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Old 25-02-18, 02:26 PM   #21
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"virgin box"

freeview, cable, internet stream...?

model of box, age, specs...?
virgin tivo box.

as i said though it should not matter its all sent at 50hz interpolated from the box e.g. 720i 1080i @50hz its what the signal is broadcast in. its what happens to the signal after the box as regards to 'upscaling'.

there should only be one device in the chain that takes care of upscaling or you end up 'tearing' a picture this device should preferably be the tv as its at the end of the chain.
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Old 26-02-18, 01:52 PM   #22
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getting closer.. the big problem was TruMotion, set it to off and bingo.

still think the SD content is very 'muted/soft' regarding PQ.

no matter what i do in the setting the tv PQ looks very red, skin tones are not natural even with 'skin tone' turned all the way down.

what i do like is the wifi capability of this tv, its superb. full signal with the router at the other end of the house is no problem. netflix app is also great (only reason i turned the wifi on) and much better interface for browsing than win10 app.

1050ti is here so the fun begins tonight

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Old 26-02-18, 03:55 PM   #23
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LG = look's good but ..... :P
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Old 26-02-18, 05:29 PM   #24
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let the wife play with netflix today.. i'v created a monster lol

Mrs B loves netflix, so much so she is now not bothered about 'live tv recordings' which means that i can just plug the sat cable in and get live tv that way. by by virgin media tv

its going to take her about a week to get used to 'browsing' netflix for stuff.

ooohhh and for some reason the PQ on netflix is a loooot better.
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Old 26-02-18, 06:04 PM   #25
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Since we got Netflix wife and me just don't watch live TV at all now.
Most of our TV viewing is Netflix.
Anything that's on regular TV channels which we want to watch gets recorded on the Humax Foxsat box and we watch it when it suits us.
If we miss the start of a series on a BBC channel I just use get_iplayer to download it to our NAS and view it from there using the Roku media player.
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Old 26-02-18, 11:28 PM   #26
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netflix 4k which is not even true 4k looks great.

new card is in the htpc with win7 and things are looking better.

next up win10 so i can get 4k 10bit.
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Old 27-02-18, 01:39 PM   #27
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i now get what HDR does.... it turns on another profile in the tv's picture settings when the tv receives a metadata token. HDR only shows its head when the content has 'HDR' like netflix content, so i'm assuming that 4k bluray titles with HDR will do the same.

from what i have been playing with regarding settings is that HDR allows you to adjust much higher colour, saturation, brightness etc.etc. in the settings. if you dont then the picture looks 'washed out' while playing HDR content.

when you have finished watching HDR content the picture setting falls back to the 'non HDR' setting that the user has chose.

so not only do you have to set your 'non HDR' picture quality profile you have to set the HDR picture quality profile as well.
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Old 28-02-18, 11:46 PM   #28
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guardians of the galaxy v2 playing in 4k 10bit via the HTPC with kodi and MPC-BE as external player

next up installing madvr with mpc-be.

with mpc-be the playback is super smooth.

full handshaking regarding HD codecs to amp.
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Kin ell, sounds like a lot of faff Bibio. I just turn mine on and watch !
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Old 01-03-18, 04:51 PM   #30
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Kin ell, sounds like a lot of faff Bibio. I just turn mine on and watch !
might sound like it but when you have 100's of dvd/bluray discs its much easier to play them via an htpc with kodi.

once set up its just like browsing netflix but much better. unlike netflix the quality is much better.

i hate having to skip though 'adverts and upcoming movies' as well as disc navigation to actually play the movie. i copy all my movies as just main movie. never mind the pita trying to watch tv show box sets via the dvd/bluray navigation.
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