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GreenNight posted:I go to Menards and they have a fuckload of appliances on the floor saying "no wait", but yeah I tried to buy a bed and they said 6 months. And this is why I got a sofa from Ikea. Was at another furniture gallery this weekend and they told me it could be up to an 18 week wait for certain models, lol. Anyway my new TV just arrived. Went with the Sony X900H 65". Costco/Amazon just discounted it pretty good. Can't wait to unbox it later. 
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I thought I'd be staying with Sony but even the 950H doesn't have the VRR that was a big selling point for me so I went TCL. Had to use an old, suspect HDMI cable to connect the AVR to the TV because the inputs were on the opposite side as before, and the XSX picked it up right away and asked me to turn on the VRR which was cool.
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Apr 27, 2021 18:53
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65" BX+$150 Visa GC $1,797 shipped - includes 2 year CPS accidental extended warranty
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Question about TV height. My TV stand is 23.5" and I plan to get a new center speaker that would need to be on top so the TV (LG 65" C7) would have to be mounted above that. The speaker is 8.3" tall, so the bottom of the TV would be at least 31.8" off the floor. The top of the TV would be at about 64" then. My eye level sitting up right in the main spot on the couch is roughly 37" off the floor. If I'm laying down then it's only about 27". I sit about 9.5 feet away. Is that TV mount going to be too high? How should I calculate all this? I'm wondering if I need a shorter TV stand. If I ever got a bigger TV I imagine it would be even more of an issue.
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Apr 28, 2021 17:15
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I mounted my speaker below as I didn't want it that high, being above the TV. Its all at a good level now as it is (shut up I fixed the cables after)
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Apr 28, 2021 18:12
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Doggles posted:For my Android TV, I turned off auto-updates and just update everything manually except for the Android TV Home app. In app options there should be a setting to uninstall recent updates to roll back to a previous version. That's something I had to do a few weeks after getting my TV and it auto-updated to a home screen filled with ads. Cheers (and sorry for late response). Yeah I guess it rolled around to Phillips just now... Its not as obnoxious now and is mainly headlining nature docs, but will go to work on it if it worsens.
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codo27 posted:
It’s not the cables that bug me, it’s the non-centered-ness of it all. This would drive me insane
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Apr 28, 2021 19:29
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I measured the distance between shelf and door and centered that instead of doing between the speakers. I never think things through properly
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Apr 28, 2021 21:48
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codo27 posted:I measured the distance between shelf and door and centered that instead of doing between the speakers. I never think things through properly Your TV literally has a mark where the center of it is, you didn't really need to measure anything 
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Apr 29, 2021 14:59
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The speaker shelf was put up second, thats the thing I hosed up. And after a big living room renovation including moving the door thats to the right (from about where the TV is now) I'm not interested in moving the shelf for a while and having to gently caress with touching up the holes and paint.
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Apr 29, 2021 15:07
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Man, I hosed up. I installed a recessed plug to go behind my wall mount tv but the plug for the cable box is a goddamn fat wallwart. I wanted to originally mount it behind the tv to hide cables but not now. I will probably have to get a little conduit now to hide the wires which isn't the ugliest thing but defeats a clean setup. Builder was supposed to build a inwall conduit but said it since this was an outside wall it wouldn't work. :/
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Apr 29, 2021 21:21
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Can't you just get some of those 6" power extensions?
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^^^thats what I get for waiting so long to refresh  Vintersorg posted:Man, I hosed up. I installed a recessed plug to go behind my wall mount tv but the plug for the cable box is a goddamn fat wallwart. I wanted to originally mount it behind the tv to hide cables but not now. I will probably have to get a little conduit now to hide the wires which isn't the ugliest thing but defeats a clean setup. Could you use something like this to offset it enough to tuck it behind the TV or into the mount? https://www.target.com/p/philips-3-outlet-surge-protector-with-1-ft-extension-cord-gray-and-white/-/A-77596037
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Apr 29, 2021 21:27
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The real solution is just to get a new TV.
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Apr 29, 2021 21:41
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Sirotan posted:^^^thats what I get for waiting so long to refresh That might work! I’m in Canada so I’ll see if Home Depot or even Amazon has a little extension. I can use a 3M to stick it to stuff.
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Apr 30, 2021 00:05
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Got my new tv and I'm loving around with my bias lighting and I'm very sad to discover that the USB ports on Sony Bravias (every model for the last at least 6 years) will randomly power on and off while the TV is off. So now I gotta power this thing via external adapter and turn it on with its remote like a shlub. 
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Apr 30, 2021 01:42
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Sirotan posted:Got my new tv and I'm loving around with my bias lighting and I'm very sad to discover that the USB ports on Sony Bravias (every model for the last at least 6 years) will randomly power on and off while the TV is off. So now I gotta power this thing via external adapter and turn it on with its remote like a shlub.
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Apr 30, 2021 11:56
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kliras posted:Isn't there an Eco Mode or something to turn off? Nope! There are various suggested settings that I could find but none of them actually turned the lights off when I turned the TV off.
