Anyone have an issue with sound bars where it goes from loud to soft while watching the same show/movie? I find myself frequently adjusting the volume because its one way or the other.
I get that on anything sometimes. Fucking music comes in way louder then the voices. Then there is the ad's.
So Im starting to plan a new home theater set up for the upcoming PS5 release. Im thinking buy once cry once and will go with something 8k that eventually in the coming years will be utilized for (instead of buying a 4k now and 8k later). This is another too many options and competing technologies to even get my head around. Im hoping the wisdom of the crowd can help me out. What's the best tv or high def tech for gaming/action movie watching? I think 2k is going to be my budget.
I've got a ton of downloaded content that I want to make available on a network that one of the smart TV's can connect to. Right now, it's on a hard drive with an old laptop running Windows 10. Any ideas on how to get this stuff to work on a relatively new Smart tv? All of it plays on VLC Media player, and I'm fine with one tv running it locally via HDMI, but the other two that's not an option at the moment. Also, how can I get a Pornhub app for this smart TV? Asking for a friend...
@downndirty Best way to distribute media (IMO) is through a Plex server, and consuming it via the Plex apps. One central server and media catalog, streaming to any of your devices. If your TV doesn't have a Plex app, just buy something like a Roku stick or Fire TV stick. Frankly, most "Smart TVs" suck so I might do this anyway, it's likely that the Plex distribution for Roku will be kept up to date better than your Smart TV's distribution. Personally, I have a Synology NAS device with Plex running on it. This has the advantage of both being an integrated, low-power box (light on power requirements, smaller than most PCs and quiet), and having a huge amount of centralized storage for my files. Also, it's got redundant disks so a single disk failure doesn't result in me rebuilding my whole media library. If you might have 3+ people accessing it simultaneously, you might want something beefier like a full blown small computer - you could use something like an Intel NUC for this. Depends on your budget, really. Plex is also built for streaming to TVs, so it's remote control-friendly, which VLC and a Windows desktop definitely is not. If you wanted to do this on the cheap, you could connect your laptop to the network, install Plex Server on it, and try it like that. Laptops aren't super optimal for centralized anything, because they get hot and are a little fragile, but they can definitely work. Depends on the age of the laptop, too. If at all possible, hard-wire whatever you decide on into your router. Don't have your server be wireless. TL;DR: Plex.
Tell your friend that there is indeed a Pornhub app for her smart TV. https://thenextweb.com/apps/2016/04/07/now-you-can-watch-pornhub-on-your-tv-for-free/
Dish and Fox Sports South are still having a spat. So I signed up for Hulu + Live. But, after some time on the phone with tech support, I found out that Hulu doesn't allow the use of fixed wireless as the ISP, according to them. (I can't get high speed internet on cable or DSL where I live, so AT&T fixed wireless is my provider) It works fine for streaming, but Hulu says their live feature intentionally will not work on a TV with a mobile connection. Does any one know a way around this? I can cast it from my laptop, but that is a little jumpy. I can hardwire from my laptop with an HDMI cable, but that's a pain, too, for setup each time, and no remote. I guess I'm looking for an ISP trick or hack or something I can request from AT&T maybe?
Unfortunately, it sounds to me that you're shit out of luck. The only thing I can think to do is trying a different streaming provider like Youtube TV or Sling.
Anybody still on the board who’s using Sonos? I have a few questions. When my wife and I move into our new house, I want to set up some decent sound. Primarily, there will be two rooms - the living room (home theatre/surround) and the vinyl room (stereo music). What I would really like to do, is have the ability to put on a record and have music in any room I like. So essentially, have a Sonos system in the living room where I can select either source(receiver in the vinyl room for music, or the TV in the living room for movies and shows) and just have wireless speakers wherever I want. Is this possible? Or does everything have to have the same central hub? If you wanna PM me with details, go ahead.
Does anybody know a lot of coaxial TV signal? I've got 3 TVs on my Dish plan, with the main Hopper and 2 Joey's, so I can pause, record, watch from any of those, and 3 shows at a time. When the guy installed it a few years ago, he set it up so I could watch on a 4th TV. But, it was just a redundant signal from one Joey. I can use an additional UHF remote and change channels, and it's not like I'm watching 4 TVs at a time, so that's fine. The Joey has an HDMI out to the TV at it, and then there is a modulator(?) that takes the 3-RCA out from the Joey, converts to coax, and then that coax feeds to a junction in a closet. That junction feeds the signal to the dummy TV. I used to have that feed a TV in the kitchen. It was an old tube TV and worked okay. I never watched it, though and got rid of it. I got a new Smart TV for the den, and just had the old flat screen (but not Smart) in the attic. I decided to mount that one in my bonus room. Spoiler It works, but the picture has these diagonal trash lines. Not sure if the picture really shows it. Is that likely signal noise, or signal loss? The coax feed is the same type of wiring. The kitchen feed and bonus feed were installed at the same time when I built the house. I don't know if I never noticed the noise on the smaller tube TV, or if this is worse. But, I'm not sure what problem I'm trying to solve. Is there something like a noise filter I should try, or should I look at a signal booster? The bonus room is directly above the closet, so it's actually shorter than the run to the kitchen.
Odds are you're going to need a powered amplifier/splitter. Something like this. https://www.amazon.ca/Bi-Directional-Splitter-Booster-Amplifier-Telephone/dp/B003UHRVA2
That's a little more than I need, I think. I've got a powered signal booster for a single coax from when I first got Dish, and also needed an antenna for local channels. I may try that first. I've also got a 7" portable TV that I can hook up right at the RCA out source, and then check the first coax junction. Might tell me where the trouble starts.
You may want to peruse this. https://www.netxl.com/blog/antennas/signal-loss-coax-cable/ I've help set up a friend's house with a coax amplifier where I had to use a powered splitter like that, and each run had to be individually tuned for the amount of amplification based on the cable length. The first time we did it we just used a passive splitter and it was absolute shit. Once we moved up to a powered splitter (8-way in his case), it was much better, but a few of the short runs and long runs were shit... turns out they were over/under powered for the run. We ended up tuning each one individually to get it right... one of us would watch the TV while the other tuned the power for that run. We also found out that any open/unused end on a splitter like that should be properly terminated or else it introduces signal weirdness.
The interesting thing is, this run is much, much shorter than the kitchen run is. It's literally like 10 feet, because it just goes up out of the closet into the wall in the floor above. And, all the other signals are just fine, because their feed is individual from the satellite. This one is the only one I'd like to improve. And, it's not even all that important. I can add a whole other Joey set up for $5/mo for perfectly clear reception. (So I don't need to spend $200 on an 8-plex amp or anything.) I just thought if I could put an easy booster or filter on it, that would get rid of the lines. After looking at the picture in my first post, I should have pointed out, I'm not trying to sharpen that picture. It just looks crappy trying to take a picture of a moving image with my camera. It's the diagonal lines I'm trying to eliminate. Sounds like you think it's signal loss and not noise or some kind of interference. And, I realize, those can sometimes be the same thing.
That was one of the things we ran into. We had no idea that on that 8-way splitter there were different powers for different outlets... we put a really short run on a super high power amplified outlet and it looked like shit. We had to then go through and adjust the power output for each run. I think you can also get power reducer filters for that.
If you really wanted to do it right you could drop $100 on a coax signal strength meter so you could measure the signal and the power drop you need. Failing that you could just get a handful of those attenuators and trial and error it.