Podcasts

Home Theater Geeks Scott Wilkinson, online editor of UltimateAVmag.com and HomeTheatermag.com, chats with leading experts in the audio/video industry—real technoids, not marketeers—to get their take on the technologies and issues of interest to all home-theater geeks. The podcast is produced by our friends at TWiT, the online home of Leo Laporte, nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and tech guru to millions of fans around the world.

Podcast 12: Gene Dolgoff
March 17, 2010 / Run Time: 1:16:54
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.

Podcast 11: Jeff Park
March 10, 2010 / Run Time: 1:16:52
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.

Podcast 10: Kevin Voecks
February 24, 2010 / Run Time: 1:10:07
Kevin Voecks, Director of Product Development for Harman's High-Performance A/V division (including Revel, Lexicon, Mark Levinson, and JBL Synthesis), discusses his background as chief engineer at Mirage and Snell, the ins and outs of speaker design and testing, subwoofer placement, room correction, and more.

Podcast 9: Mark Waldrep
February 10, 2010 / Run Time: 1:12:11
AIX Records and iTrax.com founder Mark Waldrep talks about what high-definition audio really means, multichannel music, Blu-ray as an audio medium, discs vs. downloads, digital vs. analog, and more.

Podcast 8: Stacey Spears and Don Munsil
February 2, 2010 / Run Time: 1:21:30
Stacey Spears and Don Munsil, creators of the HD Benchmark setup and test Blu-ray, discuss the importance of test patterns for consumers, video compression and processing, 3D, online content delivery, and more.

Podcast 7: John Dahl
January 27, 2010 / Run Time: 1:04:16
THX Senior Fellow and Director of Education John Dahl talks about THX's guiding principles and training courses, the importance of room/speaker/consumer interaction, perforated screens, 3D, and more.

Podcast 6: Anthony Grimani
January 20, 2010 / Run Time: 1:03:29
Anthony Grimani, one of the world's leading home-theater designers and consultants, imparts his considerable wisdom about room acoustics, 3D, constant-area screen masking, and more.

Podcast 5: 2010 CES
January 9, 2010 / Run Time: 54:03
During CES, Scott Wilkinson talks with Leo Laporte about what's hot in A/V at the show, including 3D, LED TVs, high-end audio, and more.

Podcast 4: Don Eklund
January 5, 2010 / Run Time: 45:02
Don Eklund, Executive VP of Advanced Technology at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, provides a studio's perspective on 3D, 4K, online content, what happened with the original Blu-ray release of The Fifth Element, and more.

Podcast 3: Andy Parsons
December 31, 2009 / Run Time: 51:16
Andy Parsons, Senior VP of Advanced Product Development at Pioneer and a spokesman for the Blu-ray Disc Association, discusses the newly finalized 3D Blu-ray spec, 3D technology in general, why Pioneer got out of the plasma business, and more.

Podcast 2: Joe Kane
December 29, 2009 / Run Time: 1:07:24
Pre-eminent video guru Joe Kane, creator of the Digital Video Essentials: HD Basics setup and test Blu-ray, offers invaluable insight into projection screens, video calibration, the Samsung projectors he helped design, and more.

Podcast 1: Tomlinson Holman
December 24, 2009 / Run Time: 1:00:36
Tomlinson Holman (the "TH" in THX) talks about his distinguished audio career at Advent and Lucasfilm, the early history of THX, 10.2-channel audio, his current work at Audyssey and USC, and more.