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Denny Crane said:
So... Bit rate.

Compression technology has basically doubled in capability over the past 20 years or so.
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Dang Denny, you are a fountain of tech knowledge. I wish I needed to know something to ask you.
But it is hard for me to find something on TV I want to watch, let alone worry about the presentation quality.

I did get into it back in the day when we first began receiving images of the planets back in the day of the Voyager. It took days to process the image streams. Rather amusing looking back on what we had. Now what ever schlep process is good enough for the drivel I receive from my satellite receiver. My biggest bitch is, I get so damn few Blazer games, even with piss poor quality.
 
MarAzul said:
Dang Denny, you are a fountain of tech knowledge. I wish I needed to know something to ask you.
But it is hard for me to find something on TV I want to watch, let alone worry about the presentation quality.

I did get into it back in the day when we first began receiving images of the planets back in the day of the Voyager. It took days to process the image streams. Rather amusing looking back on what we had. Now what ever schlep process is good enough for the drivel I receive from my satellite receiver. My biggest bitch is, I get so damn few Blazer games, even with piss poor quality.
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Netflix is a bargain. Surely you will find something worth it.

Also, don't neglect the audio. A $400 Onkyo 5.1 home theater system is worth every penny.

I saw a 4K digital movie at the theater. Then I went home and watched my Sony TV, and my home system is clearly superior to the theater.

Note that 4K at the theater is higher resolution than UHD. It's true 4096 width, while UHD is 3840 (2x 1920).
 
Denny Crane said:
Netflix is a bargain.
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Yeah, the wife has something from Netflix going regularly. Her system is much better than mine, she uses a high quality head set for her sound. I watch one with her maybe once every two years.
Then she complains about the sound when she has to give up the headset system for the speakers.

I am with you on the sound, I have a pretty good sound system here on this computer and in the boat for listening to music.

Come to think of it, a dang good sound system in the boat. Good enough to do high speed digital encoded message traffic,via computer controlled High Frequency radio in the Ham Bands. I use three different audio systems installed on that computer. Also can pull down weatherfax and weather satellite imaging directly into the computer using digital sound decoding.
 
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Until 90 inch OLED tvs are cheap I'm sticking with my new projector. I watched Avatar on BluRay when it came out and didn't like it. I read you needed to see it in the theater to enjoy it. Well, the wife and I just watched it on our new setup and I think I said WOW every 5-10 minutes.

BenQ 2050 799.99
135 inch Silver Ticket 16:9 4k ready fixed screen 335 or 340 on Amazon
Onkyo Tx-sr 444 300 on sale at best buy ATMOS ready if I ever care.

10 year old JBL mains and leftover Klipsch center channel with 2 Polk audio leftovers for the front surrounds and some no name chinese bookshelf speakers for rear surrounds with another leftover Polk sub that isn't very good and it fucking rocks.

I still have to aim the projector a little better, mostly need to move the screen over by about and inch or two which is something of a bitch. still.......

I've got a decent 65 inch Samsung 4k tv in the living room but we sit 15 feet away so the 4k isn't that great.

135 inch 1080p from 14 feet kicks it's ass all day. Here is another blurry pic, need to paint the walls and ceiling but if I never do it is still awesome.

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Bob Dobalina said:
"Diminishing returns". :lol:

I paid less for my projector setup than you did for that 42" plasma!!! :ghoti:
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If I remember right this thread got me thinking about a projector, but my old house wasn't really setup the best for it. Fast forward to today and it is getting some fine tuning but unless I change speakers it is pretty much done. I've got about 1150 into the projector and the screen, I added a new receiver and sub that weren't mandatory as my old Harmon Kardon from 2007 sounded great still. I just wanted HDMI and Atmos for shits and grins.

BenQ 2050 $799.99
Silver Ticket fixed frame 16:9 135inch screen $335 or so on Amazon
Pioneer VSX-90 $400 Best Buy clearance
Klipsch Sub12hg $187 Fry's promo code sale
Giant Klipsch Center channel I bought a few years ago, don't remember the number
The rest is leftover JBL towers laid on their side, some polk surround sound kit leftovers for the left and right surround and some no name bookshelf speakers for the rear surrounds.

Not counting the old gear I bought years ago I still have less money in this thing than the 65 inch 4k Samsung I have mounted in the living room.

We sit about 12-13 feet from the 135 inch screen and 15 from the 65, the 4k is about worthless at that distance and it doesn't have HDR or anything special.

The picture is blurry because my main camera on my phone is broken, hard to use selfie cam backwards. I'm thinking of painting the ceiling the darkest flat grey I can get away with, don't want to paint it black or tack velvet to it. theater.jpg
 
I see I posted some of this already, took the onkyo back because I heard a relay or the power supply click at random.

Great thing about the new house is the insulation. The sub will shake your ass and make the walls rattle and I can BARELY hear it outside if I listen carefully, downstairs you can only hear the bass when it really blasts. I was reading about subs on AVSforum and there are people in apartments buying waaayyyy better subs. I'd be so pissed if some asshole in the apartment above me liked to shake the foundation.
 
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I recently set up my Denon 4311 with the Audessy xt 32 multieq.

If you guys truely care about sound quality, I would highly recommend a receiver with the Audessy xt 32. It really made my speakers come to life. I love it.

It's currently driving my Infinity Preludes, and it's the best sounding setup I've ever had.
 
blazerboy30 said:
I recently set up my Denon 4311 with the Audessy xt 32 multieq.

