oh nice talk about it some more i’m thinking about picking one up
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it was only a good deal when the rm2 was first shipping because the cloud subscription, the pen, and the case were all included
I think the pricing is kind of high now but it’s quite nice for drawing, it’s just open sourcey enough to feel fun, the highlighting UX is nice, and the reading experience is very good (it’s non-amazon e-ink)
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make that three, even if I don’t want to replace the Yamaha RX S-601 (Small Form Factor) I have been rockin’ since the PS3 era, but the first HDMI port has been grilled at one point by the XB3 or PS4, and 4k pass-through doesn’t work properly (don’t even getme started with Dolby Vision and the shebang, that wasn’t even a thing back then iirc?)
Have been waiting a few years on whether Yamaha will sort their Aventages out and maybe put out a modern S-601 interpretation, but so far nothing materialized yet 
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I care about AVRs
I’m just too cheap to replace the TX-SR605 I have now due to it still working
the march of technology will not stop me from wringing out every last cent of value from this thing I found at a Goodwill for 40 bucks, probably because they thought it was broken since the button for forcing stereo was stuck and stopping it from doing surround
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I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the Aventages at this point but they are most certainly not slim
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i wouldn’t even mind if they went with odd case design(s), but the hefty footprint of the current crop is sth you have to accept… maybe it will fit better if I move places and can merge the two as-of-now-separate audio/tvtvtv domains and have a giant tower of shiny hardware sitting somewhere, but that’s not set in stone yet.
(otherwise quite happy w/ the Yamahas, i should note)
Oh I thought you were talking about their hdmi 2.1 issues when they were first released. Yeah, they’re huge. Mine sits on top of my subwoofer which is probably not the best place but it’s where it fits. I’m sure most of that is hardware for the amps, heatsinks and the like. I doubt the video stuff is very heavy, maybe it will make it into a midrange revision with smaller amps?
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If I were to upgrade my 1080p60 TV to something for a “PS5 or more” what should I be looking for? AFAIK most PS5 games don’t even 4k60. HDR? VRR?
High resolution makes so much more sense in terms of a working space, but gaming TVs seem like different priorities.
hi I lived this hell months ago
you buy a TV that does 4k, real 120hz, HDMI Forum VRR at minimum, Dolby Vision (this is me subtly telling you not to buy Samsung) and then you stare at Rtings charts to see which suck the least at input latency
or lol buy an OLED
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are the hisense U8Ks legit or what
context: I have never purchased a modern TV before but I’m finally moving into a large enough place to have a TV in addition to my projector and computer monitors
if you’re already used to handling ambient light from projector ownership i don’t see a downside to regular ol oled (where it’s far less extreme)
downside to LCD is always motion resolution ofc
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Ok… and Google TV more or less runs android apps, right? I had a Roku TV with a furnished rental briefly 3 years ago and didn’t really care for it, so even though I haven’t had an android phone since 2013 I guess I’d prefer Google’s thing
yeah, you can sideload android apks even. performance is ymmv based on the TV’s SoC but the chromecast my mom has runs moonlight etc fine
webOS is more mature than it should be if you like to think about the palm pre and wii when changing settings (as i do) but google TV is the safe bet
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“google tv is the safe bet” is a wild thing to say considering the last time i had an android phone i knew someone with one of these
but android probably isn’t going anywhere now
disclosure my LG is airgapped and i use an apple tv i got six years ago in some kind of scam promo by signing up for and canceling a directv streaming service. can’t recommend it because the remote is terrible
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so from my research of bashing my head against specs and anecdotes
Rtings is very big on Hisense just in terms of raw performance and price
if you poke around on reddit, the company doesn’t have a great reputation in terms of QC and longevity
TCL seems to be the trusted cheap Chinese brand there as long as you stick to their higher end offerings (and, honestly, going off of Rtings, TCL and Hisense perform pretty similarly)
the issue being once you get into higher end Hisense/TCL models, you’re encroaching on the mid and lower end LG/Samsung OLEDs and Sony’s FALD sets (Sony being the image processing champion since forever)
my advice is look at what Best Buys by you have available as open box since we’re still post-Super Bowl. I grabbed a 55" X90L for 300 off normal price and it was basically new in box
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google tv is Actually Good yeah
there’s an ‘apps only’ mode that turns off all the garbage in the ui so it looks like a vintage apple tv
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I think people like them for getting decent quality giant sized tv’s cheaply. but this is why I’m leaning towards the s89c, a best buy exclusive variant of the 77inch model of samsung’s oled, which is the same panel in the sony tvs. it’s like 2 grand on sale 2.2 grand not. I paid 2.9 back when for the 50 inch kuro. otherwise the same samsung in 65 inch or an lg c3 are 1.5 and people say color banding in hdr in game mode on the lg is more noticeable but no worrying about supported formats, no dolby vision with the samsung but madvr does dynamic tonemapping. sony is too expensive, especially when I got a computer doing all my “image processing” already. I’m not watching shit through apps, I don’t believe in lifetime subscriptions.
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moved my NAS
into the North case, since the Terra seems to be doing fine with the HTPC hardware I threw at it.
Even after having moved components from case to case many times before, it’s always a nice feeling when you press the power button and it just works ~~~
(yes, that case is a bit overkill for a standard NAS, but has ample space for seven 2.5" SSDs)
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the samsung was on sale for 1800 so I got it. don’t know what the hell I’m gonna do with it if I ever move
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Does this matter?