Episode #023
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This week Patrick Norton and Robert Heron are smiling at the home theater goodness
Robert is Olympic-ed out
- Awaiting live 4K/UHD/WCG
Off the record
- "Listened to your Olympics show. All the content is archived in full recorded resolution on Spectra Logic tape libraries. You didn't get this from me."
- Other clients
- National Geographic
- NBC
- Robots manage our growing archives
- NAS = Networked Attached Storage
- Backblaze hard drive stats
- Kaby Lake CPUs 4K ready
- Native HDCP 2.2 support
- HEVC Main10/10-bit
- VP9 10-bit video decoding
- Pat playing Overwatch on Intel graphics
- Project Alloy VR platform
Best seat in the room
- Southern Motion theater seating
- Power headrests
- Fold down drink tables
- USB charging
- “multimedia sofas”
- What's your movie/TV seat of choice
- Pat's spousal acceptance factor
- Robert's 4K office chair
Enterprise Home Theater
- CEpro via WSJ
- Acoustic Innovations design
- JBL Synthesis sound system
- Kaleidescape media server
- 3,500 films digitized
- RIP
- PRIMA Cinema systems
- Turbolift doors and hydraulic floor
- $1 million worth of 'Star Trek' stuff
- D-Box motion tech
- Fiber optic star field ceiling
Archiving Blu-rays
- RedFox - for all your backup needs
- Wait for sales
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HDMI cables for everyone
- Start w/Amazon Basics
- More great HDMI gear
Evan has pixel shift concerns
- Interested in new Epson 5040UB
- Art Feierman's review
- Pixel shifting 1080p to 4K
- 4K Enhancement and HDR
- Update to awesome 5030 series - now on sale
- Sony still the best-priced 4K option
- Digital Projection 4K is amazing
- 6040UBe cased in black
- JVC RS400 = contrast king
- Sony 4K VPLVW665ES
@ajsmith tweets, “Any network ever broadcast live in 1080P? Are we going to compressed 4K first?”
- Neulion’s 4K60 UFC 200 fight was the best we've seen so far
- Broadcasters use 1080i as it converts nicely into 1080p30
- 24p movies in 1080i film processed into original 1080p24
- 1080p60 live streaming is doable today
- ATSC 3.0 before we see much 4K live action
New Blu-ray Movies
- Angry Birds in UHD
- Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
- The Money Pit
- American Ninja
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
- Midnight Run
- The Nice Guys
- Netflix’ Narcos
- The Jungle Book
Tim's tl;dr
- $325-400 in gift cards
- Want 50"/55" TV
- Not too concerned about 4K
- Bright room
- Magnolia at Best Buy
- Great online deals
Talking to the TV
8 vs. 4 Ohm
- Pete encourages more experimentation
- Use a good amp
- THD can go up as resistance drops
- Run speakers "small"
- LFE to the sub
Robert’s crazy calibration week
- Pro monitor LUT generation
- Pro-tip: reset display to widest color gamut before doing LUT
- OLED’s separate calibration for HD/HDR10/Dolby Vision
- The KS9800 leaves the building
- Impressed; yearning yet for more
- 2015 JS9500 still a great TV
- FlatpanelsHD’s Dolby Vision FAQ
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Recorded August 26, 2016