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About. our mission: to deliver the best possible audio and visual experiences everywhere. From our inception, THX has been known for optimizing audio and visual quality for a wide range of entertainment experiences. We started in the cinema, and today take that same experience anywhere and everywhere—in the cinema, at home, or on the go.
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THX Ltd. is an American audio company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is known for its eponymous suite of high fidelity audiovisual reproduction standards for movie theaters, screening rooms, home theaters, computer speakers, video game consoles, car audio systems, and video games. The THX trailer that precedes compliant films is based ...
THX was born—and made available to moviegoers with the release of Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Now, over thirty-five years later, products bearing the THX brand still ensure you’re getting the truest sense of the artist’s vision—audio and video—in the cinema, at home, and on the go.
Sep 24, 2024 · The result of Hollins’ experiment was a set of standards that could identify and measure the audio fidelity of home and professional audio systems. This marked the birth of THX certification, which ensured that audio equipment met the highest standards of performance, accuracy, and quality. With THX certification, audio enthusiasts could ...
- One of George Lucas’ Better Ideas
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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...
Oct 20, 2016 · Many feel that sale effectively ended THX’s relevance as an audio/visual quality standards company - but that was a different era in technology. If the Creative Labs acquisition is any indication of what Razer has in store for THX, the cynical among us may predict that Razer will simply pimp the THX logo onto a slew of newly minted THX-certified Razer hardware.
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Oct 17, 2016 · Oct 17, 2016, 3:00 PM PDT. Vlad Savov. THX, the company responsible for the "Deep Note" that plays before movies at the cinema, has been acquired by Razer, the gaming peripherals and laptop maker ...
