This week, we thought we’d switch it up here on the SoundVision ShowTimes blog and let one of our technicians do the talking. I sat down with our Lead Technician, Kenny Meligan to chat about some of his experiences with other companies in the industry in comparison with SoundVision.  Kenny also offers up some advice [...]

Local speaker manufacturer James Loudspeakers (of Napa) offers a truly stunning line of outdoor landscape speakers that are designed to not only blend in with your garden, but also sound amazing.  Never before have we seen speakers that seamlessly integrate with landscaping this well and sound so perfect.  Here are a few of their options. [...]

In the world of digital audio compression there seems to be mountains of info and technical jargon surrounding all the various file formats and compression algorithms to convert your music.  Our aim with this guide is to offer solutions for converting your music collection and get it sounding great with your integrated audio systems. What [...]

Avatar proved to be the highest-grossing motion picture release of all time, and when the initial Blu-ray Disc home release of Avatar went on sale yesterday, it came as no surprise that the blockbuster hit shattered previous first-day sales records with 1.5 million people taking the movie home to watch in all the high-def glory that [...]

At the Consumer Electronics Show back in January, the major TV manufacturers made it clear: this year was going to be the year when three-dimensional technology came out of the movie theaters and into your living room. They called 3D “…the next big thing,” and were making the same claim that going from high definition [...]

Fifty years ago, it was easy to control the lights in one of the rooms in your home. The switch on the wall controlled the one ceiling-mounted light fixture, and it was either on or off. Since that time, lighting designers and homeowners alike have discovered the benefits of layered lighting, where a given room [...]

The goal of any speaker is to accurately reproduce an original sound recording with accurate tonal quality and dynamic range, all the while achieving consistency across the frequency range. While speakers come in a variety of shapes and sizes, there are really just six primary forms of speakers for residential applications. Here’s a list of [...]

Perhaps one of the questions we hear most frequently from our customers has to do with the various aspect ratios that are currently floating around in the television world. Widescreen, 16:9, 4:3, 1.33:1 – these are just a few of the various ratios that denote the difference between various screen aspects. That being said, there [...]

In the world of televisions, there are a lot of options to choose from, and each one has its own benefits and drawbacks. In just a few short years, the television industry has seen a dramatic shift away from older TV technologies to almost exclusively relying on liquid crystal (LCD) and plasma flat-panel display technologies. [...]

The goal of every TV is to accurately reproduce the image that was captured by the camera. There are four primary factors that contribute to our perception of video quality. Proper calibration will have a dramatic affect on the top three of these four factors. Here they are, in order of importance: Contrast Color saturation [...]