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post #3331 of 6573
2/15/11 at 8:50pm
Not too sure what Directv is offering, but I have 3d on demand and ESPN 3d. Just recorded and watched a replay of the bcs national championship in 3d. It was excellent. Really gives you the on the field Feel.
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post #3332 of 6573
2/15/11 at 10:10pm
I tried searching throughout this thread and saw some with similar problems and you all have fixed it, but I've been trying to get DTS to work for the past few days.

PS3 to TV (HDMI1)
HTPC to TV (tried both jacks HDMI1 and 2, ATI Radeon 4550 with HDMI out)
TV to Receiver (Optical out)

First I don't think it's my cable, GT5 and CoD:BlackOps 3D works on PS3, and Dolby Digital is passed through properly and decoded at the receiver, but when I try to play a Bluray or MKV with DTS sound, the audio is not coming out at all.

Both works when I tried to send signal directly to the receiver, but I prefer to have one cable to let TV output sound to receiver instead.

What am I doing wrong?
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post #3333 of 6573
2/15/11 at 11:01pm
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It comes w/ double stick tape..The other guy wants to mount the soundbar to the top of the TV. Maybe scotch tape or packing tape would work. If it were me I'd just roll the dice and try really strong glue or epoxy first, and if that didn't work, get out my electric drill and bolt it straight thru the TV.

Yeah I used the adhesive it came with but it stopped sticking in about a month.
I don't get one thing though. If Sony invented the soundbar, doesn't it have to fit right where it was intended to be?
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post #3334 of 6573
2/15/11 at 11:15pm
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So is there room to bolt a sound bar to the bottom of the 55NX810 if I plan on keeping the TV on its stand? the Sony htct-350 sound bar is 2.63" high. It comes with mounting brackets for select 46" bravia tvs but not the 55. so can you adjust the height of the stand on the 55nx810 so it will fit a jerry-rigged sound bar on the bottom?

Salesperson at Sony Style store in manhattan was clueless - they did not have a 55incher on a stand on display (only on a wall) The 60inch stand is way too close to the bottom of the TV and the saleperson insisted you could not adjust that stand but she wasn't sure about the 55.

I am just going to assume that i will have to jerry-rig a mount for the top of the TV as I don't want to attach the whole thing (tv and sound bar) to a wall.

Anyone have ANY advice?

The TV sales people in SonyStyle NYC should work in a flea market selling RCA TVs from the 80s.
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post #3335 of 6573
2/15/11 at 11:24pm
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I'd rate Sonys support as above average, even considering the issues I've had getting broken sets delivered.

As a matter of fact I think Sony is very good CS. I did notice that female reps are much nicer then male. Most woman are from the Philippines and they are very kind and polite. If I don't like the rep I just call back. Poor customer service won't change my mind about Sony. It's cheap labor phone reps.
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post #3336 of 6573
2/15/11 at 11:27pm
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If you want those filters fast..Call the parts dept and ask for them, you'll pay but no hastles. If not. It took me an hour and 6 minutes till I got someone that could authorize someone to send them for nothing. She sent me 2 pair. It took about a week to get them and they really don't do much for me, so if your feeling like your missing out on something big you're not. Should have been a slam dunk since its mentioned on their $%$ website to call the number for free polarizers but its not.

The filters allow you to tilt your head and still see 3D. Before that I had to tie my head to the wall so it won't move.
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post #3337 of 6573
2/16/11 at 1:40am
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Originally Posted by diablofreak View Post

I tried searching throughout this thread and saw some with similar problems and you all have fixed it, but I've been trying to get DTS to work for the past few days.

PS3 to TV (HDMI1)
HTPC to TV (tried both jacks HDMI1 and 2, ATI Radeon 4550 with HDMI out)
TV to Receiver (Optical out)

First I don't think it's my cable, GT5 and CoD:BlackOps 3D works on PS3, and Dolby Digital is passed through properly and decoded at the receiver, but when I try to play a Bluray or MKV with DTS sound, the audio is not coming out at all.

