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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: My Hate List (Revised)
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 18:07:50 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-02-07, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Joel wrote:
>
>>When I rented this movie, I wanted to have the audio sent to my
>>headphones, so I used a Chrome window on my TV screen as a second
>>monitor, but left the sound as normal to the line-out jack. Remarkably
>>cinema-like, because while my TV is old and a 720p class, I was
>>getting real sound in my headphones, making it easier to track the
>>dialog while multitasking, just so worth it over using the Fire TV
>>Stick.
>
> 720P, for movies, isn't bad at all.  A lot of the "cheaper" streaming
> content is 720P to this day.  1080P is way plenty, IMO.  We still live
> in what is mostly a 1080P world, with exceptions, and that's fine by
> me.
>
> I guess when they start building homes with entire walls being video
> displays, 4k will make sense for video.  Until then...

Fandango at Home (formerly VuDu, which was a much better name) keeps 
upgrading my old movies to UHD. They announce it each time they do a few. I 
guess they're trying to get me to buy more movies, but there are very few 
new movies I even want to watch. All are sequels, prequels, reboots, crap 
based on old TV shows, comic book movies, live action movies based on 
animated movies and Woke crap — generally nothing original. How many miles 
do they think they need to get out of all of these retreads?

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“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien