Those who have craze for audio and video both music and cinema, know what THX stands for and that if there is a THX certification in the disc, you can be assured that audio-video quality will be superb. The THX company is a subsidiary of George Lucas's Lucasfilm is supposed to be the ultimate for top class AV amplifiers, speaker systems, home theatres, speakers used for PCs and also for flatscreen TVs. Of late, they have also started certifying mobile phones and tablet gadgets.

Rick Dean the Vice president of THX elucidated that the mobile phones supported by operating systems and tablet devices are becoming the order of the day and more and more people seem to be utilizing smartphones for delivering content and the company is aiming at looking for ways and means to better the user's experience. He stated that a couple of years back he had ideas of trying to get smartphones and tablets certified, however he was dissuaded on the notion that ear buds would not offer the requisite theatrical experience. In spite of this today music is being listened to by a majority of the people through their tablets and smartphones like the iPhone 4 irrespective of the fact that the size of the screen is questionable.

Nevertheless today these devices are being used as a medium to get connected to the big screen. This is where the THX come into play with offering improved performances with the utilization of compressed technologies and digital signal processing. Mr. Dean also said that the quality of the working and the effects of THX on devices like smartphones are still left open. He also added that they had not yet decided about whether it was certification or the providing of licensed software and licensing of the technology which would be introduced in these smaller devices.