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Welcome to the H D T V pod caps features the H D guys are a dedi, an and braid now the H D T V podcast and welcome to the H D T V and home theater podcast is episode eleven seventy three for october twenty fifth twenty twenty four. Glad to be back two weeks in a row. Excited to be here. Or how are you doing?

I'm doing well. And I got some news for the listeners. I did a new speaker, bill, and I put the video up on our channel.

The ht guys, i'll have a link. I'll have the video actually embedded in the showers for this episode. And i've brought back home theater tours while D.

J. Is building his house. He's he's very busy. He doesn't have the time to do IT. And I just figured all do IT by myself.

I don't have all the cool, fancy editing self to DJ does, but I found a way to make IT work. So check those out at the ht guys on youtube as well. And if you've got a theater that you'd like to share with our listeners, send me email would get something set up right now.

I actually have some news of my own. I am currently in the city of the brotherly love. I'm in philadelphy recording from silly today found out kind of last minute that I had to be here.

So I caught a rei at A L X last night and had some meeting they had to do today. But locky, because of the three hour time difference, was able to get back to the hotel room. planning.

Time took for us to record. And then I jump on a plane tomorrow morning to get back home, back to L. A. So I was tempted to try to do the entire podcast with a rocky accent. But I quickly, after trying to run through that, the opening of the show a few times in the rocky acts, and I quickly abandoned that idea so i'm to save everybody that pain. Um but yeah recording from philly today feel in very patriotic being in philadephia for a little while you know over the year .

because we have recorded this show from all over the world i've recorded in hawaii, i've been in dubai. I've been in hyderabad, india a one time you were at home and I was in maine and we were like at the total opposite ends of the united states so yeah we've been recording from all over have you ever when you want to else when you want to close to rega, I believe we prerecorded we didn't do a show with you down in close reka.

I think in one of the trips to coto rica, we did I did record from there um because we've been down multiple times. I think we did record one of the shows, ones from coastal a, if I recall correctly, but most of the time we did, we record. So I did wasn't taken recording gear to coastal rica with me.

yes. So this shows international and it's recorded international. But this year, this episode is just coast to .

coast is a little fun fact for everyone out there. If you're travelling in and happen to find yourself in filly and you want to pick up a philly cheese ke in philae delpha, you just call IT a cheese ke because you're already in filly, you don't go to order a cheese and say going to have a filly cheese ke. You just order a cheese ke.

You a filly cheesto ke. You very much look like a tourist, which is interesting because if you're in california and you you don't just say, hey, you want to go to the pizz kitchen, you still go to the california pizz kitchen because be word to say, hey, you want to go to pizza itchen, you still go to california pizza itchen. But I guess it's it's kind of case by case, right?

If you're in chicago, you don't order a chicago deep dish. You know look kind of weird to order chicago deep dish. If you're in chicago, you'd to say hey can have deep dish but um I guess it's kind of case by case but um in filly just out of cheese ke and you look like a .

local and along those lines, somebody gave me heads up when I went to scotland. They said, don't order scotch. Make sure you order whisky because it's all scotch.

And I said, makes sense. Very good point. So the whole trip, I didn't say can have a scotch. I said can have a whisky and I was very tempted to say without the e but um I did not do that very nice as .

when I hadn't thought of that makes a lot of sense yeah, can I have a scotch? They're all scotch tude with a very thick Scottish action. This, what do you get rather get back, right? right? So this is the ht TV in home deter podcast.

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Now first email comes to us from Randy and sank lami, california, just down the road from brain in the ways. And he says, i've got a dumb question. I'm new to home theater.

And I recently found your podcast. I've listened to the last year episode and really enjoy the very topic, the vad topics that you guys discuss. My question is about setting up for setting for myself.

Bb, for on the A V R, what is a good cross over setting? Any advice you have would be greatly appreciated. And Randy, that's a good question, not a dumb question at all. So there's a couple ways you go about IT.

