THX Optimizer - Which DVDs? | Home Theater Forum
WEBFeb 21, 2008 — 7,161. Real Name. Joel Henderson. All THX Certified DVDs from Star Wars Episode One on include the THX Optimizer. Nearly all THX dvds from 2000 (beginning with Fight Club) and most from 2001 (I think the old edition of Close Encounters was the last) use the old THX Optimode which is nearly impossible to set up on anything other than a …
thx optimizer on any Blu-ray movies - AVS Forum
WEBJan 11, 2009 — 662 posts · Joined 2004. #12 · Jan 13, 2009. you can use any Sony/Columbia Blu-Ray disc and type 7669 enter in the main menu to access hidden test patterns. The color/tint graph has a pludge bar, so you can adjust color/tint with blue filter as well as brightness of your display assuming it displays btw using your Blu-ray player.
THX-CERTIFIED HOME MEDIA RELEASES - Master List
WEBMay 16, 2017 — As THX's list no longer appears to be up, and when it was it didn't really distinguish between DVD and Blu-ray, this is an attempt to make things easier, first and foremost by sorting each, as a certain Modern Major-General once boasted, in order categorical. Where applicable, I will also mention which THX trailer was used.
THX movies need a THX dvd player to hear the THX quality?
WEBJul 31, 2002 — OK, I played my first THX certified DVD the other day. There is a beginning track that "displays the THX sound" features. (DTS discs sometimes do the same thing.) The only thing which I noticed different was that there were 2 distinct side channels.
THX trailers - Home Theater Forum
WEBAug 1, 2002 — 1) THX Broadway (long, short, 2000 & LD) This is the standard THX trailer that we all know and love Found on: several DVD's including Fight Club and X-Men 2) THX Cavalcade Globe with Rain inside that explodes and then reforms into the THX logo Found on: Star Wars "The Phantom Menace" 3) THX Cimarron (long and short) the THX logo …
THX optimizer DVD's - AVS Forum
WEBOct 26, 2004 — FACT: The THX Optimizer test patterns are flawed. " There is another more insidious problem. As Stacey Spears of Secrets of Home Theater points out, there is still variability in how well DVD discs encode black in the picture correctly at digital 16. Even on THX discs measured black is at, "… 20, 25, 14, etc." ".
Free THX Optimizer & Free THX Blue Glasses - AVS Forum
WEBFeb 1, 2007 — Free THX Optimizer & Free THX Blue Glasses. Many of this forum know about the THX Optimizer that is included with a THX certified DVD. It is not the best calibration DVD but it is better than not using any type of calibration DVD to calibrate your HDTV. THX is offering a free THX Optimizer DVD with the Advanced Test Pattern and a …
THX DVD Players???? - Home Theater Forum
WEBAug 7, 2002 — No, THX does not mean better. It just means that the unit that bears the logo has matched and/or exceeds its standard. THX certification on a DVD player also includes ergonomics and ease of use. Now how a Pioneer DVD player with chroma-bug passed THX certification is beyond me.
THX and Blu Ray - Home Theater Forum
WEBJul 24, 2018 — THX was a decent idea, but in the end it was just 90% marketing. It had a certain way of standardizing things, the volume of soundtracks in particular, but those guidelines are easy to follow without paying a royalty. Before THX, I found DVD soundtrack volume levels did tend to vary quite a bit, but later that mostly went away.
Pan's Labyrinth coming to HD DVD! (Import) - Home Theater Forum
WEBMay 24, 2007 — Pan’s Labyrinth is world’s first live action HD DVD movie to receive THX certification Guillermo Del Toro’s masterpiece sets new standard for high definition audio and visual qualityCannes Film Festival, 20 May 2007 – Wild Side Video is proud to announce the release of Pan’s Labyrinth on HD DVD in France. As further evidence of …