And the TransSiberian Orchestra. Gotta have the TransSiberia Orchestra.

Is this actually a different house than the other 5000 videos just like this?

Yes, most amateur Christmas light setups advertise the local radio station 97.7 FM for about a minute before and after the actual display.

Maybe I am getting jaded, but having seen the first one, this is just "so what".
Yes they put in a lot of effort, and it looks ok, but it isn't anything new.

And what does any of this have to do with Christmas anyway? This one had fireworks, why not be different and make it a 4th of July light show?

I really liked that part where he had Baby Jeebus singing the Hajabalula Chorus while Darth Vader quoted the Christmas story from The Book of Luke (in the Bible, y'know).

That light show was so full of Christianity and Christian spirit and goodwill towards all WASPs that it made me want to cry. It did. It's sort of like a Tim Tebow Christmas thing.

degenerate-afro: Yes, most amateur Christmas light setups advertise the local radio station 97.7 FM for about a minute before and after the actual display.

Looks like he's using an FM Transmitter for coordinating the music with the lights, not advertising for a radio station.

degenerate-afro: Yes, most amateur Christmas light setups advertise the local radio station 97.7 FM for about a minute before and after the actual display.

rtfa

Bruce Campbell: degenerate-afro: Yes, most amateur Christmas light setups advertise the local radio station 97.7 FM for about a minute before and after the actual display.

Looks like he's using an FM Transmitter for coordinating the music with the lights, not advertising for a radio station.

toby8915: degenerate-afro: Yes, most amateur Christmas light setups advertise the local radio station 97.7 FM for about a minute before and after the actual display.

rtfa

Regardless, I'd hardly call it an "amateur" job. He uses his lights to attract attention to food drives and charities. Not a bad business model.

I'd hate to be that guy's neighbor.

I'm not sure the Queen of the Night aria is really Christmas material. For anybody not familiar with the original song, the first time I heard it was one of the few true jaw-drop moments I've ever had with music. Yes, it's opera. Hang around until about 0:55. It's worth it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEzVNEqRlqw (new window)

they're actually very good in concert,, and I'm sad to be missing them this year. It's like going to the Met cross pollinated with a KISS concert

Lighted houses are soooo boring - same old stuff

Lighted skating rinks - now that's cool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXHawJnSe_8&context=C3a3ab40ADOEgsToPD s kLy6DWFJaiZkc7V-JrgcL5B

DeathByGeekSquad: I'd hate to be that guy's neighbor.

This.

People need to leave the TransSiberian stuff...to TransSiberian. No matter what you do, you will never do justice to anything they do in their performances, and if you do, it's only because you somehow managed to convince them to actually perform a set at your house. Plus, I'm just sure their neighbors love having their living rooms turned into a disco every 20 minutes. Give it a rest.

Is it just my shiatty computer, or did that video jump, freeze, and skip for anyone else?

degenerate-afro: Yes, most amateur Christmas light setups advertise the local radio station 97.7 FM for about a minute before and after the actual display.

Not the case in this video, but there are tons of amateur light setups with ads like that. Local news and radio stations often ask people to incorporate their logo into xmas lights for submission in contests and for free advertising.

Never mind, works fine. I appreciate the work that goes into them, but I am so over these.

I know it's cool subby. And I know it takes time, talent and creativity, but is it really the bestest, most fabulous, coolest, greatest, most awesomest, kick-ass, thing evar?

really?

_{\If so, I guess you kinda suck}

Shameless plug: I shot this story a few years back with a local guy using a different frequency. (new window)

Compared to the nitwit in TFA, this was a masterpiece.

I'm okay with TSO and lighted displays, but it's really tacky when there's no rhyme or reason.

For all of you in this thread talking about how he's an amateur, please look up the definition:

Wikipedia - An amateur (French amateur "lover of", from Old French and ultimately from Latin amatorem nom. amator, "lover") is generally considered a person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science, without pay and often without formal training

Dictionary - a person who engages in a study, sport, or other activity for pleasure rather than for financial benefit or professional reasons.

If you are advertising 97.7 FM on your house you are being compensated. If you are being compensated, you are no longer an Amateur.

degenerate-afro: For all of you in this thread talking about how he's an amateur, please look up the definition:

Wikipedia - An amateur (French amateur "lover of", from Old French and ultimately from Latin amatorem nom. amator, "lover") is generally considered a person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science, without pay and often without formal training

Dictionary - a person who engages in a study, sport, or other activity for pleasure rather than for financial benefit or professional reasons.

