Announcement

Collapse

Fandango at Home Forum Guidelines

Fandango at Home Forum Guidelines

The Fandango at Home Forums are designed to help viewers get the most out of their Fandango at Home experience. Here, Fandango at Home customers may post information, questions, ideas, etc. on the subject of Fandango at Home and Fandango at Home -related issues (home theater, entertainment, etc). Although the primary purpose of these forums is to help Fandango at Home customers with questions and/or problems with their Fandango at Home service, there are also off-topic areas available within the Fandango at Home Forums for users to chat with like-minded people, subject to the limitations below.

Please post all comments in English. When posting a comment in the Fandango at Home Forums, please conduct yourself in a respectful and civil manner. While we respect that you may feel strongly about an issue, please leave room for discussion.

Fandango at Home Forum Guidelines

The Fandango at Home Forums are designed to help viewers get the most out of their Fandango at Home experience. Here, Fandango at Home customers may post information, questions, ideas, etc. on the subject of Fandango at Home and Fandango at Home -related issues (home theater, entertainment, etc). Although the primary purpose of these forums is to help Fandango at Home customers with questions and/or problems with their Fandango at Home service, there are also off-topic areas available within the Fandango at Home Forums for users to chat with like-minded people, subject to the limitations below.

Please post all comments in English. When posting a comment in the Fandango at Home Forums, please conduct yourself in a respectful and civil manner. While we respect that you may feel strongly about an issue, please leave room for discussion.

Fandango at Home reserves the right to refrain from posting and/or to remove user comments, including comments that contain any of the following:

1. Obscenities, defamatory language, discriminatory language, or other language not suitable for a public forum
2. Email addresses, phone numbers, links to websites, physical addresses or other forms of contact information
3. "Spam" content, references to other products, advertisements, or other offers
4. Spiteful or inflammatory comments about other users or their comments
5. Comments that may potentially violate the DMCA or any other applicable laws
6. Comments that discuss ways to manipulate Fandango at Home products/services, including, but not limited to, reverse engineering, video extraction, and file conversion.

Additionally, please keep in mind that although Fandango at Home retains the right to monitor, edit, and/or remove posts within Fandango at Home Forums, it does not necessarily review every comment. Accordingly, specific questions about Fandango at Home products and services should be directed to Fandango at Home customer service representatives.

Terms of Use - User Comments, Feedback, Reviews, Submissions

For all reviews, comments, feedback, postcards, suggestions, ideas, and other submissions disclosed, submitted or offered to Fandango at Home, on or through this Site, by e-mail or telephone, or otherwise disclosed, submitted or offered in connection you use of this Site (collectively, the "Comments") you grant Fandango at Home a royalty-free, irrevocable, transferable right and license to use the Comments however Fandango at Home desires, including, without limitation, to copy, modify, delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and/or sell and /or distribute such Comments and/or incorporate such Comments into any form, medium or technology throughout the world.
Fandango at Home will be entitled to use, reproduce, disclose, modify, adapt, create derivative works from, publish, display and distribute any Comments you submit for any purpose whatsoever, without restriction and without compensating you in any way. Fandango at Home is and shall be under no obligation (1) to maintain any Comments in confidence; (2) to pay to users any compensation for any Comments; or (3) to respond to any user Comments. You agree that any Comments submitted by you to the Site will not violate the terms in this Terms of Use or any right of any third party, including without limitation, copyright, trademark, privacy or other personal or proprietary right(s), and will not cause injury to any person or entity. You further agree that no Comments submitted by you to this Site will be or contain libelous or otherwise unlawful, threatening, abusive or obscene material, or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings or any form of "spam."

You grant Fandango at Home the right to use the name that you submit in connection with any Comments. You agree not to use a false email address, impersonate any person or entity, otherwise mislead as to the origin of any Comments you submit. You are, and shall remain, solely responsible for the content of any Comments you make and you agree to indemnify Fandango at Home for all claims resulting from any Comments you submit. Fandango at Home takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any Comments submitted by you or any third-party reserves the right to refrain from posting and/or to remove user comments, including comments that contain any of the following:

1. Obscenities, defamatory language, discriminatory language, or other language not suitable for a public forum
2. Email addresses, phone numbers, links to websites, physical addresses or other forms of contact information
3. "Spam" content, references to other products, advertisements, or other offers
4. Spiteful or inflammatory comments about other users or their comments
5. Comments that may potentially violate the DMCA or any other applicable laws
6. Comments that discuss ways to manipulate Fandango at Home products/services, including, but not limited to, reverse engineering, video extraction, and file conversion.

Additionally, please keep in mind that although Fandango at Home retains the right to monitor, edit, and/or remove posts within Fandango at Home Forums, it does not necessarily review every comment. Accordingly, specific questions about Fandango at Home products and services should be directed to Fandango at Home customer service representatives.

