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Analog Amplifiers. Are You Sure? — Valves Or Tubes To You – An Introduction Just like vinyl, valve or tube amplifiers rapidly went out of fashion as solid state semiconductors, CD’s and streaming became the new, lower cost norm. In reality all that happened was that vinyl and tube amplifiers took a back seat for a […]

Valves Or Tubes To You – An Introduction

May 23, 2022 in Audio / General Posts / Technical Posts tagged Beam Tetrode / Diode / Pentode / Tetrode / Triode / Tubes / Valves by fromvinyltoplastic

Audio Return Channel (ARC/eARC) – Explained So what exactly does HDMI ARC do, how is it used, and do we need it? Read on. A Little Background The High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) connection was forced upon us over 15 years ago. Over time many of its technical problems have […]

Audio Return Channel (ARC/eARC) – Explained

December 24, 2021 in Audio / General Posts tagged ARC / Audio Return Channel / eARC / Enhanced Audio Return Channel by fromvinyltoplastic

Warner Bros 2021 Film Slate to HBO Max WARNER BROS. WILL RELEASE ITS ENTIRE 2021 FILM SLATE SIMULTANEOUSLY ON HBO MAX AND IN THEATERS We saw Warner Bros. last month announce that Wonder Woman 1984 will arrive on HBO Max together with its long-awaited theatrical release on 12/25. Warner Bros. has now […]

Warner Bros 2021 Film Slate to HBO Max

December 4, 2020 in General Posts / News tagged HBO Max / News / Warner Bros by fromvinyltoplastic

HDMI Data Rate Calculator — HDMI Data Rate Calculator It has come to my attention that many readers would like to know how to simply calculate their HDMI data rates for all the different configurations that are now possible with 4K and HD. I have presented several tables to show these rates but they are […]

HDMI Data Rate Calculator

April 22, 2020 in General Posts / Video tagged 4K / 8K / Data Rates / Extron / HDMI / HDMI Data Link Budget by fromvinyltoplastic