Recent content by FriedChicken

I'd go with the larger ones

How big is your room?

How high are your ceilings?

It doesn't matter at all lol I'm glad I went with the 6.5" instead of the 8" The Atmos effect isn't as strong as I had anticipated. Had I not planned attic work anyway, I would have regretted getting in-ceiling speakers, but since it's a permanent addition to the house, and doing it now would...

I think I'm going to chuck the 4th gen AppleTV and return to my 3rd gen. The WDTV media player is still the best media player ever made, and as I'm only on a 1080p TV, I should be fine

Google is Spyware. Everything google "offers" is spyware. Fuck google, fuck the surveillance capitalist business model; the dystopian hydra. I just did an update on the AppleTV, and it still only sends PCM and not pass-through audio. Apple's Airplay should be lossless, although its 48kHz...

Join me in hating all of tech. The AppleTV would be legitimately good if it didn't require logging in to do anything, and supported native pass-through (or even non-native, except apple drew up a berlin wall around their precious devices, so you're stuck with what you're force-fed).

improvements for apple, not for you.

I wanted to like the nVidia shield TV Pro right up until I unboxed it, hooked it up, and got forced into a google login before I could do anything. Instant dealbreaker and into the proverbial trash. In fairness, to load VLC, I had to sign in with my AppleID. Man do I miss simple administrator...

I am playing blu-rays. VLC can connect to my local NAS. I want the decoding to happen on my receiver, b/c Yamaha knows what they're doing, and i'm not sure how/where their room EQ is implemented (analog or digital side).

Why would you even reply to this thread if it doesn't apply to you? That's what I want to do, however AppleTV refuses to do pass-through.

The type of response expected from an apple fanatic... DTS, DTS-HD, DTS-HD MA, Dolby TrueHD, DTS:X, FLAC, AAC....

the issue is how audio is output.... it's processed rather than sent pass-through (which requires like zero hardware overhead). It's a limitation of the AppleTV that apple implemented after taking who knows what drugs

I noticed all audio was being output as PCM or LPCM... I'm still looking for a replacement for my venerable WDTV which does everything I need it to, but in the meantime I've used my AppleTV (3rd gen, not 4k) for all my AppleTV needs: it fills a niche quite well. Recently there was a sale for a...

The microphone is on the remote ;)