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Subject: Re: AMD weighs in on HD versus 4K
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2025 10:53:15 -0700
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On 6/1/2025 9:29 AM, Xocyll wrote:
> Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
> entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
> say:
> 
>> On Sun, 01 Jun 2025 08:34:15 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:
>>
>>> candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
>>> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The
>>> Augury is good, the signs say:
>>>
>>>> Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote at 09:22 this Wednesday (GMT):
>>>>> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> looked up from reading the
>>>>> entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
>>>>> say:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 5/27/2025 9:02 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Recently, Frank Azor -one of the bigwigs at AMD- pointed out that the
>>>>>>> vast bulk of PC gamers (and even more with consoles) still play in HD
>>>>>>> resolutions rather than $K or higher. Close to 60% of gamers on Steam
>>>>>>> still have 1080p monitors. Many of the most-played games don't even
>>>>>>> use the added RAM necessary for HD. As such, Azor says, AMD's primary
>>>>>>> focus won't be on catering to the UHD/4K gamer, but to the larger
>>>>>>> market where 4-8GB VRAM are sufficient.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I feel the same about TV/Streaming/Movies and such.  HD is just fine,
>>>>>> I'm not shelling out for the overpriced 4K TVs and re-buying all my
>>>>>> DVDs/Blu-Rays for 4K discs.  Most people can't even see a difference
>>>>>> between HD and 4K.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hell I don't even buy Blu-Ray if DVD is an option - I literally see no
>>>>> difference between them, so 4K Ultra was never in consideration.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe if I had one of those huge-ass TVs I'd see a difference, but the
>>>>> 39" I have, you see none.
>>>>>
>>>>> Xocyll
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of
>>>>> a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably,
>>>>> Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So
>>>>> FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Same, I prefer DVD just bc it is a massive hassle to set up the Bluray
>>>> decryption stuff on a machine, and I literally couldn't care less about
>>>> the quality increase.
>>>
>>> Ahh I don't bother, I just play both disc types in a combo dvd/blueray
>>> player that is hooked to the TV.
>>>
>>> I dislike the menus in blueray, cause they stay open for several seconds
>>> after you unpause, blocking the screen, dvd menus vanish instantly.
>>
>> Any discs I get are immediately ripped to HDD and then shoved in the
>> closet with the other ten-million DVDs. I have no time for searching
>> for the disks, fiddling with the player to open its door, putting the
>> disk in, waiting for it to spin up, being forced to watch the
>> inevitable logos and "you wouldn't steal a car" bullshit, navigating
>> menus, watching more trailers and then realizing I didn't want to
>> actually watch THIS movie but the other one, so I have to repeat the
>> whole process.
>>
>> Rip once, double-click movie file, watch. That's the life.
> 
> 
> Maybe I'll do that eventually, but it's a bit of a hassle, since some of
> the movies are on blue-ray and I don't think either computer players
> support anything but cd/dvd.
> 
> That and it would have to be done on the older and slower machine with
> the faster internal dvd players, vs the fast new system with an external
> and therefore slow-as-hell dvd player.
> 
> Plus I'll need to buy a new 5TB external HD to stick them all on, and
> money is kinda tight right now, what with the new meds.
> 
> Get released from hospital after 3 months, with a bunchy of new
> prescriptions which totaled over $900 for a 1 month supply.
> 
> New tech is gonna have to wait - blew that budget on the new monitor I
> had to buy since one of mine died, and that was well under $200.
> 
Ouch, and sympathies.

As for ripping discs, I have been using MakeMKV for years. 
https://www.makemkv.com/download/  No player should be needed to rip the 
discs and I've found VLC Media Player handles the files just fine.  All 
this on a Win10 machine that doesn't have the hardware to go to Win11 
(which I have no intention to ever willingly "upgrade" to.)

-- 
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.