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Just Another Lurker posted:At what point does the human mind go; "meh, good enough". When it gets cheap.
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btw my cheapo mi max 3 phone with an IPS LCD turned out to perfectly calibrated in the lagom.nl black level test, which isn't so when it comes to my OLED phones (even the flagship S23U). so in an ironic way the very dark scenes in videos actually looked better on the LCD despite the much lower contrast ratio on paper, whereas on the OLEDs supposedly very dark shades will go either fully black or turned up to the minimum brightness level to cause smudging all over....which was especially bad on my last S20 FE phone Palladium fucked around with this message at 15:37 on Apr 8, 2024 |
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Apr 8, 2024 15:29
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Fantastic Foreskin posted:When it gets cheap. This too, no-one cares about a new TV tech in a mainstream sense until it starts to drop below the $500 mark and OLEDs are still way above that. Especially if someone just bought a 4K TV as they started to get cheap a few years ago.
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njsykora posted:This too, no-one cares about a new TV tech in a mainstream sense until it starts to drop below the $500 mark and OLEDs are still way above that. Especially if someone just bought a 4K TV as they started to get cheap a few years ago. This is us. About two years back we needed a new TV and got a pretty decent 4k LCD TV (one of the fancier types, forget) for something like $650. We were eyeballing OLEDs also but our choices were basically a significantly smaller panel for ~$800 or a same sized panel for something like ~1400. Barring some horrible mishap I fully expect the TV we have now to last us another 5 years, minimum, and likely 10. So hopefully by then OLEDs are cheap?
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Cyrano4747 posted:This is us. About two years back we needed a new TV and got a pretty decent 4k LCD TV (one of the fancier types, forget) for something like $650. We were eyeballing OLEDs also but our choices were basically a significantly smaller panel for ~$800 or a same sized panel for something like ~1400. Yeah I'm in the same boat. I went from 37" 720p TV that cost me about £330 to a 43" 4K that cost me about £350 which I hope will last me as long (about 10-15 years, there's still nothing wrong with the 720p one). Though if there's a good OLED for £400 or so in that time or if I come into some money somewhere I might upgrade.
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Fantastic Foreskin posted:When it gets cheap. Iv'e been happy with 1080p for years for my Movie, YT & Twitch viewing... plus the older i get the worse the biological resolution gets. 
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Apr 8, 2024 16:07
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We have a larger non-OLED TV for the living room and a smaller (though still comically larger than any TV we owned until probably 2017) OLED TV for our bedroom. My wife says she can’t tell the difference, but she’s glad the OLED makes me happy, lol.
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Apr 8, 2024 16:36
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I have an OLED monitor (tv) and I have my two other monitors on the side and I can absolutely tell the difference but I’m still not ready to spend all the money on my larger living room tv for one. It looks good but it’s still pricy as hell.
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Apr 8, 2024 16:39
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I literally want to have every tv in my house be OLED
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Apr 8, 2024 17:23
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I managed to score a 65" LG C2 after Christmas for like $1400 CAD because it was on massive sale and also open box. Hugest TV upgrade of my lifetime for sure (yes, more than CRT -> LCD because my earliest LCD TVs really sucked rear end)
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my first HDTV was one of those Sony CRT HDTVs, KD-34XBR960. 1080i, HDMI input, 200 lbs. It had an amazing image and I loved it, but when I had to move apartments in 2011 I realized it couldn't come with me. I bought a 50inch 1080p Samsung LCD that I hated for years. Terrible input lag, black levels that were more grey than anything. It was "good enough" that we didnt' end up replacing it until 2019 where we got a 77 inch LG oled C9. It blew my mind how good that TV is; its input lag is near CRT levels, and its black levels are a perfect darkness. Coupled with HDR and dolby vision (And properly calibrating said HDR levels, the biggest issue with HDR imo) and I started enjoying movies and TV gaming again. So much so that I bought a 55inch LG CX for my office the next year for goon cave gaming, and last year bought a 21:9 oled computer monitor for goon cave gaming with a mouse and keyboard. Even retro games have had new life breathed into them with a combination of HDR and CRT shaders. I have access to over a dozen CRTs ranging from PVMs, high end computer monitors and a 29inch arcade cab, and if they were all to die today I wouldn't be terribly put out at this point (Aside from having to haul them all to the recycler). Oled is the real deal.
