BrolicBeast's Living Room Theater - Page 47

Thanks Mike. The depth of the RS56 is really something special. The RS45 was great, but this RS56 is amazing. I'm here watching the Presidential Inauguration on an xbox 360's NBC app, and thatnks to eShift2, it's pristine

Oh yes indeed. I'm probably the biggest GoT fan on the eastern seaboard. That entire first season is demo material, but the opening scene, the scene when stark and now part ways, and a few others stand out as great demo material. Which scene do you find the sharpest?

Thanks ddgtr! How have you been man? I hope you've been giving those Fathoms a workout!

Yeah man, it's like being at IMAX for movies, games, etc. Superbowl Sunday shall be quite grand! I hope you go the projection route soon. You can always blackmail the wife, or kidnap the in-laws until she concedes.

I'll be sure pull out the operatic skills in the next video!

Lol, that's a good point.....there was a place for it. I'll be sure to include it henceforth. I can see it now....my Grammy Award....I can see it.....***slowly reaches hand toward sky***


I will be sure to check that scene out tonight! I love the entire Blackwater Bay episode. That wildfire explosion is a wonder to behold. I'm amazed at the production values of this show. I shall "Pay the Iron Price" for the Season 2 blu ray when it's released!.........ehhhh, on second thought, I'll pay the normal price. Lolol.

Gracias Prepress. I’ll be keeping the current exhaust management system in place, The PJ exhaust does get quite hot, but not hot enough to get cardboard to combust. It reems to route the airflow rather well. Now if the carboard was blocking airflow, THEN I’d be very worried and would probably move to molded plastic solution of some sort.

Yes indeed. The RS5X and RS6X series are identical inside and out, except for contrast and the fact that the RS6X series uses hand-picked parts. Other than that, they are pretty much the same. This is my first time having a projector with a motorized lens cover—it’s so unbelievable classy. BTW, I checked the “Frankie and the Fathoms” sales numbers—you guys are still topping the charts. Multi-Platinum 

Lol, blocking any extra escaping light is definitely an extra bonus since my previous projector was guilty of this, but the main reason for those boards is to stop the front-ventilated heat from hitting the wall in front of it and "splashing" in front of the lens. A good idea of what this looks like is putting a portable heater in the light path...the distortion is so weird... like the haze of heat rising from concrete on a hot summer day.

I checked out this scene....those closeups are veryyyy sharp! New skintone and overall PQ reference for me. Thanks for pointing this out Sarge.

I collected all my old gear and created a sort of Home Theater starter system. Includes my motorized drop-down screen, Denon AVR, and a bunch of other items. If looking to populate a second room, or looking to start from scratch, Check It Out Here.

Oh yeah, definitely. Legends of the Guardians (The final battle--the detail here in the movement of the feathers is intense), Battle: LA (There's a pristine shot from the rear of a helicopter formation flying over a city, GoT (Where Stark and Snow part ways), Forward Unto Dawn (any daylight scene). I used to have more, but I've grown spoiled using the Scubasteve and Superleo demo discs for visual Demo material (and audio too).

Definitely re-watch Season 1 of GoT--honestly, I feel it was better than season 2. That being said, I've read all the books so, knowledge of where they are in the story arc now has me very excited for season 3 (And the show definitely has some surprises that are not in the books.)

Let the inter-family plotting begin!!! lol....Yeah man, I'm still tweaking to find the perfect setting for sports. High Lamp mode is a no-brainer, but just working out some other tweaks to make football looks its best for the big-game! Your dedicated space is going to be killer--especially since you've already great gear.

lol, yes indeed I do! I'm actually thinking about turning it into a HTPC. I'm strongly considering the purchase of a dedicated HTPC/Media Server, but the specs of that machine are, for the most part, surpassed by my current monster machine. I still like certain optimizations in the machine I'm considering, but i"m going to download J-river and start using it as a test bed. I may or may not need that system, but i'll let J-River determine that. Out of the 5TB in my machine, I'm only using about 1TB thus far. Might just add a NAS and call it a day. I shall see.

Absolutely--people seem to dislike Battle: LA, but frankly, I think it's a great movie and a remarkable demo blu ray. "Movie Night" quality through and through.

J-River + J-Remote + Oppo BDP-105........Oh...My...Gosh.......I don't know what I thought I was doing before, but this is life-altering.

Yes!!! Man, sometimes I want to fire up the theater, but don't really have a reason to..... I just pop in Battle: LA and and watch my favorite scenes. It's a good reminder of what HT Enthusiasm is all about.

I only learned about J-river a month or two ago.....a forum member mentioned it and I started researching it. Here's a great review of J-river on Home Theater Review's website. It's absolutely an amazing system. I'm thinking I may need a couple iPad Mini's just as controllers.....this is great. I just configured it today, and I'm running my computer to my Oppo BDP-105 asynchronous USB DAC (with the Oppo selected as the sound card.) and I am very satisfied. I did some basic testing of some HD video, but didn't experiment enough with it. The control interface of JRemote is just great. I've never experienced something as seamless as this. It definitely beats Oppo's file management system, which--all of a sudden--seems archaic compared to iPad navigation of my high-resolution FLAC files.

Ah, I'm going to be sure to run through Brave and note some demo bookmarks. I do remember being very impressed by its audio presentation, but haven't revisited since I watched it originally, except for last week when I was testing out a track issue for a friend. Thanks for the heads up...I'm always looking for more demos material! These Pixar mixers really know what they're doing.

Yesssss, the movie is insane! Razor sharp picture, reference audio, and just a great experience overall. Ah yes, the media server! I'm still looking into that, but I'm thinking I can replicate that experience pretty much 1:1 with a very powerful computer i built in '09....If I can't, then I'll definitely go that route, but it's looking likely that this current comp/server setup will more than suffice. Keep in mind that it's not too early to get Jriver. if/When I shoot for the newer server, I plan to transfer the license.


I run HDMI as one zone and USB as another zone, both into the Oppo 105. The primary reason for this is to gain the benefits of my Crowson Transducers. The only way to get a pure signal to the transducers (ie: untainted by Audyssey) is to do what Craig John and Mike Duke do and run the signal from the Oppo's analog SW output to the transducers' dedicated amplifier. Yes I am indeed going to start using it for movies. I had a couple ripped files to work with, in addition to the demo disc files from Superleo and Scubasteve, and the picture is absolutely outstanding. The only issue is I may need to upgrade my hardware, as my current hardware doesn't support Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio or Dolby TruHD. I'm using this 98% music, 2%movies currently, but I can absolutely see myself going with this for movies eventually. The JRemote iPad app is sick, and I have a plug-and-play USB IR receiver on the way so I can control it using my Harmony 900 remote. I know the Music Vault is your primary source, but if you have any computers with video files, it's certainly worth a shot. How do you control Jriver now? JRemote? or Gizmo? Another route?