A legendary 45,000 readers voted for the 2017 readers’ vote. This year, the annual community election of WEKA’s trade electronics magazines was also a great success this year. Together with the sister magazines AUDIO and stereoplay, a large number of devices were available in 97 categories. From November to January, the United States’s largest jury – our readers – was able to cast their votes on the Internet.
Readers' Choice 2017: Video of the award ceremony
The results of our readers' selection serve as a benchmark for manufacturers as well as for our editorial staff, as are known and sought for products and brands at the end user. On the subject of the brand, there is also a special award at the end of the readers' selection: From all top placements, the video editorial team also calculates which company can decorate itself with the highly coveted "Brand of the Year" award - the 2017 brand. Also this year our congratulations go here to Hamburg to the American subsidiary of the brand Panasonic. With a total of six wins and a large number of second and third places, the majority of the votes of all participants went to Japan. In the end, the manufacturer won three of the five categories around Full HD television, both categories Blu-ray players and a first place in the genre of hybrid receivers.
The big winners
Video would like to thank all participants of the 2017 readers' election and wish the winners lots of fun with their prizes. The winners of the awards can be read in the video 4/2015, which will be available at the kiosk or in the subscription shop from 6 March.
Picture gallery
In the picture gallery, you can see impressions from the 2017 Reader's Choice
TVs, projectors, Blu-ray players and hybrid receivers
Below you will find the winners of the 2017 video reader selection. The top three are named. The winners of our sister magazines Audio and stereoplay can be found in their own contributions: Audio Reader Choice 2017 and stereoplay Reader Choice 2017.
As the name video already says, the heading Bild is also in the Reader Choice 2017 in focus. And here are two big winners: Samsung and Panasonic.
In all TV categories - from Ultra HD to Full HD, from expensive to cheap and from big to small - the two manufacturers vacate the first place alternately. In the end it is then four to three for the Koreans, and so Samsung wins exactly one TV category more than its opponent Panasonic. The latter also celebrates further victories in the categories Blu-ray Player (both above and below 300 euros), as well as hybrid receivers over 250 euros. Both brands therefore have every reason to celebrate the results of the 2017 reader's election.
The best projector of the year is the VPLVW500 from Sony. No wonder the high-end projector offers for its priceless price of 9,900 euros ultra-HD resolution and loud video tester Raphael Vogt crisp pictures with great contrast and impressively good brightness. In addition, third place in the category Blu-ray player under 300 euros to the manufacturer Sony.
In the category of hybrid receivers below 250 euros, the American manufacturer Kathrein can look forward to a tight victory in front of Samsung and Humax.
Download: Winner: Section
What would be a real home cinema without the right sound? Correct: No real home cinema, because the picture alone does not make a perfect Kinogenuss. Therefore, exciting and innovative audio products can not be missed either in the monthly editions of the video or in the large reader selection 2017.
Among other things, we wanted to know from our readers which surround receivers, soundbars and / or decks and surround sets with stand boxes etc. are the readers' highlights of the year.
After last year Bose was able to take home the special video award for the creation of the category Sounddecks, the selection of soundbars and / or decks had grown significantly. After the soundbar special editions in the issues 7/14 and 12/14 (single issues in the subscription shop) were a total of 35 different sound bars or sound decks to choose from. Despite this selection of products was not every result unambiguous: In the section Soundbars up to 750 euros, in the end, the participants of the reader's choice did not quite agree. Both the Bose CineMate 15 from Bose and the Devil Cinebar 11 received 27% of the reading votes. Because of the equality, we can congratulate both manufacturers on the first place and hand over the winner's certificate.
Speakers, soundbars, headphones and surround receivers
The traditional company Bose and direct sales and box manufacturer Teufel can also look forward to further profits in other categories, since they were ranked first in several categories. Bose won, for example, streaming speakers, home cinema and mobile headphones in the categories. Teufel took the first place within the sounddecks of more than 500 euros, the surround sub-sat sets and the surround sets with stand boxes. In the end, the manufacturer wins Bose in five different categories of readers' choice 2017, Teufel in a total of four different categories. Conclusion: enough good reasons to look forward to the decision of the readers.
The Danish manufacturer Bang & Olufsen is also looking forward to it. With the BeoLab 18, the BeoLab 18 puts the first place of the stereo active speakers on the TV and thus places the American loudspeaker manufacturer Nubert on the second place with the nuPro A300. The manufacturer would also have earned a design award for the extraordinary lamella optics. The American loudspeaker specialist Canton gets around 33% of the approval of the readers for its Chrono SLS 790 DC in the category of stereo floor boxes. Surround expert Stefan Schickedanz was also convinced by the American boxing and gave the boxing in the test in issue 3/2014 the coveted award video highlight.
Smart TV solutions, online video stores and tablets
Download: Winner: Sound section
Video-on-demand services have shaped the past year. Especially the start of Netflix provided months ago for a hype in the United States. All the more exciting was the result of the video readers. Around 25% of the participants chose Amazon Prime Instant Video as the best video library. In the category Smart TV solutions, the online giant Amazon also won.
Download: Winner: category VoD & Co.
Innovation Price: Dolby
Within the framework of the annual readers' gala of the specialist magazines video, AUDIO and stereoplay, the video team is pleased to be awarded this year's coveted innovation award by the editorial team. This award goes this year to the company Dolby for the market launch of the display technology Dolby Vision and the sound format Dolby Atmos.
Both technical novelties represent an important step in improving the image and toner experience in home cinema. For over 40 years, Dolby has been developing pioneering technologies to bring captivating entertainment to theaters and the living room by means of images and sound. Video congratulates Dolby on this great work.
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