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    I want to add a small TV in the kitchen, maybe 24" with a swivel mount. The TV's are cheap, the mount is cheap, but getting TV signal there wirelessly looks to be the expensive part. Lots of confusing equipment options. Comcast has wireless boxes, but they only work with their $50/month special modem. Dicks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RBP View Post
    I want to add a small TV in the kitchen, maybe 24" with a swivel mount. The TV's are cheap, the mount is cheap, but getting TV signal there wirelessly looks to be the expensive part. Lots of confusing equipment options. Comcast has wireless boxes, but they only work with their $50/month special modem. Dicks.
    Does comcast have a roku app yet? You could get a TCL roku tv and just use individual channel apps too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pony View Post
    Does comcast have a roku app yet? You could get a TCL roku tv and just use individual channel apps too.
    They do have an Xfinity Stream app that is in beta. That's a great suggestion. Thanks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RBP View Post
    I want to add a small TV in the kitchen, maybe 24" with a swivel mount. The TV's are cheap, the mount is cheap, but getting TV signal there wirelessly looks to be the expensive part. Lots of confusing equipment options. Comcast has wireless boxes, but they only work with their $50/month special modem. Dicks.
    A lot of apps will allow you to use them for free and most have a live option if you link to your cable account. I have a few Amazon Fire TV boxes and most networks have an app I can download and I have to go through a little linking ritual and bam. I have a TV in my game room and I had no TV cabling in that room so I added the Fire TV via Wifi and Im all good.

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    So my wife and I bought and moved into a new house about 6 months ago. The new house has a media room but it was all wrong.

    So here is what the room looked like when we toured the house.


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    So I wanted the screen on the back wall, which is how it should have been made but NO. So I had to rewire the whole damn thing and to make it more difficult its up stairs and has 2 exterior walls. Not to mention it was only wired for 5.1 and I decided to upgrade to 7.2.4 for Atmos and DTS-X so I had to pull a shit ton of wire. And of course the room need a fresh coat of paint.







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    So this is where I'm at now. Still not done but getting close. I still have to hang the ceiling speakers, have new seating coming, will need to make a riser for the rear row of seating, make the valance and curtains around screen and a few other odds and ends.

    I'm running a Marantz 7702 mkII preamp/processor, Epson 5040ub projector and Stewart Studiotek 130 screen.





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    Jeezus, you really went all in with that project! Looks awesome! How big is the screen?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pony View Post
    Jeezus, you really went all in with that project! Looks awesome! How big is the screen?
    100"

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    Guys in my production shop made my ceiling bracket to hang my Atmos speakers today.

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    I feel 2" tall with my wee 55" tv and soundbar....haha. Tbh, I dont watch much TV anymore. Mostly movies or binge tv show downloads. Mine works for us, but, I am going to upgrade soundbar at some point. I tend to spend more time in my guitar studio/guesthouse when I'm not working in yard on days off.

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    Jay that is so sick, awesome stuff. Can't wait to see the final project

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pony View Post
    Does comcast have a roku app yet? You could get a TCL roku tv and just use individual channel apps too.
    Quote Originally Posted by RBP View Post
    They do have an Xfinity Stream app that is in beta. That's a great suggestion. Thanks.
    You da man.

    I was able to use an older TV we had in another room with a new Roku ($35 on sale) and it works perfectly. I'll have to be careful if I try to mount it, the TV is heavier than newer ones.

    Edit: and got a replacement remote and a swivel arm wall mount for $25 total.
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    So this Dolby Atmos and DTS-X shit is a bit of a pain in the ass. You have to be very aware of what hardware supports it, 4k and HDR. Which for me means I have to buy new media players. None of my current media players support all those formats. So to remedy this problem I bought my first Apple product in decades, an Apple TV 4K 64 gig and I have to say I am very impressed. Out of the box its heavy, I mean substantial especially compared to Fire TV, Roku or WDTV box. It was a bit more difficult to setup because you have to have an I-tunes account which I didn't have but plugging it into the system was a cake walk. The user interface is pretty typical but the remote is different than any one I have used before, and its awesome. Through the I-tunes store all your typical streaming apps are available including HULU, Netflix and Prime and if it is available will stream them in 4k with Atmos or DTS-X. After getting it plunged in and setup went back and watched a few scenes from movies we had already demoed in the room and HOLY SHIT it was night and day difference. The color was more vivid and clearer but the audio processing is light years above any other streaming device I have had. The downside of the Apple TV is it will not play digital media files like the WDTV or Roku can. Considering I have a lot of 4k w/Atmos MKV files I will be buying a Nvidia Shield to play those.
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    I finally got my ceiling speaker brackets figured out and had my shop fabricate 4 of them for me. Thought it would take them a week or so to get to them but they were on my desk the next morning. Got all the hardware I needed and shot it all in flat black and got it all hung Friday. Saturday morning got them plugged in and started calibrating the room using Audyssey MultEQ XT32. This was a HUGE step, this means all the actual A/V hardware is in place. So now its pretty much all aesthetics and hooking up all the other devices in the rack. Had some friends over Saturday night and watched Ready Player One in 4K and Dolby Atmos and its amazing. The ceiling speakers add such a new dimension to the sound, its completely immersive. When something fly's over you IT FLY'S OVER YOU.








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