Home Theater Geeks (Video)
Hosted by Scott Wilkinson · TWiT
4.4from 22 ratings
- 135
- Episodes
- 117
- Transcribed
- 22
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 82M
- YouTube views
About Home Theater Geeks (Video)
Get the most out of your home theater with the latest advances, product reviews, and all things audio and video. Every Thursday, Scott Wilkinson shares his expertise, energy, and enthusiasm about how to make your A/V system sound and look its best. In this short-format podcast, Scott brings you news, reviews, interviews, and commentary, and answers your questions. Submit your home theater queries through email at HTG@twit.tv (mailto:HTG@twit.tv) or via TWiT's social media. You might hear your question answered on the show! You can join Club TWiT (https://twit.tv/clubtwit) for $10 per month and get ad-free audio and video feeds for all our shows plus everything else the club offers...or get just this podcast (https://twit.memberful.com/checkout?plan=134284) ad-free for $5 per month. New episodes every Thursday.
- Publisher
- TWiT
- Category
- technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 23 Feb 2024
- Latest episode
- 15 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
117 of 135 episodes have a transcript.
15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
HTG 553: TV Privacy - How Much Data Collection Is Too Much?
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
HTG 552: New Projector Lamp Calibration - Listener Question
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
HTG 551: CEDIA 2026 Part 3 - Impressive Demos & Growing AV Trends
Inside a recent episode
HTG 553: TV Privacy - How Much Data Collection Is Too Much?
Published 15 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And it's kind of disturbing. According to their testing, the LG G5 captures and stores anything and everything it picks up with its onboard microphone. Even ambient conversations. So even when you're not giving voice commands to the TV, it's recording things that you might be talking about in earshot. And that's even if you're not connected to the home network, the TV is not connected to the home network, even if it's turned off. It also happens to identify all the other devices on your home network. So this is kind of disturbing. Of course, it also captures all the content that you're watching, the audio and video, whether it's from onboard streaming apps in the TV or anything coming into the TV via HDMI. […]
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- Michael Heiss
- Joe Klusnick
- Mike Heiss
- John Durante
- Richard Charschan
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- YouTube views
- 81,701,058
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 22 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 78 / 100
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- Quality
- 81
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 92
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