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THX Certified TVs undergo over 400 individual tests to ensure color, tone and images reproduce the director’s intentions accurately in stunning picture quality. Displays are tested to ensure all images match the color, luminance, blacks and gamma found in the original source, and all primary and blended colors are reproduced exactly as they ...
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THX Certification - The gold standard for audio and visual fidelity. THX. THX Certification. The THX Certified mark ensures the viewing and listening experience has passed critical industry standards. THX engineers perform hundreds of tests to ensure sound and picture reproduction in the industry’s top entertainment equipment is fully preserved.
Jun 11, 2020 · It’s coveted. It’s imitated. It’s the original audio-visual quality standard. It’s what THX is known for, so let’s talk about why THX Certification is still the best and how it’s only getting better. But first, let’s start at the beginning and the origin story of THX Certification. Back in the ’80s, a famous movie director ...
- Here are the main criteria to test your system. Before you can start calibrating your home theater, you need to know the criteria for which home theaters are evaluated.
- Avoid sitting too close to your speakers if you can help it. The easiest way to make sure you’re getting the most out of your system is to move further away from your speakers.
- If you add a center channel, the sweet spot turns into a sweet triangle. Almost every audiophile I've talked to knows about the coveted "sweet spot" but few of them have heard of the sweet triangle — an area in the shape of the triangle behind the sweet spot that sounds just as good as your Reference Seating Position (the technical name installers use instead of "sweet spot").
- Balance your speakers by using a 105dB mid-band pink noise test tone. Right, so you can save yourself a lot of time by buying three of the same speakers for your left, right and center channels.
- One of George Lucas’ Better Ideas
- THX’s Home Invasion
- Tuned by Thx
- Thx Spatial Audio
- Getting Into The Picture
THX was born in the early 1980s when George Lucas — the creator (and some say “destroyer”) of the Star Wars franchise — decided he wanted to ensure Return of the Jedilooked and sounded exactly as he intended it to in as many theaters as possible. Tomlinson Holman, an audio engineer and technical director for Lucasfilm at the time, was assigned the ...
Over the next ten years or so, THX refined its standards to a remarkably granular level — a process that continues to this day — and began folding those standards into its theater certification program. Colloquialisms like “raising the bar” and “kicking it up a notch” don’t adequately describe the direction THX was taking the movie-going experience...
For companies that want to develop products on their own but also want to take advantage of THX’s expertise, there’s an alternative to full certification: The Tuned by THX program. The chart below illustrates the differences between full certification and “tuning,” which really boils down to THX’s involvement, or lack thereof, in the initial produc...
Even when THX isn’t working directly with audio tech from other companies, it’s still finding creative ways to enhance your listening experience. The company recently developed THX Spatial Audio, which it claims can use your headphones to transform your run-of-the-mill laptop into a 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound system — all for just $20. The surround ...
Audio is not the singular focus of THX’s home theater certification program. THX also certifies display technology, including TVs and projectors, though it has not been quite as successful with its video campaign as it has with its audio division. A THX-certified display undergoes more than 400 tests to assess and help improve things like color acc...
Dec 25, 2023 · THX and HAA partnered to announce the new run of training this fall during CEDIA during a session entitled “THX: A Brief History and Way Forward,” and will officially relaunch the new certified trainings on January 12 during CES2024. To become a THX Certified Home Theater Professional (THX Level I) participants can enroll and attend ...
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May 6, 2010 · Some HDTVs get to display THX certification like a merit badge (for example, the Panasonic Viera TC-P50G10), but what does being THX-certified really mean?HDGuru got the chance to tour the THX ...
