The soaring sound of home theater ... and the programming that goes with it! (Editorial)

Those of us whose birthdays coincide roughly with the early days of television--the 1950s--grew up in a time when test pilot Chuck Yeager was strutting his right stuff in edge-of-the-envelope aircraft technology coast to coast. Back then, it was not unusual to look up to see a jet streaking high across a clear sky, and then start counting off the seconds until the real fun arrived--the sonic boom. While no one questions then or now--the power of the visual, it was really the body-thumping sound that made the biggest impact of all. (And our parents wondered why we loved rock 'n' roll!)

Sound has come ,round to visit its impact on us again, this time in the guise of …