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HDTV and Home Theater Podcast

The HT Guys, Ara Derderian and Braden Russell, are Engineers who formerly worked for the Advanced Digital Systems Group (ADSG) of Sony Pictures Entertainment. ADSG was the R&D unit of the sound department producing products for movie theaters and movie studios. Two of the products they worked on include the DCP-1000 and DADR-5000. The DCP is a digital cinema processor used in movie theaters around the world. The DADR-5000 is a disk-based audio dubber used on Hollywood sound stages. ADSG was awarded

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Podcast #843: Review Sony A8F from RTINGS.COM

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2018/05/11

Review Sony A8F from RTINGS.COM Today we have a review of a Sony A8F OLED TV from RTINGS.COM. The A8F is a OLED 4K HDR TV with 4K HDR Processor X1™ Extreme, Acoustic Surface™ technology and Android TV. The Acoustic Surface is supposed to produce deeper bass by vibrating the glass. We’ll see if that is what the reviewers experienced below. It comes in three sizes 55”, 65”, and 77”. Read the full detailed review at RTINGS.COM. Highlights below: The Sony A8F is a 2018 4k OLED TV with excellent

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Podcast #842: Various Topics

HDTV and Home Theater Podcast ·

2018/05/04

'Avengers: Infinity War' Box Office: A Rundown of the Records Broken 'Avengers: Infinity War' Box Office: A Rundown of the Records BrokenDisney and Marvel continue to push the superhero envelope at the box office, with Avengers: Infinity War serving up their latest victory. The mega-mashup smashed a number of records in its global debut over the weekend, less than three months after Marvel's Black Panther began its own historic run. Disney's VR 'force jacket' sends snakes wriggling over your

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Podcast #841: OLED Burn-in Follow Up

HDTV and Home Theater Podcast ·

2018/04/27

OLED Burn-in Follow Up Christopher - As per episode #840 - I have a 55" Sony A1E that I purchased 9 months ago. I had it professionally calibrated and love it completely (except for the stupid swing-out base that they've done away with in the new model). I primarily watch movies (Opportunity UDP-203), Apple TV, TiVo and Netflix. I do not play games on it. No burn-in issues what-so-ever... so far... ;) Scruffy - Have a 2014 LG OLED with 8000 hours. Strictly cable box viewing, a few hours at a time

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Podcast #840: Real Life OLED Burn In Test on 6 TVs

HDTV and Home Theater Podcast ·

2018/04/20

Rtings.com: Real Life OLED Burn In Test on 6 TVs Walking through a large electronics store the other day something caught our eye on one of their OLED display televisions. While you’d like to hope it was the vivid, realistic images on screen, it wasn’t. It was the obvious burn-in. And it was bad. You could clearly see a shadow of the bottom logo bar / ticker from content they must use regularly peeking through what would have otherwise been a stellar video presentation. The burn-in scare was one of

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Podcast #839:

HDTV and Home Theater Podcast ·

2018/04/13

Channel Master SMARTenna+ We have been receiving HD OTA signals since almost the beginning. As such we have tried over twenty five different antennas from about five or six different companies. To date our favorite is the Mohu Sky. It works great for extreme fringe reception. But if you live close to the towers you may get away with an indoor antenna and for that our favorite is the Mohu Leaf. Channel Master has introduced a new indoor antenna that gives the Mohu Leaf a run for the money. The

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Podcast #838: Short Throw Projector Feedback

HDTV and Home Theater Podcast ·

2018/04/06

Short Throw Projector Follow Up On Episode 836 we talked about the idea of short throw projectors for home theater use and asked the question: Why aren’t more people using them in their homes? Their price per square inch of screen real estate seems like, at least on paper, the most cost effective way to get a huge screen at home. So why aren’t they flying off the shelves? We had a ton of great listener feedback on it, so we decided to create a feature out of it. From Ed: My business is Classroom

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Podcast #837: Interview with David Sanderson of...

HDTV and Home Theater Podcast ·

2018/03/30

Home Theater Seating, a Listener’s Perspective The following is an email from long time listener and supporter of the show Stu Silberman regarding his family's experience with Home Theater seating. We liked it so much we thought we would share it with everyone. My wife and I just purchased home theater seating. It’s wonderful. Along with video, audio, lighting, shades, automation and the other important items you educate us on, what we sit on has a huge impact on our enjoyment of the hardware and

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Podcast #836: Short Throw Projector

HDTV and Home Theater Podcast ·

2018/03/23

Short Throw Projectors There was a short throw projector on Woot! this week for $999. Not a bad price at all for the potential to have a 100” television in your family room or home theater. That got us thinking… Why aren’t more people using short throw projectors in their homes? Their price per square inch of screen real estate is by far the most cost effective way to get a huge screen at home, and the install and setup is a snap. So what gives? Why aren’t people using them. Let us first apologize

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Podcast #835: Interview with Adam Pizzo - Home...

