Recent Home Theater Editorials
New Partnership To Make Dirac Live Integration Easier For Audio Manufacturers
A new partnership integrates Dirac Live room correction into the Peerless Flow DSP platform, enabling home and pro audio companies to integrate Dirac Live seamlessly and efficiently.
DVD Burner Industry Report
PC makers see the big bucks in consumer electronics and have begun to morph their products into entertainment/home communications systems. PC makers branch out into mediocre cameras/camcorders and …
Top Ten Reasons To Buy "Cubed" Speakers
Marketing can sometimes be the most misleading source of propaganda about a particular product, especially when it is aimed at the average neophyte consumer…
Marketing's Influence on the Government: An Example
Yes, it's true, marketing can even influence our own government. The following story will disclose this very fact. Nothing contained herein is considered classified information, but you can be …
DVD Industry Insider Report ‑ The Scoop on DVD‑R9 / DVD+R9
DVD Industry Insider Report - August 20, 2004 The Scoop on Emerging DVD-R9 / DVD+R9 Hardware, Technologies and Standards Recently…
Impracticality of the Audioholic Addiction to Audio
The Endless Trend to Upgrade Components and Ignore the Obvious
The State of the Art ‑ Part One
Ask anyone to define the word "Art" and you are guaranteed to not get the same answer twice. Definitions will be as broad as deeming art to be any human creation, from an oil painting to a chromed …
Ending Sex and Violence in the Movies?
Walmart is now selling the world's first Progressive Scan DVD player that uses preprogrammed filters to seamlessly skip over passes in a movie that contain violence, sex, swearing, drug use, or …
State of the Art ‑ Part Two: Lowering the Bar
"Those boys can get the ball in the hoop, but they can't play basketball."
Behind the Scenes: Field Effects Recording Part 1
It usually comes as a surprise to even the most sophisticated of moviegoers that the sound effects in the films they watch are usually recreated and added after the film has been shot.
Behind the Scenes: Field Effects Recording Part 2
Not unlike the home theater industry, there exist manufacturer and consumer perpetuated "equipment envy" in the world of pro audio for music or film. Shiny boxes with fancy specs and fancy wiring.
Why I Hate Going to the Movies!
Editorial: Why I Hate Going to the Movies! by Toby Dalsgaard 03/24/2004 I hate the movies.…
Sam Adams Utopias ‑ Strongest Beer in the World
Anxiety got the better of me. The other evening, I requested the company of some close friends to embark on a historic journey of epic proportions, to tap an extremely rare and hard to find, bottle …
Making the Perfect Honey Mead
If you are a Mead enthusiast, home brewer, wine lover or fellow beer drinker, then this article will help you learn to make and appreciate Meads. Anyone with the advanced savvy required to use a …
Pumpkin Ale ‑ Home Brew Recipe and Commercial Microbrew Recipe
Due to the awesome generosity of Matt Glass at the Winter Park, Florida Hops, I was able to enrich my meager homebrewing skills by helping brew my first 3.5-barrel (99 gallon) batch of beer. In …