George L. Schmauch Jr.
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I’m with htpc_user… the theaters around here are terrible. Forget about any surround sound. The entire audio setup is turned up way too loud, so that you can actually get a little bit of a rumble. The picture can be grainy and the screens tend to have spots or tears. Besides that, I really don’t need a huge screen for most movies. Iron Man, Transformers, Die Hard… action movies, in other words… those can benefit from a big screen. But, I’ll still have a better experience at home, both aurally (surround sound I can hear) and visually (crisp picture).
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Yeah, but you’ll have to buy new shoes because they’ll be super glued to the floor of the theater. There’s the financial benefit… you can’t buy a new pair of shoes for <$30.
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I'm not sure we're talking about the same kind of theater. 😉
[/quote]ROFL… yeah, guess I walked right into that one. ;D
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Timing is part of what distinguishes that know what they’re doing from those that don’t 🙂FWIW – I have a feeling that Jan/Feb 2011 will be the perfect time to build a low power, quiet, 3D, HDMI 1.4, bit streaming HTPC.
[/quote]D’oh! Very, very good point!
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While that’s true – the problem is that the stated goals are bizarre given product timing that they should have known about. I don’t think it’s possible for them to have picked a worse time to build that box; had they waited a month (or two) significantly cheaper/better hardware would have been available as well as nVidia’s HDMI 1.4 driver. Anyone who follows their guidance to achieve similar objectives and doesn’t do some homework will be completely screwed.
[/quote]Very good point.
[/quote]This is probably why magazines don’t do these types of builds very often. There’s never a “perfect” time. I won’t begin to understand how long it takes for a magazine article to go from “idea” to “newstand”, but I get the feeling that’s the piece we’re not aware of and it probably played a bigger role than we realize. Too bad there’s no website out there, devoted to HTPCs, which could publish something in a more timely fashion… 😉
It happened so fast, I missed it. Who had their hand up first? ;D
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Yes it does. Especially when you consider that in that same time frame the budget theaters that show movies at the end of their theatrical run will let you in for only a buck or two and won’t make you take out a 2nd mortgage to buy a soda and some popcorn.
[/quote]Yeah, but you’ll have to buy new shoes because they’ll be super glued to the floor of the theater. There’s the financial benefit… you can’t buy a new pair of shoes for <$30.
Okay, in all seriousness, this whole idea is ridiculous. I'm sure some (very rich) people will be willing to do this, but not the majority of people. I guess if there's really no overhead, then a single $30 purchase is still worth it. As was said earlier, if you've got a serious home theater and want to invite a bunch of people over, this would be a nice option. But, that's it.
I don’t. I think most of MPC’s readers know enough to go online and research first. For those who don’t… live and learn, I guess. Maybe they’ll make their way over to MR through their eventual research. 😉
I’ve got The Whole Truth recorded, but haven’t watched it yet. I don’t know that I’m going to enjoy it, though, since I’ve been through every episode of L&O and I’m not sure I want another courtroom drama. The humour is what drew me to The Defenders.
Is the show you’re thinking about [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_%26_Order:_Trial_by_Jury]Law & Order: Trial by Jury[/url]?
We just finished watching premiere of The Defenders and we were both pretty impressed. It wasn’t quite what I was expecting. If I had to give a quick analogy, it would be that it’s Law & Order from the defense’s perspective, but with much more humour and more “dirty” tricks from the lawyers. I hope the stories will hold up and it sticks around for a little while.
September 29, 2010 at 1:37 am in reply to: DVR Having Significant Result in Ratings, Finally Being Calculated #28094I think that no matter how this is sliced up by the interested parties, the end result can only be positive. Everything captain says is dead on. The good side of this is that it may result in more realistic advertising fees, which, some would argue, will result in less money for programming, potentially resulting in programs being canceled or never aired. While true, there’s no way that TV is just going to disappear because the advertising money has gone down. In reality, I’d venture to say that we’ll have lower production costs, lower advertising costs, shorter–though, more–commercials, all resulting in BETTER programming, since the networks will need to ensure that their shows are profitable. In that type of market, something like Cavemen would–thankfully–never even get past the idea stage.
Oh yeah, we also watched Outsourced. It was very painful to force myself to watch the entire episode. There were some mildly funny parts, but I think this show is going to sink very quickly. I’ve talked myself into giving it one more episode, but my expectations couldn’t possibly be lower. I don’t whether I laughed less at this or Modern Family.
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Unless you’ve got a serious HT install it would be really hard to match the theater.