Terms of Use - User Comments, Feedback, Reviews, Submissions

For all reviews, comments, feedback, postcards, suggestions, ideas, and other submissions disclosed, submitted or offered to Fandango at Home, on or through this Site, by e-mail or telephone, or otherwise disclosed, submitted or offered in connection you use of this Site (collectively, the "Comments") you grant Fandango at Home a royalty-free, irrevocable, transferable right and license to use the Comments however Fandango at Home desires, including, without limitation, to copy, modify, delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and/or sell and /or distribute such Comments and/or incorporate such Comments into any form, medium or technology throughout the world.
Fandango at Home will be entitled to use, reproduce, disclose, modify, adapt, create derivative works from, publish, display and distribute any Comments you submit for any purpose whatsoever, without restriction and without compensating you in any way. Fandango at Home is and shall be under no obligation (1) to maintain any Comments in confidence; (2) to pay to users any compensation for any Comments; or (3) to respond to any user Comments. You agree that any Comments submitted by you to the Site will not violate the terms in this Terms of Use or any right of any third party, including without limitation, copyright, trademark, privacy or other personal or proprietary right(s), and will not cause injury to any person or entity. You further agree that no Comments submitted by you to this Site will be or contain libelous or otherwise unlawful, threatening, abusive or obscene material, or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings or any form of "spam."

You grant Fandango at Home the right to use the name that you submit in connection with any Comments. You agree not to use a false email address, impersonate any person or entity, otherwise mislead as to the origin of any Comments you submit. You are, and shall remain, solely responsible for the content of any Comments you make and you agree to indemnify Fandango at Home for all claims resulting from any Comments you submit. Fandango at Home takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any Comments submitted by you or any third-party.
See more
See less

Which Device for the Best Black Level?

Collapse
X
Collapse
 
  • Page of 1
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
Previous template Next
    #1

    Which Device for the Best Black Level?

    I am a long-time Vudu user with a large library and have been using Roku boxes pretty much from the beginning. The one complaint I have is that the black levels are really not that great. I realize that streaming is not going to give me the kind of low-light detail a Blu-Ray will, but I wonder if some of my problem is with the limitations of the Roku.

    Have any of you found that one platform offers better performance than the others? For example, do Oppo Blu-Ray players offer picture quality advantages over Roku, XBox or Playstation? I am very curious to hear about other peoples' experiences with different clients.
    Tags: None
    #2
    Re: Which Device for the Best Black Level?

    Originally posted by Scott Curtis View Post
    I am a long-time Vudu user with a large library and have been using Roku boxes pretty much from the beginning. The one complaint I have is that the black levels are really not that great. I realize that streaming is not going to give me the kind of low-light detail a Blu-Ray will, but I wonder if some of my problem is with the limitations of the Roku.

    Have any of you found that one platform offers better performance than the others? For example, do Oppo Blu-Ray players offer picture quality advantages over Roku, XBox or Playstation? I am very curious to hear about other peoples' experiences with different clients.
    I've found that it is more due to the TV you are watching on. I haven't really noticed any difference between streaming from my Bluray player vs my Tivo vs my AppleTV vs my firestick. The biggest thing with those is normally volume levels. Now, watching on my Samsung TV out in the living room (DLP based TV) vs my Projector (LCD Based) in my Mancave, the blacks are better in my room because I can control the ambient light better and LCDs have a better black level than DLP. That's not to say you can't get a really good picture with DLP, you just have to go in and fine tune your TV, which most people don't bother to do.

    If you can, test on different TVs to see which one gives you the best results. Ultimately, it is user preference as to what looks good. I'm old and my eyes aren't as good as they used to be so I may see things a bit different than you.

    Comment

      #3
      Re: Which Device for the Best Black Level?

      Originally posted by Gnatevil View Post
      I've found that it is more due to the TV you are watching on. I haven't really noticed any difference between streaming from my Bluray player vs my Tivo vs my AppleTV vs my firestick. The biggest thing with those is normally volume levels. Now, watching on my Samsung TV out in the living room (DLP based TV) vs my Projector (LCD Based) in my Mancave, the blacks are better in my room because I can control the ambient light better and LCDs have a better black level than DLP. That's not to say you can't get a really good picture with DLP, you just have to go in and fine tune your TV, which most people don't bother to do.

      If you can, test on different TVs to see which one gives you the best results. Ultimately, it is user preference as to what looks good. I'm old and my eyes aren't as good as they used to be so I may see things a bit different than you.
      I have a very well calibrated Samsung LED Light Engine DLP set and I run video through a Darbee processor on the way in. I also have pretty good lighting control. The compression used with streaming tends to crush blacks and limit low light detail. I am simply curious to find out if any of these streaming clients perform better than the others. I've used a couple generation of Roku boxes and a PS3.

      Comment

        #4
        Re: Which Device for the Best Black Level?

        Point source screens are really the only way to go. IE Plasma, OLED.

        Comment

          #5
          Re: Which Device for the Best Black Level?

          I use PMCv2: Panasonic Black Level (MLL) Restoration Device. Simply put, a PMCv2 (which stands for Panasonic MLL Clearer, version 2) is a device that connects to the ?secret service connector? inside the back of your Panasonic Plasma television. Once installed, the PMCv2 periodically and automatically resets the black level of the TV to its original, inky black, fresh-out-of-the-factory settings.

          Comment

            #6
            Re: Which Device for the Best Black Level?

            Oppo BDP-103 Blu-Ray and you're choice of 4k OLED TV as long as it has HDR.

            Comment

              #7
              Re: Which Device for the Best Black Level?

              Originally posted by jeremymc7 View Post
              Oppo BDP-103 Blu-Ray and you're choice of 4k OLED TV as long as it has HDR.
              Great choice. I will buy this one.

              Comment

              Previous template Next
              Working...
              X