If you are advertising 97.7 FM on your house you are being compensated. If you are being compensated, you are no longer an Amateur.

That is most likely one of the empty radio frequencies that he can use for short distance broadcast. The transmission is carried on that frequency so that passers by can hear the music and then see the lights.

Controversy over. sheesh.

Willy Wonka TSO How Original Meme.

This guy does it better. I bring people here every year to see it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZVOPJmGe34&feature=related

I guess there's a chance it's not another one of music synced house displays... *click*
/sigh

degenerate-afro: For all of you in this thread talking about how he's an amateur, please look up the definition:

Wikipedia - An amateur (French amateur "lover of", from Old French and ultimately from Latin amatorem nom. amator, "lover") is generally considered a person attached to a particular pursuit, study, or science, without pay and often without formal training

Dictionary - a person who engages in a study, sport, or other activity for pleasure rather than for financial benefit or professional reasons.

If you are advertising 97.7 FM on your house you are being compensated. If you are being compensated, you are no longer an Amateur.

For those that don't know how radio waves work or how advertising can generate revenue ONLY if there is a radio station operating on said wavelength, you might want to verify there is an active radio station on that wavelength in the area.

Link (new window)

There isn't, so all your talk of defining a term is stupid.

/Short-range FM Transmitters-how do they work?

I still prefer the guy who hooked his Christmas lights up to Slayer (new window)

darth_shatner: I still prefer the guy who hooked his Christmas lights up to Slayer (new window)

That was 2009. Last year he did Pantera and this year he's back to Slayer

That's pretty impressive, but I don't think I'd enjoy living across the street from that family. Aside from getting seizures every time you take the trash out or are in a front room of your own house, I imagine he probably draws quite a crowd. I like Christmas decorations, but some people go way over the top. Like the people who live near my parents that have hundreds of decorations--not just lights, but inflatables, painted wood cutouts, dioramas, etc.--spilling out from their yard into both neighbors' yards, plus in his garage and windows upstairs. He even has Santa in the garage the first couple of weekends of December (people are encouraged to make a donation, which I believe goes to the Salvation Army or something like that, so that's one good thing about the eye-sore).

Numbat: I'm not sure the Queen of the Night aria is really Christmas material. For anybody not familiar with the original song, the first time I heard it was one of the few true jaw-drop moments I've ever had with music. Yes, it's opera. Hang around until about 0:55. It's worth it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEzVNEqRlqw (new window)

Or go to 1:53. I dunno.

Has anyone erroneously mentioned this guy is advertising a radio station & therefore can't be considered 'amateur' yet?

Numbat: I'm not sure the Queen of the Night aria is really Christmas material. For anybody not familiar with the original song, the first time I heard it was one of the few true jaw-drop moments I've ever had with music. Yes, it's opera. Hang around until about 0:55. It's worth it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEzVNEqRlqw (new window)

Left at 0:54, I will sleep fine tonight.

You guys are morons. He's not "advertising a radio station". He's playing music that goes along with the lights, which people can hear in their cars by tuning to that frequency when they're in front of his house.

I'm not impressed at all by this one. The ONLY thing I liked were the fireworks exploshin... but really;

1) the music sucked
2) the flow of events was horrible
3) there seemed to be alot.. a tonnage of character models on the lawn who could have been brought in in small groups. Instead the display goes for the all-on effect super early in the video leave NOTHING left new to see later on in the performance.

4) did I say the music sucked? I'm a big fan of orchestral transfusion, but this song sucked.

Too many notes lights.

From the article that most of you didn't read. "its all synchronized to music and is playable through your radio via his radio antenna."

Rtfa

Ok, that one was one of the most unimpressive tries I've seen. Still fun, but you gotta bring something new to the table that impresses- clean lines, less clutter, reveal the whole shebang a bit at a time. This one had premature ejaculation- there was nothing more to look forward to except more synchronization, and in the video, even that seemed a bit off.
Naughty, it is.
The best part was the ad directly underneath...(phone adblock do not work so goodly)

Dial 911 if you have signs of stroke- don't wait.

EddieMoscone: Too many notes lights.

Sees what you did there.

degenerate-afro: Yes, most amateur Christmas light setups advertise the local radio station 97.7 FM for about a minute before and after the actual display.

I read that as 477FM. Wasn't sure what that meant at first.

// Satellite subscriber