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I was thinking when I watched it that it might be a little bit confusing for those not familiar with the source material. It is a super dense book and I think they did about as well as could be expected translating it to film. There an incredible amount of world-building that has to happen and...

We watched it this weekend and it was STUNNING. It was easily one of the most gorgeous science fiction movies I've ever seen. It was also very respectful of the source material. I barely felt the length of the movie and was disappointed when it ended. That is rare with a movie that long. I...

I just want the content to look the way the director intended. If the movie was made intentionally grainy, I want that retained. Otherwise, I honestly don't care.

I get YouTube Music with my YouTube Premium subscription. It replaced Google Play Music, but I do not like it nearly as well. I mainly use it because I don't want to pay for two subscriptions. If I every get my Plex server back up and running, I might try to Tidal integration.

I'm at more than 1400 movies on Vudu. With rare exceptions, I stopped buying anything but 4K a few years ago and at least one of the studios did a free across-the-board upgrade, but I suspect the UHD movie count is under 400. I upgrade things I care about when they have really good deals, but I...

I love watching the videos aimed at laymen, such as What Makes This Song Great. I've learned a lot and find it fascinating. Most of his channel is dedicated to music theory and is way to technical for this non-musician. Before he became a YouTuber, he was a music producer for a couple decades...

I sleeved all mine late last year. I had them ripped, but lost all that in a NAS disaster. I'm going to rip them all again and do a better job with backups, but that is a lot of work and a fair amount of cost as well.

No, but I can tell you that I have been shockingly happy with the little Chinese amp I run my porch speakers with.

If I cannot get more consistent and reliable performance from the Harmony when it comes to controlling the lift in my custom cabinet, I may just switch out to the Caavo and revert to using the manual switch to raise and lower the display. The Caavo has an integrated HDMI switch, which would be...

Unfortunately, physical media will soon be gone and all content will be subject to instant cancellation by our woke corporate overlords. I stream pretty much everything, but I do not trust big tech or any of these streaming companies to uphold the integrity of the original work if they make it...

I'm using the 50x2 version of this amp and it provides plenty of power for my application. Fosi BT20A Bluetooth Amplifier

Yes. The speakers are in a screened back porch, so they are not fully exposed to the weather. I keep the amp on top of one of the speakers, which are mounted high up on a wall.

Why not just use a little Bluetooth amplifier? That's what I do. They are super small, sound decent and cost under $100. Most also have a line-in. There are a ton of ways to access your music library from your phone or a tablet and it is easy.

I had Flint build me a pretty amazing pair of patio speakers a couple years ago and they sound WAY better than any quasi-outdoor speaker has a right to.

I bought the same sub in 2007 and still love it. I'll probably run it until it croaks, which hopefully won't be for awhile.

I don't do much place shifting and even watch YouTube on my TV for the most part. I don't subscribe to any live/linear TV services either. I don't watch sports, so I don't see the point. The problem we had was too much content. We dropped Starz last summer and just dropped our paid subscription...

The difference is that we can choose to pay for just the services we want, can drop and pick up services whenever we want, choose to pay a little extra to avoid ads, watch what we want when we want and have access to more content that any linear service could ever begin to provide. Imperfect as...

I really like the Harmony Ultimate One / Harmony Hubs I'm using in both my systems. I'm going to have to stock up on batteries and hope they don't break. The only other user friendly option is the Caavo, but it is not set up to address audio-only sources. This is very disappointing.

Caavo remotes are really nice. I have one and like it a lot. The downside is that it cannot handle things like bias lights and TV lifts. If all you have is a TV, receiver and source components, it is beautiful.

I used to use URC remotes back in the day and found them to be both harder to set up and less reliable. I wish I'd know they were going to do this. I would have bought a few more remotes. Oh well. I have one for each of my system and they should last a long time if I can get batteries.