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[Moriath]

Optical is just the transport method. Like hdmi is. As far as I know.

 

[Bodhi]

Anybody got any thoughts on Bravias as TV's?
We have John Lewis vouchers to use after our wedding and looked at this one: http://www.johnlewis.com/sony-bravi...-tv-50-with-freeview-hd/p1593179?colour=Black
Ideally trying to find one that can output Dolby 5.1 via optical so at some point we can plug in a Sonos Playbar.

Any other decide LED tv's for that sort of price? Are the cheap ones you see at Tesco for £300 odd crap?

I'm pretty sure that's the TV I bought 6 months ago, but without the 3D stuff, and it's an epic TV. Picture quality is spot on, sound is pretty good (although I'm running it through an amp via the Optical Out - I can confirm it supports 5.1 fine), Smart stuff seems to work pretty well, and the set itself is very well designed.

this is the one I got http://www.johnlewis.com/sony-bravi...eesat-hd-2x-3d-glasses/p1169391?colour=Silver

If that one you posted is indeed the same panel, I would say go for it, we love ours.

 

[Scouse]

Bought me a new router - should come through the post today.

I'm sick of the virgin one - connections downstairs, in a straight line maybe ten meters tops (though through a floor and a couple of brick walls) are pretty much unworkable. I've been after one for a while and I didn't fancy spending £200 on ASUS's top-of-the-range offering (especially since I currently don't have any a/c devices) - so I've spent £99 on this one (rrp £135) - which is also a/c but not top-top-top drawer.

It reviews well. We'll see this evening whether they're talking out of their ringpieces.


Thinking of it. I'm sure I created a thread a long time ago asking about this. Perhaps I'll necro

 

[Bodhi]

Forgot to mention, the missus bought me an early Xmas pressie at the weekend - a PS4. I am a rather happy chappy right now

 

[Bodhi]

Bought me a new router - should come through the post today.

I'm sick of the virgin one - connections downstairs, in a straight line maybe ten meters tops (though through a floor and a couple of brick walls) are pretty much unworkable. I've been after one for a while and I didn't fancy spending £200 on ASUS's top-of-the-range offering (especially since I currently don't have any a/c devices) - so I've spent £99 on this one (rrp £135) - which is also a/c but not top-top-top drawer.

It reviews well. We'll see this evening whether they're talking out of their ringpieces.


Thinking of it. I'm sure I created a thread a long time ago asking about this. Perhaps I'll necro

Having similar issues with the Sky Router, fine in the living room but crap in the bedroom, which is two room away in a flat Sadly, I think Sky stipulate you have to use their hardware in order to connect.

Poo.

 

[Scouse]

Having similar issues with the Sky Router, fine in the living room but crap in the bedroom, which is two room away in a flat Sadly, I think Sky stipulate you have to use their hardware in order to connect.

Can't you set their router to modem mode and just connect your own to that? That's normally what happens.

It's normally - "no support" that they quote ("we're not helping you if you use your own hardware") - but if your internet is down then just disconnect your own hub, plug in theirs and ring them...

 

[Ch3tan]

Also @Bodhi power line network plug, one end into existing router, other end get the plug that acts as a wifi radio extender.

 

[Hawkwind]

Anybody got any thoughts on Bravias as TV's?
We have John Lewis vouchers to use after our wedding and looked at this one: http://www.johnlewis.com/sony-bravi...-tv-50-with-freeview-hd/p1593179?colour=Black
Ideally trying to find one that can output Dolby 5.1 via optical so at some point we can plug in a Sonos Playbar.

Any other decide LED tv's for that sort of price? Are the cheap ones you see at Tesco for £300 odd crap?

http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/kdl50w829b-201403023650.htm

AUO panel which Sony doesn't screw up. Decent blacks and color is OK so looks like a good buy.

 

[Trem]

crap in the bedroom

PM me if you need any advice mate

 

[MYstIC G]

Can't you set their router to modem mode and just connect your own to that? That's normally what happens.

It's normally - "no support" that they quote ("we're not helping you if you use your own hardware") - but if your internet is down then just disconnect your own hub, plug in theirs and ring them...

Last time I had Sky if memory serves the system is locked down pretty hard. Any new router would have to emulate the MAC address of the Sky one because of the way they lock things down.

 

[Scouse]

Last time I had Sky if memory serves the system is locked down pretty hard. Any new router would have to emulate the MAC address of the Sky one because of the way they lock things down.

What a bag of shite!

 

[Raven]

Bought a chromecast dongle for £20, best purchase in a long time.

 

[Ch3tan]

Bought a chromecast dongle for £20, best purchase in a long time.

They were 18 with free delivery on Amazon today, bought one too

 

[Moriath]

They were 18 with free delivery on Amazon today, bought one too

Got my wdtv and nas what's the benefit over that?

 

[MYstIC G]

What a bag of shite!

Ah, now I remember. They won't give you your own login details was what the crack used to be. Their system used to calculate them based on your routers MAC address:

http://www.ph-mb.com/products/sky-calc

 

[Nate]

Can't get the amazon instant video to work easily with chromecast considering buying one of the more expensive options as it doesn't look like there is much movement on getting support for it.

It's pretty weird, amazon sell loads of these chromecasts then don't support it.

Got on the phone to instant video support and the guy said they're developing support for chromecast will probably be out early next year.

 

[Ch3tan]

You do realize Amazon aren't responsible for chromecast don't you?

 

[Nate]

Ofcourse I do

 

[Raven]

Yeah it took a bit of messing to get mine to work, they don't like BT hubs it seems, Nothing major.

 

[Ch3tan]

Delivered and set up, so impressed I ordered one more for the other non smart tv in the house.

 

[SilverHood]

My crappy Geforce 620 GT just isn't cutting the mustard anymore, so just bought this badboy, EVGA GTX 970
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487070
Should arrive by Monday night, super excited... have a few games I've been unable to play due to my crappy card, and a few games I've been forced to play on low / super low. Ultra, here I come!

 

[ECA]

970 is a beast, really its overkill if you're playing on a single screen, you need either a 4k monitor or triple monitor setup

 

[Moriath]

Got my wdtv and nas what's the benefit over that?

Can anyone answer this. What does a chromecast do more than my setup? If anything?

 

[Tilda]

Chomecast puts the processing power back on your plex server or whatever. So my chromecast looks at my tv folder on my desktop pc and streams from there. In itself its just a gateway to other things. It works well though and I love that android apps let me use my phone/tablet to pick what I want to play.

 

[Tilda]

What a bag of shite!

I just moved from the sky router to my own. There are quite few guides out there and it was very easy to move to my own router.

 

[TdC]

970 is a beast, really its overkill if you're playing on a single screen, you need either a 4k monitor or triple monitor setup

lies, my Skyrim ENB settings will make such a card cry for it's mummy easy!

 

[caLLous]

o_0

 

[TdC]

one frame a minute? that guy must be running tri-SLI

 

[Raven]

Chomecast puts the processing power back on your plex server or whatever. So my chromecast looks at my tv folder on my desktop pc and streams from there. In itself its just a gateway to other things. It works well though and I love that android apps let me use my phone/tablet to pick what I want to play.

I just use my desktop for plex...going to get a NAS, probably in the Xmas sales but works perfectly fine at the moment.

 

[Moriath]

I just use my desktop for plex...going to get a NAS, probably in the Xmas sales but works perfectly fine at the moment.

I have a nas already. And use twonkey or a network share for it to my wdtv box.

No issues with it and doesn't need transcoding to play it.