The Basics of Home Theater:
DVD and Home Theater Links

Last Updated 4/3/2006


There are countless web sites available that discuss home theater topics. From news sites that provide up-to-the-minute word on upcoming DVD's and reviews of many titles to sites offering consumer reviews of home theater equipment to forums to manufacturers' sites, there is a lot of information out there. Finding it all can often be a major problem. This page contains a fairly extensive (but hardly exhaustive) list of links.



An excellent article at The Digital Bits explaining anamorphic widescreen (or 16x9) video really is.

The following are a few good news and reference sites.


A campaign started by The Digital Bits and supported by pretty much every major DVD news and information site, it is intended to encourage the movie industry, consumer electronics corporations, and members ofthe DVD Forum to make sure that they work together to develop a single, broadly-supported High-Definition DVD format based on new blue laser technology (either the Sony/Panasonic "Blu-Ray" or Toshiba's HD-DVD). The campaign organizers want to try to prevent a format war (such as the old VHS/Beta war or the more recent and less noticeable DVD-Audio/SACD war). They believe that a red-laser HD-DVD format (which would offer little or no more storage capacity than existing DVD) using more agressive compression would not offer enough video quality improvement to make upgrading from the current DVD format worthwhile. As can be seen by the format war between Blu-ray and HD-DVD, this campaign failed.

Below is a large collection of links, taken from my general links page.

News and Community Sites:
Jim Taylor's DVD FAQ
DVD FAQ Digital Bits Mirror
SMR Home Theater
Remote Central
HiFi Remote
Time for DVD
Earl's DVD FAQ
AV Science Forum
Home Theater Spot
Audio/Video Ratings
AudioWeb
Incredible DVD DVD Bargain Bin
Top 100 DVD's (guy's poll of forums)
HexDVD Tracker
DVD Profiler
Manufacturer's Sites:
Outlaw Audio
Panasonic
Pioneer
Toshiba
Yamaha
Mitsubishi
Anthem
Harman/Kardon
Parasound
Classe
Denon
Rotel
Onkyo
NAD
Balanced Audio Technology (BAT)
Marantz
Meridian
Balanced Power Technologies
Pamanax
Sampo
AV123
Paradigm
SV Sound (SVS, formerly SV Subwoofers)
Definitive Technologies
MartinLogan
B & W
KEF
Energy Loudspeakers
M & K
Klipsch
Boston Acoustics
Polk Audio
Magnepan
Bang & Olufsen
Bose
Amphony headphones
Sennheiser headphones
Bohlender Graebener

Transparent Cable
Blue Jeans Cable
BetterCables
TMC The Music Cable
CatCables
Rhino Cables
MapleShade cables
Nordost
MIT
Magnan
AudioQuest
Monster Cable

Sanus Systems
Premier AV Furniture
Salamander

Other Sites:
J&R World
Amazon.com
Deep Discount DVD
Deep Discount CD
Elusive Disc
DVD Planet
DVD Express
InetDVD
Parts Express
Discounts-n-Deals
Abe's of Maine
AudioWeb
PC Mall/Computability
Best Buy
Crutchfield
Audio Advisor
Tower Records
Suncoast
Buy.com
Radio Shack
( sound-level meter )

Modern Music
Underground Sound




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