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Friday 261, lysol (pg. 3)
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| Dykes_on_Jay |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
Time makes fools of us all :( |
It's getting better with hormone therapies. |
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| Boomer187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zoso
We FINALLY joined the modern display technology world at home this week with the purchase of a 2019 model LG SM8600 TV. As much as I would have liked to have gone OLED, this model was half the price for the same underlying tech (wide color gamut via a quantum dot filter, Dolby Vision and Atmos support, HDR10, HLG, etc.) for the most part.
I honestly didn't expect to see much of a difference going from a FHD display to a UDH display...it is, after all, only 4x the resolution. But by god, this panel does a helluva job at upscaling FHD content. We have the Planet Earth II series on standard Blu-ray, and we are going back thru those. Watching on this TV vs. the prior 40" FHD (this is a 55")...is a revelation. This is like looking out a damned window. The actual 4K/UHD HDR demo material on YouTube is even more stunning. Seeing it "live" is when you "get it". I've seen screencaps for years on caps-a-holic.com, etc., but seeing a screenshot of an HDR image down rezed to an SDR image/container just saps the life out of the images. I will have to purchase a set top UHD disc player, now. I have a handful of UHD Blu-rays, including The Revenant, that I'd love to see on this new display. Having grown up with standard NTSC broadcast TV, this is a damned revolutionary experience. With today's home theater tech and prices, I really don't see how traditional movie theaters remain in business. Has to be the inflated popcorn sales alone. |
We just put an LG nano 9 in our master bedroom. They do put out some killer TVs! |
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| Zoso |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
We just put an LG nano 9 in our master bedroom. They do put out some killer TVs! |
We are definitely enjoying ours. I love being able to hit the Technicolor Expert preset and just being done with the settings at that point. I did, for giggles, put a BT.709 SDR calibration disc in to look at the basics like brightness, contrast, color, and overscan...and they all checked out fine on that preset.
I really wanted to get an OLED, but when LG announced the price of the new CX 48" at 1,500.00 we just went ahead and pulled the trigger on the Nano series instead.
Dunno if anyone likes time lapse videos, but a few years ago a couple of guys released a Blu-ray called TimeScapes (www.timescapes.org). It was shot by a guy that does time lapse stuff out in the American southwest. His bristlecone pine under the Milky Way won him the astronomy photo of the year around the same time. Anywho, watching that Blu-ray on this new display is fabulous. I'm tempted to get one of the 4K versions they offer. |
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| Lews |
| I will never understand people's obsession with TVs. Why does one need one in the bedroom?? |
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| Zoso |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
I will never understand people's obsession with TVs. Why does one need one in the bedroom?? |
I wouldn't call my enjoyment an "obsession". When I was growing up, one of my fondest memories is my dad sharing his love of film with us. He worked about an hour away, in a bigger town, and he would often stop by Hollywood Video on his way home and rent something for us to watch. When PBS did the Cosmos series, that was one of the highlights of that shared experience with my father. So, as a result, to this day I still have a huge love of film/video. It's really the only "hobby" that I have. So, I do tend to read up on display technology and undertake far more effort than necessary to understand and enjoy it. I will be the first to admit that. But, it's for the reasons above.
As far as a TV in the bedroom, I could take it or leave it. The TV with the fewest number of hours on it we possess is a bedroom TV. I got it over half a decade ago during a Black Friday sale, and I bet it doesn't have 100 hours of use on it. |
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| JEO |
| My trashy-ass cousin had a huge TV hanging from a chain attached to the ceiling in his bedroom. He gave me a tour of his apartment and the contraption kept ing bothering me for the rest of my visit. I haven't visited since. That thing really affected our relationship more than it should have. |
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| OrangestO |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
I will never understand people's obsession with TVs. Why does one need one in the bedroom?? |
Because having sex while watching porn on a phone is as lame as playing twister.
| quote: | Originally posted by JEO
My trashy-ass cousin had a huge TV hanging from a chain attached to the ceiling in his bedroom. |
This guy knows what he's doing. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
I will never understand people's obsession with TVs. Why does one need one in the bedroom?? |
Agree. TV is a huge no in the bedroom. |
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| Dykes_on_Jay |
| Lots of anti-trans sentiment in this thread |
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| Boomer187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
I will never understand people's obsession with TVs. Why does one need one in the bedroom?? |
No obsession, the wife likes having an almost fully contained space in the bedroom...a nice place to escape. She was watching everything on a tablet laying in bed anyways, so now she can stare at the wall with a giant ass tv. plus our bedroom is like 18ft (6m :wtf:) long so the tv needed to be big ass sized to be seen.
We will also have our son's first virtual birthday party in there on the tv :clown: |
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| Midlothian |
Who is currently moderating the MD? Think you really need to do the right thing and put an end to the red pill thread please.
As long as there's a TV attached to the chain and not just chains without tvs hanging there I wouldn't worry too much. |
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