New TV!

it's here :O

Today I was able to get the LG remote to control my Yamaha receiver's volume. This receiver is 25 years old. I find this incredible. So now I've got one remote for everything. TV audio piped into the receiver via optical, and out to three Elac speakers. The only thing slightly weird about it is that if I listen to Spotify or Sounds via the TV the sound comes out pretty loud out of the centre speaker, but, well, listening to music on a TV is pretty weird anyway.

i am doing it now, because timed recordings on the pvr of late night radio is easier than anything else. utter waste of energy though.

(radio 6 is louder than normal tv, radio 3 is the same as tv. optimod...)

More aggressive compression on 6M I think, which the vocal R3 audiophiles wouldn’t stand for.

koogs why not eat the dog food and just use Sounds to catch up on like… Benji B or whatever?

is the dog food vegetarian?

i'm on 3g, so have always had more pvr space than bandwidth. (he says with 140 unheard episodes of front row taking up space)

And no broadband? koogs! I never knew the digital divide extended quite so far!

I've been in a vacation rental without internet for a week and omg, cheap TVs are terrible to watch and so is actual TV when you don't have any streaming/iPlayer etc. I tried to switch of all the motion fiddling settings and it still looked horrible.
Hopefully we won't need a new TV for a while - drove quite a way to get the last decent plasma one we could find, probably around 8 years ago tho.

New nice TVs at a reasonable price are among the best buys for the buck. It's the age of miracles.

Literally a couple of months into the pandemic my flatscreen fritzed and I ordered a new one thinking it would be a replacement, but it ended up being even bigger, which, thanks. (55" Vizio) Combined that with a new Sony 4K/Bluray player with modifications to play all BD regions and will never look back.

How’s the sound from the tv speaker? (I don’t use external speakers as I have haring damage and I always find them too abrasive.)

From mine? Quite good I think!

My setup is upthread. TV speaker is permanently off. I have optical out to a 3.0 system and it sounds great. The centre speaker changes a lot. Before I just had R and L and everything went through those. Now with a centre speaker the R and L become more kind of ambient atmospheric sources (i’m guessing what would be coming out of rear speakers is getting mixed into them since I have no rear speakers? Or possibly I’m just losing that rear speaker information. I’ve never been clear on that)