AVexcel - Episode 202

AVexcel - Episode 202
Recorded on April 30, 2023
Hosts: Patrick Norton and Robert Heron 

The rundown:
- 2023 TV tech update
- Sony's Bravia Cam
- Samsung S95C QD-OLED review
- LG G3 OLED review
- Improving OLED subpixel text rendering
- Windows 11 HDR Calibration App
- Epson 5050ub's HDR Slider
- TV streaming app popularity
- Your excellent feedback & questions
- Email us at ask@avexcel.com
- What we're watching

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AVexcel - Episode 201

AVexcel - Episode 201
Recorded on April 25, 2023
Hosts: Patrick Norton and Robert Heron 

The rundown:
  - Artistic intent 
  - Car speaker specs and calibration 
  - YouTube TV testing PQ improvements 
  - Fosi Audio BT20A Pro 
  - Topping PA7/PA7 Plus 
  - Sony A95K QD-OLED calibration 
  - Focal Theva speakers 
  - TAD Compact Evolution One speakers 
  - Dirac Live audio calibration 
  - To firmware update or not to update 
  - Hanwha Vision's XNP-6400R 40x PTZ IP camera 
- Your excellent feedback & questions
- Email us at ask@avexcel.com
- What we're watching

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AVexcel - Episode 193

AVexcel - Episode 193
Recorded on November 16, 2022
Hosts: Patrick Norton and Robert Heron 

The rundown:
- Laser TV Showdown 2022
- Formovie Theater RGB laser projector
- QLED, QD-OLED, and OLED sweet deals
- Flirc Skip 1s universal remote
- The Uno by iFi
- KEF holiday sales
- Epson Smart Gaming Projector
- SVS Prime Wireless Pro SoundBase
- Monolith M518HT THX Certified 5.1 kit
- In search of dumb TVs
- Outdoor TV options
- The Peripheral on Amazon
- Your excellent feedback & questions
- Email us ask@avexcel.com
- What we're watching

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AVexcel - Episode 178

AVexcel - Episode 178
Recorded on April 21, 2022
Hosts: Patrick Norton and Robert Heron 

The rundown:
- Netflix + Exploding Kittens
- Account sharing crackdowns
- OLED TV updates and deals
- Linus loves the Epson LS12000 laser projector
- JVC DLA-NP5 review
- RSL Speedwoofer 10S MKII pre-orders
- AC Infinity AIRPLATE cabinet cooler
- Dolby Atmos/surround speaker placement
- Visiting Nanosys
- #askavexcel
- Your excellent feedback & questions
- What we're watching

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AVexcel - Episode 174

AVexcel - Episode 174
Recorded on March 17, 2022
Hosts: Patrick Norton and Robert Heron 

The rundown:
- Samsung S95B QD-OLED TV
- Amazon acquires MGM
- Subpixel love
- Vacuum tube shortages
- Netflix and account sharing
- Cleaning cellphone speakers
- Epson Pro Cinema LS12000
- Polk MagniFi Mini AX
- Cruella
- The Mitchells vs The Machines
- #askavexcel
- Your excellent feedback & questions
- What we're watching

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AVexcel - Episode 170

AVexcel - Episode 170
Recorded on February 18, 2022
Hosts: Patrick Norton and Robert Heron 

The rundown:
- 2022 projector tech
- Epson Pro Cinema LS12000 laser
- LG HU715Q UST + HU710P long-throw
- Screen cleaning safely
- AnchorIt.gov
- Valve Steam Deck + iFixit
- JDS Labs Element III
- A superb soundbar roundup
- Living room to Home Cinema
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- Joe's Classic Video Games
- Robert likes MotoGP
- #askavexcel
- Your excellent feedback & questions
- What we're watching

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AVexcel - Episode 156

AVexcel - Episode 156
Recorded on September 30, 2021
Hosts: Patrick Norton and Robert Heron 

The rundown:
- New Epson 4K120 projectors
- LG A1 OLED has arrived
- SYMFONISK table lamp Gen2
- Overscan and OLED TVs
- CanJam SoCal 2021
- Dan Clark Audio
- Audeze's new flagship
- Woo Audio WA7 Fireflies Gen3
- Etymotic ER4XR/ER4SR
- Hi-Fi Man Deva
- #askavexcel
- Your excellent feedback & questions
- What we're watching

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AVexcel - Episode 142

AVexcel - Episode 142
Recorded on June 3, 2021
Hosts: Patrick Norton and Robert Heron 

The rundown:
- Mare of Easttown
- Samsung's 4K RGB Laser Projector
- Apple TV 4K Gen 2
- Return of Alamo Drafthouse
- VAVA responds to Epson
- Short-throw projector hell
- Brightness vs. black level
- Replacement headphone pads
- Taco Chronicles
- Doom Eternal rocks
- So much calibration
- #askavexcel
- Your excellent feedback & questions
- What we're watching

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AVexcel - Episode 140

AVexcel - Episode 140
Recorded on May 21, 2021
Hosts: Patrick Norton and Robert Heron 

The rundown:
- Apple Music's Spatial Audio
- SID's Display Week
- WOODOO's Digital Wood
- Calibrating older OLEDs
- Grado Labs X Driver
- Automatic Atmos conversion
- Epson vs. VAVA
- McIntosh MB20 BT transceiver
- #askavexcel
- Your excellent feedback & questions
- What we're watching

