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@THXLtdwww.thx.com0:00 The Audience Is Listening 0:33 Wings - 19836:40 Broadway 1983 - 198416:31 Cimarron (Original Mix) - 198722:35 Gold Neon THX 5th Annive...
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Special thanks to @zkn26 for archiving this video!!!THX is a motion picture quality certification system (despite being branded as a "sound system" until 199...
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May 8, 2017 · The famous THX logo. Digitally mastered for optimal video and audio performance.
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Nov 26, 2023 · By 1994, the THX logo and the accompanying Deep Note had become so well-known that they earned the honour of a parody on The Simpsons. A scene in season five episode 'Burns’ Heir' shows a movie audience being blasted with the Deep Note, causing glasses, exit signs and people’s teeth to shatter, and one unlucky patron’s head to explode (in a nod to the famous scene from the 1981 film ...
- 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...
Jun 11, 2018 · Many thanks to Andy Moorer, who is a software engineer, musician, and sound designer of the THX Deep Note. And thanks also to Rob Cowles, Global Director of marketing for THX. To learn more about THX certification visit THX.com. The music in this episode is courtesy of our friends at Musicbed.
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THX (officially stands for "Tomlinson Holman's eXperiment") is a motion picture quality certification system (despite being branded as a "sound system" until 1997) founded by Tomlinson Holman and George Lucas in 1982, originally named after the first film Lucas directed, THX 1138. The first film they certified was 1983's Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. Since then, it has been used in cinemas in ...
