The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thread!

[Ken]

Anybody have a Westinghouse TV? Target is doing a 55" 4k UHD smart TV for $249 for black friday. I don't really need a TV, but the price is enticing.

Whoa, whoa, whoa... I thought you said they were all the same and to just buy one?

In other news, it took me two days, but I finally got my XB1X hooked up properly to the LG OLED. Holy balls. I showed my wife a 4K video from youtube and she actually thought the picture quality was too good - "it's like real life, but it isn't... I don't know if I can watch a whole show like that." I accidentally had some HDR faking setting on the TV that make everything really bright; she didn't think it was too much after that. Amazon Video 4K was a little weaker, but still pretty good. Watching 1080p DirecTV is really disappointing after seeing the native 4K stuff. It's just fuzzy and there is some ghosting that kinda feels like when you watch 480p after being used to 1080p. I'm not sure if it's a function of upscaling or the signal just plain sucks. I need to upgrade our DTV receiver. Upscaling of games like Destiny 2 is definitely noticeable - the picture is just cleaner and brighter.

Pro tip: If you have an AV receiver, chances are it won't pass the 4K signal along. 

I had to rework my topography to make my receiver the last component in the line. Before it was HDMI with receiver before TV (DTV > XB1X > AV > TV) and now the receiver is after the TV (DTV > XB1X > TV > AV) with sound being sent via optical. This did introduce an audio sync issue that I was able to correct with an audio delay setting on my TV.

Interested to see what settings you tweaked, my plan was to follow this - RTINGS LG OLED C7 Settings.

Yeah - my AV receiver says "4K Passthrough," which, is true. Insofar that ONE of the 4 fucking inputs is 2.2 along with the output. Fuckers.

My plan is to plug all into the TV and then utilize the ARC to push audio to the receiver. Just have to do all my switching through the TV which may be better anyway. May be worth giving that a shot for simplicity sake.