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KDE Plasma Bigscreen (Android TV alternative) is back from dead (www.neowin.net)
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Not exactly self-hosted but I know many jellyfinners here would cherish this as well.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Does it support Dolby Vision?

Because if not, I'm not sure how it's going to compete with Android TV devices.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Are you sure that Dolby Vision is a main selling point of Android TVs?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You're absolutely right, that's just me not wanting it for Jellyfin on those grounds.

    For mainstream users, I would assume that Linux being unable to run streaming services at full quality would discount it as a serious contender as well.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Most people I know haven't even bothered to buy a new TV since Dolby Vision was created. A fair number still have 1080 sets.

    While some like you may certainly demand it and it would be a good idea, I think it's a fair description to help people understand the goal is an android TV like experience, and a lot of people are oblivious to a lot of the details of picture quality.

    Just a bit over the top for such an overly dismissive statement, versus saying something like "does it support Dolby vision? I won't be interested until it does"

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Unlikely, Dolby tech support requires that the license for Vision or Atmos etc has been bought for that particular machine. Never seen a media player where the end user can buy the license separately.

    edit: Also those Android boxes only support DV Profile 5, which is DV used for streaming, If you want to play a UHD BluRay rip in mkv format in the highest quality DV profile, Profile 7 with Full Enhancement Layers, you need to find a Oppo 203 or 205 or one of the clones. Those are basically the only players that can play UHD BD mkv with DV Profile 7 FEL.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    MS do sell Atmos (and DTS:X) support as an individually licensed thing, threough Dolby Access and DTS Sound Unbound on their store.

    I do wonder how it could work in Linux, as well as getting things like commercial streaming services in 4K.

    Presumably some sort of black box hardware would be needed (for the super top secret Widevine L1 shit), the manufacturer of that can pay the Dolby fees, and then just some basic open source code to call the hardware features.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Lol idek what Dolby vision is. Don't they do sound?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's basically HDR (the 10 bit display kind, not the Half Life 2 kind), but with more metadata.

    What I find is that if you have a Dolby Vision capable TV, it will be already calibrated to something that looks good, rather than you having to fuck around telling it how bright "paper" is or some shit.

    HDR displays are surprisingly tricky, even without Dolby Vision or HDR10+. Especially if you're mixing SDR and HDR content on a display. I tried it a few years ago on Windows and it was flat out awful. I think they've fixed a lot of it up now with Win 11, but even they took their damn time over it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thanks!

    I haven't purchased a new tv in years. My current monitor has HDR but idt i have it turned on because it just made everything look washed out and i don't care enough to fiddle with all the settings when SDR looks fine to me.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    A lot of monitors have particularly bad HDR, the max brightness being so low you might as well not bother. And as you've found out some games are really washed out for some reason. Like to the point where the game is almost entirely grey.

    Worse, some games actually detect the capability in the monitor and turn it back on, and for that reason I wasn't able to play Nex Machina on PC.

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