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Just buy a chromecast
Is Netflix that expensive in USA?
Here it costs 20$ or so and we share the expenses with my family, since we use it with 3 families, and still everyone has their own profile.
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Just buy a chromecast
Is Netflix that expensive in USA?
Here it costs 20$ or so and we share the expenses with my family, since we use it with 3 families, and still everyone has their own profile.
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Nice touch, I like it!! :+1: …
Headless me walking a friend of mine, but that’s now, when she first me she hated me just line any other new person in the house.
Now i get showered in love when we meet ( not my dog belong to my little sisters former boyfriend )
Our first walk i got dragged along and was just there for the ride, now there is no doubt in how our walks go, until we meet another dog then she go hyper and want to play as she have never learned to handle such a situation.
Slowly getting there.
O and i never owned a dog myself.
Because I have lots of lights that never get used so whats a few more. Yes I have a problem. :person_facepalming:
Is there a comparison between LED vs HID car lights?
I haven’t had time to read it but this seems the topic for car LEDs:
Ok, some recent talking in the Q8 thread got me thinking about LED headlights again. I never really paid attention to them before as the first few trys at a new tech like this is usually not that great, better to give it time to mature before buying in. It has been a few years so my question is what are BLF users opinions on them? Good bad or otherwise. We don’t really have any car headlight topics that I could find so figured I might as well make one. The biggest issue I have with them is th…
When ordering 2 lights, is there an option to order the 2nd later?
Just in case i will be picked out at customs and have to pay taxes for both of them
Also received a message from Martin Freeme about the estimated price of the utorch UT03, i think it will be better to go for a second Q8.
Yok’, yes, $31 and change for my package that includes 3 DVDs and streaming. The streaming basically doesn’t work through the smart TV*, only through the computer and I only watch movies on the computer monitor when the wife has the big screen once every few months. So IMO it’s too expensive for what I get.
* Streaming now works fine through the Fire Stick. But I won’t keep both Amazon Prime and Netflix; the goal is to drop Netflix.
But the straw that broke the camels back with Netflix was their move to a simple thumbs up or thumbs down for suggestions as to whether I will like a movie. The old system was a 5 star rating that could produce a 2.6 rating (for instance). Depending on the movie I could take a chance and lots of times it worked out. Now it’s yes or no, so it’s basically a useless rating system. They want to make the decision for me and that’s not what I want at all.
So I’m looking around. FWIW, streaming works so much better through the TV with the fire stick since it uses my WiFi. So it’s LG programming that somehow screws up the streaming since the fire stick goes around LG programming within the TV. Movies now load instantly, if I pause a movie I can come back to it with no message that it can’t be done and try again later, Just better all around.
But to get full use out of it requires one to pay for premium content of some sort.
One thing the LG smart TV will do is the internet, sort of. If a race is happening in the UK and it isn’t being shown locally I can sometimes go online and find it streaming through “private” websites. But to use the internet on the TV as I’m doing now is just rubbish. It can be done, but if that was my sole method of internet access I wouldn’t be on the internet.
I share your experience with smart TV’s.
I own a philips home theatre set (one of the most expensive ones at the time) and it is RUBBISH
Since Philips fell in Chinese hands it is crap.
The HTS was working ‘fine’ for 1 year, after that i did some firmware upgrades and gradually some features of the smart tv were disabled, and now it is not even smart anymore, nothing works, every internet feature is just disabled! (Did i pay 899€ for that crap?)
I can use the radio/cd/dvd/br functions and thats it.
Even the standby button which is a physical button on the thing does not work 9 out of 10 times, so i have to use the remote.
No i am done with philips, but the WAF was playing at the time.
I preferred a nice japanese brand.
Now i am using a 30€ chromecast and it works magnificent, my kids play youtube on the ipad and cast it to the TV, and during the evening i and/or my wife use Netflix or other media.
Works like a charm using WiFi. I think it can be compared with the firestick
I got my first TV at the tender age of 45, so if it start being a smart it will go strait for recycling plant.
