Even after the street adjustment to £500 ($782), JVC’s recently-announced NX-BD3 may not be the cheapest Blu-ray HTIB, but the crew at TrustedReviews found a lot to like with the package. The 2.1-channel starter system — there are taps for four speakers even though you only get a L/R pair in the box — has good aesthetics, solid video performance that holds its own next to the Pioneer BDP-LX71, and audio that keeps up with the visuals. Pity that Dolby True HD and DTS-HD MA didn’t make the cut, though. Continue reading…

Far from being the first (or second, or third) partnership aimed at getting 3D in the home, JVC and Sensio have jointly chosen EHX Fall 2008 to announce their loving new union. By joining forces, they’re purporting to introduce the “very first high-end 3D solution available on the consumer market.” Granted, this so-called solution won’t be cheap nor simple, as it will require a pair of JVC’s costly D-ILA projectors and a media server integrating Sensio’s 3D decoding technology.

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JVC Sound Garden Kirikabu Concept Speaker

JVC has a new eco-friendly speaker concept which is called the Sound Garden KiriKabu. The speaker concept is now on display in Tokyo at the Designer’s Week exhibition. It merges potted plants with multi-directional speakers that consists of a woofer, and left- and right-channel stereo speakers powered by an internal amplifier. [Impress]