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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. You can join Club TWiT for $7 a 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 $2.99 a month.
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Listener Carl Lundgren wonders why some directors make their movies for IMAX cinemas knowing that very few people will actually see them as intended. Scott Wilkinson speculates about why this might be.
Host: Scott Wilkinson
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Listener Greg Davis finds his center speaker somewhat dull sounding. Is there anything he can do to improve its sound, or is it a result of his hearing loss? Scott Wilkinson tries to help.
Host: Scott Wilkinson
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Michael Meyer bought a Samsung CU8000 LCD TV, and he's disappointed at the dark-area performance. Is there anything that can be done to improve the picture quality in dark areas on this relatively low-end TV? Scott Wilkinson does his best to help.
Host: Scott Wilkinson
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Scott Wilkinson highlights one of the most over-the-top home theaters he has ever seen! This Star Wars-themed room emulates the Emperor's throne room in the Death Star from Return of the Jedi with top-notch audio and video.
Host: Scott Wilkinson
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The Verge recently posted several articles about how physical media could be making a comeback. Scott Wilkinson discusses this hopeful trend with UHD Blu-ray and gives his recommendations for players and titles.
Host: Scott Wilkinson
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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
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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.
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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 offers his two cents.
Host: Scott Wilkinson
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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
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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
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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 does Scott Wilkinson recommend?
Host: Scott Wilkinson
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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 ionized air to perfectly tame the acoustics of any room.
New Atlas: Plasma-based noise cancellation could silence rooms, cars and planes
https://newatlas.com/technology/ionized-air-noise-reduction/
EIN NewsWire: Sonexos Partners With EPFL to Advance Plasma-based Active Sound-Absorbing Technology
https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/638104654/sonexos-partners-with-epfl-to-advance-plasma-based-active-sound-absorbing-technology
Nature Communications technical paper
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38522-5
Host: Scott Wilkinson
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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.
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Host: Scott Wilkinson
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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 geeks.
Host: Scott Wilkinson
Guest: Michael Heiss
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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
Guest: Michael Heiss
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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
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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 Speakers: https://amzn.to/41HWuyK
ELAC Muro OW-V41S On-Wall Speakers: https://www.elac.com/category/ci-on-wall/muro-lcr-owv41s/
GoldenEar SuperSat 3 and 3C: https://www.goldenear.com/on-wall-speakers/super-sat-series/super-sat-3-satellite
GoldenEar ForceField 3: https://www.goldenear.com/subwoofers/forcefield-series/forcefield-3
SVS SB-1000 Pro Subwoofer: https://amzn.to/47fUMWF
ELAC Debut 2.0 10″ Powered Subwoofer S10.2: https://amzn.to/48jcDxc
Host: Scott Wilkinson
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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, owner of Value Electronics, Jason Dustal, one of the calibrators, and David Mackenzie, one of the judges, join Scott Wilkinson to discuss day one of this year's event and reveal the King of 4K TV.
Host: Scott Wilkinson
Guests: Robert Zohn, David Mackenzie, and Jason Dustal
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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 controls that you should disable to get the best possible picture quality.
Host: Scott Wilkinson
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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 a fully 3-dimensional immersive sound field. In Part 1 of this exclusive interview, THX CEO Jason Fiber and Senior Director of Product Development Kasson Crooker explain what Spatial Audio is and how it works.
Host: Scott Wilkinson
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