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Samsung UA55C7000 3D LCD TV
The hottest new home entertainment technology to appear since the introduction of Blu-ray has got to be 3D. Most of the major brands have their own systems on the verge of launch, but Samsung was the first to make it into Australian retail electronics stores.
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High definition camcorder buyers guide
A high definition camcorder will have you creating cinema-quality home movies fit for any big flat screen TV. Byer Gair explains the features and benefits on offer, and the choices you'll need to make.
Remember when you bought your first video camcorder you shot everything in sight: the kids, the dog, the house, the holidays. You thought this would be the only camcorder you'd ever need: OK pictures and sound -- and the whole family could use it.
But there have been a few changes in home entertainment over the last few years. The TV set has become wider and bigger, multi-speaker sound systems are populating living rooms across the nation. It's become a 'high definition' world!
People are installing lavish new AV systems to watch movies at home so you can sit back and watch a sharp, colourful movie with surround sound on a screen that delivers, relative to viewer-to-screen distance, an experience equal to the cinema. However, there was still one element missing. Until recently.
Sure, you could run your old home movie tapes on the big, wide screen but they were soft, the colours a bit pale and the squarish picture didn't fill the telly's glorious expanse of moving picture real estate. And the sound was definitely from the '70s.
Suddenly in 2007, 'high def' (HD) home movies became a practical way to pursue your Spielberg-thing and get your family doings up there on the widescreen, but at a quality which matches that of your flat screen TV and justifies further (to the other half, if you have to) the investment involved in assembling an up-to-the minute HD entertainment system.
Nearly all the big names in home video are back in action with video cameras that deliver a complete high def picture and sound experience.
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