Home Automation/Wireless Audio

Home Automation/Wireless Audio

**UPDATED 8/4/22** Up until a few short years ago, the best way to have whole home audio, or automated lights and shades, that you could control, you had to have everything wired through your house, going to a central location that usually contained an audio receiver...
4K Reference Movies

4K Reference Movies

UPDATE:  This page is a great jumping off point for starting your 4K collection, and will be updated occasionally as new movies are brought out, but with the mass dumping by Disney of their movies (Disney/Pixar/Star Wars/Marvel), it is going to take some time to...
Home Theater Audio: Overview

Home Theater Audio: Overview

Home Theater Audio A lot has been written on this site about Home Theater video, projectors, screens, High Dynamic Range, but as anyone who owns a TV or a projector knows, sound from these suck.  Without audio, we are back to the silent movie days.  First we had...
4K Ultra High Definition

4K Ultra High Definition

*** UPDATED 8/4/22***Back in  early 2006, a new resolution standard was implemented, HD 1080p. This was driven by Toshiba and HDDVD and Sony’s Blu-ray. After two years and I am sure a lot of money, the studios sided with Sony. The industry learned that if they are...
Projectors and Screens

Projectors and Screens

r***UPDATED:  8/4/22*** Home Theater projectors and screens over the past 20 years have had quite a metamorphosis. At the turn of the century (2000, not 1900), most quality projectors were dim (less than 1000 lumen), had expensive bulbs with short life (350-600 hours...
High Dynamic Range

High Dynamic Range

Of all the technologies that have come out in the past decade, High Dynamic Range (HDR or HDR10) with the Wide Color Gamut (WCG) has made the biggest difference, more so than the 4K resolution, it just so happened that HDR and 4K standards came about at the same time...