Comments on: New THX Spec for Home Theater – THX Loudness Plus

By: spencer

spencer — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 04:08:52 +0000

On december 8th I was talking about thx and certification and so forth but its not just the equpment its the display to i would recomend for a projector the mitsubushi HC3800 this new projector has a 4000:1 contrast ratio and is capable of doing a format called 2:35:1 cinemascope thats with a anamorphic lens and screen the reason i say this is because most movies and i mean 80% are all recorded in 2:35:1 cinemascope so if you have about $10,000 than its a good idea if not than onkyo and integra recevers have a new zoom mode called WIDEZOOM which takes 2:35:1 content and zooms it to fit a 1:85:1 screen without artifacs or distortion of the picture so if you run into movies that are recorded in 2:35:1 which are the black bars on top and bottom of the screen and are anoying than the wide zoom mode is a good thing to have. Another thing about the HC3800 is it is a native 1080p projector and also it has the latest advanced DLP chips and prosessers in it and it has a razor sharp picture and its only $2200.00 which is cheap the cheapst cinemascope home theater projector before this one came out was the HC6800 which retalled for about $4000.00 so this was a good move by mitsubushi.

By: spencer

spencer — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:25:37 +0000

Another thing to consider if you want to do thx certification is the power and performance of your system i would recomend that you use tripplite UBS systems with the power managment issue tripplite has automtic voltage regulation and battery backup system this will insure you have the right power levels and porformance for your system and if the power goes out the UBS will back your system up long enough to power down corectly you also need them because thx requires alot of power anyway to even begin to hit commercial theater refrance level!!!!

By: spencer

spencer — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:06:47 +0000

Another thing that the new THX SELECT2 PLUS certification offers is THX PLL2 MUSIC MODE THX SELECT2 GAME MODE THX SELECT2 MUSIC MODE! with DDPll2x thx music mode you can now play back music exacly the way the recordist intended and whats nice about thx music mode is you can use 2 channal recordings with it so not all your music has to be recorded in 5.1 to make this new prossesing mode work! the way it works is it takes the audio and expands it to 5.1-7.1 playback the same thing for THX SELECT2 GAME MODE it plays back gameing sound tracks which most are recorded in 2 channal stero in 7.1 channal thats cool! We spent 30,000 on this new certification thats on THX SELECT certified speakers and recever commercial ERK-54 seires midatlantic rack adioquest cinemaquest cabeling and acousticly made the room corect i love it what people need to realize is that THX is a CERTIFICATION not a surround sound

By: spencer

spencer — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:31:06 +0000

We just upgraded to lucasfilm THX SELECT2 PLUS and we love it and especely for blu-ray content the problem with blu-ray and thx is that blu-ray has a very harsh signal strangth problem so on some movies we found that if you play at commercial theater refrance it was between 105-120db that is way too load so ilike this new certification it was a good idea because now you can play back any content rather its movies music games at any volume level

By: Carlton Bale

Carlton Bale — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:57:49 +0000

The only con of a THX-certified component is the general higher price vs. non-certified. Denon and Yamaha receivers are generally great brands for the price.

By: Jyon Kun

Jyon Kun — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:41:13 +0000

what are the pros and cons to owning a THX reciever? What is a good reciever that would be comparible to a THX system?