Here you will find basic information about Widescreen Review magazine, now in its fourteenth year of publication. Find out why we’re known worldwide as the "Essential Home Theatre Resource!"
"Widescreen Review®" is intended for both the casual viewer and the optical disc home theatre enthusiast. The print edition and interactive webzine edition of the magazine will appeal to the home theatre enthusiast with an appreciation for widescreen motion pictures presented on DVD in their original aspect ratio composition as produced for theatrical exhibition.
WSR is aimed at people with an interest in building a DVD collection to enjoy on one’s home theatre system. This represents a consequential niche market that has been neglected by other publications. Our readers want to be informed and educated and "Widescreen Review" keeps the widescreen home theatre optical disc fancier posted on the happenings and developments of this very special and fastest growing segment of the consumer electronics industry.
"Widescreen Review" defies the trend capitalized on by traditional audio/video-oriented publications with a clearly defined focus on home entertainment’s future—high-definition widescreen digital surround home theatre presentations—both hardware and software—and the supporting technology. WSR is not limited to just reviews of the picture and sound presentation quality of optical disc releases. Our mission is to educate our readers as to component selection and system setup considerations that are aimed at “the best that it can be” home theatre experience. We are advocates at heart for the advancement of quality audio and video performance, and we believe that consumers want to understand the technologies and approaches that will provide an optimum widescreen digital surround home theatre experience. Other publications disregard the search for “the best that it can be,” and are complacent in writing about approaches that are “good enough” to satisfy the mass, non-enthusiast market. As realists, we know that optimum performance will not be achieved by all of our readers, but we also know we can educate them so that at least they will know when they are compromising and be better equipped to optimize the performance of their home theatre systems according to their budget and situation.
A primary component of the editorial content is aimed at our readers’ interests in widescreen DVD picture quality and sound quality, the making of movies as it relates to a quality transfer of the picture and sound to optical disc, and in the latest technologies and equipment impacting the future of home theatre widescreen presentations. Technical excellence in presentation is a primary concern.
"Widescreen Review" is designed to inform and enlighten as it explores the world of widescreen visuals and stereophonic surround sound and multichannel 5.1-format discrete digital surround delivered through the DVD, and HDTV mediums. Each department in the magazine is designed to educate and inform our readers. |
