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| Thread ID: 139173 | 2015-03-23 01:24:00 | First the car - now the TV | Tony (4941) | PC World Chat |
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| 1396964 | 2015-03-25 22:04:00 | Easier control of videos, playback / pause / seeking. Easier searching using a phones keyboard / input. You can use things like Netflix to it, cast Chrome tabs from a PC or Laptop. Google Play Music also works to it if you don't wanna use YouTube. Google+ Photos can be shown on there in a slideshow sort of manner. How much of that is useful or not to you, I'm unsure, but I've found the Chromecast to be worth its weight in gold! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1396965 | 2015-03-25 23:37:00 | Easier control of videos, playback / pause / seeking. Easier searching using a phones keyboard / input. You can use things like Netflix to it, cast Chrome tabs from a PC or Laptop. Google Play Music also works to it if you don't wanna use YouTube. Google+ Photos can be shown on there in a slideshow sort of manner. How much of that is useful or not to you, I'm unsure, but I've found the Chromecast to be worth its weight in gold! Sounds good, but nothing for me in that lot. I do run my youtube via cell phone. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1396966 | 2015-03-26 00:36:00 | OT a bit, but sort of related: What experience have people had with sound bars and sound plates? LG do a sound plate that looks interesting, and there are soundbars all over the place. Because my hearing is a bit iffy these days I'm looking fore anything that will improve the sound quality from the TV. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1396967 | 2015-03-26 00:55:00 | OT a bit, but sort of related:What experience have people had with sound bars and sound plates? LG do a sound plate that looks interesting, and there are soundbars all over the place. Because my hearing is a bit iffy these days I'm looking fore anything that will improve the sound quality from the TV.There was a recent thread about this that I can't find. I have a Phillips one and am happy with it but it wasn't a cheap one | plod (107) | ||
| 1396968 | 2015-03-26 02:07:00 | OT a bit, but sort of related: What experience have people had with sound bars and sound plates? LG do a sound plate that looks interesting, and there are soundbars all over the place. Because my hearing is a bit iffy these days I'm looking fore anything that will improve the sound quality from the TV. I use wireless earphone to solve that. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1396969 | 2015-03-26 02:32:00 | OT Because my hearing is a bit iffy these days I'm looking for anything that will improve the sound quality from the TV. Put your TV sound through your Hi Fi, or just use better speakers. TV speakers are far from optimum, and no doubt you will have noticed that slimline bezels mean no forward facing speakers, so everything you hear is a reflection. Multiple reflections make for muddy sound quality. Just running the sound through an ordinary Hi Fi with appropriate speaker quality and placement can make a huge difference. You don't even need to use a Hi Fi! I hooked up a pair of reasonable quality compact speakers to my man-shed TV (via the headphone outlet) and the sound quality was hugely improved. You get a wider sound stage as well (provided you don't place them right at the sides of the screen). I also plug them into a portable FM stereo radio when I want music, and that sounds ten times better, with volume levels I couldn't believe. These days the principal constraint for TV sound quality is not the electronics in the TV, it is the limitations of the speaker 'enclosures' and their placement. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1396970 | 2015-03-26 02:58:00 | I've attached a pic of my current setup. As you can see, there is not a lot of room for expansion. The TV sound does in fact run through the Kenwood mini-system in the cabinet below, and the speakers are actually in the ceiling. The Kenwood is good, but it is quite old now (20+ years?) and lacks a lot of the modern connectors - no usb, no hdmi etc., which makes it difficult to connect to more recent gear. I've also been told that the speakers facing downwards from the ceiling aren't going to help. I was thinking of the soundbar/soundplate as a compact replacement for the Kenwood, as I can play CD/DVD etc through the DVR, use the FreeView Radio as I only ever listen to the National programme and I don't think I've used the tape deck in living memory. I guess I could also rejig it to dump the Kenwood and just get a tuner and some speakers that could fit in the cabinet as the shelves are adjustable. 6325 |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1396971 | 2015-03-26 03:12:00 | I prefer ear muffs, but you could try..........www.dicksmith.co.nz | Cicero (40) | ||
| 1396972 | 2015-03-26 03:28:00 | I prefer ear muffs, but you could try..........www.dicksmith.co.nz got some Sennheiser wireless headphones that I use quite a lot, but I'd prefer it if I didn't need them. I've sen ads for that Bose system - it looks pretty good, but a bit pricey. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1396973 | 2015-03-26 04:54:00 | the speakers are actually in the ceiling. Not a very good position for speakers, there would be a significant loss in the highs, and unless you have separate enclosures in the ceiling, the low frequencies would get lost as well. Chronological age of the amp is not really an issue, I have a range of amps of various ages, their specs were good at the time of acquisition, and I have no reason to believe that they are not still doing the job today. In fact, I have a very old Technics Tuner-Amp in immaculate condition that I picked up during an inorganic many years ago, and to my surprise a recent check on its value revealed that it is a model sought-after by Hi Fi buffs world-wide for its sound quality. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
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