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

[sapiendut]

If not because of the promised brighter output and 8K eShiftx I would not buy it. I’m very happy with my NX7 except that I change my bulb every 700 hours to maintain the brightness I like.

[cheez avenger]

Tickets for Last Night in Soho are now on sale at my local AMC. I may go to the advanced screening on Wednesday, as it will also be in Dolby Cinema.

On the bad news front, a friend of mine went to a press screening of Antlers last night and said it sucked. He came to the conclusion that most of the GDT produced, and not directed films, tend to suck.

Also, my 4K discs of Inglourious Basterds and Carlito's Way arrived this afternoon.

[JohnAV]

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[Wendell R. Breland]

Originally Posted by bhampton

I've averaged replacing my projector every 3 years but I usually buy much cheaper projectors and I hope this one lasts like a decade.

Kept my Kloss Novabeam for 19 years, fortunately I could buy rebuilt projection tubes. My JVC projector lasted 10 years, I believe brownouts took it out while it was warming up. My Sony projector is almost 7 years old. Have connected to a full time UPS.

[alchav21]

Originally Posted by sapiendut

Yup. Especially in the past 5-6 years I’ve been changing projectors every year. Hopefully this will last me for 3-4 years.

Originally Posted by bhampton

I've averaged replacing my projector every 3 years but I usually buy much cheaper projectors and I hope this one lasts like a decade.

Well Projectors have the best Picture Quality, but they are expensive. My last TV was a rear Projection Mitsubishi DLP and the Lamp had to be changed every 3 to 4 years, and I had it more than a Decade.....Great PQ! Replacing Projectors every year seems extreme and very expensive, but if it's only the Lamp then it's less.

Disc Collectors say they have the best Quality, but for a Gold Standard it seems you need $15K Projector and a $1000+ UHD 4K Player with an equal Sound System at double or triple the price. Anything less you are just compromising your expectations for the best Disc Presentation!

[unberechenbar]

Originally Posted by alchav21

Well Projectors have the best Picture Quality, but they are expensive. My last TV was a rear Projection Mitsubishi DLP and the Lamp had to be changed every 3 to 4 years, and I had it more than a Decade.....Great PQ! Replacing Projectors every year seems extreme and very expensive, but if it's only the Lamp then it's less.

Disc Collectors say they have the best Quality, but for a Gold Standard it seems you need $15K Projector and a $1000+ UHD 4K Player with an equal Sound System at double or triple the price. Anything less you are just compromising your expectations for the best Disc Presentation!

Can't you buy laser projectors now that don't use lamps? Wouldn't that be cheaper in the long run?

[JohnAV]

Originally Posted by alchav21

Disc Collectors say they have the best Quality, but for a Gold Standard it seems you need $15K Projector and a $1000+ UHD 4K Player with an equal Sound System at double or triple the price. Anything less you are just compromising your expectations for the best Disc Presentation!

No you don't need a 15K projector, or a $1000 UHD 4K player, or a sounds system at double or triple the price.

If you wanted something of reasonable quality you get a 65" OLED TV (LG/Sony), A Sony UBP-X800M2 UHD 4K player, and Denon AVR X4700. Likely a $3000 Epic Master 500 Home Theater System from Xiom would do you.

Cost of everything is about $2500 TV + $300 player + AVR $2000 + speakers $3000. Not that much to blow your setup out the door.

[unberechenbar]

Watched Lamb at the local theater. It was pretty powerful with beautiful scenery and good cinematography. I like how you don't understand the beginning of the movie until the end.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by cheez avenger

Tickets for Last Night in Soho are now on sale at my local AMC. I may go to the advanced screening on Wednesday, as it will also be in Dolby Cinema.

On the bad news front, a friend of mine went to a press screening of Antlers last night and said it sucked. He came to the conclusion that most of the GDT produced, and not directed films, tend to suck.

Also, my 4K discs of Inglourious Basterds and Carlito's Way arrived this afternoon.

Yeah, after Halloween Kills, that’s my next film at the cinema.

[bhampton]

Originally Posted by unberechenbar

Can't you buy laser projectors now that don't use lamps? Wouldn't that be cheaper in the long run?

Laser projectors are here but no one knows how much cheaper they will be in the long run. They are too new for now. Hopefully modular, replaceable laser or in-expensive laser projector will be the next phase.

[Wendell R. Breland]

Originally Posted by unberechenbar

Can't you buy laser projectors now that don't use lamps?

Yes

Wouldn't that be cheaper in the long run?

Depends on ones skill level, experience, etc. A Sony branded lamp assembly cost around $370 for my projector. I pay around $120 for Ushio bare lamps and reuse the OEM housing.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by unberechenbar

Watched Lamb at the local theater. It was pretty powerful with beautiful scenery and good cinematography. I like how you don't understand the beginning of the movie until the end.

I’m blind buying that on Blu-ray unless it gets a 4K disc of course.

[cheez avenger]

Had to switch my Halloween Kills showing from Thursday night to the first Dolby Cinema showing Friday afternoon.

[Wendell R. Breland]

Monday we stopped at the Knoxville TN Best Buy that has a Magnolia Design Center to checkout SVS bookshelf loudspeakers. While there took a look at a few direct view displays, a LG 77" caught my eye with its really good picture. It was only $19,999.

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by Wendell R. Breland

Monday we stopped at the Knoxville TN Best Buy that has a Magnolia Design Center to checkout SVS bookshelf loudspeakers. While there took a look at a few direct view displays, a LG 77" caught my eye with its really good picture. It was only $19,999.

For $20K it better be a stunner.

Yeah, that's their 8K OLED; I think that LG is the only company that offers 8K OLED TVs.

Sony's 8K TVs are all full array LEDs, the Z9J. You can own their 85" version for a much more affordable $9000.

Sony also offers a 100" Full Array LED 4K TV for $20K; Robert Zohn announced it here:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...5&postcount=42

Buy them all and have your own TV shootout.

In my own personal experience, I’ve found that if you play DVDs in a modern quality name brand player capable of upconverting video, and you’ve set your TV up properly by turning off all the “motion compensation” features; you’ll achieve video quality equivalent to “medium grade” Netflix video. I got few Home improvement video from Home Depot.

[bhampton]

Originally Posted by bayslarry

In my own personal experience, I’ve found that if you play DVDs in a modern quality name brand player capable of upconverting video, and you’ve set your TV up properly by turning off all the “motion compensation” features; you’ll achieve video quality equivalent to “medium grade” Netflix video. I got few Home improvement video from Home Depot.

Well,... Some of the motion compensation helps certain sets without causing artifacts. For example Black Frame Insertion or BFI doesn't cause the so called Soap Opera Effect.

And, DVDs are swell but anything they can do Blu Ray and UHD Blu Ray only does better.

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by bhampton

Well,... Some of the motion compensation helps certain sets without causing artifacts. For example Black Frame Insertion or BFI doesn't cause the so called Soap Opera Effect.

And, DVDs are swell but anything they can do Blu Ray and UHD Blu Ray only does better.

Welcome back.

[bhampton]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Welcome back.

Thank you, Happy to be back.

All is well that ends well.

[cheez avenger]

Saw Escape from L.A. last night in 35mm at the Academy Museum and it was pretty freakin' awesome! It was a 300 seater and there is no bad seat in the house.