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Side note? Whaddya mean, "side note"?
Are you kidding me -- you have new gear and you slip it in as a "side note".
Spill the beans, dude. Your viewing buddies need to know the lowdown.
The usual queries ... why did you decide to go for 4K now, when there isn't a lot of 4K programming available?
Why this set? Why 65"? Price? What's a Nvidia Shield -- thought it was a night cream. Scratch that, not Nivea. What is this media player and why did you go for it? And since TV built in speakers offer a notoriously thin sound, whatdjado about enhancing your sound experience?
Thanks in advance for sharing anything you can.
Haha, since you asked.
Got the TV because we just finished our basement renovation back in October. We already have a family room TV upstairs but wanted to setup a hang out spot downstairs (we got a nice wet bar done during our reno and a fireplace feature wall).
Why 4K? May as well as regular 1080p TVs are rare now and makes no sense to get one if 4ks are the same price.
I specifically chose this TV, the Vizio P65 because at its price, it was superior to all other brands. I got it for $1250 at Costco just before Black Friday. Sony’s Bravia 900 I believe is a good comparable but it was like $800 more.
The Vizio P75, so same series but 75” as opposed to 65”, was double the price. We sank a lot of money into the reno and considering we have more furniture to buy, we went with the smaller TV. That said, I got a wall mount where I can pull the TV from the wall so if I wanted the feel of the bigger screen, I’ll just pull the TV forward 2 feet
The Nvidia Shield is a 4K capable Android based media box and is capable of running Kodi. One of the main reasons is living in Toronto, watching Habs games can be a challenge. Can’t go into detail due to subject matter, but let’s just say Kodi and Lazyman can help me there.
I also got the Shield because the built in apps in the Vizio are a bit slow. The Shield is very snappy and apps are more responsive.
You are right about the sound... TV speakers suck. I got a nice Vizio 5.1 sound bar setup, also from Costco for $200. It isn’t high end but it is pretty good for the price.
Here is the setup. It is messy and I intend to hide the wires and all that but I’m still setting things up. Sound bar is on the floor now but you can see the tape where I intend to wall mount it. Always nervous about wall mounting TVs as I don’t want to wake up and find it face planted on the floor. I did put the mount in three wall studs though so it should hold.
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I lasted 20 minutes with the Red Sparrow and pulled the plug. The storyline wasn't compelling to me.
Here's a story, I watched the original Halloween around what must have been the early 90s. All I knew was that Jamie Lee Curtis was in it and there was the cool connection that her mother the gorgeous Janet Leigh had also been known to play in another famous horror/thriller Hitchock's Psycho. I saw Halloween and I thought it was awesome but the most shocking thing to me was how Jamie Lee Curtis so plain and average compared to her mother. I mean no charisma, average looks and all that stuff. It's like they basically took a random girl off the street, did not even try to get a good-looking one and put her in their movie(not to mention the so so acting). This movie came out in 1978. Well the other day I watched Prom Night for the first time which came out in 1980. With the same Jaime Lee Curtis. Well she was by far the sexiest woman in the movie, a genuine hot babe. There was a dance floor in the movie and she was ruling it. What kind of witchcraft is this? I'm thinking Body Snatchers type of stealing a body and replacing it with another here. What an incredible change.
It's like either Carpenter did everything possible to make her uglier in Halloween or she watched Halloween and was so distressed by what she saw that she went "holly crap, I better start working out". I know that she probably was a workout junkie around the movie "Perfect" that she made with John Travolta a few years later and maybe she started doing that for Prom Night. Anyway I place this in the incredible unresolved mysteries of the World.
I always thought Jamie Lee Curtis looked more like her dad. I can't recall a time when I can say she had an attractive face. But, man did she tend to her body, she must have worked the hell out of it, it was stunning.
I always thought Jamie Lee Curtis looked more like her dad. I can't recall a time when I can say she had an attractive face. But, man did she tend to her body, she must have worked the hell out of it, it was stunning.
I saw Into the Spider Verse last night.
Even though I'm irremediably biased, I have to say, I'm calling Oscar for best animated film.
Most beautifully done animated movie I've seen in my life and I've seen plenty.
Haha, since you asked.
Got the TV because we just finished our basement renovation back in October. We already have a family room TV upstairs but wanted to setup a hang out spot downstairs (we got a nice wet bar done during our reno and a fireplace feature wall).
Why 4K? May as well as regular 1080p TVs are rare now and makes no sense to get one if 4ks are the same price.
I specifically chose this TV, the Vizio P65 because at its price, it was superior to all other brands. I got it for $1250 at Costco just before Black Friday. Sony’s Bravia 900 I believe is a good comparable but it was like $800 more.
The Vizio P75, so same series but 75” as opposed to 65”, was double the price. We sank a lot of money into the reno and considering we have more furniture to buy, we went with the smaller TV. That said, I got a wall mount where I can pull the TV from the wall so if I wanted the feel of the bigger screen, I’ll just pull the TV forward 2 feet
The Nvidia Shield is a 4K capable Android based media box and is capable of running Kodi. One of the main reasons is living in Toronto, watching Habs games can be a challenge. Can’t go into detail due to subject matter, but let’s just say Kodi and Lazyman can help me there.
I also got the Shield because the built in apps in the Vizio are a bit slow. The Shield is very snappy and apps are more responsive.
You are right about the sound... TV speakers suck. I got a nice Vizio 5.1 sound bar setup, also from Costco for $200. It isn’t high end but it is pretty good for the price.
Here is the setup. It is messy and I intend to hide the wires and all that but I’m still setting things up. Sound bar is on the floor now but you can see the tape where I intend to wall mount it. Always nervous about wall mounting TVs as I don’t want to wake up and find it face planted on the floor. I did put the mount in three wall studs though so it should hold.
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She was never the type of Hollywood actress I ever found attractive, but in True Lies when she was given her “mission”... wow.
I saw Into the Spider Verse last night.
Even though I'm irremediably biased, I have to say, I'm calling Oscar for best animated film.
Most beautifully done animated movie I've seen in my life and I've seen plenty.
She was never the type of Hollywood actress I ever found attractive, but in True Lies when she was given her “mission”... wow.
Roma: 7.5/10 Great cinematography, average story but not very entertaining. It would not be my pick for the oscar for best picture or best foreign movie either.
Anyone else watching the recurring "502 - Bad Gateway" series? Granted, it's not always on, but it's been all over my screen lately.
Just watched Halloween 2018...how in the world did this get 7 on IMDb and 70%+ on rotten tomatoes? This was one of the worst horror flick I ever saw...and I watched Annabelle...
It was frustrating bad...so so bad.