[Stuart Wright]

AV Podcast : Home Cinema : 8th Mar 2007
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00:37 AV News: New Subs from Rel, New AV Amp from Marantz, Onkyo do Hifi, Jamo do lifestyle with HDMI and noise cancelling Headphones from Sennheiser. Plus we announce the Bristol Home Cinema winner from our stand at the show.
08:11 Jason’s bit: Jason discusses putting the three current Games Consoles against a fully Spec’d PC.
13:57 This Weeks Roundtable with Phil Hinton, Stuart Wright, Seth Gecko, Giancarlo (forum member Recruit) and Neil Davidson from T&W Marketing. The Subject is Display Devices.
14:35 “Is CRT TV and Projection dead? Is it time to go with flat panel HD TV and digital Projection?”
29:16 “Plasma or LCD TV, what are the advantages and disadvantages of both?” – discussion on Screen retention on Plasma, Backlight problems on LCD and more…
41:44 “The recent Pioneer demo at Bristol which displayed LCD and Plasma side by side – advantages and disadvantages of this kind of demo from a manufacturer.”
47:07 “The Purple Snake artefact – what is it and how to avoid”
53:01 “Self Calibration of your display device, the correct use of the user controls and set up DVDs”
59:00 “Professional Calibration – what is ISF and how does it work?”
01:06 How to ask questions for the panel, tell us about problems you have or ideas for discussion points, email help@avpodcast.co.uk.

[Phil Hinton]

I would be interested from a producer point of view on what people think about the content in this roundtable discussion. Is this the type of discussion we should have on a weekly basis, would having forum members send in their thoughts and problems make it an interesting listen? Please leave us some feedback on this one.

[Figment]

I haven't had a chance to listen to this particular podcast yet Phil but I have always thought that this is the way they should go at least to some extent to include members thoughts and problems.

[Gordon @ Convergent AV]

Only listened to the roundtable this week. Very good. Enjoyed it. There was some misinformation on the crt projection front (and I can see the boys in that sub forum are already sharpening their knives) but the rest of it was great. Thought Neil did an excellent job explaining about the rechnolgies, snakes et al. Good work.

Gordon

[recruit]

Agree...Neils input was superb

[Renoir]

Another great podcast! I also found Neil's contribution to be invaluable. I think he posesses that rare gift of not only having the requisite knowledge but also the ability to disseminate it in a clear and concise manner. Would be great to see him on future roundtables.

The piece about calibration using DVDs with test patterns was interesting. There was a reference to an AV Forums member who has created a DVD to download but I didn't catch the name. Could we have a link please?

[Renoir]

It was Gary Lightfoot. Haven't got a link though.

[recruit]

It is forum member Gary Lightfoot who has a gathered a wealth of knowledge in the AVForums ProJector forum and here are a couple of threads that he has made

Basic Projector Calibration

Setting white and black levels

[Stuart Wright]

Originally Posted by Gordon @ Convergent AV

There was some misinformation on the crt projection front

It would have been great if you could have taken part.

[Tantalus]

Always good to hear more (door - rhymes with soor!) Scotsmen in the podcasts!

I thought it was excellent. Informative. It's a better approach to cover a number of topics around a single thread and Phil does a great job at hosting it.

[Tantalus]

I guess it should have been "dour" !

[Gordon @ Convergent AV]

Stuart: Unfortunately I work alot of evenings. I've told Phil that I'll try to take part in future one at some point. Wont be this week though.

Gordon

[Matt]

Excellent description of how to set-up a display, how about a similar one on how to set-up the audio.

[Phil Hinton]

Originally Posted by Matt

Excellent description of how to set-up a display, how about a similar one on how to set-up the audio.

Funny you should mention that, general overview of Home Cinema sound coming up this week hopefully.

[Orinj]

Yes, I have to agree with the quality and spread of information about visual displays and calibration this week. I have a DLP projector and an old CRT TV but your discussion gave me a lot to consider when I decide to upgrade to a flat panel display. In addition, I could do with re-calibrating my projector so will try to hunt down that free calibration DVD recommended by you guys.

It's just been mentioned but audio calibration should definitely be covered. The basics of speaker arrangement are one thing, subwoofer setup is another. You may want to consider that Dolby Labs covered this topic in their first podcast.

If I had my own request for an audio discussion it would have to be around the use and preference of Dolby Digital vs DTS and more importantly the 5.1 and 7.1 matrix surround modes. For example, with a 7.1 sound set up, would you use Dolby Digital EX, Dolby Pro-Logic II, Dolby Pro-Logic IIx or DTS NEO-6 on a source that was originally just Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital EX or DTS. It would be good to hear you thoughts and I'd be happy to share my own with you.

Thanks again.

[Phil Hinton]

This week we introduce the team this week in the podcast roundtable and they give their home cinema memories and where they came from what they are doing now.

Sound discussion next week.

[mattartist]

Hi Phil,

Just to add my thanks for this particular podcast. I've listened to the calibration section 3 times gleaning what I can and making reference notes for future use. Ditto all comments re. Neil's input. Very useful indeed for work and home.

I certainly would appreciate more of the same technical talk covering other topics.

Matt