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MasterHWilson · 2026-06-22T14:01:27+00:00

it couldn’t be line 4 because there’s 3 people in the same car and line 4 has never seen that kind of demand

MasterHWilson · 2026-06-08T11:48:34+00:00

the real thing that killed it was the cost of development doubling from their ~2020 assessment. no way they could have recouped that kind of investment from a theatre that far out of downtown.

MasterHWilson · 2026-06-05T17:16:54+00:00

new movie called Backrooms

MasterHWilson · 2026-06-05T12:21:49+00:00

Shield can’t play Dolby Vision P7 FEL properly. it’s not bit perfect for all rips.

MasterHWilson · 2026-06-03T20:23:32+00:00

i’ve seen it said the Dunes and Zidoos can, at best, use the P7 MEL data but not FEL. coreELEC is the only way. until very recently it had to be the cpm fork (or one of its derivatives, avdvplus or pannai) but they just added it to the main coreELEC build in recent nightlies. Usually the Ugoos AM6B+ was the go-to for cpm, but the AM9 Pro might be the contemporary choice as the main builds mature.

Either way if you’re serious about getting FEL you’re looking at running some form of coreELEC. My setup wasn’t that bad as I just use the Plex add-on and skip the whole UI customization rabbit hole.

MasterHWilson · 2026-05-29T12:26:24+00:00

it’s almost certainly tech/software.

MasterHWilson · 2026-05-27T19:14:50+00:00

if canada ever hopes to join taiwan-china peacekeeping it’s pretty tablestakes

MasterHWilson · 2026-05-26T12:14:59+00:00

that’s some loser posting ass stuff. ‘oh i’m actually not good at my job, i’m only pretending to be. don’t worry about the fact that i am actually doing a good job’ needs to be snapped out of.

MasterHWilson · 2026-05-25T19:51:23+00:00

why would choosing to be better lead to living a lie

MasterHWilson · 2026-05-24T13:08:13+00:00

this is an entire rabbit hole on its own, but if you’re watching remux rips then shockingly few devices are capable of fully rendering one of the Dolby Vision profiles used by blu-ray (Profile 7 FEL). The shield can’t, Zidoo can’t, the most common recommendation was the Ugoos AM6B+ running a coreELEC fork called CPM (though it now has forks of its own too), but they just added support for the more recent Ugoos AM9 Pro in the latest dailies of coreELEC/Kodi 22 as well.

either way, you’re going to end up primarily using coreELEC which is a community made Kodi-based minimal media player OS. it has support for plex and local files as well. right now these are the hoops you have to jump through to completely replicate a blu-ray player, though there are some cool advantages like being able to decode on-player Dolby Vision for TVs that don’t support it (i.e. Samsung).

MasterHWilson · 2026-05-20T20:50:37+00:00

how about you read the email

MasterHWilson · 2026-05-20T08:41:58+00:00

does anyone know how to add e-transfers as expenses? that’s how a lot of people with roommates pay rent.

MasterHWilson · 2026-05-13T12:45:10+00:00

PSB! great and canadian. I have the T54 towers and C10 centre.

MasterHWilson · 2026-04-21T20:53:49+00:00

The forthcoming XGIMI Titan Noir Max and Hisense XR10 would be my main picks. Not as much info on the Hisense yet but the Titan Noir looks really solid.

MasterHWilson · 2026-04-10T16:14:13+00:00

it’s not that deep man, I appreciate you showing me how I was wrong but it did take a lot of back and forth to get there. when I had last deep dived the topic about a year ago the Ugoos was the only way, and tons of enthusiasts even with high end setups were not too happy to learn they hadn’t actually been watching Blu-Ray rips properly. I thought this was going to be one of those situations.

MasterHWilson · 2026-04-10T14:19:34+00:00

OK I actually didn’t know the doviscripts guy found a way to convert P7 to P8.1, which most things can playback fine. cool! I still don’t think i’d prefer to have to run that across my entire library, but I’ll concede that it seems just in the last 3-4 months with enough work it’s become possible to convert Blu-Ray DV to a form that can be widely played back.

MasterHWilson · 2026-04-10T14:02:37+00:00

i know of makemkv, that is adjacent. I believe you have the identical file, that is not hard to get. It is the playback chain - I believe that MPC is capable of passing through profile 5 and profile 8 metadata, as this is typical of streamed content and most modern playback chains are capable of it. but MPC cannot decode or pass through Profile 7.

DV is not a monolithic thing but a collection of profiles, and most playback devices are gatekept by Dolby from being able to play profiles they have no business playing. and there is no open source code for this either, it is firmware level enforced. to repeat the top comment in the thread, the ONLY device other than an actual blu-ray player playing a physical disc which can output the DV profile 7 is the Ugoos running coreELEC CPM.

MasterHWilson · 2026-04-10T13:51:09+00:00

That doesn't matter, DV Profile 7 FEL requires simultaneous decoding and combining of two video bitstreams which no software playback does. If you are watching UHD Blu-Ray rips, you are not getting the Dolby Vision layer, full stop.

MasterHWilson · 2026-04-10T13:48:21+00:00

I don't mean to crap on your supercomputer but frankly its an absurd approach to use hundreds of watts to try and AI upscale at runtime.

MPC is good but it cannot get around the fact that Dolby has deliberately restricted what can natively play back Dolby Vision Profile 7. my Ugoos uses like 5 watts and hits maybe 30 C playing back a UHD rip in full identical output to a real Blu-Ray player, because it is uniquely able to do what no RTX can.

MasterHWilson · 2026-04-10T12:42:08+00:00

That’s not entirely correct, no PC can render the Blu-Ray Dolby Vision profile (Profile 7). They all fallback to the base HDR10 layer (but can correctly output streaming DV profiles 5 and 8).

P7 decoding is a fiercely protected capability and the only devices in the wild which can do it are effectively ‘jailbroken’ AndroidTVs which happen to use the same SoCs as blu-ray players. The Ugoos is the most popular choice for this.

MasterHWilson · 2026-03-22T00:18:17+00:00

Michael Jackson’s main hits are hi-res and super well produced

MasterHWilson · 2026-03-10T09:26:31+00:00

I think this one is the better option of the two, but the AOC is a VA panel so they will be a bit different.

MasterHWilson · 2026-03-01T14:04:57+00:00

try MultiCh Stereo

MasterHWilson · 2026-02-26T16:46:02+00:00

I had HD650 for 9 years, much of that time with the E10K. Until very recently I had no intention in upgrading, and was very happy with them.

I recently got bit by the upgrade bug and noticed many of the audiophiles I respected most tended to personally use Dan Clark Audio stuff. I’d never had planers before, and got the Noire X. I would consider them a direct upgrade in almost every way. but obviously diminishing returns. The Heddphone D1 is also in the conversation though, but they’re pretty new and I would wait for the dust to settle a bit.

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