Talk:THX

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[edit] Quality control

Some people have claimed that theatres equipped with THX systems may have violently differing soundtracks, which is quite contrary to what is said in the article ie. either the theatre staff, the distributor of the film or THX Ltd. have been tampering with the sound data to play cruel jokes on movie goers.

Furthermore some people in Helsinki Finland link the rapid removal of THX systems from both major competing multiplexes quite simultaneously in late 2002 or early 2003 was not due to "obsoletion of technology" or "that THX was not advanced enough" as reported by Helsingin Sanomat the largest daily in Finland, but infact it was related to outrage over the trickery in soundtracks sometimes being quite offensively modified eg. in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones released (16 May 2002).

I submit the above information anonymously to avoid persecution and to enjoy films in THX-free theatres in the future if infact someone else then Lucasfilm or THX was responsible. --83.102.16.158 16:53, 23 Aug 2004 (UTC)

In case it's not obvious to someone, this unsourced material is off-topic here (and would be even were its contributor not anonymous) since only verifiable info goes into articles. Maybe it will inspire research that might lead to something verifiable, but we're not holding our breath.
--Jerzy•t 16:15, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Naming

I have gotten in touch with Tom Holman (inventor of THX) to clarify the name issue. I will modify the article later today with the information he relayed to me. -- Ilya 19:37, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Ok, so I suck at being timely. In an email, Dr. Holman said:

The name THX was meant at it's inception to include me and the film.  Jim
Kessler, then head of Sprocket Systems (1982) thought is up as a homage
to George and to me.  My partner Fritz Koenig was in the room at the time
when he said something like "TH, THX, hmmmm.  That's Tom Holman's
Crossover (X) and THX 1138 in one."  We changed it a few months later to
Tom Holman's Experiment.  There is a video tape of George saying
unequivocally that it was named for Tom Holman, although he got the story
a little wrong and says I asked for it.  I haven't put the video tape
into circulation as that would be the nuclear option. But if the
encyclopedia is to get it right, it should tell the story above.

If someone gets to this first, please incoroporate this into the article.
-- IlyaHaykinson 22:17, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Shouldn't this article mention that THX is named after George Lucas's first movie?
-- 68.81.232.62 21:12, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

The second paragraph of the Applications section does say that.
-- IlyaHaykinson 05:27, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dict Def

If this dict def

"Thx" is also a common abbreviation for "thank you" or "thanks", mostly in text messaging.

can be encyclopedically incorporated into an article, e.g. text messaging, there could be a discussion of whether that article should be lk'd from the ToP Dab. But no dict defs in ToP Dabs, which exist for navigation.
--Jerzy•t 15:36, 30 November 2006 (UTC)