Both works when I tried to send signal directly to the receiver, but I prefer to have one cable to let TV output sound to receiver instead.

What am I doing wrong?

You have a surround system? Make sure the TV is playing through the external speakers if your PS3 audio is set to bitstream. The internal speakers won't play DTS in my experience.
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post #3338 of 6573
2/16/11 at 4:38am
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Originally Posted by diablofreak View Post

I tried searching throughout this thread and saw some with similar problems and you all have fixed it, but I've been trying to get DTS to work for the past few days.

PS3 to TV (HDMI1)
HTPC to TV (tried both jacks HDMI1 and 2, ATI Radeon 4550 with HDMI out)
TV to Receiver (Optical out)

First I don't think it's my cable, GT5 and CoD:BlackOps 3D works on PS3, and Dolby Digital is passed through properly and decoded at the receiver, but when I try to play a Bluray or MKV with DTS sound, the audio is not coming out at all.

Both works when I tried to send signal directly to the receiver, but I prefer to have one cable to let TV output sound to receiver instead.

What am I doing wrong?

The tv won't pass or play DTS.
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post #3339 of 6573
2/16/11 at 5:34am
I was streaming music from my PC last night and while the files are fine on my computer, on the TV the music was skipping to the point where I got very annoyed.
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post #3340 of 6573
2/16/11 at 8:45am
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Originally Posted by Bruce M. View Post
Don't get TOO fired up for DirecTV's 3d channel. So far, I get a significantly less sharp and darker picture on that channel than in watching a good 3D Blu Ray....
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Not too sure what Directv is offering, but I have 3d on demand and ESPN 3d. Just recorded and watched a replay of the bcs national championship in 3d. It was excellent. Really gives you the on the field Feel.
TY!. Need to invistigate before pulling the trigger. Gotta be a reason why no one in my neighborhood has it..There's that new channel they just introduced it was front page. IMAX, sony and driectv teamed up etc.,etc.
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post #3341 of 6573
2/16/11 at 9:32am
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Originally Posted by pk_aeryn View Post
You have a surround system? Make sure the TV is playing through the external speakers if your PS3 audio is set to bitstream. The internal speakers won't play DTS in my experience.
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The tv won't pass or play DTS.
are you 100% sure? damn that sucks then.
what if i want to watch a 3D Bluray from my PS3 that has DTS Surround (i mean if that exists)

am I Sh! out of luck and must separately output PS3 audio via Optical to the 5.1 system?

and yeah my TV is set to output audio to external speakers. PS3 i just let it configure the audio out automatically (the manual setup warning about damaging speakers scared me) like I said Dolby Digital 5.1 works but never with DTS. if I switch to directly output to 5.1 system, both my PS3 and HTPC can pass DTS via HDMI.

the thing is my 5.1 is 2 years old and isn't 1.4 compatible and it won't passthrough 3D back to TV either. so that route is not going to work either.
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post #3342 of 6573
2/16/11 at 9:45am
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Originally Posted by chdwil View Post
Not too sure what Directv is offering, but I have 3d on demand and ESPN 3d. Just recorded and watched a replay of the bcs national championship in 3d. It was excellent. Really gives you the on the field Feel.
chdwil..sorry to hear all your issues. I had a similar story where when I received my TV, there was a crack in the lower left half way up the middle of the tv. I immediately called Sony and set up DB Shcenker to pick up my broken TV. I saw that the TV reached the Sony warehouse in Texas but Sony never called me or let me know when they were sending a new set back. I told them to forget the TV and jsut refund my money. THat took forever and after 2 weeks of waiting for my refund to be credited, I just went to the sonystyle store and picked up a new set. I was out about 3,000 but Sony eventually refunded me shortly after.

I know now to never order a TV online again.

Good luck with your NX810 and hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
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post #3343 of 6573
2/16/11 at 10:08am
Hey guys, new poster on AVS but used to browse a decent amount.

