What is THX certification?
“THX Certified Home Theatre products deliver cinema-quality picture and sound to home environments. Through optimized audio-visual technology and speaker placement, you get a movie experience at home that’s as faithful as possible to the director’s design.” “Today’s big special-effects movies can have hundreds of separate sound elements in the soundtrack. Dialogue, sound effects and music are all independently recorded and then mixed down to a six- (5.1) or four-channel soundtrack for cinema release. But when the cinema-designed sound is translated to home theatre, significant sonic quality is lost in the translation.” “Is THX Home Theatre compatible with Dolby Digital and DTS? Absolutely! The goal of THX Home Theatre is to accurately recreate the experience of the film mixing theatre. All mixing theatres are capable of creating both 4 and 5.1 channel mixes. The acoustics, equalization curves, and loudspeaker arrays used in a mixing theatre remain the same for a digital 5.1-channel sou
