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    Recently picked up an Apple TV 4K and it's a great thing.

    Apple Music lossless sound quality very impressive, (better than my Room streaming setup?), best quality pic and sound too for streaming Apps like Netflix, Disney+ YouTube and the like.
    Tried a few different ways to access these, built in TV app, Nvidia Shield, PlayStation 5 and the little Apple box betters them all.
    No glitches, no picture issues... Feels solid and 'just works'.

    Impressed with Apple Music,
    Wondered what their Movie service and quality was like?

    ITunes store offering some Billy bargains,
    20 quid for all 10 Star Trek movies sound good?
    Many of them remastered in 4K Dolby Vision too.



    Picked up another few bargains,
    4K Dolby Vision versions for under a fiver.







    Picture quality wise, Apple's 4K Dolby Vision is a very small ball hair off the Disc of the same movie, played on my modded Oppo 203.

    It's the Availability, cheap price and 90% pic n sound quality of Apple's offering compared to buying the Disc that's got me interested.
    Original disc is better, but just a wee bit.

    Mentioning this for folks that may be curious.
    Streaming's came of age I think?

    That said,
    And similarly (IMO) to vinyl v digital, if you want that extra little bit of quality on the top go for physical media.

    But it's diminishing returns stuff,
    Watching Flash Gordon in 4K Dolby Vision,
    And if you can get quality like this for a fiver..

    Putting this out there for folks that might be curious., I've done the comparison.
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    iv the older non 4k version box. its very good too. but prefer to just use the pc's with roon.
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    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    iv the older non 4k version box. its very good too. but prefer to just use the pc's with roon.
    Same here Grant,

    especially for Tidal and Qobuz intergration, Roon interface is awesome.
    Just need to get my streaming setup properly sorted, be fun to get that up to snuff again.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gazjam View Post
    Same here Grant,

    especially for Tidal and Qobuz intergration, Roon interface is awesome.
    Just need to get my streaming setup properly sorted, be fun to get that up to snuff again.
    ive quite a few apple films available on that ; certainly over a hundred, but i can access with amazon 4k box too. then i have plex films and music ; films are my old dvds. they come out quite well tbh think plex can be used on apple too
    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
    .... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
    FIIO K7 BT, M11 PLUS, BTR7, KA5 - OPPO BDP-103D - PANASONIC UB450 - PANASONIC 4K ULTRA HD TV - PIXEL 6 - AVANTREE LR BLUETOOTH - 2* X600 SOUNDCORE - HEADPHONES INCLUDE, FIIO, NURAPHONES', FOCAL, OPPO, BOSE, CAMBRIDGE, BOWER & WILKINS, DEVIALET, MARSHALL, SONY, MITCHELL & JOHNSTON - 2*ZBOOK'S- MERCURY BD ROM, ROON, QOBUZ, TIDAL, PLEX, CYBERLINK, JRIVER - MULTI HDD'S -

    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


    ***SMILE, BE HAPPY***

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    I absolutely love my Apple TV 4K, but didn’t know about any offers of films through iTunes…I’ll go and investigate! Thanks for the heads-up!


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    Cool.

    What have you bought on Itunes then?


    Quote Originally Posted by vinylsnail View Post
    I absolutely love my Apple TV 4K, but didn’t know about any offers of films through iTunes…I’ll go and investigate! Thanks for the heads-up!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Gazjam View Post
    Cool.

    What have you bought on Itunes then?
    I bought that star trek set! It’s a bargain lol.


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    There’s Sales on all the time, always worth checking out.
    If you see it going cheap at the time, my advice is buy it when you see it.

    The entire series, Remastered all 5 seasons, of “Babylon 5” was available for £25.
    Next week when I looked and wanted to buy the price had gone up to £25 a Season!

    This was because word had got out of its Creator working on a Reboot of the series…
    So prices can change.



    Quote Originally Posted by vinylsnail View Post
    I bought that star trek set! It’s a bargain lol.


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    MUSIC PLAYBACK
    Tweaked AP-Linux based Roon Server into Oppo 203 as Roon endpoint
    Ipad Roon Remote.
    Apple Music/ YouTube via AppleTV, fed to Dac via Oppo HDMI input/i2s output to Dac.
    SPEAKER CABLES
    Biwired: Duelund DCA10GA (Bass) Duelund DCA16GA (mid & treble) Duelund 12DCA used as jumpers (On
    "Blackcat Cable" Chris Sommivigo's advice - yup, even with biwire it sounds better - and it does)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gazjam View Post
    There’s Sales on all the time, always worth checking out.
    If you see it going cheap at the time, my advice is buy it when you see it.

    The entire series, Remastered all 5 seasons, of “Babylon 5” was available for £25.
    Next week when I looked and wanted to buy the price had gone up to £25 a Season!

    This was because word had got out of its Creator working on a Reboot of the series…
    So prices can change.
    Oooh. I missed that. I have a little check every so often.


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