The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thread!

[Evan]

I dont see why either of those things are necessary.

[JustinG]

They arent......but its a way for me to justify upgrading my TV

Sidebar....

Does Refresh rate still matter? On LCD TVs 240hz is best right? What about on LED? What refresh rate do i need to keep 1080p from being jumpy?

[Evan]

Not really. It was a marketing gimmick. Even at 60hz 1080p was never jumpy (considering the framerate on any movie is 30fps and was originally 24fps)

I havent kept up with TVs in a few years, but I really like locally dimming LED backlight, but that may have been phased out since it makes the TV a bit thicker than sidelit LED and people are stupid.

[Apoc]

not everything has hdmi out, hdmi ports can be a pain to get to, and you still have a wire running across your living room. still not perfect

I only ever use my laptop and I ran the HDMI around the outside of the room in the cable channel that holds my surround-sound speaker wire. It's waaaaay perfect.

[Evan]

It's waaaaay perfect for the very narrow and limited use-case for me and probably not for anybody else or any other locations or use cases.

[JustinG]

I should probably upgrade my receiver before my TV....

Learn me some Receivers. What brands should I avoid?

Can I get by with a $250 receiver?

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[Evan]

its pointless to get a new receiver if you dont have higher quality speakers to take advantage of it

[JustinG]

I have what I think are decent speakers, I am no audiophile. I know there is alot of BOSE hate but they were Free 99, I have the 161s and 201s.

I think my biggest benefit from a new receiver would be the HDMI inputs.

[JPolen01]

Here you go bitches:

Play local files through your Chromecast.

We’re still playing around with the Chromecast, and will have some thoughts on it later, but we wanted to point out a feature that you may not have been aware of after watching yesterday’s demo from Google. Chromecast can play local video files from your computer to a TV. That means you aren’t stuck with YouTube or Netflix or uploading your current collection to a cloud service – you can grab files already on your computer and then stream them to a TV.

Outside of owning a Chromecast device (which is sold out everywhere), all you have to do is install the Chromecast extension on your PC, then find the file path of a local video file that you’d like to play, paste that path into the address bar in a Chrome browser, and then press the Chromecast button to cast it on over. It really is that simple.

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[JustinG]

good find, thats pretty sweet. Mine should be here tomorrow, I am anxious to play around with it.

Time to DL the latest episodes of Top Gear!

[JPolen01]

Give us a review once you get it. I'm waiting a bit before I pull the trigger.

[Apoc]

It's waaaaay perfect for the very narrow and limited use-case for me and probably not for anybody else or any other locations or use cases. I'm all that matters, so /thread.

[Evan]

hope you didnt wait
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[JustinG]

So amazon said it will send the code out within a week of shipment. We shall see. I ordered mine shortly after Amazon went live selling it so I hope I get a code.

[.RJ]

I am catching up on internet backlog, and I cant figure out what the the point of this thing is, but that's probably because I have a media PC for my TV.

[JustinG]

So it works as advertised. But the way my a/v is ghetto rigged I have no way of playing the audio

[Sully]

Is it bad that neither our receiver nor our main TV has any HDMI inputs. Not a single TV in the house does. Of course I think all the ones in the apartment do.

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[Apoc]

So it works as advertised. But the way my a/v is ghetto rigged I have no way of playing the audio

Guess it's gonna cost more than $35?

[D_Eclipse9916]

So it works as advertised. But the way my a/v is ghetto rigged I have no way of playing the audio

Guess it's gonna cost more than $35?

Can you just not plug it into the actual receiver itself as an HDMI channel?

[JustinG]

My receiver is so old it has no hdmi inputs....not even the green/blue plugs. Just RCA.