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a THX question..

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cloudwalker

I have never been all that impressed by THX certified although I have a THX certified receiver. I noticed my "Pearl Harbor" DVD was THX certified, but could find no other DVD's that were. Does every link in the chain (DVD, receiver and DVD player) need to be certified to get any benefit from it

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RE: a THX question.. - cfraser 08:20:22 03/29/15 (1)
Carrying on from what Joe said, I also have some older THX-certified gear, not in my main system. They kept adding new levels of THX cert. for AVRs/amps/etc., higher and lower levels. Some so low that it backfired (it's mostly just marketing after all) and THX cert. became almost meaningless. It *did* mean something, but what exactly got murky over the years. Many manufacturers of higher-end gear dropped the cert. even though they didn't change their designs, just to prevent having to pay the THX licensing fees. I also recall that having a cert. for a piece of gear gave the manufacturer less flexibility to make (minor?) changes, they'd have to re-submit for cert. in some circumstances.

Common DVDs that were THX cert. are many from Disney (especially the animated stuff) and their subsidiaries, and also from Pixar long before it was part of Disney. Perhaps other common THX DVDs are the Indiana Jones, Alien, and Star Wars series. Some of the same title BDs are still THX cert. too (Lucas stuff), but it's pretty rare for Blu-ray and I'm guessing it'll disappear now that Disney owns Lucas, since Disney pretty much already dropped it.

There are often audio and video test patterns/sequences on THX DVDs, sometimes hidden.

I don't know if there are/were any THX-cert. DVD players...

Yeah, there are lots of kinda crappy THX cert. DVDs, which didn't help THX cert.'s rep.
- sounds like a THX certification has turneed out to be meaningless - cloudwalker 10:26:35 03/29/15 (0)
certification - Joe Murphy Jr 08:10:24 03/28/15 (0)
THX certification basically just "assures" you that the particular product meets a certain minimum standard. What that standard is is not to be shared with the public (there's an NDA attached to the license). However, it doesn't mean that certified or even uncertified products can't exceed that minimum standard (there are many certified and uncertified products which do).

THX certification is not infallible, as I own a few THX laserdiscs and DVDs that have technical defects (reversed channels, color inaccuracies, etc).

But to answer your question, no.

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