Anyway, I finally upgraded my 40" 720p Bravia TV from 2006 (I can't believe I paid $2k for those specs just 4.5 years ago!)

My new 55NX810 came in yesterday and I quickly threw it on the wall and took down the EX710 I bought from BB 2 weeks ago. For the extra ~200
(internet deal, no tax, free shipping) how could I not? Anyway I was extremely excited for the glass monolithic design, the dynamic edge led, built in wifi, and 240hz. Although I still consider the monolithic design worth the extra 200 alone, I was quite dissapointed with netflix on wifi.

I currently stream netflix from my ps3 to the tv and was excited to have built in wifi so I didn't have to power up my ps3 every time I wanted to stream movies. Long story short, I connected my TV to my wireless-N router (brand new yesterday as well) and fired up netflix. The image was terrible! Also, can you only view your instant queue and not browse or search? I couldn't seem to do anything but browse my instant queue. I switched over to my ps3 and played the same show. It was significantly better quality over my tv. Does the ps3 upconvert the signal and the TV not? That's the question I came on here to ask. I was quite dissapointed in the picture of the native netflix app on the tv.
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post #3344 of 6573
2/16/11 at 11:28am
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Originally Posted by j0e1 View Post

Hey guys, new poster on AVS but used to browse a decent amount.

Anyway, I finally upgraded my 40" 720p Bravia TV from 2006 (I can't believe I paid $2k for those specs just 4.5 years ago!)

My new 55NX810 came in yesterday and I quickly threw it on the wall and took down the EX710 I bought from BB 2 weeks ago. For the extra ~200
(internet deal, no tax, free shipping) how could I not? Anyway I was extremely excited for the glass monolithic design, the dynamic edge led, built in wifi, and 240hz. Although I still consider the monolithic design worth the extra 200 alone, I was quite dissapointed with netflix on wifi.

I currently stream netflix from my ps3 to the tv and was excited to have built in wifi so I didn't have to power up my ps3 every time I wanted to stream movies. Long story short, I connected my TV to my wireless-N router (brand new yesterday as well) and fired up netflix. The image was terrible! Also, can you only view your instant queue and not browse or search? I couldn't seem to do anything but browse my instant queue. I switched over to my ps3 and played the same show. It was significantly better quality over my tv. Does the ps3 upconvert the signal and the TV not? That's the question I came on here to ask. I was quite dissapointed in the picture of the native netflix app on the tv.

No you cannot add que on TV. Must add thru PS3 or web. Is your PS3 connected with LAN or wifi? When I compared mine, PS3 & TV are both on LAN not WIFI I find the stream quality is about the same in fact I think TV's stream to be of better quality.
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post #3345 of 6573
2/16/11 at 11:53am
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No you cannot add que on TV. Must add thru PS3 or web. Is your PS3 connected with LAN or wifi? When I compared mine, PS3 & TV are both on LAN not WIFI I find the stream quality is about the same in fact I think TV's stream to be of better quality.

Both are connected through wifi with the TV being a few feet closer to the router. When I switch back to cable I will have the router right next to the ps3 and will probably keep it hardwired. However I was hoping to avoid running 20' of cat5 through the wall to the TV.
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post #3346 of 6573
2/16/11 at 12:21pm
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Originally Posted by j0e1 View Post

Hey guys, new poster on AVS but used to browse a decent amount.

Anyway, I finally upgraded my 40" 720p Bravia TV from 2006 (I can't believe I paid $2k for those specs just 4.5 years ago!)

My new 55NX810 came in yesterday and I quickly threw it on the wall and took down the EX710 I bought from BB 2 weeks ago. For the extra ~200
(internet deal, no tax, free shipping) how could I not? Anyway I was extremely excited for the glass monolithic design, the dynamic edge led, built in wifi, and 240hz. Although I still consider the monolithic design worth the extra 200 alone, I was quite dissapointed with netflix on wifi.

