Episode #008
Welcome to episode 008 of the AVexcel podcast
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This week Patrick Norton and Robert Heron are enveloped in home theater goodness
HBO's Vinyl
Hosko's lens cleaning rules
- Don't touch the lens
- Use a blower
- Don't touch the lens
PC cleaning must-haves
- Metro Vacuum's DataVac 500
- Metro Vacuum's DataVac Pro
Protect your investment
1080p TV deals are vanishing
- 4K UHD TVs are the new 1080p
- The best 2016 UHD TVs excel at delivering
- High dynamic range (HDR)
- Wide color gamut (WCG)
- Ideal screen size for viewing distance
Get your 4K on (now)
Keith's TV doesn't decode the VP9 codec
- Licensing codecs is expensive
- Roku 4 has 4K UHD 30fps VP9 playback
- NASA 4K video looks sublime
- Chrome supports VP9 (no surprise)
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Richard is curious about SiliconDust tuners
- Raspberry Pi + Kodi setup
- SiliconDust network tuner
- Synology network attached storage (NAS)
- Western Digital My Cloud NAS
- SiliconDust HDHomeRun DVR
AV calibration training
- AVS calibration forum
- THX training
- Imaging Science Foundation (ISF)
- Customer education is key
- Enjoy what you do
Tom asks if it's OK to copy calibration settings
- It's not ideal
- Plasma TVs were an interesting exception
- Basic TV picture setup is easy
Luxury headphones
A great week for new Blu-ray releases
- Bogart and Bacall
- The Graduate (The Criterion Collection)
- Pixar's The Good Dinosaur
- Deadpool preorder (spring 2016)
- Love on Netflix
Rotten Tomatoes purchased by Fandango
- Fandango picked up Flickster too
Ron wants the best streaming service
- Sony FMP-X10 4K Media Player
- Lots of 4K streaming options
- VUDU doing Dolby Vision + Atmos
- Netflix per-title encode optimization
- Can I Stream.it - find that streaming movie
- Interstellar: Blu-ray vs iTunes vs Amazon
- Benefits of ripping your CDs
Chris wonders why his gear freezes/crashes
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Recording date: February 22, 2016