The Evolution of Home Theater - Big Tech of the Small Screen

Trace the march of technology from nickelodeons to televisions to video tapes and how the ever changing technological environment shape our approach to consuming media.

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[acelakid]

Loved the way you subtly transitioned into that Panamorph advert at the end. Real smooth. All advertisements should be like that. 

[vfx]

Please do a video on the "obsession" of many low-budget filmmakers with making digital video look like film and what are the elements you need to achieve the film look(color grading, lighting, etc). I think this topic would make for a very interesting and technical video like the ones you have on the subject of color. Thanks!

[SamLovesMovies]

10:27 That's how I feel when people who still watch DVDs ask me what makes Blu Rays so much better and if they're worth the additional money lol. I always have some comparison pictures ready to show the difference that high def picture makes as well as some sound clips to show the benefits of remastered sound. Now with the rise of 4K it just keeps getting even better :p

[brettsnyder]

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[JeremyRatzlaff]

I was in BestBuy the other day and saw a 4K image on a home theater system. It blew my mind.

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[FilmmakerIQ]

It's the full technical term for "REC 709" - Engineers and their acronyms... :P

[ThomasBaxter]

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[JarrodTetreault]

I thoroughly enjoyed this episode, and the jaunt back through my youth (I remember thinking laser discs were so cool.... I used to push the lid release pins so I could open the top and look inside. I don't know what I expected to see, but I was kinda disappointed when I figured out it was just a record). Good Job, as usual Mr. Hess.

[nikosvault]

Very nice introduction!

I wish you had touched on the digital sound of LD and more importantly, the revolutionary invention of the “Special Edition” release with supplementary material.
 
This figures to be a major part the survival of home video formats against the video-on-demand.

[chefkendranguyen]

This discussion isn't complete to me without talking about big screen TV's. Great episodes, I wish it was longer! :)

[RMoribayashi]

Digital compression had another unforeseen effect. Analog TV satellites only had a few channels so networks would pay millions of dollars for long term contracts. Compression meant that each channel could now carry five or six networks. Owners either filled them up themselves or leased the extras out. That's why we have so many cable channels today.

[RMoribayashi]

Many projection TV's use a technology last seen on the Moon and the Space Shuttle,   mechanical color TV. A black and white projector with a spinning colored cylinder behind the lens. That's how lunar cameras on Apollo 13 to 17 and early Space Shuttles worked. A B&W camera with a spinning six color disk was turned into color TV when it got to Earth.

[RCassinello]

Good video, as ever. Intriguing, though, that in a presentation made in 2013, DVD is written off as having ended around 2006 - and yet it's only now 2017 that DVD has been beaten as the home market leader.

I certainly would have said in 2013 that DVD was about to fall off the same cliff edge as VHS did in about 2007 - but to this day there's still miles and miles of superstore shelf space stocked full of the shiny discs!

I actually think that DVD could be here to stay for the foreseeable future as there simply isn't anything replacing it in quite the same way - available in a format that almost everyone can play back and right there on a shelf you idly walk past that makes you stop and think for a second "Yeah, go on then..."

[juffan]

Wish you would have touched more on the format wars between Betamax and VHS, and HDDVD and BluRay, and why one was better than the other. Also, the Panamorph plug was confusing.

[yaosio]

VR/AR headsets are the next new display method, although they need to be higher resolution. Since the video can be rendered as a texture in a 3D virtual world you can make the image as big or as small as you want. Image quality is limited by the resolution and FOV of your headset. Current headsets suck in regards to resolution and FOV, but the generation after should hopefully be better.

The downside is that unlike a TV each person needs their own headset. If headsets become popular then it's not that big of a deal though, like how everybody carries around those hand computers.

[whahappa]

No mention of CED's or Videodiscs? I remember watching those when I was a kid. They were awesome!