Home Theater/Game Room Thread
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For sure on some of those! Does it matter what kind of foam shape? The "mountains" or just flat foam? I figure I'd coat the entire inside of the cavity with it. I'm going to give the subs a chance in there, but if it sucks I'm just going to get 1 *massive* powered sub and put in the back of the room behind the couch area.
Never will I paint the room black again! I hated it black!!!
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Anybody in here use a 4k UHD disc player? I'm finally getting one that will go in my equipment rack. I have an installer buddy who is getting it ordered and should be here in a couple weeks. I wanted to get a few discs so I went to Amazon to order them, assuming they would be $10 or so - WRONG. Fuck me they are expensive. I want Blackhawk Down, Fury Road and the new Blade Runner and those three movies alone are $90. Fuck that there has to be a better place to buy them right?
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If you find a place let me know. The only reason I don't have a 4k collection yet to replace my blu-ray collection is the price is cost prohibitive.
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They’re expensive! But those are three excellent choices for 4K discs! I started off only buying things that I could show off my theater with. But haven’t pulled out a disc in months bc I’d rather just stream, slightly lower quality be damned.
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I buy all my 4K on VUDU (now owned by shitty Fandango). MoviesAnywhere digital codes can be used on any service. iTunes codes tend *not* to be Movies Anywhere (if you buy a digital code via iTunes), so I don't buy shit from them. If you have gig internet, streaming 4K HDR10/Dolby Vision w Dolby Atmos is virtually the same bit rate as a 4K disc. Ive got about 30ish 4K discs, and I've given up on bothering to put the actual disc in.
There's a couple sites for codes, but can be pretty inconsistent. Also check eBay for digital codes, only. $10 vs the $35 for the package with UHD, BD, DVD, and digital code.
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But if you're looking for a UHD 4K player, get an Xbox One S. They're about the same price as the others ($250), and it's fully featured and faster than any other option. No HDMI-CEC, probably my only complaint. But it's able to send signals to turn on other devices.
There's a couple sites for codes, but can be pretty inconsistent. Also check eBay for digital codes, only. $10 vs the $35 for the package with UHD, BD, DVD, and digital code.
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But if you're looking for a UHD 4K player, get an Xbox One S. They're about the same price as the others ($250), and it's fully featured and faster than any other option. No HDMI-CEC, probably my only complaint. But it's able to send signals to turn on other devices.
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This is probably obviously, but the quality of any stream is going to be a step down from the raw encode on the disk.I buy all my 4K on VUDU (now owned by shitty Fandango). MoviesAnywhere digital codes can be used on any service. iTunes codes tend *not* to be Movies Anywhere (if you buy a digital code via iTunes), so I don't buy shit from them. If you have gig internet, streaming 4K HDR10/Dolby Vision w Dolby Atmos is virtually the same bit rate as a 4K disc. Ive got about 30ish 4K discs, and I've given up on bothering to put the actual disc in.
There's a couple sites for codes, but can be pretty inconsistent. Also check eBay for digital codes, only. $10 vs the $35 for the package with UHD, BD, DVD, and digital code.
HD Movie Codes
The Best Place to buy ultraviolet, iTunes & Disney movie Codes. Instant Delivery, Great Selection and Great Prices.Ultra HD (UHD)
We sell limited edition and collectible film items that come from all over the world. We sell slip covers, SteelBooks, DigiBooks, DigiPacks, Figurines and anything releated to 4K & blu-ray products, shipped in well protected boxes.www.bluraysforeveryone.com
www.vudu.com
www.fandangonow.com
www.moviesanywhere.com
But if you're looking for a UHD 4K player, get an Xbox One S. They're about the same price as the others ($250), and it's fully featured and faster than any other option. No HDMI-CEC, probably my only complaint. But it's able to send signals to turn on other devices.
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I'm afraid to ask for advice in this thread, but I'm looking for a cheap/low-end speaker system for my garage. I have a cheap flat screen TV from ~2012 that I want to hang on the wall and I'd like to have a wireless system hooked up to it that I can also connect my phone to and play pandora. I'm definitely not an audiophile and I'm not going to be blasting dubstep or bringing neighbors over to marvel at the amazing quality of my speaker system.....I just want something small that I can hide behind a wall-mount TV and wireless speakers in each corner of the garage that I can hear. I'd be happy with the lowest cost option that checks those boxes, because Daddy still needs a chop saw and a table saw and a planar and a drill press and a lathe and a.....
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Do you have power outlets in each corner of your garage? I kinna feel like a single speaker solution might make more sense, instead of buying a $300+ receiver with wireless, with 4x $50+++ wireless speakers on the low end.
Does the TV have Bluetooth? Or an audio output jack? (or just HDMI?)
As much as I hate Beats as a brand, the Pill is surprisingly clear and loud.
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I don't want to turn this into some "your eye can't see a difference" debate , but there is absolutely no comparing a streaming service like Vudu/Amazon/Netflix, even with their supposed 4k HDR streams, with a 4K disc. The compression alone heavily impacts video and sound quality, and different services make different sacrifices. It doesn't matter how much bandwidth you have, the service is still sending you a compressed stream.
That being said, due to the aforementioned cost of 4k discs, I think stream content is a "good enough" in terms of quality. You would need to look into something like www.kaleidescape.com to get "legit" digital movies that are perfect compared to a disc.
Now if you were to look at "other" methods of getting digital content....then we are getting closer to a an uncompressed disc copy, which is another story.
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100GB of uncompressed 4K video is about 24 seconds. UHD discs are variably compressed. The Martian has an average bitrate of 35Mbps video with 4.6Mbps audio. Infinity War averages between 40-90Mbps. TrueHD audio fills out around 6Mbps. VUDU supports a bitrate up to 17Mbps video and 768Kbps audio (that I can find evidence of, which is essentially full 1080p Bluray + Dolby Digital Plus). And video bitrate apparently peaks around 30 Mbps.
AppleTV+ claims 29Mbps with up to 41Mbps peak bitrates.
Most true 4K UHD discs are encoded between 35-70Mbps.
Movies that are really just 1080p or 2K upscales, I'm not going to give a shit. For movies like Interstellar, The Martian, or Infinity War, or anything with decent spatial audio (Transformers 2), yeah, I'll put in the disc.
AppleTV+ claims 29Mbps with up to 41Mbps peak bitrates.
Most true 4K UHD discs are encoded between 35-70Mbps.
Movies that are really just 1080p or 2K upscales, I'm not going to give a shit. For movies like Interstellar, The Martian, or Infinity War, or anything with decent spatial audio (Transformers 2), yeah, I'll put in the disc.
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Wow. The Akira UHD sports a 103Mbps total bitrate. That's impressive for a fuckin' animated movie. And $100++ if I wanted to import it....
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So wife said she wanted a bigger TV, because we used to have a viewing distance of like 15 feet, and she wanted something bigger than our 55" OLED. So much to my dismay I went big and cheap, and got a 70 inch Vizio. Well it broke, and months of back and fourth, and going through the steps, Best Buy now wants to give me a $750 gift card to junk out the TV. Wife now says she wants a projector instead of the 65" Roku TV that we replaced the Vizio a while ago. Umm ok!
So started researching, and man, the projector market is kind of weird. Super niche market it seems? Optoma seems to make a really decent projector?
Any projector recommendations?
So started researching, and man, the projector market is kind of weird. Super niche market it seems? Optoma seems to make a really decent projector?
Any projector recommendations?
