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Best Buy To Exit Physical Media All Image Credit: Best Buy According to Bill Hunt, the editor of the LA based Digital Bits web site, “Best Buy plans to exit the physical media business for good next year, possibly as soon as the end of Q1 2024”. This includes both […]

Best Buy To Exit Physical Media

October 13, 2023 in News / Plastic / Video tagged Best Buy / Death of Physical Media / Physical Media by fromvinyltoplastic

Spears & Munsil Releases Expanded 2023 Test Disc Set All Image Credit: BiasLighting/Scenic Labs (Spears & Munsil) Stacey Spears and Don Munsil, the creators of the Spears & Munsil High Definition Benchmark series have released their 2023 vastly enhanced version of their Spears & Munsil Ultra HD Benchmark. A three-disc […]

Spears & Munsil Releases Expanded 2023 Test Disc Set

May 20, 2023 in News / Plastic / Video tagged 4K Test Disc / plastic / Spears & Munsil / UHD Test Disc / Ultra HD Benchmark by fromvinyltoplastic

BenQ Reveals 2023 4K Home Theatre Projectors All Image Credit: BenQ I have always been a fan of the BenQ home theater projectors after owning their W10000 HD DLP projector. This new US range of native 4K home theater projectors; the HT4550i, HT3560, TK860i and V5000i takes their range to […]

BenQ Reveals 2023 4K Home Theatre Projectors

May 4, 2023 in Equipment / News / Video tagged 4K / BenQ / DLP / HDR10+ / HT3560 / HT4550i / LASER / LED / TK860i / UHD / V5000i by fromvinyltoplastic

Magnetar UDP800 & UDP900 4K Blu-ray Players – First Look All UDP800/900 Image Credit: Magnetar *UDP900 UPDATED 28/08/23* – UDP800 technical review. With the entry of Magnetar Audio into the 4K player market yet another manufacturer is trying to step into the shoes of the famous Oppo brand. Their […]

Magnetar UDP800 & UDP900 4K Blu-ray Players – First Look

February 13, 2023 in Audio / Equipment / News / Video tagged 4K Blu-ray Player / Magnetar / UDP800 / UDP900 by fromvinyltoplastic

MediaTek Pentonic 1000 – 4K120 SoC – Quick Look Image Credit: MediaTek MediaTek has just announced the Pentonic 1000 system on a chip (SoC) that they claim will power a host of 2023 TV’s from brands such as; Sony, Samsung, Philips and Panasonic who are currently using MediaTek chips in […]

MediaTek Pentonic 1000 – 4K120 SoC – Quick Look

November 15, 2022 in News / Technical Posts / Video tagged HDMI 2.1 / MediaTek / Pentonic 1000 / SoC / System On A Chip by fromvinyltoplastic

New Faster Apple TV 4K Supports HDR10+ All Image Credit: Apple Coming November 4th Apple plans to release its third generation Apple TV 4K. An upgrade that is barely apparent from its outward appearance and arriving with little fanfare from Apple. Costing less than its predecessors and looking virtually identical […]

New Faster Apple TV 4K Supports HDR10+

October 23, 2022 in Equipment / News / Video tagged A15 Bionic / Apple TV 4K / HDR10+ / Siri / tvOS 16.1 by fromvinyltoplastic

JVC DLA-25LTD – 25th-Anniversary 8K Projector All Image Credit: JVC Costing as much as some cars, the DLA-25LTD is a limited edition model celebrating the 25th anniversary of the D-ILA. Developed by JVC, the D-ILA device is the company’s version of Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS), a reflective liquid crystal […]

JVC DLA-25LTD – 25th-Anniversary 8K Projector

September 29, 2022 in Equipment / News / Video tagged 25th Anniversary / 8K / DILA / DLA-25LTD / JVC / LASER by fromvinyltoplastic

8K TV Take-Up Is Looking Bleak My support for and opinions of 8K have been well documented on this web-site. I see absolutely no reason for it, see the links below. Well according to the research company Omdia the worldwide general public seem to be in the same boat as […]

8K TV Take-Up Is Looking Bleak

May 3, 2022 in Equipment / News / Video tagged 8K / TV by fromvinyltoplastic

2″ Diamond Wafer Stores A Billion Blu-Ray’s Image Credit: New Atlas Above image: An ultra-pure diamond wafer measuring 2″ (5cm) in diameter that could be used for very high-density data storage. The small square to the left is the usual size of diamond wafers possible using older manufacturing techniques. […]

2″ Diamond Wafer Stores A Billion Blu-Ray’s

May 2, 2022 in News / Video tagged Adamant Namiki Precision Jewelery Co. / Blu-Ray / Disc Storage / Quantum Storage / Saga University by fromvinyltoplastic

Sony VPL-XW Series Of 4K Laser HT Projectors – First Look All Image Credit: Sony Sony has launched three new 4K SXRD (LCOS) home theater projectors each driven by a laser phosphor light engine. These laser based projectors promise a significant increase in brightness compared to earlier 4K offerings: VPL-VW5000ES: […]

Sony VPL-XW Series Of 4K Laser HT Projectors – First Look

April 28, 2022 in Equipment / News / Video tagged 4K / LASER / LCoS / Sony / SXRD / VPL-XW5000ES / VPL-XW6000ES / VPL-XW7000ES by fromvinyltoplastic

4K UHD Disc Sales – What Sales? A Personal Comment I was just reading the web site Media Play News and noticed the above physical media sales figures for the week ending March 26th. Now I realize that this is only for one week but peaking at others there is […]

4K UHD Disc Sales – What Sales?

April 6, 2022 in News / Personal Views & Comments / Plastic / Video tagged 4K / 4K UHD Disc Sales / Media Play News / Physical Media / plastic / UHD by fromvinyltoplastic

Epson LS11000 4K Laser Projector – Preview Just released, the LS11000 is Epson’s lower cost brother to the $4,999.99 Pro Cinema LS12000 4K projector that was introduced last month. Coming in at $3,999.99 it is almost a clone of the LS12000 in terms of technical features, but has a slightly […]

Epson LS11000 4K Laser Projector – Preview

March 16, 2022 in News / Video tagged 4K / Epson / LASER / LCD / LS11000 / UHD by fromvinyltoplastic