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Audio & video engineering Videos Recommended on Hacker News (76)

Audio & video engineering is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 76 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 155 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Audio and video technology: analog and digital audio, speakers, amplifiers, microphones, television standards, frame rates, codecs, streaming formats, display technology.

Audio & video engineering Videos Recommended on Hacker News (76)

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D/A and A/D | Digital Show and Tell (Monty Montgomery @ xiph.org)

The world's worst video card?

Floyd Toole - Sound reproduction – art and science/opinions and facts

MiniDisc - An Appreciation

Cassettes - better than you don't remember

Why is TV 29.97 frames per second?

E-paper hacking: fastest possible refresh rate

Atari's Quadrascan Explained

CD / Color

Virtual Barber Shop (Audio...use headphones, close ur eyes)

Segmented Displays

Star Trek TNG Ambient Engine Noise (Idling for 24 hrs)

Vintage Electronics - The Tefifon

Riding the Booster with enhanced sound

World’s Best Speakers!

what did you do

The Superheterodyne Radio: No really, that's its name

Why Snow and Confetti Ruin YouTube Video Quality

How To Draw Mushrooms On An Oscilloscope With Sound

The Loudness War

WLW's 500,000 Watt Transmitter

The Best Easy Way to Capture Analog Video (it's a little weird)

Tested: Where Does The Tone Come From In A Guitar Amplifier?

How Analog Color TV Works: The Beginnings

I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

How a TV Works in Slow Motion - The Slow Mo Guys

Death Magnetic Retail vs Guitar Hero 3

Why Sony's Beta Videotape System Failed--and failed hard (Part 1)

Pink Noise for Ten Hours of Ambient Sound Blocker Masker - Burn In - Relaxation

Moon Landings Faked? Filmmaker Says Not!

World's worst video card? The exciting conclusion

Hold music used to sound better. Here's why.

Fantastic DIY Speakers for less than $30!

Samplerates: The Higher the Better, Right?

The CED: RCA's Very Late, Very Weird Video Gamble (Pt. 1)

The 1988 VIDEO Floppy Disk Camera: Canon Xap Shot RC-250