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When I saw the news last week that wally-world bought out Vizio, I thought, "Great, soon those things will be displaying walmart-specific ads (perhaps a permanent scrolling ad banner at the bottom), with no way of disabling it", and was thinking about starting a thread about it. Caleb just sent...

Interesting new surround system for "imperfect" rooms and speaker setups (includes bonus Maybach content!)

Every year, since I was a teen, I've watched the Grammy Awards. And for the last 15 years or so, I've always promised myself "this is the last time"; but, there was almost always a small slice of an artist that caught my ear, and I ended up being a fan (Seal, Take 6, some mexican guitarist...

This one deserves its own thread. I adore this guy. He foils thieves with his tracking/glitterbombing/fart-spray/bomb countdown machines. Sadly, this is his last one (supposedly), but he does expose a pretty-obvious black market scheme to the leadership of San Francisco; wonder if anything...

First off, borderline NSFW. I'm not a gamer at all, but found this interesting for a few reasons: - Pretty stunning visuals! - Apparently the last one is over ten years old - It has broken the non-music-video Ewetube record with (at time of writing) 129 million views - It won't be coming...

I learned this in Junior High School, but it bears repeating:

Another band that deserves their own thread. They're branching out from just covering Chicago, here's a Blood Sweat & Tears tune that I have in my collection but don't exactly remember. They are (iirc) a mix of Ukrainians and russians, and after checking their link I see they're touring...

When I bought my first (and last) brand-new car in 2018, I started watching videos of polish/clay/rubber/wax/coating products, as I wanted to keep my new ride pristine. One channel that kept popping up was "Pan the Organizer"; informative but he always took 6 minutes of good information and...

This was kinda hard to take, but I have to admit that my TV/receiver issues (both 13 years old) were NOT caused by my TV, but rather my receiver's HTML output stage going kaput; it can't be repaired. I'd replaced my 47" LG "local-dimming" LCD with a 55" Sony OLED this Spring, and the picture...

I follow Caleb's ewetube channel and his crew recently moved into a new space, and he talks about acoustic treatments and vintage gear. The middle third of the video is essentially a commercial for BDI products, but their coffee table has me very intrigued! Enjoy.

Okay. I'd not really watched this series much before, mostly because "Sheldon" was my least-favorite character on the old Friends show, which I watched a bit when I was stationed in ND because it was -25˚ outside and dark since 3:30 pm. But tonight it came on when I was distracted, and it...

Caleb does an unboxing (not full review yet) of a soundbar/satellite/quad-subwoofer system from Nakamichi. Interesting concept, and it sounded great thru the speakers on my Macbook. :D

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I wasn't a big fan of this song/video when it hit (and wow did it HIT), but it was very impressive to have that many big names in one room, on one song. The "Professor of Rock" interviewed a few of the folks in the session, with some interesting background info (for me, anyway). When I read...

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/15/23721674/telly-free-tv-streaming-ilya-pozin-ads Gets a big Nope from me, but it is an interesting concept.

I got an email about a week ago from a "Mark Waldrep", name rang a bell but I couldn't place it. He's the founder of AIX Records (they did original recordings of bands, all live, no digital compression, reverb, overdubs or analog tape (although they were recorded digitally), and the resulting...

Rick Beato has some interesting thoughts on what AI-generated "songs" can/will do to the Music Industry here. He concludes that the Industry will eventually cut out the Artist altogether, but imnsho he doesn't take it far enough: These deepfakes weren't even generated by the "Music Industry"...

This is a Ewetube channel that I recently discovered, hosted by some guitarist I'm unfamiliar with, and the husband/keyboardist of Pomplamoose (and is also, I did not know this, the CEO of Patreon!). They invite one or two musician "specialists" and go over an old, classic recording, and...

Found this very interesting, both the "behind the scenes" systems supporting something like the SuperBowl, and the massive bottlenecks involved.

I set up my system in 2010, the time I joined this forum. I dropped cable at that time, and went strictly OTA (I only watch the news and football). That worked beautifully for a few years, but then one, then another, and soon all stations wouldn't come in (I finally attributed it to a 10-story...