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big mean giraffe posted:Just got a Vizio E550i-B2 today from Amazon, and I've been playing with it for the past few hours. I really love this TV, the picture quality is great, the bezel is tiny and it's surprisingly light at 33 lbs. For $678 this is a pretty awesome set. I just got an open box 32" model of that same TV for my girlfriend's bedroom and it's fantastic. Seriously, I'm blown away at how good a $200 TV can look now compared to just a few years back. It's insane. Like most sets it needed to be calibrated, but once you run thru the AVS disc, it's really quite nice.
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AzCoug posted:Where do you get this disc? Can it be used for any TV? Easy to use? AVS forum. If you can read and have some decent eyesight it should be pretty easy. It's not perfect but it's better than nothing. AzCoug posted:Looking for a 32" for a bedroom. Is it true that 1080 isn't real important/needed at that size? 720 would do? 1080 isn't important and more importantly almost no manufacturers spend the money to put 1080 into the budget panels, which is what 32" ones are. Vizio is hands down the best value at 32". The difference between the Ax and Bx models is that the Ax is last years model. The Bx is what you want. The main differences between the different Bx models are smart TV features and some cosmetic changes. They all share the same panel throughout the Bx line. I think you'd be happy with the E320-B0 that Costco is selling. I got my girlfriend's open box E320-B2 at sams for 192, and the main difference is smart tv features like netflix/amazon/etc., things that can easily be added and done better with a Roku/AppleTV/Chromecast.
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Cold Milk Bottle posted:What can we do to fix it so that it's more comfortable to watch and looks better? Swivel arm mount on the wall on the right side of the picture might work? Otherwise the easiest thing to do would just be hang a curtain over the built in and just put a TV stand in front of it. Is there anything stopping you from knocking out the middle wall between the old SD side and the desk side besides difficulty? That would be what I do, to be honest, even if it took a bit of work/money. Honestly, I'd just look at framing over the entire thing, but I also have an irrational hatred of built ins.
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Mar 25, 2014 03:48
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Cyrezar posted:What they look like up close: Borrow/buy a fish tape and feed it from the TV to the unused outlet, or use the existing cabling as a pull rope for whatever kind of new cable you're running.
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Mar 31, 2014 23:51
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Cyrezar posted:What about something like this adapter http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...2&pf_rd_i=typ01? Quality issues aside it may be easier to go box->digital coax->wall->digital coax->adapter->TV. Does your TV have optical out and do audio pass thru? That's going to be the easiest way to wire everything. HDMI from your sources -> cables thru wall to TV input -> Optical out from TV to soundbar Otherwise you're looking at running HDMI to the soundbar and using it as a switcher.
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I'm looking at replacing my beaten 10 year old 32" TV in the living room. So, I can get a 50" 4K set (P502UI-B1E) from Vizio for $700, where I'll have no way to consume content for it until UHD Blu-Ray comes out, or the 60" 1080p E Series set for $780. I'm completely conflicted. Most of my viewing is either sports or movies via netflix/amazon/downloads. I'm assuming we're a far ways off from 4K sports broadcasts. My internet is capped at 300GB/month thanks to comcast, so 4K netflix is out of the question until Google Fiber rolls out here in 2 years from now. Am I crazy to skip over the 4k set for a 45% increase in screen size?
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Feb 22, 2015 06:34
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Fremry posted:Nope. The increase in size is something you will value everyday, while 4k not only doesn't have any content, but the idea of 4k being any better than 1080p is dubious at best. 4k reminds me of the years of fabricated contrast numbers. LCD TV with 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio! (Actual number 400:1) People said the same thing about the comparison between 720p and 1080p in the beginning of HD. 4k is absolutely better no question, and the industry is going to eventually shift to that. The big problem I see, especially having worked in the film industry, is that most things now are done on a 2k DI and aren't shot/finished at 4k anyway. The real benefit would be all of the 4k remasters of things shot on film that have been done in the past 10 years or so. 4k + No 3:2 pull down anymore is about as close to a movie theatre in your home that I'll think we'll see. Basically, what I'm saying is that I can see that 4k is coming, I'm just unsure that it's worth the money to upgrade now vs waiting for 3-4 more years for the content and delivery options to be there. Probably will wind up with that 60" E series since the panel in the P series isn't as good, and will look at another new TV in 3-5 years when content delivery/standards are sorted and the technology is cheaper.
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Feb 23, 2015 06:27
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Tab8715 posted:The selection is slim but all new shows and movies will be filmed in it. Arri doesn't even make a 4k camera yet. So far your options camera wise are the Sony, Blackmagic, and the Red. Anything else is 2k at best. Tab8715 posted:Point taken, Not really. Not unless you have a huge budget or your name is Quentin Tarantino.
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Thermopyle posted:Eh, it's not like 1080p to 4k is as much of a subjective difference as the SD to 1080p transition was. It's pretty big considering 4k is what most digital projection systems in theaters are at this point. Obviously it makes more of a difference when we get to larger and larger screens, but we're rapidly approaching the point where we can recreate a majority of the theatre experience at home.
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zer0spunk posted:The Arri Amira (smaller alexa focused on location work) just got a 4k firmware update. You're right. I haven't had any friends work on anything with the 65 yet, so I forgot that it's out there. The Amira firmware isn't a true 4K though, it's upscaled. Agree about most everything else you've said though. bull3964 posted:Warner should actually have a pretty good catalog when all is said and done because they were big on preserving their films with 4k and 8k scans and striking new 35mm prints from those scans for archival. Of course, this really only matters to stuff pre-2000 or so. This. This is what I'm most interested in. I want studios to start doing 8k scans and restorations of their 35mm films for 4k releases.
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