HD 709 disc, but that introduces more issues. You have to know that the Blu-ray player is actually bit-perfect, many are not, and you have to […]

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