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Apr 30, 2021 12:19
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A simple solution if your setup supports it is to plug the bias lights into your soundbar.
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jaadee posted:A simple solution if your setup supports it is to plug the bias lights into your soundbar. Did not go the soundbar route. My receiver is a bit older and doesn't have any USB ports either. I looked into a current-sensing power strip (TV plugs into one outlet, power strip senses when it is on and turns the other outlets on, turns them off when the TV goes off) but apparently the Bravias never actually turn off all the way no matter what power settings you use so this wouldn't work either. A friend suggested a smart outlet but then I am pressing a button on my phone which doesn't really get me much over pressing a button on the tiny remote that came with the thing. There are LED light strips with IR controllers that you could then program your universal remote to power off but this just has a RF remote, I don't have a universal remote either.
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wolrah posted:Moved in to my new place, the projector definitely doesn't fit here, so it's time to get a new TV now. How is the sound compared to Scarlet.
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MikusR posted:How is the sound compared to Scarlet. Both are decent for built-in speakers, but nothing special.
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So my system is components->AVR->TV. Everything is fine on the Shield, but on the Xbox, theres noticeable av desync and with netflix theres this digital graininess thats appearing all over the screen. Could be the HDMI cable but its the new Series X I gave gf for christmas and I'm pretty sure its the cable that came with it that we're using. So hilarious to me that my TV has a native 120hz panel but cant do 4k @120hz? Wont matter for a while yet but still dumb
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May 3, 2021 12:34
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Weird question, but do any modern TVs have blue light filters? Like flux or night mode on a smartphone
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:Weird question, but do any modern TVs have blue light filters? Like flux or night mode on a smartphone My CX has "Eye Comfort Mode" which does more or less the same thing as f.lux. Not sure if that extends to the LCDs or is exclusive to the OLEDs. Wouldn't surprise me to find out others have a similar feature.
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:Weird question, but do any modern TVs have blue light filters? Like flux or night mode on a smartphone Not certain, but I think a lot of tvs have a way to set the color to "warm" which looks like flux to me.
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My C1 had this option for game mode and also just normal picture settings as well. I haven't used it though. 
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Cool, thanks for the answers!
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May 4, 2021 19:36
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Setting your TV to a warmer setting is more color accurate to how films are shown in theaters anyway.
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Is oled really that good? In the market for my first 4k and for someone who only watches some YouTube, Netflix rarely and mainly uses it to play Switch/Steam link would I notice it? Been on a 1080 display for the past 5-6 years so I don’t know. Input lag is probably my biggest important factor. Found some decent $500 LG/Vizio lcd panels on rtings but I don’t think I have a Best Buy near me anymore to look in person.
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Social Animal posted:Is oled really that good?
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Never judge how a TV looks by the way it is set up in a store like Best Buy.
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May 5, 2021 04:32
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Figured especially with how often the lg c9 comes up on gaming sites.
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So I went to Best Buy anyways cause I don’t have friends with nice TVs. That OLED was incredible, got the LG CX arriving Wednesday. Anything I should enable/disable in the settings? I know I’ll install latest firmware and maybe do that calibration via Apple TV.
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May 10, 2021 02:23
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The Apple TV calibration is disabled in Dolby vision mode. Rtings has a good settings guide.
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KS posted:The Apple TV calibration is disabled in Dolby vision mode. Rtings has a good settings guide. Thanks I’ll do some reading there so I’m ready when it arrives.
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My wife to be just said the TV looks too small now that I got a bigger sub and added a second. Is this a dream? Currently have a C7 65". When it comes to CX vs C1, I remember reading that the 1 might have an important new CPU but that it's only in the G1 or something? Is father's day a common sale time? I bought the C7 using greentoe to get a non advertised deal. Are there still tricks like that? These 77" are insanely expensive.
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KingKapalone posted:My wife to be just said the TV looks too small now that I got a bigger sub and added a second. Is this a dream? Currently have a C7 65". When it comes to CX vs C1, I remember reading that the 1 might have an important new CPU but that it's only in the G1 or something? How has your C7 held up wrt burn in and such? I’m imminently replacing my 2010 panny plasma and a 77” Cx or C1 are looking like the thing.
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Ultimate Mango posted:How has your C7 held up wrt burn in and such? I’m imminently replacing my 2010 panny plasma and a 77” Cx or C1 are looking like the thing. No burn in as far as I can tell. This TV would just move upstairs into the living room we're furnishing now that we have been in the house for almost a year.
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KingKapalone posted:My wife to be just said the TV looks too small now that I got a bigger sub and added a second. Is this a dream? Currently have a C7 65". When it comes to CX vs C1, I remember reading that the 1 might have an important new CPU but that it's only in the G1 or something? From what I read, the CX and C1 have the same panels. C1 has a newer CPU (presumably faster?) and a newer version of WebOS, but that's mostly it. The G1 does have a newer panel.
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