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AVexcel - Episode 138

AVexcel - Episode 138
Recorded on May 6, 2021
Hosts: Patrick Norton and Robert Heron 

The rundown:
- The Mitchells vs. The Machines
- Hisense 2021 TV launch event
- 1400-nit Asus gaming monitor
- Too many streaming services
- HDMI fiber optic cables
- Monoprice Monolith Amps
- Atmos and sub-optimal ceilings
- Epson 4010 vs. 5050UB
- Calibrating streaming sources
- #askavexcel
- Your excellent feedback & questions
- What we're watching

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AVexcel - Episode 136

AVexcel - Episode 136
Recorded on April 20, 2021
Hosts: Patrick Norton and Robert Heron 

The rundown:
- Caavo lives
- CalMAN's Aurora Color Engine
- The new Apple TV 4K
- Ted Lasso Season 2
- Shure Aonic 50 review
- Bowers & Wilkins PI5 & PI7 headphones
- Epson EpiqVision Ultra LS500 on sale
- Great gaming headsets
- 2021 TV rumors
- #askavexcel
- Great home theater gear
- Your excellent feedback & questions
- What we're watching

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AVexcel - Episode 121

AVexcel - Episode 121
Recorded on November 5, 2020 
Hosts: Patrick Norton and Robert Heron 

The rundown:
- Broken 8K AVRs
- Shop early
- Great TV deals
- NextGen TV aka ATSC 3.0
- 10K ppi display tech
- Patrick's ATMOS struggles
- New Epson laser projectors
- HDR Blu-ray player options
- Your excellent feedback & questions
- What we're watching

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AVexcel - Episode 119

AVexcel - Episode 119
Recorded on September 26, 2020 
Hosts: Patrick Norton and Robert Heron 

The rundown:
- New KEF LS50 Meta speaker
- Reset a glitching TV
- TCL + QD-OLED
- Epson LS500 projector
- Denon at 110
- Peacock basics
- MLB ranting
- Your excellent feedback & questions
- What we're watching

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AVexcel - Episode 95

AVexcel - Episode 95
Recorded on November 1, 2018. 
Hosts: Patrick Norton and Robert Heron 

The rundown: 
- Post-Halloween cool-down
- Epson Home Cinema 4010
- Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K
- Dolby Atmos on Amazon Prime Video
- Red Dead Redemption 2's faux HDR
- Tekton's Impact Monitor Theater
- Pixel 3 initial impressions
- YouTube Premium
- Your excellent feedback & questions 

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AVexcel - Episode 90

Recorded on September 20, 2018. 
Hosts: Patrick Norton and Robert Heron 

The rundown: 
- IFA/CEDIA highlights
- LG's 8K OLED
- Epson Pro Cinema 4050/4010
- JVC's goes native 4K
- Sony's latest 4K projectors
- IMAX Enhanced AV gear
- DP's Insight Laser 8K demo
- So many new sweet speakers
- About those new amps...
- ...and music streaming apps
- Your excellent feedback & questions 

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AVexcel - Episode 48

Recorded on June 30, 2017 

Patrick Norton and Robert Heron are upgrading the home theater goodness 

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The tingly bits

• LG's 77-inch Wallpaper OLED arrives
• Dolby Atmos coming to Netflix
  • LG 2017 OLEDs ready to go
  • Xbox One S/X
  • Atmos title list
• Loving dynamic metadata
• Photo-emissive QD LCDs in 2018

Sub-$2500 projector delights

• Sony sweet 45ES 1080p 3D
• LG's sub-$1500 1080p laser
• Xiaomi's sub-$1500 5K-lumen laser
• DCI color options
  • Epson Home Cinema 4000
    • Projector Central's preview
  • Optoma UHD60/UHD65
• DCI + laser = (still) expensive

Amazon Prime Day

• camelcamelcamel
• Wirecutter deals

DAC doings

• JDS Labs
  • EL DAC
  • True Performance Design
• Schiit Fulla 2
  • Original Fulla = great deal
• audioquest DragonFly
• Sean Olive on blind testing

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AVexcel - Episode 40

Recorded on May 4, 2017 

Patrick Norton and Robert Heron are nurturing the home theater goodness 

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Time to double-check the levels

May the 4th be with you

• SFGate - 11 movies that inspired Star Wars

Bandwidth sucking neighbors

• A good network helps
• Better CPUs on UHD streamers
• The beauty of discs

Patrick's MiniDSP project

• Creating sub-channel from stereo source

Vizio is Vizio again

• CTO dropping P-Series details
  • Thank you, @FmHolty
• *logarithmic

So many lumens

• Epson Home Cinema 1450
• 3LCD, 1080p, 4,200-lumens
• Light-rejecting screens

Scott's in search of a great $500 TV

• Consider screen size first
• Built-in apps generally suck
• Add an HDMI switch if needed
• The best $500 TV
  is a projector
• We love Hisense and TCL too

Pat's interview preview

• Audeze
• MrSpeakers
• More next week

What we’re watching

• Planet Earth II in UHD Blu-ray
• Thankful for Unlocator
• Archer - season 8
• LOTS of IP cameras
• American Gods
• The Get Down

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