On the umpteenth day man created home theater surround sound and it was good. Many years later MrDetermination bought an amplifier with DTS and DD and it just so happened that his DVD player could ...

Buying home cinema audio hardware is tricky at the best of times. Jump over to our best surround sound packages guide and that’s clear, as even at the top end of the market there are massive ...

I first heard of Dolby Digital Live (DDL) back when nVidia motherboards featured their Soundstorm. I thought this was a neat feature. The Yamaha speakers I had (5.1) had a receiver that would decode ...

You actually know what some of the crazy doodles on the side of an HDTV means when it comes to video-720p, 1080i, 1080p. Congrats, you’re ahead of most people, like my mother. But do you understand ...

With HD DVD and Blu-ray also came the ultimate audio options in a time when convenience trumps quality in most of the audio world. While SACD and DVD-Audio are all but a bust, audiophiles can turn to ...

In the world of home theater audio, the competition between sound formats has been likened to a "format war," where different technologies vie for supremacy in providing the most immersive audio ...

The first time I remember hearing surround sound was early 1977, in a cinema showing King Kong – the version with Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange. So far as I recall, it was used only near the end, ...

In June, I wrote about how AirTunes works, based on a briefing I had with Apple VP Greg Joswiak. At that time, I reported a fascinating feature that Joswiak mentioned to me: If iTunes is playing back ...

DTS Play-Fi, the wireless multiroom audio platform that can be used to set up a fully wireless home theater sound system, has expanded from its previous 5.1-channel limitation to 12 channels, which ...

It was a rainy winters day in Taipei when I decided to start researching options for full resolution playback of Blu-ray and HD DVD movies on my Vista HTPC. Are you ready? Seriously, are you? From all ...