You have $200 to build a budget home cinema

what do you buy

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Pocket $200, and do something else.

RaspberryPi 4 a monitor some peripherals and an Ethernet cable

i hate people who just stack all their av shit on the floor

4k tv
vpn sub
encrypt pirated movies and stick them on google drive

>take the $200
>keep using my 12 year old equipment

Big ass widescreen "HD" CRT with HDMI in.
A cheapo receiver, probably half of the money would go on it together with random speaker pairs and a computer speaker set subwoofer.
A Raspberry Pi or a Android HDMI stick, HDMI cables and probably even squeeze out a DVD/Blu-ray player.

Speakers, TV and Pi/Stick would probably be under 50 bucks and a receiver that's somewhat decent for the speakers, around 100 bucks. So you'd still have money left to buy cheapo 3 buck HDMI cables and maybe even a DVD/Blu-ray combo player.

Looked up prices on local sites, all used stuff of course.

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>blocking the kitchen with av shit

Poor people are usually stupid, they have to do with what they have while usually not being very smart about it.
It's like audiophiles with equipment that's tens of thousands while their house is about to break down and they are underweight as fuck.

I'd buy a 50" TCL S425 on Black Friday since it's already at 220 now.

If I'm not gaming on it, grab a raspberry pi and an old DLP tv. Often times you can get them free and the bulb for ~$50. For the receiver and speakers, hit up craigslist.

>$200 4k TV
Even on the used market I don't think you can find a 4k TV for that price. Cheapest on my local craigslist is $300 for a sketchy 55" unit.

You can get a 24" 4k monitor for that price, but at that size is it really a "home cinema"?

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Literally walmart or costco, TVs are massively cheaper than monitors, contrary to popular belief.

Being fat doesn't make you seem well off user LOL

Underweight means under a healthy weight. It's just as bad as being obese.

Lockpick set and a ski mask

I'm not black though

Assuming you have a garage:

$0 CRT Projector
$30 2.1 Multimedia "Computer" speakers
$50 sheet of medium gray projector screen material
$12 2x2" lumber
$1 nails + wood glue
$2 staples
$1 black spray paint
$50 couch
$50 chair
$4 snacks

People just give away old dinosaur CRT projectors now because they are so huge, loud, and hot. But the image they put out is amazing and fairly high resolution (you can barely squeeze 1440x1080 out of a good 8" tube one).

The gray screen combined with this type of projector would make for a really high contrast image that would look better than 99% of the commercial cinemas out there. It would floor people. I know, I have built it and seen it myself.

Getting good comfy couches and chairs is the tricky part.

With tax that is going to be considerably more than the $200 budget. And you will be stuck with crappy TV sound.

You can easily get a cheapo used 4k TV.
The cheapo models NEW (with tax) start at 260 euros here.

YES I'm talking about those 55" inch ones.

Why do you want to bring a memeberry piss into this? You were doing so well with the DLP idea.

Late generation DLP TVs have very few downsides for home cinema. They have amazing contrast, viewing angles, response times, sharpness and color. Biggest flaw are the massive input lag they tended to have that could not be turned off. They cost a fortune years ago but now people give them away. With the big box they tend to have excellent built-in speakers.

Instead of a raspberry pi just use a proper computer. It's not like you're trying to make this portable.

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260 euros is $295. You're way overbudget. And 55" is not really that big when it comes to home theatre tbqh.

Can't read? I specially said USED, as they are 260 NEW. Nobody wants those shitty cheapo fuckers, they usually go for half of the original price on used auctions.
OP said budget home cinema, 55" will have to do.

Pi is a cheap device capable of decoding modern encoders. Any device like it, like those ARM or Atom sticks, Pi like ARM boards, etc would work just as well.

>use a proper computer.
A passively cooled small office shitbox won't be any cheaper and is too old for modern codecs, plus not as power efficient
Anything else just has more downsides, that isn't

$185 spent towards the best native 1920x1080 projector you can get off of ebay.
$15 for a 6'x4' solid white posterboard from Office depot if you don't have a white wall.

I'm not counting costs for video source, furniture, etc. You can probably scrounge up some speakers or headphones from around the house if the projector doesn't have one.