I currently stream netflix from my ps3 to the tv and was excited to have built in wifi so I didn't have to power up my ps3 every time I wanted to stream movies. Long story short, I connected my TV to my wireless-N router (brand new yesterday as well) and fired up netflix. The image was terrible! Also, can you only view your instant queue and not browse or search? I couldn't seem to do anything but browse my instant queue. I switched over to my ps3 and played the same show. It was significantly better quality over my tv. Does the ps3 upconvert the signal and the TV not? That's the question I came on here to ask. I was quite dissapointed in the picture of the native netflix app on the tv.

The netflix app on the tv sucks badly.
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post #3347 of 6573
2/16/11 at 12:22pm
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Originally Posted by ckarlic View Post

chdwil..sorry to hear all your issues.

I know now to never order a TV online again.

Good luck with your NX810 and hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

I don't buy that logic at all. One bad experience?. Lots of us ordered our TV's online. Same thing could happen from sony store.
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post #3348 of 6573
2/16/11 at 12:26pm
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Originally Posted by diablofreak View Post

are you 100% sure? damn that sucks then.
what if i want to watch a 3D Bluray from my PS3 that has DTS Surround (i mean if that exists)

am I Sh! out of luck and must separately output PS3 audio via Optical to the 5.1 system?

and yeah my TV is set to output audio to external speakers. PS3 i just let it configure the audio out automatically (the manual setup warning about damaging speakers scared me) like I said Dolby Digital 5.1 works but never with DTS. if I switch to directly output to 5.1 system, both my PS3 and HTPC can pass DTS via HDMI.

the thing is my 5.1 is 2 years old and isn't 1.4 compatible and it won't passthrough 3D back to TV either. so that route is not going to work either.

I'm 100% sure. I have the 60EX700 and its the same way. Maybe in a future update they will address it. I have all my stuff going to the back of the tv and all the optical going to the receiver. The only 2 that are combined are my cable box and the online streaming from the tv itself (remember the 60EX700 has internet which is great) to the receiver.
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post #3349 of 6573
2/16/11 at 1:32pm
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Not too sure what Directv is offering, but I have 3d on demand and ESPN 3d. Just recorded and watched a replay of the bcs national championship in 3d. It was excellent. Really gives you the on the field Feel.

What do you mean by not too sure what directv is offering?. Price wise forget that? They claim to have some new 3-d channel, and you like the 3d.

BTW - What's w/ nx810 #3??

How many times have you lost reception because of weather?
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post #3350 of 6573
2/16/11 at 2:04pm
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What do you mean by not too sure what directv is offering?. Price wise forget that? They claim to have some new 3-d channel, and you like the 3d.

BTW - What's w/ nx810 #3??

How many times have you lost reception because of weather?

I mean I no longer have Directv, so I do not know what they offer for 3d. I have ESPN 3d on my cable and it is good when they have programming on. It is supposed to go full broadcasting this month.


More importantly.....


Tv #3 was delivered today and let me tell you I can not remember the last itme I was so anxious. Watching them lift the box and reveal the screen was agonizing!! Then what do you know, no cracks!!! I had to just look for a few moments to make sure I was in reality. Then I checked every angle, with the sun and so forth. plugged it in and presto! No problems. The stand is even level compared to the other which tilted to the right.

Yes 3rd time is a charm.

Now I know I will be overly worried about my 4 year old son hitting it and cracking the screen. I need something to calm my nerves now.
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post #3351 of 6573
2/16/11 at 2:43pm
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I need some help with the DNLA feature.

I am trying to use a USB flash drive connected to the TV for DLNA purposes. I converted an AVI to MPEG4 and put it on the drive. The TV sees the file and plays it, but plays with sound but no video. File works fine on the computer

Then I tried to play the original AVI using Windows Media Players DNLA feature. The TV once again saw the file and played it, but the video quality was horrible. What am I doing wrong? I'd prefer to just use the USB flash drive.