Not much worth watching on flow TV, and i cant seem to find a steaming service that steam what i like to see, and that’s not mind numming series and so on.
Sadly i am forced by my landlord to pay for a cable TV package, if it wasent for that sad fact my TV would be in its box.
Arrgh! Cable! I won’t even consider it today. I must have cable for my internet (and now Amazon Prime), or pay even higher prices for decent connection rates via other means. But to get a bundled cable package is just under $100, I don’t remember the actual amount. But basically it’s near $1200/year for most channels that I have absolutely no interest in watching and don’t want to support. Maybe someday a cable company will have a package that allows me to get only the channels I want. Then I might consider cable but not until then. So I maintain an antenna.
I have to use the cable to have an internet connection, costs 60€ per month, fiberoptics is even more expensive! but the internet connection is quite good and 150Mbps
The fastest I can get is 60Mps, but I think we’re presently at 25. I ought to call and get the upgrade since it’s basically free, but I’m not having problems at 25 so IMO it just isn’t worth making the call.
OT, same experience here with smart TV’s. Slow and klunky with less than ideal UI.
Instead I run a 20ft hdmi cable from the gaming/entertainment PC to the receiver and use a wireless mouse and sometimes keyboard to navigate Netflix/YouTube/Light Gaming/etc on the big screen TV. Universal remote sets everything to the correct input with a push of a button.
Come on, I think PD68s impressions deserve a little more attention and are more interesting then cables and ISP stuff
Some of you have noticed I’m not around much anymore. However I was in this from the beginning so I’m honored to have been sent a sample.
First impressions are very good. I don’t own a lot of “premium” brand lights, but I have had my hands on a few for review purposes, and this feels and looks just as high quality as any of them. You really are getting superb value for the money in this groupbuy.
The things I like most:
1. The anodization is very consistent all over my sample. Even inside the driver compartment it looks great.
2. The driver bay is finished better than most “budget” lights. We are getting a thick brass battery contact ring, plus retaining screws (which I like better than a retaining ring). I especially like that my “Q8” vias made it into the final driver.
3. Narsil. It may be too much programming for a mainline manufacturer to release, but for an enthusiast’s light it’s perfect. Ramping mode is easy to pick up for a beginner and provides all the function a muggle could ever want, but if you want to spend the time you can go in and change almost everything to however you want it.
Although I have not been directly involved in one before, we all know there have been hiccups with groupbuys in the past. That said, I have been very impressed with Thorfire’s attentiveness and consistency in this long process. I may not log in here much, but I read emails between the team several times per week. I think everyone on the giant list of buyers will be thrilled when they finally have these lights in hand.
I’ll try to pay attention and answer any questions y’all have for me about my sample, though this thread really does move fast.
Finally here is the Q8 with one of the big reasons for my inactivity, Winston.
Come on, I think PD68s impressions deserve a little more attention and are more interesting then cables and ISP stuff
Yes, he certainly took great pictures of the light
From his pictures it seems that the plastic rings are not higher than the brass ring. I think this was brought up before. Can someone confirm that it will not act as protection against a reversed cell? Seems like the only protection in that case will be the cell’s wrapper. Better have a big fat warning about cell orientation somewhere because that design makes it look like it’s safe while it’s really not.
it seems that the plastic rings are not higher than the brass ring. I think this was brought up before. Can someone confirm that it will not act as protection against a reversed cell?
Noteworthy, if confirmed.
Is there a draft of the instruction text floating around anywhere?
I posted bout this in detail. The inner plastic is definitely lower while the outer plastic is slightly lower than the brass contact ring. Dunno if any other proto holders can tell any better.
If the outer plastic was raised above the contact ring, than the stock SANYO GA cells (no button tops) would not work, but they do work just fine. The GA tops are wider than the brass ring.
I thought all the cells we are recommending do have the wrapper to prevent reverse contact? Is that not really good?
Yes confirm
Manual is in one of the first posts Q8, PMS SEND TO THOSE WITH ISSUES BLF soda can light - #3 by The_Miller
Thank you for your time, in sharing your observations of this Q8 with us pilotdog68 ! :+1: