Living Room Evolution One: less than "10,000" audio and video system - from flat-rate non-smart flat-panel TVs, toss power amplifier to high-definition player

I'm sorry to have made a title party again. In 2013, I bought the LCD flat-panel TV earth amps and added a new video storage system three years later. With a 480G SSD and a 4TB hard drive, it was exactly 10,000. If the PO owner is now filled with hard disks like this Gen8, it is definitely overspending, but this is an obsessive compulsive disorder full of trays, optional.

The beginning is really "poor" - the choice of 4999 flat-panel TVs in 2013

The first time the decoration was involuntarily, then irritable back to the country to get married, and then staggered to determine the tone of home appliances - a total of 40,000 furniture over the furniture budget, not enough part of credit card. So air conditioning is now only installed one, the other are used Emmett floor fan, living room TV are directed at the price to come.

At that time, he was wearing a belt with a buyer and paid attention to cost-effectiveness. As long as the area of ​​the TV screen was large enough, the color of the screen could be OK. Naturally, Dafa's partitioned backlighting, HDR, and OLED were missing. In the middle of 2013, there was no 4K, and 1080p Full HD was standard. After graduating from college, she has lived for nearly 10 years. The understanding of TV is first and foremost the size of the screen. Big is justice, but due to the fact that the upstream panel exceeds 65 inches in relation to fault-type price hikes, the price of 55-inch flat-panel TVs will be the same.

Relatively speaking, the television also looks fancy color and viewing angle, without comparison there is no harm, for the flat LED TV flat-panel TVs in a row in the mall, the color of the lowest-priced TV of a TV set is difficult to show white. The sensation of redness reveals a pale, sallow, dead skin tone, so it was the first to veto the "primary" television at the lowest price, and the 1000-TV color could be seen.

The home sofa watch TV distance 3.3 meters, chose this Hisense 55-inch flat-panel TV, 1.2 meters wide screen to watch live TV is appropriate, the scene of grand movies is slightly less immersive. - However, there were 400 energy-saving subsidies at that time, ah, in the last wave of home appliances energy-saving subsidies in the first month of 5099 to win this TV has been very satisfied.

Some students may ask why they didn’t buy plasma. First, because they are poor; then this is a TV. TV means that it takes a long time to watch live digital TV programs. TV programs then have station signs—then plasma burns; then Plasma screen decay speed ~ ~; then 13 years when Samsung Matsushita Changhong evacuated the plasma TV industry as the same. I know that someone was holding a bleak mind to buy the last plasma TV stock at that time, but the PO owner did not, because my creed is "the gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall," and Shenma plasma, X58, and the artifact are not bump.

This TV sets a benchmark for a "good" TV for the PO owner, at least for the steel case. Because the LED backlight is sensitive to heat, 100 watts of power is placed there, and the metal-encapsulated LCD flat panel TV will cool better. LED Low operating temperature will slow down the light, backlight life will be longer. However, configuring only two HDMI interfaces is obviously not enough to use, but this regret can only be left to the next TV to make up for it.

Legendary zero dollar purchase - no money for the earth gun power amplifier

note! There is an unidentified object with an orange panel below. It's because the weakness of the flat-panel TV is due to sounds, loud noises, and sonic booms. It's always been used by the Daddy's home that he is not satisfied with the outdated massif 2.0. And bookshelf speakers replace the TV's own sound speaker.

Absolutely hand-built, the shell used 18 years ago, Kim Jung-hung VCD's gilded iron shell, and later dad think orange panel is too difficult to see embarrassed when our young couple went to Thailand to honeymoon when secretly changed an aluminum panel

The father is like a mountain, probably means this kind of meaning

In order to make this original, I specially wiped the dust.

As a result, in order to take pictures, the force of the pre-removal flood emerged, accidentally breaking the terminal spring reeds.  

In the evening of the Bird's Nest Night of China's New Singer again, his wife strongly protested against the monotonous TV sound and mono, and he quickly started repairing himself.

Therefore, it is always useful for handy parties to prepare tools in their homes.

We soldered it one by one.

Even heat shrink tubes are used back.

Finally, I can enjoy the "Chinese New Singer" bird's nest night.

Pretend to love only 2.1 - on the failure to decorate and continue to pick wool from dad

In the failure of the renovation, the PO owner intends to write another original article. Here's a brief explanation:

More than 4 wall outlets must be reserved for TV cabinets and computer desks, as Hifi cabinets and amplifiers are best to be plugged directly into the wall socket without the need for power strips.

The living room must be pre-embedded with a 7.1 surround sound speaker cable, taking into account the reserved projection hanging holes and the video cable installation position

Yes, because there is no embedded 7.1 surround sound cable, PO owners can only pretend to love only 2.1

The 2.1 subwoofer system eliminated by the dad, like the father is like a mountain - did not spend money.

Reliable HD video source

The first half of the PO owners rely on downloads, laptops as high-definition video source, hard to find the hard days, the eyes will come to the Spring Festival, the Spring Festival Gala is still to see.

As for the domestic situation, the online video site's 2-minute advertisement is very touching. The 720i pretends to be very high-definition. Even more frightening is that there is no place to see the whole movie. LeTV, penguins, and iqiyi all have their own parts and are scattered. What's even more frightening is that the General Administration of Radio, Film and Television will get rid of a lot of disharmonious shots, and many of the films are never introduced for the rest of their lives. For example, Battlefield 4, this is not a movie, "Death Maid", "Kill Bill", "Insatiable Bastard" Leshi is there, but non-members need 5 movies. If the iQIYI LeTV pays at the same time, it will miraculously exceed the radio and television network digital TV set-top boxes.

20+ high-definition digital television channels + 10M radio and television broadband 720 yuan / year subscription fees.

In contrast, millet TV 198/year, LeTV 490/year both need to pay their own broadband, China Telecom IPTV + 50M fiber +4G telecommunications mobile phone SIM card bundled packages 900/year.

Why do I know that Telecom IPTV is so expensive? Because I spent 1400/year to open 120M telecommunication optic fibre also bring IPTV! This is another sad story of defeat, but I have to say - my wife said Telecom 120M fiber - value! Because grabbing red packets fast enough! This will open the original details of the pit I dug really too much!

Home Jukebox - NAS: Synology DS216+II/ProLiant MicroServer Gen8

As a supplement to HDTV VOD, especially the domestic version of the "power game" will never have Longma's naked mirror ^_^, when the annual HBO sequel episode Ah Chau drama download, domestic online The website version will also lag behind one quarter and cannot be updated in time. The PO owner also toss this -

As I said before, if the calculation is made according to the "10,000 yuan" of the title party, the configuration in the picture certainly exceeds.

In fact, the minimum consumption standard should be

Solution 1: Detao ProLiant MicroServer Gen8/Taobao E3-1220v2/8G ECC memory/480G SSD/4TB mechanical hard drive (thanks to RMB devaluation of 1500 yuan +578+320+1000+750=4148)

Option 2: Synology DS216+II/480G SSD/4TB mechanical hard disk (2350 Taobao free fish to find the car price +1000+750=4100)

Recently implemented two home streaming service engines, Plex Media Server and VideoStation. Both have the ability to automatically fetch video titles that match Chinese source data.

Scenario 1: ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 + Plex Media Server (31 yuan Win UWP + mobile App playback transcoding requires 4.99 pcs. per month for gold or 149.99 knife lifetime buyouts)

Transcoding speed: E3-1220 needs to wait about 20 seconds for the first time.

Advantages: support DTS decoding, 1080p video playback smooth, Win10 App in the Microsoft Store only need 31 yuan can be permanently used. Support Chinese subtitles SRT or ASS, but want to automatically identify the program must be unified .zh.srt or .zh.ass suffix format.

Disadvantages: DTS-MA, TrueHD and other times of the audio are all finished! Mobile phones in order to see the implementation of transcoding video is simply a blood-sucking payment, buyout price of 149.99 knives is better to buy a group of Hui.