If your A V R has a calibration mode, most of the modern calibration mode will automatically set that for you will send tones throughout the room and IT will determine what the frequency response of your various speakers are. And then I will set IT for you if IT doesn't do that automatically bradin. I've just set IT at eighty five. Everything below eighty five hurts. Just send IT to the sub.

yeah. Another thing you can do if if you're using bookshop speakers is find out how long they go in frequency and have everything below that frequency, make sure that everything below that frequency goes to the sub workers. So at least something is getting the frequency.

You know, if you're using tower speakers, typically it'll go down low enough that you'll have the sound going to both, but sometimes bookshelf won't go down below, won't go down to eighty five. So you have a kind of a gap in in frequency there. And so if you can send a little bit more to the subby, you would at least not have that gap.

But yeah, I mean, eighty five, especially with with towers speakers, is a pretty good spot. Just kind of default too. Alright, next team is from john in tempe, arizona. John says we've got an older samsung smart T, V with apps that are out of date and no longer being updated. We can't watch shows without issues anymore.

Disney plus is not even supported any longer, is just become too difficult to stream content, and i'm not willing to invest in an entirely new four K T V and avr. Currently using a denin x one thousand, the samsung TV will not pass dolby digital from another source through to the A V R V A A R C. That's how old this TV is.

So i'm assuming that if I get a fire T, V stick, i'll have the same pass through problem if I plug IT directly into a TV HDMI port. So if I plug IT into the avr, IT will work as intended, other than having to switch sources again and deliver full dolby I digital sounds stream. So the question john is asking is, if I get the fire TV sticks so that my apps work, because the TV does not work for smart apps anymore, should I plug IT directly into the TV, or should I plug IT into the avr? And john, you nailed IT there.

Kind of at the end of your question, if you want surround sound in your apps, you're gonna to plug in into the A, V R. If you plug IT into the TV, all your sound is just going to come through the TV so you're going to get stereo sound added your TV speakers because you can't pass anything from the TV down through to to the avr or maybe you could would like a an auxiliary ary out cable or something if your TV has that or heddon one out cable that could go to the avr, but that still going to be stereo. So if you want surround sound, you would plug the fire TV and you wouldn't have to get a stick at that point. You could get a bigger box, maybe a 4k or or something that one of the ultra or max because you you're bugged IT into an input on the avr IT doesn't have to fit in the profile behind the television and plug IT into the the back of the area。 And yes, you have to switch your inputs, but then that you falls around sound and then you just shot the picture from the avr up to the television.

You know, that's a good point, brain, because not only would you get you don't need to get the U S, B, C sized type of fire T V with the hub, a lot of time is you will be able to do com automation. So if that's something that you're interested in down the road, john, you might want to look into getting the bigger device instead of just getting the sticks. I don't know.

The fire TV sick can be used as a hub. I don't think I can, but I could be wrong on that. Definitely, if you get like a google home or an apple TV that can become a hub for your home motivation.

If that something you're interested in. And our last emails from gave in to coma washington and he says I currently have g sink bulbs with a lady voice commands to control them. Vmi echo dot, they're connected to a dumb switch and are humbless smart bulbs.

They have to be constantly powered. So my lights, which is permanently in the on position, is there way I can wire my light so that they're still power on, but I don't need the lights watch anymore. Today, a couple of things you can do if you are handy with doing any type of electrical work.

Yes, you could just bypass the switch. You can connect the power to the light switch, and it'll always beyond, and the switch becomes inactive. You can take that out and just put a wall plug on there.

We only recommend doing this if you know what you're doing with electrical at home or you can just get a smart switch and you no longer need to use the smart bulbs. And you can now instead of addressing each bulb individually, you can just address the smart switch. So that is the way that I would go.

Now he did say I was humbless, which lets me believe that is a plus for you. So you might have to look and find some smart switches. And there's plenty out there that work with a lady and don't require a hub.

So and I think your your alex a is already a hub in that regard, your echo dot. So I think whatever smarts would you get, you will be OK. yeah.

I mean, sometimes it's cool to have the individual smart bulbs. And we have one switch a in the master bedroom that controls two can like that are above either side of the master bed and heavy smart bobs. And either one of those makes you so we can turn on one or the other. A smart switch would turn both on or turn both off. So like my wife wants to read the light, bub above her can turn on and mine can be off and I can go to a sleep and which is a smart switch.

You you know they're like as you're sit i'll repeat myself both on or both of um but he does make IT a little bit more complicated because I switch essentially has to always be on D I solve this with a little piece tape and just tape to switch off on and no one can turn IT off. But you're right you could take the switch out if you're handy with with electrical. And I don't want to advise anyone to do this unless you know really know what you'd doing because I don't want to be the one responsible for burn in your house down.

But you can connect those wires essentially directly in, bypass the switch like or just said, and then put just a blank plate over instead of the switch. And IT makes us so it's always power know that the switch would never go into the off position. It's essentially just mimic the switch always being in their own position, but then you get the individual control of the lights, if that's what you're looking for.

If IT just happens to be multiple bulbs in the same fish, like multiple bobs in ceiling fan or something, you probably don't need individual bold control there. Um so a smart switch is probably just as good. But if you want individuals like can lighten the ceiling and you want individual control of the bulbs, it's going to cool sometimes to have that individual, uh.

smart option yeah I I agree. Especially if you get them that have collars, you can even change the colors in the evening, go a little bit more on the Amber side instead of the bright White. So there are some plus s and minus ses to doing that for sure.

All right, news time. This is A A great news story, exciting. So best buy is betting on an extra large tvs to attract holiday shoppers this year as Prices fall and demand is the retailer has increased its inventory of televisions larger than ninety seven inches, anticipating we'll be a major draw during black friday in the holiday shopping season.

The retailer, which is offering free delivery and installation of the big tvs, hopes supersize screens will help IT capitalized on consumers post pandemic renewed interest in electronics. These TV ninety seven inches and larger are gigantic. And I remember back in the day when you kind of flat screen started hitting these massive sizes.

When we go to see a hundred and screen as ce, and the first time we saw, we talked about how these are the tvs made for mark the mark cubans in the world because they were ridiculously expensive and now best buys stock up on them. And now they're now in the Price range where Normal people like us can afford them a, but this might be the motivator if there are a black friday sale and get really good Prices on a ninety eight hundred hundred inch T, V, might be the right time to do IT. And the core kicker on this is the free delivery and installation because I would assume that very, very few people have an automobile that can fit and ninety seven and ninety eight hundred and television in IT.

I did a quick google search and I asked, uh, google how large the beds are in pickup trucks. And they got the AI summary results back. And a short bed pickup truck is typically around five, four, eight, eight.

A standard bed is typically six, forty five, and a long bed typically eight feet long. Then I looked up on amazon, some televisions, and one hundred inch television is eighty eight inches wide, which comes out to like seven point three feet. So you would have to have, plus it's going to be in the blocks.

So the blocks is are going to add a couple inches on each side. They aren't nearly as big as know. T, B box is used to be not as much packaging around them, so they're pretty tight prety constrained now. So probably does fit in eight feet, but he would essentially have to have a long bed, pick up truck to fit one of these tvs to get at home to your house. And anyone who doesn't have a long bed isn't going to be able to get the TV home. So then offering the free delivery and install plus, even if you could get at home, how many people, how many neighbors is, are going to take to help you get IT out of the truck into the house and then mounted IT up on the wall. So free delivery and install is actually A A really good way of of convincing people that it's not going to be as much of a hassle as you think it's going to be to get a TV of this size in your house and installed.

Yeah that when I saw the kicker too, I was thinking and IT is the way to go because especially is free. On top of that, I mean, they could probably charge in additional hundred and fifty and it's still would have been a good deal. So I think there will be a lot of these what I con double X T V sold over the holidays.

And our next news story, spectrum is making a major push to expand internet and TV service to other serve communities across rural america. The company's multi a year rule construction initiative is a mass of nine billion dollar investment that aims to connect proximately one point seven five million new homes and small businesses with high speed broadband that mobile T V. Envoy services.

This significant investment in rule broadband, rule broadband expansion underscore spectrum s dedication to connecting underserved communities and ensuring equitable access to essential services in the digital age. And this is one of the areas that spectrum hopes to use to help return to growth with high speed internet. Now if you're me, so bradin, I mentioned on a couple shows ago before you were back.

I don't know if you had a chance to listen to IT, but on my I had starling and IT worked fantastic. The whole ship IT was available to everybody on the ship. You had to pay forward, of course, but the ship had three thousand passengers on IT, and I was able to stream TV didn't matter what time of day I was watching TV from home.

I was making phone, called my mom, even called me SHE didn't SHE forgot we were on the cruise. And she's like, worry you guys that and I explained her i'm in the middle, the atrios and she's like how I even talking to you. So high speed internet is available to rule customers right now. Now if you go through start link and it's not as expensive as you think IT is, you could probably get A A really good deal on IT. So i'm wondering if this is more competition that's causing them to do this is that .

expections got to find growth somewhere, right? If they're kind of tapped out on their high speed customers within their areas that they serve, they're losing cable customers because more, more people are driving the cord.

I know if it's still called cutting the court because are still they're still got high speed internet and they're buying other things, but they are canceling their traditional cable subscriptions and spectrum needs to find ways to get new customers and and continue to grow. This is like you said at the end there they are returned to growth with high speed internet. They're just trying to find new customers.

But yeah, I mean, I think this is probably a way to find off against the likes of starling. And I I have never used starling like you have, but i've heard the same thing. I've heard that it's awesome.

And some of the starling systems that you can get for your house are also portable. You can taken with you if you've got an rv or or something else, you got a road trip. You can have high speed internet, whatever you go.

So it's a pretty cool system. Fox board has some cool tech for the worlds series. Fox ports is augmenting familiar production staples like dirt camps on field mikes and in game player interviews, which have helped bring an inside out perspective to viewers with enhanced versions of other production technology.

And perhaps the most notable enhancement will be the new ub view camera that brings a far clear point of view from behind the plate to production view is a fantastic camera, said Michael Davis, senior vice president of technical and field Operations at flog sports and production coordinator. Rob bun. And the rf wireless guys have done a phenomenal job improving that camera. We're using their very new camera, and that actually makes a big difference in terms of clarity, eliminating motion blur and the battery life is insane.

As with its other mb poses and coverage, fox sports will shoot the word series in ten A D P HDR, which davies considers to be table stakes for an industry continuing to evolve from seven, twenty p and ten D I hd and standard dynamic range ah so eventually potentially we'll get to four k but ten A D P definitely a step up from seven twenty p or ten eighty I. This own view sounds, I could be pretty fun. And if you see how the omsk are seeing the pitches come through, you get to see that box when the picture pitches. And like, is that in the blox is out of the blocks and then how you see the op and how they are seeing IT um is going to be a cook .

camp review well and the it's ten D P H D R. So that's an improvement over just go in tp and I have seen some of the N L C S games in four k, but I think it's up converted four k and they did have the on view. And I don't know if they were just testing IT out for the national league championship series, but IT was a pretty interesting perspective.

It's something that I don't know that I would like to use all the time, but once in a while, IT is kind of need seeing their perspective and how fast that ball comes in there. And when the bad can hit IT, I just can't get over how good these athletes have to be to put that bat on the ball with only like a fraction of a second to make up their mind whether they're gna swinger or not. Our last news story, new research indicates that roku remains a top connected T, V streaming device in north amErica with a thirty seven percent share of the open programming tic and sold on specific vices in the third quarter.

Samsung, a smart T V, has a seventeen percent share, amazon fire TV fifteen percent, apple TV eleven percent, L G ten point eight, and those are the top five in north america. Roku leads a market share in ln amErica as well with fifty percent, and as followed by samsung at twenty one percent, L, G, seven percent and the amazon on fire T V three percent, TCL, three percent. So TCL jumps in there when you're looking at later america.

newby. Roku leads in market share in north america. IT saw a twenty twenty nine percent decrease year over year in brain. I think that is because a lot of the stuff is just going straight to the TV because we never saw LG and samsung in this a market before. N, T, C, L, for that matter, I think the most of that money is coming from, you know, samsung, L, G, and I can stop taking away from the row. Cool box.

yeah. Hi, I agreed with you. I samsung, jumping up to number two. It's gotta because it's just easy and convenient. And you know it's easier to just use what's built into the TV then add an external box to the .

television britain. I saw this project flagship signature turntable. It's a gorgeous piece of art, if you ask me.

