An Ultra HD Blu-ray Q&A!
It’s time to throw your Blu-ray collection in the trash! That junk is old hat. There’s a new video format coming out really soon that’ll be everything Blu-ray is and more. More pixels! More colors! More expensive...
Category Archives: Home Theater
Weekend Roundtable: Movie and Home Theater Podcasts
If you’re reading this page, then you already know that High-Def Digest is the best site on the internet to read about movies and home theater. Sadly, we don’t have a podcast yet. Do you listen to any of those, and wha...
Subwoofer Building Project, Part 2: Some Assembly Required
Last month, I wrote about some recent additions to my home theater: a pair of D-I-Y 18″ subwoofers. The focus was mostly on the cost advantage of making these bad boys myself versus purchasing from an internet brand or from ...
Weekend Roundtable: Latest Addition to Your Home Theater
Every home theater is a perpetual work-in-progress. No matter how much time or money you spend making the perfect movie (or TV, or videogame) den, there’s always some new piece of equipment to buy or some other improvement t...
Poll: Do You Take the Grill Covers Off Your Speakers?
I recently purchased a new pair of speakers, and have found myself asking a question that never seemed applicable before: Should I leave the speakers on display in my room with the grill covers on or off? What do you do?
Subwoofer Building Project, Part 1: Sounds So Good, It Hz!
After a couple years of debating whether I needed to add more bass to my home theater system, I finally decided to go ahead and do it. It’s not that I felt my previous setup was lacking in that department; I simply wanted mo...
The Upgrade Itch
When I added Dolby Atmos surround sound to my home theater a few months ago, I expected that to be the last major upgrade that I would tackle for a while. However, as these things usually go, making one big change inevitably promp...
Poll: Do You Care About 4k Ultra HD Yet?
The buzz at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show was all about 4k, 4k and more 4k. Almost every electronics brand had 4k Ultra HD televisions on the showroom floor. Yet, much like the big push for 3D a few years back, this ...
Weekend Roundtable: Looking Ahead to 2015
Due to the holidays, we took a couple weeks off without any Roundtables. Now that the new year is here, it’s time to get things going again. We’ll start off with an easy topic: What movies, TV, home theater goodies or ...
Gearing Up for Atmos
I’ve been planning to upgrade my surround sound system to Dolby Atmos ever since the format was first announced for home use. Due to a variety of delays, some financial and some personal, I put off the installation of an Atm...
Weekend Roundtable: Christmas Wish List 2014
Each year around this time, we use a Roundtable to drop some last-minute hints about the gifts we’d like to see under our trees come Christmas morning. What would you like Santa to bring you?
A Finishing Touch for the Home Theater – WeMo Remote Light
Barring an audio equipment upgrade that I have planned for the future, my home theater construction project was completed last year. However, I never really felt that it was finished, and small but lingering issues have continued ...