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Malenko:
Everyone's opinion on the compression always differs, it's why I always suggest someone try to compress a file and see if they personally notice a difference. When you take a 60GB file and try to cut it down to 700MBs you're going to take a quality hit; but compressed a few for comparison's sake and more often than not there isn't any banding/pixilation/artifacts/etc but YMMV. Compressed TV shows usually aren't a big deal, most cable providers broadcast at 720p anyway; but you can get amazon rips and the like at 1080p. 10 feet screen sounds cool but there isn't any place in my house big enough for that lol. |
dkersten:
--- Quote from: Malenko on May 30, 2018, 03:40:28 pm ---10 feet screen sounds cool but there isn't any place in my house big enough for that lol. --- End quote --- Stick to flat screens. Seriously, once you start in with a projector in a light controlled room it spirals out of control and soon you will only settle for a "small" 55" in your bedroom or kitchen just because it isn't practical to go bigger, lol. I wish I could be happy with the 65" in my living room... I just ordered my screen for the theater, and it is just a screen that reflects the image from the projector, basically a piece of white vinyl with little holes to let sound through, and it cost me more than a high end 90" flatscreen LCD at full retail. And that was the budget screen, the really good one was twice as much for the same exact size and spec. It's just plain stupid... but no more so than pinball machines in your living room or a wakeboarding boat in the driveway... :) Plus it is kinda cool to say I am installing a 165" screen, or I have 21,000 watts of power in the room, or I have 22tb of storage that I need to expand, lol. Obsession? No, I just do this instead of fishing, hunting, camping, boating, or racing. They say if it floats, flys, or f*cks, rent it. There isn't anything in that saying about theaters... |
dkersten:
--- Quote from: BadMouth on May 29, 2018, 04:33:19 pm ---Interesting to know, but after a little research it looks like my older Roku and Tivo devices wouldn't be able to direct stream it. (The Roku 4 can) Plex would have to transcode on the fly which is what I'm trying to avoid. I don't plan on amassing a large collection for the sake of having a large collection. By the time I get everything ripped, the 3TB drive will still only be halfway full. --- End quote --- I use firetv boxes (the new ones) and they have a hard time with some codecs too, and it makes avoiding transcoding tough. That's one reason I went with a dedicated server for Plex. So many ways to skin this cat, you just gotta find the way that works best for your setup. I'm still not convinced the way I went is the best way to go, but I don't plan to go back to Kodi any time soon. Frankly, these days a personal media collection should mostly be niche stuff you can't get on streaming services. I only have a growing library because my goal is to have a lot of top quality media to watch in the theater room and I don't want to get up to put blu rays in the drive. Now that I have fast upstream internet at home, I share that library with family and friends and they really enjoy having a lot of niche titles as well as enough content to not need to pay for Netflix or Amazon. But if I were using it for feeding mobile devices or even regular TV's, I wouldn't even bother with anything other than hard to find titles. |
DaOld Man:
I downloaded speedfan. pretty neat program, even shows hard drive temps. Its showing my 12 volt power as 13.2 volts. Could this be a sign I need to change power supplies? My hard drive crapped out a few weeks ago, had to replace it. I wonder now if the higher voltage could have fried it over time? |
05SRT4:
--- Quote from: DaOld Man on May 30, 2018, 09:20:25 pm ---I downloaded speedfan. pretty neat program, even shows hard drive temps. Its showing my 12 volt power as 13.2 volts. Could this be a sign I need to change power supplies? My hard drive crapped out a few weeks ago, had to replace it. I wonder now if the higher voltage could have fried it over time? --- End quote --- Some BIOS settings allow you to check and adjust voltage, could be a settings in there. |
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