But then when I saw the Price, I wrote up a little review here, not a review a little. It's like a mini essay about this turn table. And since you're the final guy, you can try in with me.

So what you're going to hear now are my words and brighten at any time you can disagree with me, but i'm i'm going to be very cynical here. So anyway, the project signature twelve point to turn table IT looks like an amazing electronic device and it's also art. But from a music lovers point of view is the Price tag of fifteen thousand dollars worth IT projects made a name for itself as a pioneer in higher technology.

And they say stuff like craftmanship justifies the cost. Now, as a britain, as a wood worker, I agree, crossman ship, you pay for that, but there is a limit. And I I think this is beyond that limit anyway. But from a purely music lovers point of view， ludar to spend that kind of money on a record blaye, but we get IT the product seems more like a luxury statement than a necessary audio component. So will ask her a listeners the question whether anyone truly requires a turntable, the cost more than many people's monthly rent, maybe even three months or .

and so when you read the product info, it's pretty clear that they are not really talking to us as far as like mere models. They quotes that you really things like with painstaking hand polished medal parts and a chasta that involves ten layers of paints. Uh, you know, you have to ask yourself, who is this really for? They do use terms like anti resonance and precision cnc machining. And maybe you need to use terms like that in your speaker ads on esc and just kind of spice IT up a little, but i'm sure A I could help you with that as well. The precision cuts and only the best glue, you know, high crash man glue in your speaker bills out there and actually know maybe if you had to see and see machine, you could add that to your descriptions as well um you know.

it's funny you say that I really would love A C N. C. Machine for precision cuts because some of my cuts are not perfect and my mistakes, or I would say mistakes, the lack of precision is made up with standing. But I would just be great to have you high precision cuts for the cnc machine. So I get IT though.

I mean, I do get the lack of C, C, machine adds personality well.

and I love saying that every one of my speakers is a work of art. And it's a one of a kind that cannot ever be recreated.

It's not factory IT doesn't look like its factory build that looks like it's made by hand. It's custom craft mate ship.

That's right. So I get IT though. I mean, I get what they are saying and and i'm being a little bit divisions in IT.

But really what a boils down to is, does the average or even audio file musicals ever need their vinal spinning on a platter, just a platter a alone that waste almost twenty five pounds? Especially when even there some budget turn tables out there can deliver decent sound for a fraction of the Price. And actually, i'll go beyond cent, i'll say good sound for a fraction of the Price.

yeah. And so in the end, you know, you can kind of considered this. We've use this analogy before, but any car you buy is going to get you, well, any car you buy that works is going to get you from point a to point b.

So why do some people drive expensive, high and performance cars? It's about the performance and in some cases, it's about the image. And there is absolutely a memorable difference between driving a higher performance car like a mclean or a porch verses driving in honda.

But you know, is that the same can you draw the same distinction between the project twelve point two and you know I more affordable turntable? That's A A good question, I guess, to ask yourself unless you're gonna D A shrine to IT and display IT prominently in your music room and know who knows what you're going to do with this thing. But that's it's a lot of money to spend on a turntable.

IT does ship in november. So if it's something that you want to put IT into, your home will have a link to full product information. You know, one of the things, I guess, are you would have to ask yourself is have you invested enough in the rest of your audio environment, not just in like the speakers and the amp and everything else, but if the room itself is the room EQ, do you have sound treatments?

Is everything in the audio environment up to the point where fifteen thousand dollar turntable make sense and you're actually going to get the full performance out of IT verses buying something that you know one thousand or two thousand dollars because you really have to have invested quite a bit in the entire set up in order for that fifteen thousand dollar investment be related to to shine and to make IT make sense. In my opinion, if you're putting, you know that fifteen thousand dollar turntable on a pair of, you know, bike yma host akers, that you ve got from best by wrong with all a hospice akers, i'm not know distance yala host speakers, but you ve got him from best buy and you're hooking IT up to an oko amp. You're probably not going to hear a difference between your that turntable and you know A A Victoria or a din or something else that you can get at best by.

