Home Theater Geeks (Audio)
Get the most out of your home theater with the latest advances, product reviews, and all things audio and video. Every Thursday, Scott Wilkinson shares his expertise, energy, and enthusiasm about how to make your A/V system sound and look its best. In this short-format podcast, Scott brings you news, reviews, interviews, and commentary, and answers your questions. Submit your home theater queries through email at HTG@twit.tv or via TWiT's social media. You might hear your question answered on the show! You can join Club TWiT for $10 per month and get ad-free audio and video feeds for all our shows plus everything else the club offers...or get just this podcast ad-free for $5 per month. New episodes every Thursday.
Episodes
This year's CEDIA (Custom Electronics Design and Installation Association) Expo was chock full of interesting audio and video products, though very few made their world debut at the show. Still, there's plenty to talk about with special guest Michael Heiss, industry journalist, consultant, and jolly good CEDIA Fellow. In Part 2, we talk about all the audio goodies he saw there, as well as some of the mega-demos.
Host: Scott Wilki...
This year's CEDIA (Custom Electronics Design and Installation Association) Expo was chock full of interesting audio and video products, though very few made their world debut at the show. Still, there's plenty to discuss with special guest Michael Heiss, industry journalist, consultant, and jolly good CEDIA Fellow. In Part 1, we discuss all the video goodies he saw there.
Host: Scott Wilkinson
Guest: Michael Heiss
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Chris Weir built a stunning home theater with a fully committed Batcave design, and it's a wonder to behold. Scott Wilkinson featured it on AVS Forum 10 years ago, but it's still a marvelous example of what a man with twin passions for Batman and home theater can do. Zap! Pow!
Host: Scott Wilkinson
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Arthur is in the process of building a basic 5.1 speaker system, and he wants to use on-wall speakers. He has found only a few options, some of which are no longer available, and wonders if there are more within his price range. Scott Wilkinson says yes!
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Michael sent an audio recording asking about TV picture modes; in particular, why Cinema or Movie mode looks a bit reddish or sepia compared with Vivid or Game mode. Scott Wilkinson knows the answer!
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A recent article on ZDNet talks about how modern TVs monitor your viewing habits using ACR (automatic content recognition) and why that could be a problem for you. The article also explains how to disable ACR in various makes of TVS, but the instructions don't always match the TV's menu system. Scott Wilkinson talks about this important issue.
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Edwin Boone loves his Panasonic plasma TV, which is still working well. But he wants to know what modern TV technology is most compatible with plasma. Scott Wilkinson has a definitive answer.
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Not everyone can build a dedicated home theater room, but that doesn't mean you can't have a great audio/video system in your living room. Over 19 years, Conrad Castelo went from mediocre to marvelous with his living-room system.
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Andy Z is building a home theater in his basement with a JMGO N1 Ultra projector mounted on the ceiling. Unfortunately, there's a big AC duct running across the ceiling; if he puts the projector in front of the duct, the image is too small for his screen, but if he puts it behind the duct, the image is too big. How to solve this dilemma? Scott Wilkinson offers some advice.
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Representing the color-reproduction capabilities of a video display in a two-dimensional graph is highly problematic; usually, the graph does not reveal a true and complete picture (pun intended) of what's going on. A new approach to this problem, called gamut rings, provides a much more accurate and complete representation of what a display can do.
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