Recent content by KGarcia

I bit. Got the MU6290 from Lowe’s for $300 minus a $40 off $200 coupon and 2.7% raise.com gift cards along with their cyber Monday code for another $10 off. I finally tested it last night and was able to use the Microsoft HDMI 2.0 adapter with my Surface Book performance base to get 4:4:4 at 4K...

You missed 2 key features. 144hz and Gsync. This is a great deal for a gaming monitor. Or go dual screens. I have a dedicated gaming monitor paired with an calibrated Dell U3014 IPS for non-gaming. For more than double this price you could also get a 144hz gsync IPS panel. That would be a...

I did the same. Upgraded my gaming monitor from an older 22” viewsonic 120hz. Eventually will replace this and my U3014 with 30+ 4K IPS GSync with 144+ hz (if and when that perfect monitor comes out).

Tom Lowe created TimeScapes using a 12 terabyte RAID 5. He had about 20TB of 5.6k and 4k footgage (Canon and RED). Not sure what controller he was using but talks about his setup in on Vimeo. He was also using Adobe for the project, which had a $300k budget. I mainly shoot HD but have done some...

Late last year I switched from $65 month internet only to a local comcast office blast deal that came with HBO and 50MBs internet for $70 a month for the first year, $80 a month for the 2nd year. It was a much better deal then the internet deals. Had to throw in another $10 a month for HDTV that...

I've dealt with this several times and worst case scenario you'll have to call and a Microsoft rep will activate it over the phone for you.

They were allowed to encrypt the locals but Comcast has to provide DTAs free for 2 years. Here's where it gets good... before the switch life was good and you were able to get the locals in HD using the Clear QAM tuner built into your TV. Then you got a notice letting you know about the switch...

I thought about going with a NAS for low power, low maintenance (mgmt), and less hardware costs. It does have it's limitations. Most of the NAS devices that support Plex can Direct Play but there are many that can't transcode HD effectively. I pretty much Direct Play everything but I ended up...

Smart move offloading these cards while you can get good money for them. In the interim I went with a GTX 760. I'm waiting for the mining craze to bomb so I can buy a couple 7970s for cheap. Looking forward to finally being able to run 2560x1440 native. :-) Big money but those 780's will not...

I actually use Apple TV with iTunes home sharing for this rather then Plex but you can definitely play music via xbox or PS3 over the network. The xbox works nativly using Windows Media Center. This is exactly how some people use their HTPC and DVR capabilities by using Xbox Windows Media Center...

I'm loving the handbrake/subler combo. Pulls in all the chapters and Plex even shows a clip of the scene for any particular chapter. On Thanksgiving my brother-in-laws and I were browsing old comedies and jumped right to some scenes for a good laugh. You would have never seen us standing in...

The brand new HD Homerun will do h.264 over the network but it's antenna/QAM only. They have a 4 tuner cable card version coming out later this year that I might be interested in. All my QAM tuners are dead since comcast went encrypted and we only have a few antenna channels in the area so it's...

When looking at it from an ROI prospective I don't think it makes any sense at all, really. The truth is you have to want to do this knowing that it's going to take a lot of your time, effort, and money. What are you really gaining in the end? You have to weight it out and before you start you...

I'm using MakeMKV to pull in the video and 5.1 or 7.1 DTS/DD track along with english subtitles (subs can be a pain with some movies so better to pull all english subs in with MakeMKV). I then use Handbrake with AppleTV 3 setting but I change the RF to 19 (default is 20). This gives me video...

h.265 looks promising but he's referring to h.264.Still a ways to go for h.265. ;-)