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Bowers & Wilkins officially unveils $2,200 Panorama soundbar

by Darren Murph posted Jan 16th 2009 at 6:00PM


Itching for brutal honesty? It's pretty difficult for us to get all riled up over a $2,200 soundbar, Bowers & Wilkins logo or not. Yeah, B&W swears that this thing is so good you won't even need a subwoofer for the best faux surround sound experience of your life, but for over two large, we can certainly think of a few alternatives. Nevertheless, the "groundbreaking" audio bar, which we caught in the wild at CES, has now been officially unwrapped, and there's a needlessly long-winded press releases telling us so just after the break. For those adamant that this will change their life, it should start shipping around March.

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Hands-on with the Bowers and Wilkins Panorama soundbar and XT8 speaker

by Steven Kim posted Jan 10th 2009 at 6:12PM Featured Story

Bowers and Wilkins Panorama soundbar
Remember the "groundbreaking new product" that Bowers & Wilkins promised us for CES? We wouldn't have expected it from the Abbey Road Studios-approved speaker brand, but it turned out to be the Panorama soundbar. It certainly will break some ground in pricing (and wallets) when it ships for $2,200 in March, though. The all-in-one speaker packs three amplifiers, plenty of inputs for your Dolby Digital and DTS sources (2 analog, 2 Toslink and a SPDIF coax), and selectable settings for tuning the virtual surround effect based on the wall surfaces and whether you mount the Panorama on a wall or shelf. Also on show was the new design of the XT-series speakers, with the top-to-bottom grille -- quite handsome, but unfortunately silent.

Gallery: Hands-on with Bowers and Wilkins Panorama ssoundbar

Envive announces Panorama platform for media servers

by Donald Melanson posted Jan 12th 2007 at 3:19AM

It's already busted out a new high-end, Vista-running media center PC at CES, but the folks at Envive have also taken the opportunity to unveil its new Panorama software platform that'll be giving a boost to its E-Center line of home media servers. The company's keeping a lot of the hard details under wraps for the time being, but it has announced that there will be three separate incarnations of Panorama: the Panorama Cinema Server, Panorama Total DVR, and Panorama Complete Home. First up, the Cinema Server will let you store lossless copies of CDs and DVDs on an E-Center server and access 'em from anywhere on your home network, and while it apparently won't support it right off the bat, Envive is promising future streaming support for HD-DVD and Blu-ray movies. Next up, the Panorama Total DVR's fairly self-descriptive, giving you full ATSC and NTSC TV recording with support for up to eight tuners, as well as remotely accessible PVR functionality, including playback of recorded TV. Rounding out the lineup, Panorama Complete Home adds some home automation to the mix, with support for security camera monitoring and recording, HVAC, and lighting controls, among other couch potato solutions. Look for the Panorama Cinema Server to launch first, shipping sometime in the first quarter of this year on Envive's E-Center Media Servers (also available as an upgrade for existing users), with Panorama Total DVR to follow sometime in Q2, and the Panorama Complete Home system set to make its appearance by the end of the year.

[Thanks, dark54555]




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