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Scott Wilkinson  |  Jul 10, 2012
Live-sound pioneer and microphone maven Bob Heil returns to talk about his mic designs, new USB mic preamp/EQ, and headphones as well as his work with The Grateful Dead, The Who, Joe Walsh, and other rock legends, and his association with Paul Klipsch and organist George Wright, whose recordings helped launch the entire field of high-fidelity audio. Plus, answers to chat-room questions and more.

Run Time: 1:00:04

Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 09, 2010  |  Published: Mar 10, 2010
Jeff Park, HDMI Evangelist for HDMI Licensing, the company that maintains and develops the HDMI spec, dispels confusion about version numbers, cable lengths, "wireless HDMI," installation problems, and more.

Run Time: 1:16:52

Scott Wilkinson  |  Jul 17, 2012
Dave Duncan, Business Manager of DLP Cinema for Texas Instruments, explains the technology of Digital Light Processing, including the impossibly tiny moving mirrors on the surface of a Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) chip, 3-chip versus single-chip designs, and switching speed. Other topics include the transition from film to digital projection in commercial cinema, 2K versus 4K, 3D, high frame rates, alternative illumination sources such as lasers and LEDs, answers to chat-room questions, and more.

Run Time: 57:12

Scott Wilkinson  |  Jul 24, 2012
SurgeX senior engineer Martin Dornfeld discusses power protection and management for home theaters, including surge protection, lightning rods, whole-house versus outlet-level protection, brownouts and blackouts, uninterruptible power supplies, dedicated circuits, grounding, IP power management, whether or not power conditioning can improve the performance of A/V equipment, answers to chat-room questions, and more.

Run Time: 1:06:43

Scott Wilkinson  |  Jul 31, 2012
MIT postdoc researcher Gordon Wetzstein and Ph.D. student Matt Hirsch explain a new glasses-free 3D flat-panel technology they are working on at the MIT Media Lab. Conventional stereoscopic displays show two views (left and right eye) in a narrow viewing area, and all viewers see the same perspective. The new display shows many perspectives across a wider area, providing each viewer with a different perspective, much like a hologram. The new display combines several LCD layers, directional backlighting, and sophisticated processing to achieve its remarkable result. This isn't going to be a commercial product any time soon, but it does point the way toward a more realistic 3D display without needing those annoying glasses.

Run Time: 55:22

Scott Wilkinson  |  Aug 07, 2012
Kevin Wines, Image Technology Director at THX, Ltd., talks about the future of display technology in the home and commercial cinema, including increased spatial resolution (4K, 8K), increased temporal resolution (high frame rates of 48 and 60fps), and how these advancements might be delivered to the home. He also discusses 3D, including the 3D broadcast of the Olympics, online distribution versus physical media, THX certification of displays and content, answers to chat-room questions, and more.

Run Time: 1:08:33

Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 16, 2010  |  Published: Mar 17, 2010
Digital-projection inventor and 3D maven Gene Dolgoff talks about several of his inventions, including digital projection, 3D printing, a new 3D compression algorithm and filter technology, a prototype projector that renders 3D images in midair without glasses, and more.

Run Time: 1:16:54

Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 23, 2010  |  Published: Mar 24, 2010
Josh Kairoff, Chief Technologist of Display Enginering, Inc. and former Director of Display Engineering at Pioneer, discusses the demise of Kuro, the Panasonic black-level problem and how Pioneer got it right, how plasma TVs work, what's really going on in 120Hz and 240Hz LCDs, and more.

Run Time: 59:27

Scott Wilkinson  |  Mar 30, 2010  |  Published: Mar 31, 2010
Floyd Toole, retired Vice President of Acoustical Engineering for Harman International, talks about live vs. recorded music, 2-channel vs. multichannel music, concert halls and small home-theater rooms, subwoofer placement, subjective vs. objective evaluations of speakers, and more.

Run Time: 1:28:45

Scott Wilkinson  |  Apr 06, 2010  |  Published: Apr 07, 2010
UAV and HT movie and product reviewer David Vaughn talks about what he looks and listens for in movies, which movies let him turn off his inner critic, the value of bonus features and BD-Live, online delivery vs. physical discs, the Lord of the Rings screenshot brouhaha, TiVo Premier, and more.

Run Time: 1:19:36

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