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ufarn posted:Baraka, and later Samsara, used to be one of the big hits for showing off HD TVs (1080p, egads!). it's Netflix and it started a year or two ago for some reason. I have to crank my Yamaha/Polk 5.1 setup to 60 for Netflix to hear anything but only 45-50 for anything else.
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Netflix it is then. Appreciated.ufarn posted:Hook up your headphones to your TV and check out one of the 4K binaural videos. Welp, now I can't get off the sofa. Thanks! I also ordered the Dolby Vision/Atmos 5-disc set of the Transformers Bayology. If I ride the line of intoxication just right those kinda blow my mind, for a variety of reasons.  Follow-up question: I’ve got what looks like a stuck pixel. All-white. Not a big deal to be honest, is it common with an LG OX or OLEDs in general? double edit: that YouTube problem even occurs on my Android-outfitted treadmill. Fly Ricky fucked around with this message at 06:46 on Jan 1, 2021 |
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qirex posted:I have to turn up the volume on HBO Max a lot, like I’ll be 50 for normal TV listening and 65-70 on movies. Using a Roku Ultra, Youtube seems to output everything loving loud (compared to Netflix and Amazon Prime, and the normal audio output level of my DirecTV box).
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Number_6 posted:Using a Roku Ultra, Youtube seems to output everything loving loud (compared to Netflix and Amazon Prime, and the normal audio output level of my DirecTV box). This happens on a Sony Bravia too. Youtube is poo poo.
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Why does some HDR things look incredible, and some look like absolute poo poo? I’m playing AC:Valhalla on a PS Pro, and it looks like dog poo poo, but if I turn off HDR, it looks awesome. It seems hit or miss with video files as well.
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Depends on the implementation by the developer/director, and whether they're using a version of HDR that adjusts the maximum luminance target based on your television (HDR10+/Dolby Vision). I recall a Digital Foundry video where they showed how well RDR2 implemented it, and another game (I forget) where it wasn't nearly as good in terms of luminance yet both were technically HDR. Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Jan 1, 2021 |
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LorneReams posted:Why does some HDR things look incredible, and some look like absolute poo poo? I’m playing AC:Valhalla on a PS Pro, and it looks like dog poo poo, but if I turn off HDR, it looks awesome. It seems hit or miss with video files as well. Thanks for the heads up.
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Mister Facetious posted:Depends on the implementation by the developer/director, and whether they're using a version of HDR that adjusts the maximum luminance target based on your television (HDR10+/Dolby Vision). That's odd, because I found RDR2 looked really washed out with it on. Googling it I found a lot of claims that it wasn't proper HDR and recommendations to turn it off, which I did, and which made it look miles better.
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ufarn posted:Baraka, and later Samsara, used to be one of the big hits for showing off HD TVs (1080p, egads!). Heyyyyyy big rear end hat tip for mentioning Baraka and Samsara. I think I had seen bits and pieces but it reminded me to check them out. I'm on Baraka now and it's really something special. Koyaanisqatsi I've liked a lot too. So Baraka and Samsara are both available on Prime Video, but I discovered something loving stupid about Prime. It won't stream anything over 1080p to PCs, only to smart TV products. It looks way better on my TCL 6 series than my MacBook because of that. Also stupidly, Netflix nor Prime will show you which resolution you're currently viewing, but I can definitely tell the Roku is getting 4K where my laptop is not. For anyone who doesn't know Netflix will not stream to Chrome in 4K either, but it will in Safari. I bet this is all because of stupid loving DRM. Anyway thanks!
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OneSizeFitsAll posted:That's odd, because I found RDR2 looked really washed out with it on. Googling it I found a lot of claims that it wasn't proper HDR and recommendations to turn it off, which I did, and which made it look miles better. Are you sure your TV was properly activating its HDR mode? HDR looks completely flat and washed out if it’s being displayed on an SDR display (or an HDR-capable display that hasn’t had it’s HDR mode activated.) I noticed recently on my XB1 that if I power off the system without closing the game, when I come back to it the TV won’t properly activate HDR mode. The only way to do it is to back out to the home menu and close the game and relaunch it.
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Also some games in HDR use the system level HDR calibration and some have their own in game calibration, make sure to check.