So you know if you have invested you know one hundred thousand dollars in your listening room and it's completely dialed in and IT is a professional listening environment and you want to get the absolute best turn table, you can maybe this is what you're looking for. You know, maybe you want to drive the mcclean of turn tables. This might be the one for you, but there's a whole lot more to the entire music experienced than just the turn table.

And you know, I wouldn't put a turntable like this as much as I love my speakers. I wouldn't put a turn table like this in my listening environment because I don't have an amp that would justify IT. And my speakers are high classman ship made by hand. I love them and they sound amazing. But I wouldn't put a fifteen thousand doors turn table on them and that, you know no no offence are I love the speakers, but you know I just IT wouldn't make a the fifteen thousand doa turntable isn't going to sound any different in between those speakers and know the Victory of that I have so .

will see but that that's my point though. Even if you do everything that you just said and you make a very high end room, I don't know that this is going to sound any Better than, say, IT turn table to cost three thousand dollars. I I think if you look at IT and you can't I can't really explain in in words IT looks like a piece of art.

And that to me is why you have IT. Now the other argument you can make is a lot of times car manufacturer will make concept cars that they show out auto shows, but they're never sold. They're just like, look what we did with this car.

And a lot of this technology, E E, is going to end up in the cars that you buy. And a lot of this technology will end up in the turn tables that are very more, more affordable and project makes some great turn tables at affordable Prices. So i'm not dishing the entire company IT is just this one particular turntable.

So I think there's a lot of concepts that come from here that worked their way down to the lower Prices, but typically, the concept cars aren't sold and but this is being offered for sale. So what i'm claiming is that if you're buying this, you're making a shrine to this turn table because fifteen thousand dollars, and that's before you add the carriage IT is I just don't understand IT. I I could see IT like I said, if they would just have cheat this turntable out.

And a lot of these technologies is going to work its way. Down into our regular turn tables is not for sale. I would I would make sense, but I don't see any reason to buy this turn table other than art.

So what if what if you have invested? Let's say you've got to a five thousand turn table and you've got a ten thousand dollar amp and maybe a six or seven thousand dollar processor, and you've got speakers at are twelve thousand dollars each.

And you build a really good set up and you have this amazing system and you wants to figure, what's my next component that I want to upgrade in this system? And you try out the fifteen thousand dollar turntable and you can hear a difference. You're probably among st. The one percent of one percent of one percent that can actually hear a difference. And maybe you've just got yourself mentally convinced that, that you can hear a difference because you have to hear difference because that much money you're putting into IT.

But what if you can hear a difference because of the amount that you've invested into that system is IT worth IT, then if you can and you feel like you're getting more out of the investment that you've put into those other components, it's like you've bought this um you know Flora and then you're upgrading component of like upgrading the transmission and IT makes the entire car Better, faster, Better performance. You know is that a thing? Would that be worth IT at that point? We've already invested so much in the rest of IT that you're getting more out of the entire system.

Well, the way I would look at IT is like this, if you go from one hundred dollar speakers to five thousand dollars speakers, there's a huge difference in your experience. If you go from five thousand to ten thousand, there is probably a smaller difference. You just have to ask yourself both.

Both of those Price differentials is roughly about five thousand dollars, and one of them gives you a huge different, other one gives you a marginal difference. Is that five thousand dollars for that marginal difference worthy? And that's what i'm going to say about this turn table.

Going from your five thousand dollar turn table is fifteen. I bet you the differences is negligible. And this is, again, i'm going to say it's for that person who wants to have this work of art.

IT is a work of art in the music room. Anyway, let us know what if you think we're crazy or not? I don't think anyone's really gonna.

We're crazy because I think spending fifteen thousand of dollars on this turn dab is crazy all right. Now, as a halloween approaches, it's a perfect time to gather your friends and family for a spooky movie marathon. And whether you are fan of a classic cora movie lighting, arted thrills or animated fun, there's something for everyone in the spirit of the season. Here is our list of five highly rated halloween movies that you can enjoy in your home theater, so grabs some popcorn and enjoy these halloween favorites.

