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The Home Theater Showcase Thread
Posted By Tacitus
I've gone back to Plex. :D The heart of both...

I've gone back to Plex. :D

The heart of both systems is basically the same, but the apps where you actually watch the stuff differ. I have an Android TV and stream directly to an app on there and...
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The Home Theater Showcase Thread
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Oh, and for streaming your movie collection? I've been using Emby for the last 6 months and find it an awful lot better than Plex.
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Re: Your home theatre setup thread

We've already got a home theatre thread here (https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=11652&highlight=home+theater). I'll merge this one. ;)
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The Home Theater Showcase Thread
Posted By Tacitus
Kodi update, because you know you want one! ...

Kodi update, because you know you want one!

The latest build just won't work well with my TV so I've switched back to Plex. There's a Kodi fork called SBMC which has better performance for me but...
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The Home Theater Showcase Thread
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Kodi's very good, and highly configurable. The downside I find is, because it does the encoding itself, that you need a reasonably beefy machine to use it properly. The version on my Android TV can...
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Posted By Tacitus
I'm still rocking the same as I was 12 months...

I'm still rocking the same as I was 12 months ago.

Sony KDL-50W805C 50" TV

http://i.imgur.com/ijdDqdx.jpg

Onkyo TX-SR507 receiver + a load of German separates and a Yamaha sub
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The Home Theater Showcase Thread
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I've got an old Phillips upscaling DVD player hacked for region-free which only comes out occasionally. I suppose I should get a region-free Blu Ray player at some stage but as the PS3's quality is...
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I'm out of the loop as far as TVs are concerned. My mate's just bought a 50" Panasonic with all the Smart TV motion sensing gubbins. It's great in theory but he insists on having all the picture...
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Posted By Tacitus
Nice. ;) Here's mine: ...

Nice. ;)

Here's mine:

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/greenspagbol/IMG_0027_zps055f70f4.jpg (http://s17.photobucket.com/user/greenspagbol/media/IMG_0027_zps055f70f4.jpg.html)

The Onkyo...
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The Home Theater Showcase Thread
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I can has 7.1! :D

The solderless RCA plugs arrived today and were a lot less fiddly to attach than I imagined so I hooked up my old receiver to the new one, enabled 7.1 in the new one's set-up and...
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The Home Theater Showcase Thread
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With my whole AV re-jigging I've got a lot more space in the room so I bought a couple of 'proper' speakers to replace the FR and FL satellites for the surround system and they make an appreciable...
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I'm cookin' with gas now!

Got my HDMI/DVI cable this afternoon and then remembered I've got a HDMI to DVI converter in my graphics card's box. Ah well, it was only a couple of quid.

Took me...
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:D

This is the problem I'm facing. Just getting rid of the PC monitor and moving the TV to a different wall has made the room appear much bigger already. The last few years has seen me have a...
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The Home Theater Showcase Thread
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Very true. A pair of floor-standing speakers either side of the screen would be ideal but maybe next year. My dishwasher is making strange noises as I type this. ;)

A couple of stands for the...
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55? Sheesh, I thought 42" looked big in here with a keyboard and mouse perched in front of it. :D

I'm gonna look into a DVI/HDMI cable because, even though the PC looks good via the TV's VGA...
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Yep! I'm just playing around at the moment, getting the 5.1 set up properly (I'll need new cables for the front 3 speakers now) and marvelling at how badly I had calibrated my old monitor. A wireless...
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I should probably have been a bit smarter before I even got the Samsung because the 5800 40" is apparently very poor with Blu Ray (and I bet the 5100 I got has the same basic panel) which is a weird...
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Posted By Tacitus
Famous last words, eh? :D The moral of this...

Famous last words, eh? :D

The moral of this story is never trust a salesman. My one criteria for buying a TV was that it should have 2:2 pulldown for 24p - the guy said it did and the longer the...
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Posted By Tacitus
Well, this is what I've ended up with - ...

Well, this is what I've ended up with -

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/greenspagbol/559427.jpg

It's a Samsung 5 series LED and, I have to say, I'm impressed.

Blacks are terrific and...
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I'm getting the set replaced tomorrow! ;D

It took a long phone conversation with the store manager to get to this conclusion and, fair play to the guy, I recognised a lot of the 'objection...
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The disc is just a container after all. You could get the HD-DVD version of Blade Runner (identical in quality to the BD, I think) and the add-on player for the Xbox. Just plug it into a USB port and...
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I presume he means in terms of its media capabilities?

In terms of a BD player (I know they're the devil's coasters to you but roll with me on this ;D) only those costing significantly more are...
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Never thought of it like that. My first HD set was silver/black and the little portable in the bedroom (quite a few years old now) is silver. ;)

The one company bucking the trend that I've seen is...
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I could just about stretch to that 42" plasma, now that I've done a few sums but something your size over here would add another 2-300 quid. Tech prices in Europe are a lot higher than what you're...
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Apart from me not being able to afford a full HD plasma with similar screen size to LCD you mean? ;)

There's the image burn problem (dunno how widespread it actually is, to be honest), it's true,...

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