Episode 34

Patrick Norton and Robert Heron are compiling the home theater goodness

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Post CES 2017

• Plague
• Eye candy
• Sweet sounds

TVs

• LG Wallpaper OLED
  • Ribbon cable for power+AV
• Samsung QLED
  • Quantum color volume
  • AutoCal via CalMAN
  • HLG DirecTV demo
• Sony
  • A1E OLED
  • Sweet Acoustic Surface
• Panasonic
  • EZ1000 OLED
  • Superb picture quality

Projectors

• Panasonic holographic projection film
• LG ProBeam 1080p laser projector
  • Smart apps + ATSC tuner
• JVC 4K HDR laser projector
  • DLA-RS4500 ~$35K
  • DCI color and beyond
  • Blue-laser light engine
  • 6-banks of 8-diodes
  • Fixed phosphor design
• Hisense 4K Laser Cast soon
  • Prototype w/95% BT.2020
• EVP/Elite Screens light-rejecting demos
• Sony 4K HDR short throw projector

TV tech doings

• Small HDR screens
• HDMI 2.1
• 3D ghosts
• HDR formats grow
  • Dolby Vision
  • HDR10
  • Hybrid Log Gamma
  • Technicolor
• Nanosys quantum dots
  • Not owned by Samsung
    • More strategic partnership
  • Next year: QD in color filter
  • Electro-emissive in 3-years

High-resolution audio

• Digital downloads down
  • Everyone streaming
• Hi-Res Audio Press Conference
  • Digital Entertainment Group (DEG)
• HDtracks
• Master Quality Authenticated
  • ~15,000 albums MQA now
  • 200+ MQA titles on TIDAL
  • Stereophile's Hi-Res Breakthroughs
• Pandora/Rhapsody/Napster going hi-res

All the sound

• Emotiva loudspeakers/amps/subs
• Audirvana
• AudioQuest
• Astell&Kern
• Panasonic
• Onkyo
• Mytek
• NAD
• Bluesound
• Air Motion Transformer
• KEF LS50 Wireless
• ELAC
  • Brother Paul requests a review
  • Debut
  • Uni-Fi
  • Adante
  • Element amp
• Revel Salon2
• Texas Instruments
  • High-Power Amps
  • Efficient
  • DIY potential

Dolby Cinema

• FINALLY arrives in San Francisco
• Dolby Cinema at AMC
• Dolby-enhanced Christe Digital 6P laser projector
• Mindblowingly colorful
• Superb contrast

Tips, tricks, and help

• @Kido1986 needs a smaller HDR screen
• @jellingwood eyeing sweet soundbars
  • Bose SoundTouch 300
  • Onkyo SBT-A500
• Nicholas Smith seeks portable FLAC
  • Astell&Kern AK Jr
  • FiiO X1

Thank you

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Recorded on January 12, 2017