>tax
move somewhere thats not cucked

>old for modern codecs
You really underestimate x86
The worst case scenario for decoding would be AV1 which requires a real quad core, Almost any other codec including HEVC just needs anything made in the past maybe 8-9 years
My 15w Pentium shit top did HEVC and VP9 fine

Obviously, it'll all have to be second hand.
Non HDMI home theater receivers can be had for as cheap as $25.
Thrift stores often have speakers that were part of a previous all-in-one home theater system where the main receiver has died, but the speakers are fine. A pair of towers, a center and surrounds would set you back $50 to $75 dollars. Try to find old tower speakers for fronts as getting a powered subwoofer on budget will be tough.
That leaves $100 to find the best 2nd hand T.V you can.
As for a source, you might luck out and find a smart t.v for cheap. There's also the option of using your p.c, or if you have a cable subscription, a box is supplied free.

>$200
>what do you buy
A bigger budget

Cruise Craigslist/Local Facebook Groups/Streets for giant TV being thrown away for "Blank screen, but has sound"
Reseat backlight cable/resolder $0.30 component on backlight driver.
Pawn/Thrift Shop for old 5.1 HTiaB receiver for $25
Pair with $35 unbranded/crap-branded satellites/bookshelves from garage sale
$45 "Cracked body" subwoofer, and repair with bondo.
$25 mounting kit from online
$10 universal remote
$50 C2D PC with HDMI output
$20 wireless keyboard+mouse
$10 wifi adapter
$howevermuch cheap car/HT speaker cable

Like, the shit people throw TVs away for is ridiculous. Whenever someone throws one away in my apartment complex, I grab it and diagnose it. A few of them aren't worth fixing due to shattered panels/glass (almost always, the panel cost is what I'd get re-selling it), but often enough, I'll get a TV that just needs a little work and is back to perfect. Reseating the backlight ribbon cable (common on smaller, 1st-2nd gen Vizio smart TVs, when half the screen goes "out"), replacing and resoldering a couple caps on the backlight driver if it's the whole backlight, flashing firmware to fix a "won't change input" issue, or my favorite one that I've fixed: A $1200 Samsung 3D Smart TV, that "wouldn't stop flipping channels" when turned on (or would constantly cycle inputs if you tried to swap inputs), and it was just the fucking button that was stuck. Tapped the case hard enough, and it was fixed. Resold that bitch for $800.

No, it can do it but it can't do it well and is extremely power inefficient when doing it. I never claimed otherwise.
We are literally comparing AMD64 chip pumping out 15W while decoding a video VS a ARM chip at 2W doing the same.

I actually highly doubt it could do 1080p/60FPS HEVC though. Since I have pretty modern i5 chips that struggle with that without a modern GPU. I'd expect at least a 60W chip to do that smoothly in real time.

I already got mine for less than that. My keyboard costs more than the computer. This is my bedside NEETflix/jewtube/putlocker theater and it's honestly more than enough for me.

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4.0 never ever

No Jamal, we don't steal around her

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i don't need to buy the hdmi cable right?

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>considerably more

wow... 6% sales tax aka $12

Considerably more, holy shit

Because your iGPU most likely did not have hardware decoding capability for HEVC, brainlet. Hardware decoding of that content has only recently become a thing in the past few years; Otherwise you've been stuck with H264 hardware decode.

>Go to Goodwill on 50% off Saturdays
>Buy whatever 1080p PC monitor/TV they have for $20
>Buy a Blu-Ray player for $14
>Buy 5 speakers + sub-woofer for $40, or two large speakers for the same price
>Cables $10
>Just bought an i7 Samsung laptop for $100
>Might have to buy a converter to get the audio to work, $5 if there is one at Goodwill or $15 for a brand new one at Walmart

I'd probably get the raspberry pi 4 over the 3 for video now. As some with a 3b and a zero. They are pretty shit at video playback at times.

>encrypt
>Google drive
First time here summerfag?

I was specially talking about software decoding, WITHOUT a modern GPU, nothing to do with iGPU.
Who's the brainlet if you can't even read English?

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>used 4:3 CRT (Trinitron tube preferably)
>RasPi 3 Model B (composite output)
>Kodi and/or Plex
>2TB USB HDD
sound should be servicable without anything extra due to front-facing speakers.

Jesus for $200 it's hard.

- 2nd hand 55" HD TV
- xiaomi TV box
- active subwoofer +chink DAC with optical input

buy a jimmy bar, gloves and balaclava