The latest security cameras take full advantage of recent advances in digital imaging technology and increasingly incorporate intelligent algorithms based on motion and object detection to automate ...

My Onkyo TX-SR705 receiver's "Late Night" mode can only be activated with Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, and Dolby TrueHD signals. Are there any decent consumer-grade receivers that can apply ...

I have a question about Dolby Dynamic Range. According to the Dolby website Dolby sound can encompass sounds from as low as 20 Hz to as high as 20kHz. If you have speakers that are only capable of ...

Think your AV receiver is underpowered? Before you spend money on a bigger amplifier for your home theater system, make sure you're not giving away valuable amplifier power, headroom, and dynamic ...

Younger listeners play music and shows online and from digital personal collections. My research finds that this music is distributed almost entirely in its original, unprocessed form (Getty ...

In other words, dynamic range is the difference in volume between loud and soft sounds. Audio compression or Dynamic Range Compression (DRC) is a signal processing operation that reduces the volume of ...

What makes music, TV shows, or movies sound good or bad? A lot of it has to do with dynamic range. The term Dynamic Range is used in both video and audio. In video, Dynamic Range is the “distance” ...