If you guys truely care about sound quality, I would highly recommend a receiver with the Audessy xt 32. It really made my speakers come to life. I love it.

It's currently driving my Infinity Preludes, and it's the best sounding setup I've ever had.
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I just watched MadMax in Dolby Atmos the other night and it sounded amazing with junk speakers not setup for atmos really. I think I am going to wait at least another year before I buy a better receiver for the room. It seems like most of them don't have enough channels at the moment to really do it the right way. My Pioneer has MCACC or something like that, it does a nice job with the mismatched gear at least.

I really don't know what I'll end up with, but technology is fun.
 
Denny Crane said:
Google Fiber, XFinity, Verizon FIOS, and Time Warner MAXX are all IP TV. I'm not sure if they support HEVC yet, but it will be inexpensive to provide that capability. I expect by the time they address UHD in general they'll be supporting HEVC. For little cost, they can double picture quality without any additional bandwidth cost.

I absolutely recommend UHD TVs at this time. Everything you watch benefits from the upscaling and enhanced picture technology.
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Agreed about UHD TV's and I have a fairly pedestrian $699 50" Vizio UHD from last year. No OLED, no full array with tons of picture zones, but it's still enjoyable.

I have CenturyLink Prism TV (with gigabit internet!) which is also IPTV, but I've been somewhat disappointed with the persistent over compressed images on every channel. Netflix, Amazon and Hulu look superior in virtually every case. To me, the next frontier of quality are the new TV's with true HDR rendering capabilities and expanded color gamuts. That is more important to me than resolution now.

I still prefer watching movies and sports on my Epson 1080p projector in the basement. I have a very "poor man's" home theater setup. Not a ton of bells and whistles but decent sound and a bright, punchy, absolutely HUGE 150" image that I enjoy immensely.
 

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Elton said:
Agreed about UHD TV's and I have a fairly pedestrian $699 50" Vizio UHD from last year. No OLED, no full array with tons of picture zones, but it's still enjoyable.

I have CenturyLink Prism TV (with gigabit internet!) which is also IPTV, but I've been somewhat disappointed with the persistent over compressed images on every channel. Netflix, Amazon and Hulu look superior in virtually every case. To me, the next frontier of quality are the new TV's with true HDR rendering capabilities and expanded color gamuts. That is more important to me than resolution now.

I still prefer watching movies and sports on my Epson 1080p projector in the basement. I have a very "poor man's" home theater setup. Not a ton of bells and whistles but decent sound and a bright, punchy, absolutely HUGE 150" image that I enjoy immensely.
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fuck yeah, black out that area above the screen and it will look so much better. still awesome.
 
bodyman5000 and 1 said:
fuck yeah, black out that area above the screen and it will look so much better. still awesome.
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Yeah, kinda ghetto but at least the wood beams don't reflect too much back on the screen. Plenty immersive for my tastes.
 
Currently a Samsung 60" led smart tv with an old onkyo reciever/5.1 surround system. It's so old it doesn't have hdmi ports so I just run optical out from the tv to the reciever. The tv is essentially the reciever and the reciever is just the amp, it suits my needs with pandora/netflix app and direct tv with nba leaghe pass.

In the future I plan to replace the stock powered sub which I think is maybe an 8" driver tuned too high for my taste, far too easy to bottom out below 40hz.

Id like to replace it with a 15" Dayton hf
http://www.parts-express.com/dayton-audio-rss390hf-4-15-reference-hf-subwoofer-4-ohm--295-468

And a bash 500w plate amp http://www.parts-express.com/bash-500s-digital-subwoofer-plate-amplifier-500w-rms--300-752

Id then build a custom box about 9 cubic feet tuned to 20hz ish.

Should rattle the whole house during a good war movie.
 
Here's my living room setup. What's a home theater without some blazer swag? Head bands fit perfectly on my surround speakers.
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BrianFromWA said:
Nice window. Does the backplane of the TV light up with colors associated with the programming?

52" Panasonic HD. Boston Acoustic towers and surround and presence separates. (Older Yamaha YPAO receiver, so I can't go 7.1 or HDMI from the receiver, yet). PS3 for Blue Ray DVD w/HDMI to the TV.

My wife gave away our old stand and wants something much like yours.
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48" Samsung with a Vizio sound bar. Sly helped me set up the whole thing. He knows a lot about high tech gear including TVs.
 
rasheedfan2005 said:
Here's my living room setup. What's a home theater without some blazer swag? Head bands fit perfectly on my surround speakers.
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I've got Blazer gear up the ying yang. It's all in my office except for the approx. 60 bobble heads. The bobble heads are in some built in book shelves in the Master bedroom. No room for them in the office.
 
Lanny said:
He was talking about something else when he said that. Now, you're getting into his personal life.
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If Sly set-up your tv everything probably looks a little too pink if you catch my drift. Old habits die hard.
 
I have a Sharp Aquos 2006 mounted on a swivel mount on the family room wall. Totally great TV. I once had a Chinese Pioneer sound system but Pioneer is NOT as good as the Japanese Pioneer 70's amps, turntables and speakers, made of metal and real teak wood, of which, I have along with two pairs of 1970's large Klipsh horn Walnut speakers (made in Hope, Arkansas-you could play your guitars or basses through them). I acquired a Sony amp, Aiwa and Teak speakers from "the trading post" where they cost a fraction of their original costs. I abide by the Billy Joel theory that you get more mileage out of a cheap pair of speakers.
IMG_3294.JPG In my private enclave, I have a Vizio connected to an Aiwa stereo system also acquired from the Trading Post.
 
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