What is Home THX?
Home THX is a set of technical specifications, circuits, and standards developed by Lucasfilm, Ltd. to make sure that you hear movie soundtracks in your home just as the director and sound engineers intended them to be heard. Lucasfilm, Ltd. (yes, the “Star Wars” people!) licenses this technology only to manufacturers whose products adhere to its strict requirements. Home THX standards are aimed at duplicating — as closely as possible in a home environment — the soundfield generated in an ideal movie theater. The specifications are also aimed at minimizing gross system-to-system differences that might alter a soundtracks impact. Home THX standards concentrate on proper spatialization (a soundtracks “image” or dimensionality), localization (where a particular sound appears to come from), dynamics (so you can shudder at bomb blasts as well as whispered threats!), and intelligibility (so you can understand all the dialog, for example, even in the middle of that explosion). Home THX is n
Home THX is a set of technical specifications, circuits, and standards developed by Lucasfilm, Ltd. to make sure that you hear movie soundtracks in your home just as the director and sound engineers intended them to be heard. Lucasfilm, Ltd. (yes, the “Star Wars” people!) licenses this technology only to manufacturers whose products adhere to its strict requirements. Home THX is not a Dolby competitor. THX technologies begin to work only after Dolby delivers a multi-channel signal for additional processing. Home THX standards are aimed at duplicating — as closely as possible in a home environment — the soundfield generated in an ideal movie theater. The specifications are also aimed at minimizing gross system-to-system differences that might alter a soundtrack’s impact. Home THX standards concentrate on proper spatialization (a soundtrack’s “image” or dimensionality), localization (where a particular sound appears to come from), dynamics (so you can shudder at bomb blasts as well as