And the number one movie on the list for halloween is, of course, the classic nineteen seventy eight movie halloween. It's got an imdb rating of seven point seven, was directed by john carpenter IT, a classic slashers film that introduces Michael mires fifteen years after murdering his sister on halloween one thousand hundred and sixty three, Michael mas escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of haden field illinoi to kill again and IT is a classic that you has all of the earMarks of a the classic sort of um you know slashing films from back in the seventies and eighties. Uh but you know when you kind of get through the campiness of IT, IT really is a IT. It's a fun horror movie and I don't know if you would say IT stands up, but you know you if you're in if you're ready for that experience, it's a good movie to watch yeah I can't .

believe it's all the way back one thousand nine hundred and seventy. I was still in a high school when I came out. I said the number two on list is the nightmare before Christmas that's from one thousand nine hundred ninety three.

IT has an db rating at seven point nine and these are user or a just regular people's ratings is not professional rating. So if most people and it's got a lot of votes, so these ratings, you can actually consider them pretty accurate. The animated musical by tim burton combines hollywood and sorry, halloween and Christmas teams as jack skeleton ton, the pumpkin king attempts to take over Christmas.

That was kind of a fun, a movie, and nothing too terribly scary. So did something. In fact, I believe at disneyland, they set up a nightmare before Christmas kind of theme in the haunted mansion. Yes.

so if you've got Young kids and wants to watch something that kind of halloween like, but don't want anybody to have nightmares that married for Christmas is a good one that you can check out.

Number three on the list is the original a quiet place? This one came out in two thousand eighteen, got an db rating of seven point five, is a suspenseful thriller about a family living in silence to avoid creatures that hunt by sound, appealing to teens who enjoy intense storytelling. And IT is a tense, tense movie.

IT has subsequently there. A equal has come out and they just released this year in twenty twenty four I think a prequel to IT a quite a place day one I haven't seen IT. Um but uh there's A A bunch of movies in the quiet place universe I guess at this point but the original quiet place twenty eighteen very tense, very tense movie. And maybe not one for Younger kids.

All right. Number four is ghost busters from one thousand hundred and eighty four M D, B rating at seven point eight three per psychologists forced out of their university funding to set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in new york city, attracting frightened, yet skeptical customers. One thousand nine hundred eighty four, i'd loved IT, all the other ghost sers, including ghost posters to that had the original cast members in IT. I did not like anywhere near as much as the original.

A great movie. yeah. And I love watching IT slimmer. The whole thing, step of martial man. The whole movie was great, a great movie.

And the number five, rounding out the list, a is, is a great pumpkin, charlie Brown. This one originally came out in nineteen nineteen sixty six, has an mdb rating of eight point one. It's a classic in the classic animated special that follows the peanut s game as they wait for the great pumpkin on halloween night. If you haven't taken the time to watch a peanuts movie with the kids, they're fun, they're fun ah and definitely entertained that the Younger uh child audience ah and if you need something for of the really Young ones, the pens king is a fun move to watch so it's a great pum control the Browns a good one for that audience. Older kids and teens, probably not so much, but a little ones, definitely dig the peanuts gang.

I remember when I was a kid and this movie came out, I was really excited because one halloween was riter around the corner. And then right after halloween, you started to get in into Christmas spirit. And I was looking forward to what I could work my parents for for Christmas gifts. And I would start right about after halloween.

And IT was on every year, right? And that was before there was like rentals and before they were streaming and all those other things, and you had to wait for the movies to come and see, you could watch him. And that was one of those things where you would wait for the peanuts movies because they mark those moments in the year that you know for halloween and Christmas and times throughout the year.

But yeah, the great poem control the Brown around every year. Great movie, fun movie. So those are our top five.

Uh, we won't have an opportunity to add any to the list, but if you have one, maybe we get around to this same thing next year. Maybe we can add another one or two to our halloween less for next year. But appreciate you listening. Hope you got something good out of today is show. Go watch the mh T, T, V.

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