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OneSizeFitsAll posted:That's odd, because I found RDR2 looked really washed out with it on. Googling it I found a lot of claims that it wasn't proper HDR and recommendations to turn it off, which I did, and which made it look miles better. I can't remember what exactly it's called but are you using the "game" preset rather than standard/cinematic in the HDR options in RDR2? At launch, RDR2's HDR implementation was quite poor, basically "fake" HDR, they patched in the "game" HDR mode some months after to improve things somewhat (it's useable but still not perfect). If you happen to have gamepass, Forza Horizon 4 has an excellent HDR implementation and is a good benchmark as to how good HDR looks on a given TV.
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Yep, it was all set up correctly, and played nearly a year after launch. Just didn't look good - everything else, whether game or movie, looked fine. Might be interesting to try it on my LG GX now I have it, although the Q90R is a very recent and well-specced TV too.
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I’m in the same boat. It’s a beautiful game, but neither of those HDR settings helped and my TV was in HDR mode every time. Forza Horizon 4 is the perfect suggestion, it glows.
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Is there a cable service thread around here? I need to find out if “HSD base” is something we can remove from our cable bill and buy cheaper somewhere else, since I just found out we’re paying like $89 a month for it. I know there’s a “Cutting Cable” thread but AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no we aint fuckin doing that dumb poo poo ever
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Isn't HSD high-speed data?
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I. M. Gei posted:Is there a cable service thread around here? No idea but we finally cut cable for YouTube TV. So... Still spending money and getting the channels we want. Just spending less. You should do it. Also you didn't provide like ... Any useful information. Who is your provider? What other services do you have or presume to have from them? Have you asked them what that is?
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BonoMan posted:Also you didn't provide like ... Any useful information. Sorry, I wasn’t sure if this was the thread to ask in so I just kinda stuck to the general question. BonoMan posted:Who is your provider? Suddenlink, aka “Altice” but they still call themselves Suddenlink. BonoMan posted:What other services do you have or presume to have from them? We have cable and internet service through them. We’re thinking about upgrading our internet plan while they still have New Years discounts running, so we’re seeing if we can cheapen our cable cost to facilitate that. It doesn’t show up anywhere on Suddenlink’s website when you go to buy plans on there, though, which seems fishy as gently caress to me but then I don’t have much experience buying cable/internet plans. It’s also a little weird that Suddenlink’s service plan order checkout thingy doesn’t show you your final price total until after you finish placing your order, which I just discovered yesterday. BonoMan posted:Have you asked them what that is? I did. The lady on the phone described it as being “like the gasoline you use to drive your car”, which...... whatever the hell that means. I asked her if it was a physical thing that we could buy ourselves to save money instead of renting from them and she didn’t give me an answer, although it was an Indian call center so maybe there was a communication issue. I. M. Gei fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Jan 3, 2021 |
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I. M. Gei posted:Sorry, I wasn’t sure if this was the thread to ask in so I just kinda stuck to the general question. Hard to tell, but that's likely you're internet charge (I'm guessing by "base" and her description... she just means it's the minimum high speed internet package). I doubt it's anything physical as I don't think I've ever seen an equipment charge that expensive. Then again I haven't seen a base internet package that expensive either. But, this is why we "cut cable"... or rather just moved to streaming live TV. So much more worth it to not have to deal with this kind of poo poo. No hidden fees, taxes, equipment rentals, broadcast charges, etc. Just $80/month for internet and $65/month for YouTubeTV.
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I don't think you get to be this scornfully dismissive of the concept of cutting cable:I. M. Gei posted:I know there’s a “Cutting Cable” thread but AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA no we aint fuckin doing that dumb poo poo ever In the very same post that you admit you're paying over $1,000 annually on some random part of your cable bill that you can't identify
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I mean let’s be fair, from a consumer point of view the cutting cable concept hasn’t been any massive improvement to the traditional method. Not having to pay for extra STBs is a nice plus, but Xfinity support that with apps anyway. Still the same stuff shoved down the same pipe by mostly the same people.
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A lot of cutting cable is *embrace piracy with a high speed internet connection* Not that I’m blaming anyone for that with how fragmented everything is. I know there are a lot of legit paths that end up saving a little, but almost any real cutting cable discussion involves news groups or steaming sites for sports.
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Nah, the majority of cable cutting is just buying a Roku or an AppleTV and asking your friends/family for their logins.
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American McGay posted:Nah, the majority of cable cutting is just buying a Roku or an AppleTV and asking your friends/family for their logins. Yeah, you still end up saving money between sharing log-ins and being aggressive about canceling services when you aren't using them
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I'm more about watching stuff in much better quality and ad free. That's worth a premium to me over cable.
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EL BROMANCE posted:I mean let’s be fair, from a consumer point of view the cutting cable concept hasn’t been any massive improvement to the traditional method. Not having to pay for extra STBs is a nice plus, but Xfinity support that with apps anyway. Still the same stuff shoved down the same pipe by mostly the same people. I had been a customer with Xfinity for 13 years when we finally cut it a month ago. And... I am probably the odd man out, but Xfinity had been fine for me performance wise. Stable, very few outages and support was actually just fine. But I needed a better upload speed now that I'm WFH and the pricing just KILLS me. It's constant negotiations with contracts, promotional pricing, at least $40 in "hidden" fees per month, etc. It's just not worth it. We analyzed YouTubeTV and realized it had all the channels we like (and I subscribe to D+, Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hulu, HBOMax) so it just made sense. I was a little nervous, but honestly it's been super smooth. My wife gave it glowing praise to my in-laws the other day which is like... a huge win. I do realize I'm lucky that I get gigabit fiber at $80/month and there's no data cap. So that definitely helps the situation.
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Yeah I pay $130 for uncapped gig fiber and TV with AT&T on my second year. I really only keep the tv package for sport and the fact the tv part means no extra fee for uncapping. I watch pretty much all my tv on plex though.
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Here's Suddenlink's complete pricing schedule. I'm guessing that "HSD Base" is High Speed Download Base price, as in the base internet price before any add-ons. Possibly when originally signing up for service, you were in a high speed market and your pricing is still locked in to that. If you're in a gigabit market, you should definitely move to a better package now.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Yeah I pay $130 for uncapped gig fiber and TV with AT&T on my second year. I really only keep the tv package for sport and the fact the tv part means no extra fee for uncapping. I watch pretty much all my tv on plex though. YouTube TV has a decent sport package but drat... If you have to keep tv to remain uncapped. That sucks.
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Suddenlink is a garbage company made 1000x worse by Altice, but of course their monopoly means I pay $70/mo for 400Mb with a cap 
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LorneReams posted:Caps suck, but 400/400 for $70 sounds really good to me. It's 400/40 , coax, and unreliable as hell. And good luck getting support!
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Sorry, I know it's unrelated I just can't miss an opportunity to poo poo on suddenlink because they are just so bad. At an old house, our internet would drop every afternoon for a few hours. After a ton of complaints and finally getting someone out to diagnose, they told us it was just too hot outside for the service to work I mean, I get it, thermal expansion and transmission line sag is a thing but do you think they tried to fix it or prorate my bill? Nah, just had to deal with it until the peak of summer was over I could always switch to ATT DSL
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Live in a small town where I'm "the guy". Get a call yesterday from one of my regulars, new smart tv for Christmas. It's the second one actually, they couldn't get the first one set up and brought it back. Them being dummies, I thought. It's a 58" Westinghouse Roku dealie, but the problem isn't their fault. I first attributed it to their lovely old 5mbps DSL, maybe the software package couldn't download properly and thus wouldn't install right. The software upgrade all looked fine, downloaded 100%, restarts, back to square one every time. You could just skip the internet setup and use basically as a dumb tv. Figured I'd download the software manually and use a flash drive. The tv doesn't exist on the Westinghouse website or the Roku software site. Just doesn't exist. Told em to go get a Hisense or TCL. Did I mention they are stupid faithful to their service provider (Bell  ) and have an old rear end SD satellite receiver hooked up to their new 4k tv? I keep trying to tell them that it's not a relationship, there's no points for loyalty, but they settle for worthless internet and standard def "because I've been with them for 40 years, if they raise my bill I can call and complain and they will reverse it"
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