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Incessant Excess posted:I get a general question that might be a lil stupid. If I got a soundbar hooked up to the HDMI 2 port say, is it possible to get the video from a device on HDMI 3 with the audio still coming from the soundbar on HDMI 2? The TV in question is an LG B7 in case that matters. Do you mean you have a soundbar plugged into hdmi 2 You have a ps4 plugged into hdmi 3 You want the ps4 sound to come out of the soundbar ? If so yes, that is arc
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Incessant Excess posted:I get a general question that might be a lil stupid. If I got a soundbar hooked up to the HDMI 2 port say, is it possible to get the video from a device on HDMI 3 with the audio still coming from the soundbar on HDMI 2? The TV in question is an LG B7 in case that matters. Check which ports of your TV support ARC and make sure the soundbar is plugged into that. I've got a similar situation except I'm screwed, because I only have 1 HDMI port that supports ARC and it's also my only HDMI 2.0 port, so if I want to pass audio from a 4K / HDR source back to my receiver over ARC, I can't.
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Feb 13, 2018 16:22
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I don't really know of a TV that has more than one ARC enabled port. The single HDMI 2.0 port sucks though and it seems like an oversight to have it be on the ARC port for just this reason.
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Feb 13, 2018 16:27
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Don Lapre posted:Do you mean you have a soundbar plugged into hdmi 2 Thanks, that was exactly what I meant. I changed my soundbar to be hooked up via HDMI now, rather than optical as it was before. EDIT: I'm a bit ashamed to admit it but, I have had this soundbar and an ARC capable TV for 4 years. Incessant Excess fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Feb 13, 2018 |
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Feb 13, 2018 16:30
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bull3964 posted:I don't really know of a TV that has more than one ARC enabled port. That's what i get for buying a 4K /HDR TV in 2016. At least I got one of the few models that supports both HDR10 and Dolby Vision!
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Feb 13, 2018 16:41
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bull3964 posted:The single HDMI 2.0 port sucks though and it seems like an oversight to have it be on the ARC port for just this reason. Having the sole 2.0 port also be the ARC port makes sense if you're using a proper receiver or a soundbar that does HDMI switching. That way your sources can deliver 4K to the TV and the TV can feed audio from internal sources back to the sound system, with only one wire between them.
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Feb 13, 2018 18:32
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It's not a great situation regardless. I'm glad my 2016 vintage C6 has all ports as HDMI 2.0.
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Feb 13, 2018 18:39
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wolrah posted:Having the sole 2.0 port also be the ARC port makes sense if you're using a proper receiver or a soundbar that does HDMI switching. That way your sources can deliver 4K to the TV and the TV can feed audio from internal sources back to the sound system, with only one wire between them. I've got a proper receiver that does HDMI 1.4 switching. My receiver suits my needs, and I'm loath to spend another $300-400 just to switch HDMI 2.0.
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Feb 13, 2018 19:02
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bull3964 posted:It's not a great situation regardless. I'm glad my 2016 vintage C6 has all ports as HDMI 2.0. Twerk from Home posted:I've got a proper receiver that does HDMI 1.4 switching. My receiver suits my needs, and I'm loath to spend another $300-400 just to switch HDMI 2.0. Separate ports are better for those with non-switching soundbars or older switch devices, a combined port is better for those with newer switching devices, and of course just supporting everything on all ports and telling the beancounters to shove it up their rear end is best.
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Feb 13, 2018 20:04
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wolrah posted:Separate ports are better for those with non-switching soundbars or older switch devices, a combined port is better for those with newer switching devices, and of course just supporting everything on all ports and telling the beancounters to shove it up their rear end is best. I guess that beggars can't be choosers, and $1k was a decent price point for a 65" DV and HDR10 4K display. I'm more bothered by the lack of a tuner than the port situation, honestly.
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Feb 13, 2018 20:06
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Did anything ever come of that LCD wallpaper some TV makers were touting a few years back?
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Did anything ever come of that LCD wallpaper some TV makers were touting a few years back? LG W7 OLEDs are the closest thing on the market at the moment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ5WP2BKigc
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Feb 14, 2018 17:58
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What's really funny about the W7 is they get to charge the extreme price for the form factor, bit it isn't any more expensive to make than the low end B7. Seriously, the panels are all that thin. The only difference is they moved the electronics to an external box which probably decreases assembly costs.
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Feb 14, 2018 18:04
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I'd imagine the packaging for that thing is about as expensive as the molding for a normal tv frame
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Feb 14, 2018 19:20
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Is there any particularly good material to watch that shows off HDR? I have Planet Earth 2 and Blue Planet 2 as well as the second season of the Grand Tour. Anything else people can recommend?
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Feb 14, 2018 19:38
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Incessant Excess posted:Is there any particularly good material to watch that shows off HDR? I have Planet Earth 2 and Blue Planet 2 as well as the second season of the Grand Tour. Anything else people can recommend? Altered Carbon on Netflix.
