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Home Theater Geeks (Audio)

A weekly Technology podcast featuring Scott Wilkinson
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Home Theater Geeks (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Home Theater Geeks (Audio)

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Home Theater Geeks (Audio)

Leo Laporte

Home Theater Geeks (Audio)

A weekly Technology podcast featuring Scott Wilkinson
 1 person rated this podcast
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Andrew Perry is replacing his 12-year-old TV and wants to know the correct height to mount it as well as the correct viewing distance, which depends on the size of the TV. Scott Wilkinson has the answers! Host: Scott Wilkinson Want access to
Scott Wilkinson recently saw Dune Part 2; in this episode, he discusses the presentation technology, which type of movie theater is best to view it, and his impressions of the movie itself. Is it worth your time and money? Listen to find out.
Josh is a blind tech geek, and he asks a really interesting question about the balance between the quality of speakers and the quality of audio files. Will high-quality lossless audio files make junky speakers sound better? Scott Wilkinson off
Mike has a Sony HT-A3000 soundbar, and he wants to add external speakers that will expand the sonic experience. Fortunately, Sony offers just what he's looking for. Host: Scott Wilkinson Want access to the video version and exclusive feature
PK doesn't watch movies or TV shows, only sports. He's moving and wants to know which TV technology is best for sports in his new place. Scott Wilkinson has the answer! Host: Scott Wilkinson Want access to the video version and exclusive fea
Listener Dane is an AV engineer who works in the professional realm. In building his home theater, he wants to use some of the equipment he's familiar with but doesn't want to spend an arm and a leg on a professional Dolby Atmos decoder. What
Acoustically treating a room normally involves bulky panels and other passive materials that must be very large and thick to affect low frequencies. But a new technology could do away with all that, replacing it with super-thin panels that use
Listener John thought he heard Scott Wilkinson say that the Sony X95L LCD TV is the best flat panel on the market today. More recently, he heard Scott say that the Sony A95L is the best. Which is it? Scott tries to clear up any confusion. Get
Scott Wilkinson continues his discussion with Mike Heiss about what he saw at CES 2024. One of the big stories was transparent TVs, along with UST projectors, NextGen OTA broadcasting, and a few miscellaneous items of interest to home theater
Scott Wilkinson chats with Mike Heiss about what he saw at CES 2024. In part 1, Mike talks about how TVs are now vehicles for ads and commerce, how AI was everywhere at the show, and how TVs are getting even bigger. Host: Scott Wilkinson Gue
High-resolution audio is defined as digital audio captured at a higher sample rate and/or with more bit depth than CDs. Is it worth the extra cost of buying it? Scott has some strong opinions on this subject! Host: Scott Wilkinson Want acces
Jimmy's house was pre-wired for speakers in the living room, four of them close to the ceiling. He has some questions about his situation, including which on-wall speakers to get. Scott Wilkinson has the answers! ELAC Debut 2.0 OW4.2 On-Wall
Scarsdale, NY, retailer Value Electronics hosts an annual TV shootout in which the flagship 4K and 8K models from major manufacturers are lined up, calibrated, and evaluated by a panel of expert judges to see which is the best. Robert Zohn, ow
TVs have gotten very smart—too smart for their own good, in fact. To see the best possible picture quality, you should really disable many of the controls that purport to improve it, but in reality, they make it worse. Scott talks about the co
THX has long been known for certifying the performance of commercial cinemas and consumer AV products. The company has also developed its own technologies, including its latest Spatial Audio, which expands 2-channel and multichannel audio into
Always at the forefront of technology, Chief TWiT Leo Laporte recently bought a Samsung QN77S95C, the second generation of a new flat-panel TV technology called QD OLED. While he was on vacation, Leo invited Scott Wilkinson to check it out at
In most cases, when you buy a new TV, bring it home, take it out of the box, plug it in, and turn it on, the picture quality is preset to look rather garish and over-the-top. Many people think that's what it's supposed to look like, but it ain
Surprisingly, Sony did not announce any new TVs at CES 2023. Instead, the company opted to wait until March to unveil its 2023 lineup—and what a lineup it is! The highly anticipated second generation of QD-OLED is joined by new models of conve
After a 5-year absence, Home Theater Geeks is back! Scott Wilkinson offers a weekly dose of audio/video news, tips, and tricks to get the most out of your AV system, product reviews, or commentary—he has no shortage of strong opinions! Plus, h
Mastering engineer Eric Boulanger talks about the process of mastering audio for music recordings. Topics include how he got into audio engineering after being a professional violinist, the process of mastering (especially for vinyl), the "lou
Color-imaging scientist Jack Holm digs deep into high dynamic range. Topics include color volume, what artists might do with an expanded palette of colors and brightness, the actual dynamic range of most images, accurate versus preferred image
Journalists Mike Heiss, Mark Henninger, and Tom Norton join host Scott Wilkinson to talk about what they saw and heard at the CEDIA Expo 2017. Topics include the new Sony projectors, such as the market-disrupting VPL-VW285ES ("4K for under $5K
Tyll Hertsens, headphone maven and editor-in-chief of InnerFidelity.com, answers questions from the chat-room. He starts with a new killer headphone for less than $100, then discusses a variety of topics, including dual- and multi-driver headp
Personal-cinema architect John Bishop discusses how he rates the performance of commercial cinemas with a 100-point scale, which provides a benchmark for how home cinemas should perform. In this episode, he focuses on the visual aspects, inclu
Personal-cinema architect John Bishop talks about movie aspect ratios and how to accurately reproduce them. Topics include the aspect ratios of different movies through history, how some movies (such as Dunkirk and The Dark Knight) use more th
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