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Hadlock posted:You mean to tell me the laggy performance of my Samsung is due to a drive by Bluetooth exploit and further side loaded a Bitcoin miner on there?!?! Botnets uh... botnets, find, a way.
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Dear television thread, I find myself in search of an upgrade to my couple years old 65" Hisense. I am moving to a new house in the beginning of May, and I'm looking to get a new 65" TV. I have a PS5, xsx, and a MiSTer FPGA currently hooked up to my TV, but spend most of my time watching Plex or playing SNES games on the MiSTer. Is the lg c3 right for me, or is there something else I could look at? The Hisense u8k looks pretty decent for what it is and would be cheaper, but man...I really want that OLED. My girlfriend is sick of me hemming and hawing over what to get lol Help me goons you're my only hope!
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Mar 22, 2024 14:15
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MiSTer on my LG C2 is freaking amazing, almost as good as playing on my Sony PVM. There is zero chance you'll regret buying the C3.
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Mar 22, 2024 14:23
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Enos Cabell posted:MiSTer on my LG C2 is freaking amazing, almost as good as playing on my Sony PVM. There is zero chance you'll regret buying the C3. Oh man that's great to hear! I also have a Trinitron kicking around that I'm going to have to put in storage so knowing it's anywhere close is a load off my mind
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Mar 22, 2024 17:15
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If you really want the OLED, then there's just no alternative and you'll always wonder what if. You're clearly the type of person to notice these things, and let me tell you everyday I watch my C3 I just think drat does this TV look good no matter what content I'm watching.
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Mar 22, 2024 17:42
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Captain Yossarian posted:Is the lg c3 right for me, or is there something else I could look at? Yeah, the LG C3 sounds about right for your needs. Now is also probably the best time to get one at a decent price, since the C4 is just about to launch.
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Mar 22, 2024 17:46
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Alright thanks everyone! Is there any big deal days coming up I should wait for or will I hit myself if I don't get it soon? I think best buy has a 65 for $1600 right now but I could go look at Costco too
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Mar 22, 2024 19:33
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Can confirm, MiSTer looks great on my CX. I have mine set for the 1440p 4:3 mode since I think that was the recommendation for lowest lag with a LG OLED last time I checked, but I have a MiSTer Laggy now so I should actually test that. Maybe if I get bored I'll check it out tonight.
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Mar 22, 2024 22:20
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Captain Yossarian posted:Alright thanks everyone! Is there any big deal days coming up I should wait for or will I hit myself if I don't get it soon? I think best buy has a 65 for $1600 right now but I could go look at Costco too The C3 65" has been around $1400 recently which is the all-time low price for purchase from a retail location. That was because LG itself had the 3-series models on sale for a couple weeks. $1600 is certainly not bad.
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Mar 23, 2024 00:11
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I guess final question re: c3. Is it still worth buying from Costco for the extended warranty? It looks like the TV is the same price pretty much anywhere, but Costco you get the second year for free and also 3 years of the allstate coverage for free
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Mar 23, 2024 18:26
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Captain Yossarian posted:I guess final question re: c3. Is it still worth buying from Costco for the extended warranty? It looks like the TV is the same price pretty much anywhere, but Costco you get the second year for free and also 3 years of the allstate coverage for free I bought a CX at Costco over 3 years ago that started failing this year. The All State coverage saved my rear end. They gave me a check to go buy a C3, so you bet I got one at Costco that came with another coverage plan.
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Mar 23, 2024 19:46
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I've got a Sony A80J, I love it. Great screen. Would it be a dumb idea to hook my PC up to it to play videogames?
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I use my A80J with a 3080 and it is awesome. Just make sure you use a 48 Gbps HDMI cable and change the HDMI format to the VRR option. The sound cuts out for half a second every 40 min or so but no issues otherwise. I also cap my global frame rate in nvidia control panel to 117 FPS. Edit: You will need a video card with HDMI 2.1 ports to take full advantage. Not sure which GPU you have. Even if it is older, you could do 4k at 60 FPS.
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Mar 23, 2024 20:10
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I am also using my C2 as the only monitor for my gaming PC, it works great.