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Feb 14, 2018 19:54
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Incessant Excess posted:Is there any particularly good material to watch that shows off HDR? I have Planet Earth 2 and Blue Planet 2 as well as the second season of the Grand Tour. Anything else people can recommend? Blu Ray of Mad Max Fury Road is in 4K HDR and looks pretty dope. Also on YouTube, there's like hours or 4K HDR aquarium footage which is nice to run as background for parties and stuff.
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Feb 14, 2018 20:05
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Brought the 49MU8005 home and I have an issue: Rtings recommends setting picture mode to "Movie", which is fine for SDR movies but too dim for HDR content. Dynamic mode is bright enough, so it's not an hardware limitation. The brightness slider makes everything gray and "Contrast Enhancer" wreaks havoc on some color tones, so it seems there's no way to keep the more accurate color reproduction of Movie mode while still having a decently bright image... or am I missing something?
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Feb 14, 2018 23:25
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Zero VGS posted:Blu Ray Zero VGS posted:is in 4K HDR What
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Feb 14, 2018 23:51
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Presumably the 4K UHD Blu-Ray.
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Hey folks. I’m in a situation where I need to give some advice to my dad about whether they should get a new tv but I’m not totally sure where I fall. So, the TV in question is a an older plasma, 50 inch, 720p/1080i, which which is watch from about 10-15 feet away, from dead on, but sometimes from about 30ish degrees off to the side. So viewing angle is a thing. Now, the resolution alone would normally be a no-brainer but here are my concerns: -it’s one of the Pioneer Kuro plasmas, and it has some of the best blacks I’ve seen even to this day. I’m happy with my TCL 49s405 but its not even close in that regard, although it’s brighter and I think the contrast ratio is better -he only wants to spend about $300. I can probably talk him up to ~$500 but the OLEDs are currently out of the price range. This is probably going to be the last TV he ever buys so if waiting a few years is going to make a difference then that’s probably worth it, that’s where he’s at too right now, but I doubt OLEDs are going to be in that range any time soon. Any thoughts?
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Feb 15, 2018 00:02
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Is your Dad unhappy with the TV? If he's getting old there is a good chance that he can't see a difference with a higher resolution picture anyway. $300 doesn't get you a lot.
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Feb 15, 2018 00:22
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Rastor posted:Presumably the 4K UHD Blu-Ray. Yeah, was that not what I said?
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Feb 15, 2018 00:27
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TomR posted:Is your Dad unhappy with the TV? If he's getting old there is a good chance that he can't see a difference with a higher resolution picture anyway. $300 doesn't get you a lot. Not really. But I just got one and it got him wondering. It’s also not a smart TV which is something he’s interested in (but a Roku could probably fix that). It’s definitely not a very bright TV and I think he’d notice that for sure, but those inky blacks tho
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Feb 15, 2018 00:38
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I'm doing an in-wall HDMI run of about 10 metres/33Ft, and would like it to be forward compatible with a future 4K/HDR setup - I'm trying to determine whether I'm fine to just grab a generic HDMI2.0 cable, or whether I require an amplified/boosted cable or something. Google results are sending mixed messages.
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Feb 15, 2018 02:40
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Don Dongington posted:I'm doing an in-wall HDMI run of about 10 metres/33Ft, and would like it to be forward compatible with a future 4K/HDR setup - I'm trying to determine whether I'm fine to just grab a generic HDMI2.0 cable, or whether I require an amplified/boosted cable or something. If it’s new construction, run it in conduit. If it’s existing construction, run a pull string.
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Don Dongington posted:I'm doing an in-wall HDMI run of about 10 metres/33Ft, and would like it to be forward compatible with a future 4K/HDR setup - I'm trying to determine whether I'm fine to just grab a generic HDMI2.0 cable, or whether I require an amplified/boosted cable or something. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005LJQM3Y/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I use this one and it does 4k hdr fine @ 35ft
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Feb 15, 2018 03:19
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Variable 5 posted:If it’s new construction, run it in conduit. If it’s existing construction, run a pull string. Always this.
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I'm beating a dead horse at this point, but it's incredible how much better Sony's motion is compared to LG's. I've been playing around with YouTube TV since they added more devices and more channels. Like most OTT services, some channels are 60fps and some are 30fps. On my C6, the 30fps channels are unwatchable. It doesn't matter what motion settings I try. On, off, fully maxed, Deblur and Dejudder at every position. Nothing can make the motion look like proper 24fps. The 60fps channels are better, but since the TV can't reverse telecine progressive inputs, you have to put very low True Motion settings on (like 1 Dejudder) to get it looking close to natural 24fps cadence. But it creates artifacts and it hitches a little here and there. On my x900e, from the same Roku input, night and day difference. You can't really even tell which channels are 30fps and which are 60fps when you are watching 24p content. MotionFlow set to TrueCinema and Cinemotion set to Max makes the TV root out natural 24fps cadence from seemingly any sort of input signal. I think it could take smoke signals or semaphore and give a smooth, non-interpolated, motion output. If only the Sony OLEDs had 3d. That's the one thing that will keep me holding on to my C6 since the 3d is that good. It will be interesting to see if the new 2018 LGs live up to the promise of substantially improved motion processing.
