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Post by MikeMusic on Apr 14, 2023 15:50:06 GMT
We play audio through the TAD system
Often enough we have to go back to try to work out what was said
Sometimes we put subtitles on
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Post by user211 on Apr 14, 2023 15:50:45 GMT
The last point you made Jules I fully agree with. UHD via Amazon? Are you serious? Sure, video compression algorithms are good, but they are not that good. A serious amount of data is getting junked, and in a lot of scenes rightly so. But for true high performance across all scenes, it will always be worse than not dumping any given hardware that can actually cope with no data loss at decent to very high resolution.
When I worked with video processing for a couple of years the Daddy was and probably still is an application called FFmpeg.
You would think video would be reasonably simple but it is a mass of unnecessary complexity unfortunately. I put that down to evolution over time.
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Post by julesd68 on Apr 14, 2023 17:01:10 GMT
We've traded in one set of issues when shooting on film for a completely different set of issues shooting on HD video. There is no shortage of complexities in terms of workflow which evolves over time with new cameras, codecs etc But broadcast quality video is a damn sight cheaper to produce of course.
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Post by Slinger on Apr 14, 2023 17:23:47 GMT
I've got a decent 5.1 setup, using a good Yamaha amp, and my centre (speech) speaker is a Monitor Audio Silver Centre, yet I am also sometimes reduced to using subtitles because of "muffled" speech. Even allowing for my ancient lugholes, I should not have to, and blame the mixing.
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Post by user211 on Apr 14, 2023 17:33:30 GMT
Unfortunately everything is a compromise when it comes to technology.
Literally, everything.
Choose the compromises that make sense to you. As best you can.
The more it means to you, the more time you will spend trying to sort it out.
Which, of course, is cool. And annoying at the same time;)
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Post by julesd68 on Apr 14, 2023 17:59:49 GMT
I've got a decent 5.1 setup, using a good Yamaha amp, and my centre (speech) speaker is a Monitor Audio Silver Centre, yet I am also sometimes reduced to using subtitles because of "muffled" speech. Even allowing for my ancient lugholes, I should not have to and blame the mixing. Nah you haven't spent enough on cables.  |
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Post by Slinger on Apr 14, 2023 18:32:47 GMT
I've got a decent 5.1 setup, using a good Yamaha amp, and my centre (speech) speaker is a Monitor Audio Silver Centre, yet I am also sometimes reduced to using subtitles because of "muffled" speech. Even allowing for my ancient lugholes, I should not have to, and blame the mixing. Nah you haven't spent enough on cables. Of course I have. My entire AV system runs on AQ Cinnamon, and above, cabling.   That's true, by the way, it's a mix of Cinnamon, Chocolate, and Carbon cables apart from one AQ Forest USB cable, supplying 5v power from the TV to my Chromecast, which is really only a backup device, and hardly used these days. |
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Post by julesd68 on May 3, 2023 19:32:25 GMT
I bought a Blu-ray of Tar to compare to the Amazon UHD stream and there is simply no comparison!
The 1080p Blu Ray wins hands down for clarity, detail, noise levels and colour rendition. Absolutely superb image.
I don't know what the 4k Blu would offer but I won't be trying - it's super expensive for that particular film and my screen isn't really big enough to benefit.
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Post by Slinger on May 4, 2023 17:27:34 GMT
On the offchance that anyone is interested, the top-of-the-line Amazon " Fire TV Stick 4K Max" is 40% off at the moment, at £38.99 |
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