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https://apple.news/AqBhYB866Rp2Ot5a9IAQP3Q (BGR) quote:Researchers may have finally found a way to eliminate OLED burn-in
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Mar 24, 2024 02:39
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Not sure if this is the right thread but any suggestions for an UHD blu ray player? I have an LG C3 so I’d like something that will play my UHD star trek blu rays nicely. I just can’t bring myself to read deeply into the undoubtedly enormous and life changing differences between the $150 players and the $500 players
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Mar 26, 2024 05:28
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Every time I try to pick a UHD player I get scared off by a surprisingly large fraction of user reviews saying their Brand X or whatever player quit working or exploded in flames after just a few months. It seems like the reliability and mechanical build quality just isn't there, at least not at a reasonable price point (which to me would be $300 or less). My first Pioneer DVD player (a 1999 model, I think) cost $200 and worked basically indefinitely. I ditched it not because it broke but because it didn't support progressive scan.
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Mar 26, 2024 06:01
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I have the Sony X700 and while it’s slightly finicky it does basically everything you’d want it to and it’s cheap
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I bought a Sony X700 and it was mostly fine, but on a handful of occasions it would stop towards the end of the movie as it likely changed to the next layer. I ended up buying a Panasonic UB-820 on Black Friday sale and it's been flawless. I got it because it supports Dolby Vision automatic switching (you have to do this manually on the Sony) and the HDR optimizer.
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TheOneVader posted:I bought a Sony X700 and it was mostly fine, but on a handful of occasions it would stop towards the end of the movie as it likely changed to the next layer. I ended up buying a Panasonic UB-820 on Black Friday sale and it's been flawless. I got it because it supports Dolby Vision automatic switching (you have to do this manually on the Sony) and the HDR optimizer. I dithered during the black friday sale for the UB-820 and now they’re $500 
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Worth pointing out that they did a refresh on the 700 at some point — not sure which one Vader has but I haven’t had the mentioned issue with the newer model. Biggest issue is a sluggish UI and that it doesn’t seem to remember where I stopped in a movie if I turn it off halfway through.
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Mar 26, 2024 15:26
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I have a Sony X800M2 and it’s been good but my current tv doesn’t support Dolby vision so I don’t have to deal with that. Most places suggest the Panasonic models.
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Mar 26, 2024 15:36
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I got a UB-820 at launch and it's been fantastic.
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Reading this conversation is making me wonder now, I'm buying a Shield TV Pro at some point for Plex direct play, but is there anything wrong with watching 4k discs on my PS5 or series X? Verses a stand-alone player I mean
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Mar 26, 2024 18:24
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Captain Yossarian posted:Reading this conversation is making me wonder now, I'm buying a Shield TV Pro at some point for Plex direct play, but is there anything wrong with watching 4k discs on my PS5 or series X? Verses a stand-alone player I mean The main thing is their lack of support for Dolby Vision or HDR10+. If you don't care about that they're fine
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Mar 26, 2024 18:48
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Captain Yossarian posted:Reading this conversation is making me wonder now, I'm buying a Shield TV Pro at some point for Plex direct play, but is there anything wrong with watching 4k discs on my PS5 or series X? Verses a stand-alone player I mean Neither support Dolby Vision for UHDs. For that you would need a dedicated player. Depends on how much that matters to you.
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Mar 26, 2024 20:35
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HDR missing from PS5 playback seems like a pretty big negative for a modern TV. Our 2016 Samsung wasn't fully hdr10 compliant but it was like 94% I would imagine most content since 2018 is HDR
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Mar 26, 2024 20:50
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PS5 has HDR playback, just not Dolby Vision or HDR10+
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Oh, got it, the "+" should have been a big clue. Probably my '16 tv has "almost" HDR10 with like, 800 nits brightness, and 94% color range. It can process the data, but the hardware can't quite keep up with the spec HDR10+ is 4000nits peak brightness, goddamn that's worthwhile just calling it HDR11 at that point
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Mar 26, 2024 21:41
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The plus actually refers to dynamic (like Dolby Vision)rather than static metadata.