Scenario 2: Synology DS216+II & VideoStation Kit

Transcoding speed: It takes about 20 seconds to play the first time.

Advantages: The mobile phone is very convenient to play, don't pay for it, don't pay for it, don't pay for it! 1080p video playback is smooth and you don't need to pay extra for the above models with DS216play. Support Chinese subtitles SRT or ASS (need to assign NAS account transcoding permission)

Disadvantages: 4K basic gimmick, H265 transcoding is slow, not smooth, waiting for a long time to play directly failed. Does not support DTS decoding! DTS and DTS-MA, TrueHD and other sub-time audio all finished!

Streaming media transcoding looks beautiful, but in fact there is no practical value, PO owners can not download non-DTS, DTS-MA7.1, Dolby TrueHD HD video resources in order to take care of the weak transcoder. Then only take the next step: buy a high-definition player. Really depressed, but also spend money!

High-definition player choice: Haimeidi Q5 fourth generation or Huawei glory box Pro?

Before the HD player used NAS streaming media transcoding, the PO owner also used 55-inch Hisense TV's own SoC integrated video playback.

This feature has advantages: it can decode with 1080p H264/VC-1, don't pay for it, don't pay for it, don't use gold! Support Chinese SRT subtitles.

Disadvantages: TV only 100Base-T 100M wired network card, streaming more than 30Mbps 1080p high-definition video will not be smooth and will burst Catton; does not support ASS format; does not support H265 format! The menu interface is very bad. You can't finish the title. You need to wait for the subtitles to scroll slowly.

Above has tried three kinds of decoding schemes are not perfect, so you can only choose to buy support for H265 10bit encoding, DTS-MA, Dobly TrueHD times the latest high-definition audio playback Android set-top box.

The fourth generation of Haimeidi Q5 uses Huawei Hass Hi3798CV200 ARM A53 quad-core decoding performance, 2G DDR3L memory, 8G ROM, aluminum alloy metal shell, with Gigabit Ethernet interface, HDMI 2.0 interface. The eSATA/SATA interface can be directly connected to the hard disk for playback.

The old drivers all praised the Maritime Q5's local playback capability in unison, and the only thing that made the PO owner hesitate is expensive! This price can add as much as 200 dollars to buy HTPC based on Celeron 1037U ThinITX. If you want to play HD video of any format when you upgrade to HTPC, don't you just want to play it?

The only advantage is the HDMI 2.0 output, 4K H265 hardware decoding, 10bit decoding capabilities, but currently PO home TV has not yet replaced, does not support.

Huawei Glory Box Pro is estimated by Zhang Aunt’s value-friends to use an upgraded version of the entry-level Huawei Hass Hi3798M. It is also possible to see from the running points. The ARM A7 and A53 have large performance gaps, 2G DDR3L memory, 8G ROM, and plastic housing. The advantage is that there are Gigabit Ethernet cards.

In contrast, the millet box 3 is a big flicker - pure WiFi, no Gigabit network interface is not suitable for high-definition player use. Because 4K high-definition video stream can be up to 150Mbps, the speed of playing a wireless network card with WIFI can't stop it!

Currently locked above two high-definition players, 300 Jingdong E card and 500-20 Jingdong vouchers, 1000-30 white vouchers are already in hand, full reduction vouchers will expire on the 10th. The PO owner must make a final decision within 2 days. Basically, PO owners tend to choose the fourth generation of Haimedi Q5.

Finally calculate the PO's living room evolution bill for the past few years:

Hisense TV 55 inch 1080p 13 years price 5099, audio amplifier + speaker father and father love mountain free, HD NAS 512GB SSD+4TB or 4TBx2 see you are not to take into account PC file storage, taking into account PC storage personal data on the use of SSD+HDD, Pure audio and video files for two 4TB HDDs, spending is 4K, high-definition digital set-top box costs 720 / year, replaced by other telecommunications IPTV, only a few. Just less than ten thousand yuan, you see I did not lie to you!

The next article in the evolution of the living room II, PO main estimate will be toss Haimi Q5 fourth-generation high-definition player, everyone will see next week!

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