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This is just hypothetical. Mostly. But I wonder what would be better in a small/mid room. The really old tiny Energy Take Classic 5.1 from years ago or the Sonos Arc soundbar with just the bar and no subwoofer or surrounds. (Or maybe soundbar and surrounds, but no sub.) The Energy 5.1...

Like would a home theater receiver set up with a traditional 5.1 speaker placement from 20 years ago get any benefit from Dolby Atmos? Admittedly, I’m not entirely sure what Dolby Atmos does. Like single wireless speakers can sometimes claim Dolby Atmos. And then I think maybe extra discrete...

With Hall & Oates apparently fighting in court now, I began thinking back to the heyday of MTV. I know Daryl Hall did a solo album in the mid-80s. But I’m pretty sure there was at least a single music video of a solo John Oates around the same time. But my googling attempts bring up nothing...

I’ve tested 3 different Sony bluray players on 3 different TVs (samsung, sony, LG). Turning “on” the Bluray players does turn ON the TV set, but turning “off” the bluray doesn’t turn OFF the TV. Any idea if this is a Sony bluray issue and would switching to a different brand blu-ray player...

I also absolutely didn’t need to post this. :cool: Right now my “big” TV is a 70” LED that’s probably 5 years old. Or something like that. It seems so small and shitty nowadays. Too soon to justify an upgrade, but that doesn’t stop me from looking. Thought maybe a 77” OLED might be what...

I have some of their music and one of their songs came up on shuffle and it just got me to wondering how well known or not these guys were. They were a country band (pop-country/rock-country). Saw them as an opening act for the Oak Ridge Boys when I was a kid. Band members included one or two...

tl;dr - it’s the two ladies Joey Scarbury sings about life being awesome after falling in love. Rarely can you see his face, but he (or so who kind do looks like him) wears a cape and skin-tight super hero pajama suit as a nod to this song‘s use as the theme music to the Stephen J. Cannell...

I’m clearly an idiot who just can’t stop. More recent DVD purchases. And one might ask why DVD and not Blu-ray, at least, if not streaming. I dunno. Price, I guess. I think everything I’ve bought has mostly been quite a lot cheaper than streaming. That said, it doesn’t exactly feel cutting...

I’m kicking around the idea of maybe putting an LG C2 OLED 42” TV in the bedroom. But it’s already wall-to-wall shit in there. So my plan would be to get a full motion mount that would let me either put it somewhat flush to the wall for when I want to watch TV in bed. And then also be able to...

I know he’s supposed to be showing off... Asthma can’t slow him down, etc. But the escalator scene always bugs me. Dude comes off as a jerk. What’s the hurry? Because if it ain’t explosive diarrhea or some other emergency he needs to chill. EDIT: Turns out he’s trying to catch up to...

Justin Hawkins of The Darkness (one of my favorite bands) has a YouTube podcast. Usually he’s almost too nice in his critiques, but he’s pretty negative toward Maroon 5 and their song “Moves Like Jagger”. Of particular interest to me is his complaint that they are stretching it a bit in trying...

It’s just a secondary TV set, so it’s smaller: 50 inch Samsung QN90A model. It’s the one with mini-LEDs. So not quite as good with blacks and starlight as OLED, but maybe a little brighter than a similarly priced OLED. My first one had a bad speaker that buzzed rattled and farted even during...

Just throwing this out there if anyone has experienced this personally or knows what’s up. A quick web search results in some combination of Samsung TVs and Sony soundbars. And maybe the oddball related (or unrelated?) issue between Samsung and Sonos. I’m sure I could find plenty of other...

For a specific band or singer, that is. For instance there are a handful of songs by Morgan Wallen that I liked enough that I added them to ‘My Library’. But most of his songs I hate. Like hate bad. So my problem is that I can’t find the phrase that will make Siri voice commands shuffle just...

Battle of the appliances? I’ve had the Sony WH-1000XM3 noise cancelling headphones probably since they came out. I never use them. Last time was five months ago. So, anyway, I just bought the AirPods Max on Friday. I hate wearing headphones. But Apple used the term “magic” to describe the...

OK, maybe not quite. They need to add a wacky friend to also live with them to help raise the kids. (Dave Coulier would be perfect.) https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/don-johnson-chris-redd-join-010059370.html “Kenan,” which was ordered to series last year under the title “The Kenan Show,”...

It was cheap, glitchy, and underpowered to the point that it couldn’t deliver the 4K it promised. Anyway... I used to like Android TV despite it missing some apps that were easily found on other streaming platforms. And app wise Android TV has gotten a lot better. But I’m not a fan of its...

I want a bigger TV. One model I'm halfways tempted to pick up is a 70-inch Vizio (E70-E3). I know it's not perfect, and I'd like to see it drop down in price somewhat below $1250 again before making the leap, but it's pretty much the biggest I can get in my room. And for whatever reason Vizio...

Think it's the version on the Tizen OS, fwiw. It stopped last week. I can browse videos, but none of them play. How the heck am I supposed to watch cat videos? Or videos of cats? And did I mention this is depriving me of watching cats on video?

Happy 4th of July! The best line is from "Mountain Man" #60. So humor me and at least watch through the 1:30 mark. Honorable mention is at the 2:50 mark. I ran across this awesomely bad music video by the LA Rams circa mid-Eighties a few weeks back. Probably from an article on Deadspin...