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I have an issue with audio not coming through my soundbar. My TV is an LG B7 with the CEC functions enabled. I got my soundbar (Sony HT-XT1) hooked up to the ARC enabled HDMI (HDMI 2) and I got a Nintendo Switch hooked up to the HDMI IN on the soundbar, the other TV HDMI ports are also all in use. The problem is, when I turn on my PS4 for example (PS4 is hooked up to the TV directly) I get no audio through my soundbar until I switch to HDMI2 on my TV and back again. All the devices get turned on and the soundbar displays the correct input, but until I switch to HDMI2 and then back to whatever device I actually wanna use I get no audio, which of course is pretty inconvenient. Anyone familiar with an issue like this?
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https://www.walmart.com/ip/Refurbis...type=10&veh=aff
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I saw this when it was in stock earlier, and would have been all over it, except for I don't know if I really trust a refurb from WalMart. Still encouraging to see them finally start creeping down into this price range.
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If I get a C7 would I want to upgrade my 2008 model receiver? Also upgrade my PS4 to a Pro? Right now I run a 7.1 system and a Windows HTPC with Kodi through the receiver.
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I think the biggest advantage a PS4 Pro offers lies in the higher framerate modes some games offer, those are nice in general but not for a 4K TV specifically. The biggest difference for the C7 will be the HDR support, assuming your previous TV didn't have that, and the standard PS4 supports HDR so no need to get a Pro to take advantage of that.
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codo27 posted:My buddy has last years Vizio P 65" and I was there last night and Netflix was really lovely on it. Most things start out in 480p and takes a while before it gets better. I was like well you oughta plug that poo poo in directly to your router cause 4K video requires a lot of bandwidth. He did today but its only reporting speeds of 6-7mbps and he has the same 100mbps service I have, wifi even worse. But do a speed test on the phablet remote that came with the TV and it shows 98mbps. We use Netflix on the gfs Xbone and its mostly flawless, only a 1080p TV but it very rarely hiccups and delivers a low res image. I've read the built in speed test cant be trusted but it seems in line with the kind of experience he is having with Netflix. He's gone through the trouble of calibrating the TV as recommended and doesn't really want to do a factory reset, it doesn't seem like this is an isolated incident from what I've read anyway. Any thoughts, anything we can try? Unfortunately, I haven't been able to improve it on mine. I think it just take a minute every time. By the time the title is done its good and any episodes after the first are also fine. Im probably gonna start using the new Apple TV 4K more since it seems to hit that 4K instantly.
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My wife needs a tv for her home office. It's going in an alcove that can comfortably fit anything up to 50" wide, so 55" panels should be fine as long as the bezel isn't huge or have speakers built-in to the sides. She'll be using it for 1080p content exclusively -- cable tv and Netflix/Prime/Plex streaming, no gaming or computer monitoring. She's so indifferent to video quality that I'll regularly walk into the living room and find her watching an SD channel on the 65" and she claims to not notice until it's pointed out BUT she's complained about soap opera effect on other people's TVs so disabling motion smoothing would be nice. She really just needs something that isn't going to break in the next few years or catch on fire or murder our cats. Spending more than about US$350-400 seems like overkill. I'm thinking either a TCL Roku or a Vizio with a Roku stick (and disabling all of the built-in smart features)? Seems like 4k is about the same price as 1080 so may as well?
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I'm getting color banding (I think that's the right term) with my Samsung. Very noticeable, but only on skin tones. Switching movies, inputs or settings doesn't make a difference. Comparing side by side with a 10yo monitor, the TV looks pretty bad. Worth asking for a replacement? If this a "panel lottery" type deal, I'll just ask for a refund. drat thing is barely a week old, jfc.
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Are there any reasonably priced HDMI switches that support 4K HDR that are any good? I just brought a Sony HT-RT4 sound system to go with my Sony X900E but the TV only has two 4k-HDR ports, one of which is the ARC port. I have a PS4 Pro and a Xbox One X so I'm now left with only one port that supports HDR and I'm having to swap the cables around every time I want to swap console. I was looking at this one, but if I'm reading this right it says that anything plugged into it won't pass audio out through the ARC port?
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seravid posted:I'm getting color banding (I think that's the right term) with my Samsung. Very noticeable, but only on skin tones. Switching movies, inputs or settings doesn't make a difference. Comparing side by side with a 10yo monitor, the TV looks pretty bad. My first guess would have been a color depth setting mismatch but if you’ve messed with all that bad panel Return it for a non Samsung prob
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Incessant Excess posted:I think the biggest advantage a PS4 Pro offers lies in the higher framerate modes some games offer, those are nice in general but not for a 4K TV specifically. The biggest difference for the C7 will be the HDR support, assuming your previous TV didn't have that, and the standard PS4 supports HDR so no need to get a Pro to take advantage of that. Decided to get the Pro. Still wondering about my circa 2008 receiver though. I'll have the C7, a PS4 Pro, a Switch, a Windows 10 HTPC, and a 7.1 system. Would I be able to get 4K and HDR where applicable without upgrading the receiver? Hopefully not requiring any swapping like Veotax above. Would a new receiver just allow me to get Atmos?
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