HDTV and Home Theater Podcast ·

2018/03/16

Interview with Adam Pizzo. He is a home integrator specializing in Control4. Adam is based in Toronto and was kind enough to come on the show and talk about what a home integrator can do for your home. From homes small to large, new and old, Control4 delivers power and performance on one system that coordinates the technology in your house into complete, brilliant experiences—interactions that fit your lifestyle and are easy for your family to enjoy. With one touch, dim the lights, stream

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Podcast #834: The Devices We Can’t Live Without

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2018/03/09

The Devices We Can’t Live Without Research firm iQor recently commissioned an online survey called the Customer and Product Experience (CPX) 360 Survey (part 2). It was conducted online and polled 1,004 U.S. adults 18 and up living in a “smart household” environment from Nov. 9 to Nov. 17, 2017. The goal was to gauge customer experience and customer service expectations of buyers of consumer technology in today’s digital age. All respondents indicated they own or regularly use: a smartphone, a

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Podcast #833: Hue Lights

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2018/03/02

Hue Lights For many home automation is limited to lights turning on and off at prescribed times. Others would like the ability to control their lights while they are away from home. For these people full blown automation is not necessary. There are a growing number of products that will let you do this. They range from smart wall plugs to wifi connected light bulbs. One such solution are Hue lights. Hue lights are not the cheapest solution but from our experience they seem to be the most reliable

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Podcast #832: Various Topics

HDTV and Home Theater Podcast ·

2018/02/23

Facebook Fiona: New Competition for Amazon Echo, Apple HomePod, and Google Home If you haven’t already invested in one of the many smart home speakers on the market, this summer you’ll have even more options, as Facebook plans to unveil its own version of voice-enabled smart home speakers, called Fiona and Aloha. Unlike most of the smart home speakers available today, like Amazon Echo, Google Home, and Apple HomePod, Fiona and Aloha will each feature a built-in 15-inch touchscreen. As an extra

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Podcast #831: Apple HomePod

HDTV and Home Theater Podcast ·

2018/02/16

Apple HomePod You are probably well aware that Apple released it's smart speaker, the HomePod ($349) last week. As you would imagine you can’t click a link without somehow landing on a page that has a review. Well we’re adding our two cents to the discussion. But we’ll try to be succinct. In a nutshell, if you are not in the Apple ecosystem you can stop reading (listening) right here. There is nothing so compelling that you should shell out your $350 and buy one. If you are in the Apple ecosystem,

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Podcast #830: Various Topics

HDTV and Home Theater Podcast ·

2018/02/09

Disney's ESPN streaming service to cost $4.99, launch in spring And the company's Netflix competitor, a streaming service for movies from Disney properties like Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars, will arrive in late 2019. Braden: I'm mostly interested in the Netflix competitor and discussing how a Disney/Pixar/Marvel/Star Wars studio based streaming service could shake things up. Best Subwoofers of 2017 Most modern movie soundtracks and music recordings have at least one thing in common: abundant

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Podcast #829: Five Reasons to Automate Your Home

HDTV and Home Theater Podcast ·

2018/02/02

Five Reasons to Automate Your Home The HT Guys have been singing the praises of home automation for about ten years now. It starts slow with one device and then quickly becomes an obsession. But it's the one thing that we have added to our homes that gets no pushback from family members. So if you are thinking about going down the home automation rabbit hole and are looking for a way to justify it, we have you covered. This is our list of five reasons to automate your home! Convenience -

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Podcast #828: Samsung’s MicroLED Bet

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2018/01/26

Samsung’s MicroLED Bet We first stumbled across Samsung’s new MicroLED technology when we were reading up on CES, and specifically the giant 146” TV the South Korean electronics giant had on display this year. A TV so big, they actually just call it “the wall.” The technology intrigued us, and we thought it may have intrigued a few of you as well, so we took it on ourselves to dive a bit deeper into what it is and why we, as lovers of great televisions, should care. If you’ve been with the show for

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Podcast #827: Speaker Cables - What does High Quality...

HDTV and Home Theater Podcast ·

2018/01/19

Speaker Cables - What does High Quality Cost? I was going through some of my typical AV websites the other day and came upon an article at Electronic House about speaker wires and was very interested to see what a site for installers had to say about the subject. We have been saying for years now that you should buy high quality cables to get the most out of your system. However, we have also been saying that high quality cables don’t have to cost a lot of money. We will examine the article,

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Podcast #826: CES 2018

HDTV and Home Theater Podcast ·

2018/01/12

CES 2018 CES (Consumer Electronics Show) is the world's gathering place for all those who thrive on the business of consumer technologies. It has served as the proving ground for innovators and breakthrough technologies for 50 years - the global stage where next-generation innovations are introduced to the marketplace. Owned and produced by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), it attracts the world's business leaders and pioneering thinkers. Samsung Samsung’s absurd 146-inch TV is an entire

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Podcast #825: Predictions for 2018

HDTV and Home Theater Podcast ·

2018/01/05

Predictions for 2018 Voice User Interface will begin to flourish in Home Theater It's 2018 and we are very used to asking Siri, Alexa, or Google to turn on lights but it's not common that we can use our voice to control our home theaters. The Echo works with the Harmony and Simple Control remotes but it's still kind of limited. In 2018 we will see a Homekit like framework emerge that will allow disparite home theater devices to be controlled by voice. IPTV begins to erode traditional cable/satellite

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Podcast #824: Prediction Review for 2017

HDTV and Home Theater Podcast ·

2017/12/28

Prediction Review for 2017 It's hard to believe that another year has gone by! With that it's time to see how we did with our 2017 predictions. This year's scorecard: Ara: 3/5 A very respectable 60% Braden: An awe inspiring 2/5. (.5 + .5 + 1) = Nailed it! Ara: DirecTV Now will announce more than 250K Subscribers by year’s end We have no official number on how many subscribers there are to the satcaster’s IPTV product and there are some missing pieces to the offering. I am betting that DirecTV will

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