[/quote]I could very easily invite my nieces and/or nephews over to get the talking, phone ringing, glaring phone screen, distracting experience. Oh wait, that’s not what you meant. 😉
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id almost pay extra to not have the theater experience!
[/quote]LOL! Well, now you can! ;D
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Watch any episode of Rescue Me and you can appreciate where I’m coming from.
[/quote]Ironic that you mentioned that show, since we started watching it, but lost interest after the 2nd season. We just didn’t find anything appealing about it, especially with how “real” it was becoming. I liked his hallucinations, but that didn’t last very long. Let’s see what we’re left with… there’s cheating, whoring, lying, abuse, drugs, alcohol, mental issues, child endangerment, death. If I wanted all that with minimal comedy, I’d either watch soap operas or the evening news. Thankfully, almost all of that is included with loads of comedy via Two and a Half Men.
[quote]Sitcoms are supposed to be uplifting escapist entertainment, not dismal social commentary about the economy. I can only imagine how many people in the unemployment line wanted to jump off a bridge after watching this show.[/quote]
Yeah, but it’s not the entire country which is out of work. There are plenty of us who do have jobs and aren’t worried about losing them. We can enjoy these shows quite easily. Let’s face it, if someone’s unemployed, they may not be able to keep paying the cable bill. They also are not the target demographic, since the advertising is useless for the people who can’t afford to purchase those things.
[quote]On the subject of Haven, I’ve watched the show because it’s different and shown during the summer when there’s a lot less competition. Am I the only one that finds the storyline to look like swiss cheese that’s been shot with a scattergun? I mean, this female FBI agent shows up in this town that is apparently plagued by the return of “The Troubles” and all sorts of weirdness begins to happen. She buys into everything without batting an eye. The whole town seems indifferent to things that would have the vast majority of any sane population heading for the nearest exit.
[/quote]You answered your own question there. The town is indifferent to “the troubles” because they have RETURNED. In other words, they’ve experienced it before, so it’s not all that surprising that they sort of turn the other cheek.
I also wouldn’t say that she buys into, so much as she wants to know about her own past (her mother) and that’s a stronger draw than the troubles are a repellent. I think she feels like she was meant to wind up there.
[quote=”captain_video”]&#% My Dad Says – My wife and I watched about half of it before we bailed. I immediately canceled recording the rest of the series. Don’t waste your time. The writing is awful and the jokes are forced. The test audiences for this must have been in a room pumped full of nitrous oxide to get them to laugh. It really does need a laugh track to tell you where the funny parts are supposed to be because you’ll have a hard time figuring them out for yourself. I predict it will be canceled before the end of October, which is longer than it deserves to be on the air. Did I mention it flat out sucked? This is exactly the kind of show that sours me to sitcoms in general.[/quote]
Oh man, I can’t believe you didn’t think it was funny. This might explain the Modern Family disconnect. 😉 Like I said previously, it’s not BBT funny or even Two and a Half Men funny, but I still thought it was quite humorous. I’m honestly not sure if they’ll be able to keep it that way, but I’m hanging around for a while to find out. The premiere scored very well in the ratings, too.
We watched the first episode of Hawaii-Five-0 and thought that was pretty decent, as well. However, it was packed with action, which I don’t think will continue in every episode. BTW, having been to Hawaii several times, it was great knowing some of the locations, including the opening scene which supposedly took place somewhere in Asia (was it Korea?), but was actually the same place they filmed some of Jurassic Park… the Kualoa Ranch. Oh yeah, the mountain tunnel where the truck pulls out of is the same one from Pearl Harbor.
I haven’t mentioned it recently, but we’re really enjoying Syfy’s Haven. It’s a tiny bit like Fringe, with all the weird stuff going on in every episode.
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I’ll try moving the file. I am beginning to think it might be a video issue because blu-ray works fine. Would VLC overwrite a CODEC for wtv files?
[/quote]What do you mean by “video issue”? You said that you can play the file back locally (client PC) without issue, right? If that’s the case, then it’s not a codec issue. Unless MC (which I don’t use) does something really strange, WHS doesn’t use any codecs for streaming the video.
Also, what format are you using for Blu-rays? ISO? MKV? Folder structure? If those are streaming fine, then the wtv files should, as well. I assume these files are stored in the drive pool, just like the wtv file, right? If all your pooled drives are identical, then don’t bother moving the wtv file to the C: or D: partition, since I think that would rule out a disk I/O issue.
Personally, I do think it’s a network issue.
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