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At that budget I'd shop Craigslist personally.

Tears are a waste so once you add an amp you will want to fade forward or unplug them. Bluetooth is cheapest to add by replacement...

Ok, boo. TV has an optical out which works...but it is annoying to pull an optical cable where I need to and I already have HDMI's run

....but if it won't play hockey, I am not using it. *I do expect that what I use downstairs should be better. Currently testing the stick only but bought full players for the living room so they can be hardwired. Here I prefer the Roku as well since it has an independent digital audio out. Only because my Onkyo no longer seems to switch HDMI so to get the audio into the receiver I either need to run two HDMI cables from my basement to my tv or run analog back (boo). This of course assumes that the TV will output HDMI when getting HDMI in which I imagine is copy protected and may not work. Haven't tested or searched that yet...

The only bummer is I am Amazon prime and will be regardless of my streaming choice. Having a streamer that integrates nicely with that doesn't suck. Sling, Netflix etc apps look the same on both, imagine that, so it is truly only the home interface and Amazon one that are different. One is better with one and one with the other. Right now obviously the Amazon solution is off the table due to the streaming performance I saw last night, but I will reserve the final judgement post Sunday at least seeing how it performs on the NFL.

I am cancelling my cable this weekend for sure.* *Have to decide on Roku or Fire by then so I can open what else I ordered, lol

Initial feedback on my tv setup. Tablo works great. Sure there might be other things that do the same, but my primary goal was to stream everything into one source and have one interactive menu. Tablo allows that and records whatever OTA stuff you want. Amazon Fire & Roku Sticks: Amazon jitters sometimes on live sports, Roku doesn't. Jitter isn't acceptable. Roku menu system way better when you know what service you need. Amazon better menu if ONLY you uses it as it remembers everything you click on and offers shit. This will get annoying with a 5 and 7 year old in my house. Amazon remote is better. In feel as well as cosmetically. Voice search button is sweet on the Amazon remote, but you can't be watching anything when you want to use it...even in the app. Roku stick doesn't have voice search, but has an app that does that works while you watch something. A hybrid of this would be sweet...which the Roku 3/4/Premier+/Ultra have I think. Picture quality of OTA is better than cable...by a lot. Sling TV streaming is adequate, but hasn't been 100% perfect. Will try the Vue after my free trial on the sling wears off. Amazon has better offerings of its own shows than their app. Way better. The Squeezebox player for Roku sucks. If you have playlists or your content sorted in folders nicely it is very easy to find an album/playlist and play it in the player.

Front & Rear depend on your fader settings. Generally other than that they should be the same. As long as they don't have a sub crossover on them you can just get an RCA Y splitter and send the signal to both amps. You will lose "balance" control between the amps, but it saves you from buying a HU.

All Asus in my house drop out all the time. Have a $180 Linksys atm which doesn't drop, but occasionally hiccups. I also have ZERO patience btw.

Are you running wireless? wondering if I just have the worlds shittiest router lukc.

Found this and considering I have nearly everything except enough membranes for the flow that is easy to mod. Plus something built into the house sounds better than an undersink thing hung from my rafters.

Decided I am building an RO system for my ice maker/carbonated water/drinking in the house. Thought I would also run a line to my garage to rinse my car (well water never clear rinses otherwise). Wondering what sort of volume I may need to do this as I'll have to have enough storage in the basement and flow to keep up. Will be a low pressure, 1/4" line rinse, but should be better I would assume. Any thoughts?

The Roku squeezebox app is useless btw.

The Roku app is identical to the remote, the Amazon one not as you swipe and tap versus hit a button. It does allow for doing it without looking which you cannot on the Roku app. The lack of haptic makes virtual buttons a bit strange. I have the same problem in my car as I have to see what I push and don't like that generally. Both sticks have been flaky, but I think perhaps it is either my wireless or the fact I put a bunk hard drive on the Tablo. Fixing the latter with a temp solution to test.

THis!

Sorry Randal

99% sure I am canceling my cable tomorrw.

The amazon phone app is better for use without looking at it. Just swipe to move. Slower to use while you are though.

Tablo TV works well for OTA. Menu system is nice, but too bad someone doesn't make an overlay app that combines them all so you can see everything that is playing on any of your channels at once.

Initial reaction is that Fire TV looks nicer than Roku, but Roku seems snappier and is cleaner to navigate.

It shouldn't be my internet. While streaming I ran a wifi scan at speedtest.net and have 18mbps down and 1.8 up which ought to be fine.

Think I may AGAIN need a different Wifi router. Really wish the Asus's worked at my house but so far 3 for 3 drops the connection in my chair every 15min or so. Not an even 15, but way too fucking often. Picture quality falters on wifi in some pattern that is similar too on the linksys.

Picture quality > cable

If you weren't on them all the time perhaps that would be different.

Netflix I've found is ONLY good for children shows...which they don't really need.