Home Theater Geeks (Audio)

Journalists Brent Butterworth, Mike Heiss, and Tom Norton join Scott Wilkinson to discuss the important audio and video stories from 2016. Topics include the rapid pace of 4K/UHD adoption, Chinese TV makers, 4K/UHD content delivery, Dolby Atmos and DTS:X immersive audio, high dynamic range (HDR), Dolby Vision in commercial cinemas, headphones and soundfield virtualization, UHD Blu-ray, Amazon becoming the leading speaker brand in the US, VR headsets, answers to questions from the chat room, and more.

Host: Scott Wilkinson

Guests: Michael Heiss, Brent Butterworth, and Tom Norton

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AVS Forum Associate Editor Mark Henninger joins host Scott Wilkinson to answer questions from the chatroom, including queries about the best video image we've seen this year, HDR-capable PC monitors, whether or not ripping Blu-rays yields the same quality as the disc itself, whether or not HDBaseT will replace HDMI, portable projectors, support for HDR in Windows 10, immersive audio from headphones, music in surround, glitches in HDMI ARC, Dolby Vision HDR in the home, Sony OLED TVs, playing UHD Blu-rays from a PC, and more.

Host: Scott Wilkinson

Guest: Mark Henninger

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Grant Clauser, Smart Home Editor for TheWirecutter.com, talks about integrating the control of a home-theater system using a universal remote like one of the Logitech Harmony models or an app on your smartphone or tablet. He also digs deep into the use of a voice-control system like Amazon Alexa with an Echo or Dot and how that interfaces with a Harmony Hub. Finally, he discusses smart lights like the Philips Hue and how they can add ambiance and even act as a bias light. Plus answers to chat-room questions and more.

Host: Scott Wilkinson

Guest: Grant Clauser

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Two representatives from Luminit, VP of engineering Leo Katsenelenson and senior optical engineer Anthony Ang, talk about the company's history in developing light diffusors and holographic technology and how that led to the formation of its Crystal Screens division, which has developed a new type of projection screen. They describe how the screen material consists of pseudo-random surface-relief microstructures, how that allows them to control the gain and viewing angle, how a high-gain screen can avoid hotspotting, answers to chatroom questions, and more.

Host: Scott Wilkinson

Guests: Leo Katsenelenson and Anthony Ang

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Personal-cinema architect John Bishop talks about his approach to designing home theaters in order to replicate the ideal cinema experience as closely as possible. He advocates the use of so-called "constant-height" setups to display movies with different aspect ratios so the height of the image remains constant. We take a look at several of his projects, which illustrate the importance of seating distance as a function of screen height. Plus answers to chatroom questions and more.

Host: Scott Wilkinson

Guest: John Bishop

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Don Stewart talks with Scott Wilkinson about his family's business which is celebrating its 70th anniversary. He also talks about the types of filmscreens used in homes, movies, TV broadcasts, theme parks, and more.

Host: Scott Wilkinson

Guest: Don Stewart

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Scott Wilkinson and Michael Heiss talk about the things they saw and learned from the SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Televion Engineers) conference in Hollywood, CA.

Host: Scott Wilkinson

Guest: Michael Heiss

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Scott Wilkinson talks with Triveni Digital CSO Rich Chernock, who is working on the technical committee for finalizing the ATSC 3.0 terrestrial broadcast system.

Host: Scott Wilkinson

Guest: Rich Chernock

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Scott Wilkinson talks with Robert McKinley and Mike Skrzat about Datasat's products and how they can tune big and small rooms with Dirac LiveÂŽ Room Optimization.

Host: Scott Wilkinson

Guests: Robert McKinley and Mike Skrzat

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Scott Wilkinson talks with Tyll Hertsens of Innerfidelity.com about the future of headphones and the role smart headphones can play with augmented reality.

Host: Scott Wilkinson

Guest: Tyll Hertsens

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