Thanks for any help.

Anyone have any input? What method are you guys using for the DLNA capabilities?
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post #3352 of 6573
2/16/11 at 3:55pm
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Originally Posted by j0e1 View Post

Both are connected through wifi with the TV being a few feet closer to the router. When I switch back to cable I will have the router right next to the ps3 and will probably keep it hardwired. However I was hoping to avoid running 20' of cat5 through the wall to the TV.

I have the 60NX810 and PS3 both hard wired to my Netgear WNDR3700

for what it is worth, Netflix interface and quality is much better thru PS3 which puts out 1080p

I'm not sure what resolution the built in Netflix NX810 app is doing but it is not as good- but is passable if I am to lazy to power up the PS3

also- the PS3 has Gigabit Ethernet while the NX810 seems to only be 100BT- my router is a Gigabit router- maybe that helps (?)
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post #3353 of 6573
2/16/11 at 5:38pm
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Anyone have any input? What method are you guys using for the DLNA capabilities?

everyone I know(Including me) has ditched Windows media player and now use - VLC - by videolan.org.
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post #3354 of 6573
2/16/11 at 6:23pm
Hi all,
I just wanted to make sure everyone know at amazon that the
Sony TDG-BR100 Adult Size 3D Active Glasses, Black - Sony = 99.95
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=ATVPDKIKX0DER
and

Xpand Universal X103 3D Glasses Compatible with Active 3D TV's, Black - XpanD= 98.95 ( this morning I think they were ~94)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=ATVPDKIKX0DER
just to let everyone know if someone cares. Also this is as of now!

I have tried some more testing and the crosstalk is less noticeable when at 720p vs. 1080p ( at least playing back 3D half.mvk files so far) from a computer.
Also as I noted somewhere before some things like the dish network receiver and my media player that can only go up to 1080i, it is best to put all devices that can do only 1080i max to 720p!! At 1080i these TV's cant convert it properly and cause distortion in the picture only on certain material (portions of content, etc.) being played back.
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post #3355 of 6573
2/16/11 at 8:23pm
Does anyone actually keep "LED Dynamic Control" set to "OFF"? I tried it with it off for quite a while since people said that it's a good way to test for clouding, but blacks suck with it "OFF" (at least on my set).
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post #3356 of 6573
2/16/11 at 9:57pm
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everyone I know(Including me) has ditched Windows media player and now use - VLC - by videolan.org.

I have VLC but I wasn't aware that it had any type of DLNA capabilities.
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post #3357 of 6573
2/16/11 at 10:54pm
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Does anyone actually keep "LED Dynamic Control" set to "OFF"? I tried it with it off for quite a while since people said that it's a good way to test for clouding, but blacks suck with it "OFF" (at least on my set).

We all keep it set to ON because OFF blacks tend to suck IOHO.
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post #3358 of 6573
2/17/11 at 12:18am
I might be getting this TV to replace a kdf-50e2000 (2006 model), due to bad optical block in my current tv, but was wondering what the off center/off axis viewing is like, I sit probably 30-45degrees off center and the projection tv didnt have a problem with viewing from this angle which is why I bought it in the first place. But I am really worried about the viewing angles on these LCD's as when I last looked at them a couple of years ago, it still wasnt that great, you had to be pretty much straight on with it. My room is only about 10-12 ft deep so I cant put the TV way out at the end of the room and still have good viewing angles. I am assuming the picture quality will be much better than my 06 model correct. It could only go 1080i, this new model of course does 1080p, is there really any difference that you can actually see with the naked eye. Thanks for your help everyone.
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2/17/11 at 5:13am
my dad recently bought the costco 46nx711 and rec'd too many pair of 3d glasses. i have a lg px950 will they work on mine?
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2/17/11 at 6:07am
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my dad recently bought the costco 46nx711 and rec'd too many pair of glasses. i have a lg px950 will they work on mine?

Oh Ya!
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