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I was thinking about getting an NVidia Shield— doesn’t it support Dolby Vision? https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/shield/support/shield-tv/enable-dolby-vision-hdr10-on-shield/
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Delthalaz posted:I was thinking about getting an NVidia Shield— doesn’t it support Dolby Vision? https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/shield/support/shield-tv/enable-dolby-vision-hdr10-on-shield/ The newest version of the Nvidia Shield works with DV Profile 5. It also works with DV Profile 7 MEL content but not DV Profile 7 FEL content. There's a DV Profile 8 too but I don't know much about it. I honestly don't know much about Profile 5 or 7 either other then they exist and there's two types of Profile 7 and my TV hates Profile 7 in general while the Shield TV just can't do the FEL variety. DV Profile 5 is generally anything on a streaming service so Netflix, Disney+, etc that supports Dolby Vision. DV Profile 7 FEL and MEL are from UHD BDs and it depends on the movie whether you'll run into one type or the other. A DV Profile 7 FEL file on the Shield TV might play normally but the DV won't look accurate since it's missing the extra metadata. MagusDraco fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Mar 27, 2024 |
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OK I think I follow some of that— thanks. What do you recommend then?
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Delthalaz posted:OK I think I follow some of that— thanks. What do you recommend then? Honestly probably still the shield tv or apple tv 4k if you prefer that and don't need the audio passthrough support the shield TV has. Just let it fall back to HDR/just make HDR10 rips/find out how to make those hybrid Dolby Vision rips that use the streaming service Dolby Vision metadata (profile 5) if you can since that works on both of those devices. or if you have a mkv that seems to be showing off incorrect Dolby Vision on your shield tv you can put it through makemkv where it can probably turn it into a MEL version for you (won't be 100% perfect but it'll be good enough). You'd need to look through the makemkv forums to figure out how to do that if you ever ran into that issue. Alternatively you can spend way too much money on a zidoo box (Chinese android TV box brand) that does support all the Dolby Vision profiles but seems to cost like $400-$600 depending on the version you get and I don't begin to know which one is the right one to buy. I also don't know if the zidoo boxes support the same amount of audio and audio passthrough like the shield tv. So like shield TV is probably still good enough even if it doesn't work with all types of Dolby Vision.
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Is there a separate thread for tv box type things? I tried the LG and Samsung software in store and know I’ll hate it, so I’m looking to get a Apple TV or some sort of android TV device - I just want to know if there’s anything in particular to look out for when it comes to HDR etc.
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Sri.Theo posted:Is there a separate thread for tv box type things? I tried the LG and Samsung software in store and know I’ll hate it, so I’m looking to get a Apple TV or some sort of android TV device - I just want to know if there’s anything in particular to look out for when it comes to HDR etc. Just get the Apple TV or the Shield Pro depending on whether you prefer Apple or Android.
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Yeah honestly all my post about Dolby vision profiles really boils down to is "unless you have more money then sense and also want to use UHD BD remuxes for everything that you're playing via kodi or whatever just get a shield tv or apple tv"
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Also keep in mind if you get an Apple TV and your hope is to use Plex for everything, you might have to pony up the bucks for Infuse player to get flawless 4K/DV/HDR+/etc, because the Plex native client just absolutely shits the bed sometimes in unknowable ways
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So, switched from an old 65" Samsung TV from 2016 to a 77" G3. Huge upgrade, obviously. The TV is hooked directly to a Denon receiver (AVR-X3300W) that then has about 6 or 7 HDMI devices hanging off it (chromecast, PS4, switch, UHD blu-ray player, various other niche HDMI consoles, etc) In the past, I always had CEC issues with some sources just generally not working, and I was under the impression this was due to the number of devices hooked up, and CEC maxing out at 4 devices or something. If I changed configurations, the specific sources that didn't work would usually change around, but usually some worked and some didn't and I lived with it. Everything either worked fully with CEC up and down the chain, or didn't work at all - it was totally binary. Now what is happening is that my sources that seems to 'work' with CEC in the current setup (chromecast, PS4, etc) will only turn the TV on, but not the receiver. The passthrough video works fine, but I get no audio without the receiver on. Turning the TV off, or shutting the video source down, properly turns everything off up and down the chain, including the receiver. Other sources, as before, just continue to have no response whatsoever with either the receiver or the TV via CEC - which is unchanged. So unlike before, now the CEC behavior on the 'working' devices, is lopsided. It doesn't fully turn everything in the chain on, but everything in the chain shuts down properly - which seems odd. Any ideas on how to trouble shoot this or things I could do to try to resolve this? It is annoying to have to get my receiver remote out every time I turn things on. Hopefully what I have written all makes sense - let me know if it doesn't. ROJO fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Mar 30, 2024 |
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I got the same TV and after loving with it for a month I got a CEC blocker hdmi dongle. So yeah I gotta turn everything off and on manually now but all my other problems that you’re describing are gone.
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