Physical & Digital EST: The Future of Home Video Discussion Thread

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by bhampton

I have the new Mac mini and plan to use it as my HTPC.

I’m tremendously excited about how it will go. I think it can replace all of my source components.

Even the Nintendo Wii and its Balance Board?

[bhampton]

I don’t have that but I want it

[Vilya]

I do have it and I have done the hula hoop exercise. I was not as aesthetically pleasing to watch, but I was definitely funnier.

[alchav21]

Originally Posted by Lee A Stewart

That's what 60% of US Households have . . . an HDTV

Do you think the 60% holds true on this Blu-ray.com Site too? Think it might!

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by alchav21

Do you think the 60% holds true on this Blu-ray.com Site too? Think it might!

Create a poll thread and find out!

[sapiendut]

I was watching NOS4A2 on Amazon Prime Canada. Finished the 1st season no problem, but just after finishing 3 episodes of season 2, Amazon Prime pulled season 2 away so now I can’t finish season 2. Strangely season 1 is still available.

[JohnAV]

Originally Posted by gotmule

Fury is an insane test to your system. Love the movie too.

How does it compare against the BD? Grabbed District 9 4K.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by bhampton

I don’t have that but I want it

What about the board?

[alchav21]

Originally Posted by Vilya

Create a poll thread and find out!

In 2020 I think it's sad, but probably true....They may be waiting for BF!

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by alchav21

In 2020 I think it's sad, but probably true....They may be waiting for BF!

What’s sad about it? TVs last 6-8 years on average.

[Wendell R. Breland]

Originally Posted by Vilya

Does that mean that you were unimpressed and thus did not care to see it again?

Negative, sorry about the wording. Really liked it, have the UHD BD and 3D version. Just no
“Round tuit” for the 3D version.

[gotmule]

Originally Posted by JohnAV

How does it compare against the BD? Grabbed District 9 4K.

I never did an A/B comparison between the two, but I would have to put the Atmos mix on the 4K in the top 5 I have heard. I have not listened to it with the new subs yet, but am starting to get the itch. A purely unscientific endorsement is it is the only disc to ever shut down my entire system as it was pulling so much power during the 3 on 1 tank battle, the dedicated breaker blew. I ran new lines and installed a 20 amp breaker for each stack with hospital grade outlets just because of the movie, so I guess it is time to test everything out. John Hunter from REL and a few other industry folks use it as a reference as well. I hear really good things about District 9 and am looking forward to giving that a spin.

[Vilya]

Here is some fun 4K disc release news: Monty Python And The Holy Grail appears to be coming in the 1st quarter of 2021 (the article is in German, so use your multi-lingual skills or Google translate to read it):

https://bluray-disc.de/blu-ray-news/...ltra_hd_bluray

I really am curious as to what miracles they can work with this low budget movie's source elements?

See thread here:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=334287

[Wendell R. Breland]

Originally Posted by gotmule

I never did an A/B comparison between the two, but I would have to put the Atmos mix on the 4K in the top 5 I have heard.

Speaking of Atmos, do you have or viewed John Williams - Live in Vienna Blu-ray with the Atmos track?

[cheez avenger]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

What’s sad about it? TVs last 6-8 years on average.

And that's the average. I still have a 50" Panasonic plasma tv going strong that I retired to a different room when I went 4K. Also, 4K TVs are so affordable now that if it did conk out you could replace it the same day, in most cases.

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by cheez avenger

And that's the average. I still have a 50" Panasonic plasma tv going strong that I retired to a different room when I went 4K. Also, 4K TVs are so affordable now that if it did conk out you could replace it the same day, in most cases.

I never thought that TVs with screens larger than I could have dreamed of owning in my youth would become such a casual and disposable purchase. There are 75" 4K TVs at Walmart, and elsewhere, for as little as $598!

[CrowKiller]

Originally Posted by Vilya

I never thought that TVs with screens larger than I could have dreamed of owning in my youth would become such a casual and disposable purchase. There are 75" 4K TVs at Walmart, and elsewhere, for as little as $598!

We live in a disposal society now where everything is disposable, including people. A world where most only care about the here and now and no regard for the future. It is nice that TVs are so cheap though. Wonder how many more TVs end up in landfills these days. I see them dumped more often than back in the day.

[JohnAV]

Originally Posted by bhampton

I have the new Mac mini and plan to use it as my HTPC.

I’m tremendously excited about how it will go. I think it can replace all of my source components.

Couple of videos to show the capability of the new processing.

Apple Silicon M1 Smokes Intel in Side by Side Benchmarks - YouTube

Apple Silicon TF2 CrossOver - YouTube

CrossOver is software (based on*Wine Project) that runs Microsoft Windows apps on the Mac by translating Windows APIs into their Mac equivalents. The Codeweavers team was able to run the current version of CrossOver on the new Apple M1 *MacBook Air* under Rosetta 2 to achieve this feat.*

That's incredible when you consider that we're on literally the cheapest*Apple Silicondevice you can buy - one that gets thermally throttled and is missing a GPU core.

I can't tell you how cool that is; there is so much emulation going on under the covers. Imagine - a 32-bit Windows Intel binary, running in a 32-to-64 bridge in Wine / CrossOver on top of macOS, on an ARM CPU that is emulating x86 - and it works! This is just so cool.

The point of showing this is to show how this much power in relative cheap products will effect what people might use in conjunction with their entertainment/TV setup. I realize these are the M1 low-end laptop variations compared to the M1 Mac mini, but you get the point I'm sure.

[Lee A Stewart]

HOW LONG SHOULD YOUR TV LAST?

Let's say you purchased one of our favorite budget TVs: the 55-inch TCL 6 Series.

This TV has a lot of moving parts from a component standpoint, but generally, the "LEDs" in its backlight are what are going to fail first. The average lifespan of an LED at maximum or close-to-maximum brightness is 40,000 to 60,000 hours, or 4.5 to 6.8 years.

For sake of ease, let's say it's 5 to 7 years, with the understanding that you aren't watching TV for 24 hours a day (I hope). In fact, it's around 13 years at eight hours a day, which isn't anything to sneeze at. While these are all averages, they can be applied to any TV that uses an LED backlight (which is almost all of them).

https://www.reviewed.com/televisions...ould-a-tv-last

Yes, it's an older article. No, LED TV Tech hasn't changed.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by JohnAV

Couple of videos to show the capability of the new processing.

Apple Silicon M1 Smokes Intel in Side by Side Benchmarks - YouTube

Apple Silicon TF2 CrossOver - YouTube


The point of showing this is to show how this much power in relative cheap products will effect what people might use in conjunction with their entertainment/TV setup. I realize these are the M1 low-end laptop variations compared to the M1 Mac mini, but you get the point I'm sure.

I wonder if we will see a Apple TV with this in the future? It would make perfect sense with Apple’s gaming plans.