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Apr 8, 2024 17:39
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bookmarking this in case people take his advice https://twitter.com/evowizz/status/1777048671827194135
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kliras posted:bookmarking this in case people take his advice Will that increase or decrease his internet points? 
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kliras posted:bookmarking this in case people take his advice We live in a reality where people are more willing to listen to a YouTube consumer tech salesman than literal NASA 
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Apr 8, 2024 17:54
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Oh what would NASA know about events happening in space anyway I'll trust the YouTube phone sponsor guy
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Apr 8, 2024 17:59
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As somebody who uses their phone as a gps in a windshield mount I do get worried about damaging the camera sensors. Sometimes in the summer midday the phone heats up enough to throw out a temp warning
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Apr 8, 2024 18:23
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Marques, you loving idiot, during an eclipse it is even *more* dangerous to point a camera (or your eyes) at the sun until totality.
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Apr 8, 2024 18:28
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ND filters shmilters. --edit: Come to think of this bad joke, isn't MKBHD working tons with camera gear by nature of what he's doing? Why the gently caress is he even bamboozled by all of this?
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HKR posted:Marques, you loving idiot, during an eclipse it is even *more* dangerous to point a camera (or your eyes) at the sun until totality. how so?
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Apr 8, 2024 19:06
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I think it's just more dangerous for your eyes because your brain isn't sending you the usual "stop looking at the sun you moron" signals while your retinas cook
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Apr 8, 2024 19:07
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Just live someplace that is cloudy 300 days of the year and you don’t have these problems.
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Suspect A posted:We live in a reality where people are more willing to listen to a YouTube consumer tech salesman than literal NASA NASA is already lying about the moon landing, why wouldn't they lie about cameras!
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Apr 8, 2024 19:16
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kliras posted:bookmarking this in case people take his advice This dude has always rubbed me the wrong way with the way he does things. Anyway if you cover the camera with the glasses you can still get a decent picture 
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Rinkles posted:how so? I was misinformed; I guess I thought the partial blockage did something like focused the UV light but it's just this: Volte posted:I think it's just more dangerous for your eyes because your brain isn't sending you the usual "stop looking at the sun you moron" signals while your retinas cook
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Apr 8, 2024 19:54
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just use a phone that runs java, that should be sun compatible
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Apr 8, 2024 19:57
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Should I put my hand in this boiling pot of water? I dropped my phone in it
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tokin opposition posted:just use a phone that runs java, that should be sun compatible
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tokin opposition posted:just use a phone that runs java, that should be sun compatible
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tokin opposition posted:just use a phone that runs java, that should be sun compatible
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people take pictures with the sun in them with their phones all the time, it's fine
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tokin opposition posted:just use a phone that runs java, that should be sun compatible I believe there was a lawsuit specifically to address sun compatibility
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tokin opposition posted:just use a phone that runs java, that should be sun compatible lol
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It doesn’t take an oracle to know how that will turn out!
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tokin opposition posted:just use a phone that runs java, that should be sun compatible
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priznat posted:Just live someplace that is cloudy 300 days of the year and you don’t have these problems. Northern Ireland: "you called?" 
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Apr 8, 2024 22:02
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Cathode Ray Dude looks at that weird oversized "laptop" Dell made 15 years ago and the big feature it had everyone else forgot about : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO5hYhdxIuk
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Apr 8, 2024 22:58
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I watched that earlier and the whole thing of it being "portable" is baffling but I guess someone might've been paranoid about it being called a knockoff iMac if they'd made it just an all-in-one since the iMac's final form was still fairly new.
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tokin opposition posted:just use a phone that runs java, that should be sun compatible Wow
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Mr.Radar posted:Cathode Ray Dude looks at that weird oversized "laptop" Dell made 15 years ago and the big feature it had everyone else forgot about : He’s like the 3rd dude I’ve seen this week review the thing lol.
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I thought this was a pretty interesting poll result.  Handheld gaming PCs are awesome but I’m not convinced GN really is the best place to review them.
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