Recent Home Theater Editorials
RIP Steve Feinstein 1954‑2024
It is with great sadness to inform you our dear friend and industry veteran Steve Feinstein has passed away on 4/19/24. His unique perspective and contributions to Audioholics will be greatly missed.
Get Audio Advice from OPRA
At times, here at Audioholics.com, questions only tangentially related to the study of paying as little money for as good sound as possible come up. Usually, we allow these questions to be fielded by …
DVD‑Audio Encryption Hacked... Sort Of
You knew it was bound to happen to DVD-Audio/MLP eventually... after quite a bit of time both the media key and the Content Protection…
Blu‑ray Disc vs. HD‑DVD... Who Cares?
We have actually been keeping score on which Hollywood studio and which content owner "signed up" for the HD- (HD-DVD) and Blu-ray Disc (BD) camps. We actually wondered which wanted to limit their …
Write Your Congressman ‑ Free Receivers for All!
Dear Senator Polk, I am happy to inform you that I am soon to be…
Introducing the NEW Media Servers
Content delivery is keeping some of the finest engineers in the world up at night because they know if they can develop and deliver the solution with the broadest possible appeal, their organizations …
SAG AFTRA Fail to Bilk Video Game Companies for Residuals
Talks on Interactive Agreements Break Off as Video Game Producers Fail to Address SAG, AFTRA Demands for Profit-Sharing, Rejecting "Modest" Union Proposals for "Mo Money!"
Hollywood, Remakes & Reality TV
As the 2005 decline in film revenues continues, it is amusing to see the pontifications and proposals of Hollywood insiders regarding declining revenues. It's apparently up to them to attempt to …
Blu‑ray Disc... Emerging Format or Hurry Up and Wait?
We know people are waiting for the next great thing in storage and too many people have been convinced that...
Game Developers Service Consumers. Hollywood? Lawyers.
There has to be some illegal copying in the video game industry - it's pervasive throughout the software industry and costs firms billions each year - but they still pump out and push stand-alone and …
DVD Insider CeBIT Show Report
CeBIT in Hanover is head and shoulders the world's largest tech toys show for business and consumer alike. They may have flopped in the U.S. but at home they are supreme even though it is nearly …
Balancing Work & Life
Right at the outset we'll note that it is Saturday and we are in the office writing this piece. That should give you a clue that we haven't achieved what most people might call a healthy work-life …
Blu‑ray Technology: Why? When?
Isn't all the noise surrounding the beauty and consumer demand for high definition blue-ray storage fantastic? Consumers can't wait to get their hands on the camcorders... the burners... the media!
Microsoft's Next Box to Usher in 'Hi Def Era'
by Wayde Robson of Home Theater Focus Microsoft gave attendees of the Game Developer's Conference (GDC) a peek…
DVD Industry Insider Report ‑ The Challenge of Home Entertainment Networks
Would you believe it? A fantastic 12% of the American households are networked and that is going to drive home entertainment networks.
Throwing a Memorable Super Bowl Party
Planning a Super Bowl party for your friends is hard enough. There's plenty to worry about: food, drinks, food, seating, food - you…
DVD Industry Insider Report ‑ The Press vs. Reality
If you read the press it is obvious that CD is long dead, DVD is rapidly dying and the consumer can't wait for Blue-ray technology to arrive. Unfortunately, no one has convinced the people who buy …
DVD Industry Insider Report ‑ Optical Storage
Everyone is now delivering 16x DVD burners at unbelievably low prices. Rushing to keep pace, the leading media manufacturers deliver the high-speed +/-R media as quickly as the formats and …
DVD Industry Insider Report ‑ The Consumer Pot of Gold
Writing to keep you abreast of the DVD industry is tricky especially when we had to project what you will be seeing in the marketplace now. And we had to decipher all of the smoke/mirrors, …
DVD Burner Industry Report
PC makers see the big bucks in consumer electronics and have begun to morph their products into entertainment/home communications systems. PC makers branch out into mediocre cameras/camcorders and …
Top Ten Reasons To Buy "Cubed" Speakers
Marketing can sometimes be the most misleading source of propaganda about a particular product, especially when it is aimed at the average neophyte consumer…
Marketing's Influence on the Government: An Example
Yes, it's true, marketing can even influence our own government. The following story will disclose this very fact. Nothing contained herein is considered classified information, but you can be …
DVD Industry Insider Report ‑ The Scoop on DVD‑R9 / DVD+R9
DVD Industry Insider Report - August 20, 2004 The Scoop on Emerging DVD-R9 / DVD+R9 Hardware, Technologies and Standards Recently…
Impracticality of the Audioholic Addiction to Audio
The Endless Trend to Upgrade Components and Ignore the Obvious
The State of the Art ‑ Part One
Ask anyone to define the word "Art" and you are guaranteed to not get the same answer twice. Definitions will be as broad as deeming art to be any human creation, from an oil painting to a chromed …
Subscribe to our newsletter