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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: My Hate List (Revised)
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 08:08:47 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-02-09, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 2025-02-08 2:23 p.m., chrisv wrote:
>> RonB wrote:
>> 
>>> chrisv wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>> 
>> I hear ya.  Years ago I was a "movie guy" and had a projector, then a
>> big (for the time, at 65 inches) plasma.  Huge surround-sound system,
>> too.  But the movie scene has went downhill in the last decade.
>> Especially in the last five years.  I still have the plasma and the
>> surround-sound system, but it doesn't get used a lot - not enough to
>> justify a bigger and better display.
>> 
>> The plasma doesn't have all that many hours on it and still looks
>> great.  But the modest size requires sitting close - about 7 feet from
>> the screen, in my setup.
>
> My own 50" plasma died a while back. I got it in 2009 and it died last 
> year in the spring if I recall correctly. I considered having it fixed 
> but what point was there to fixing a 50" 1080p display when you could 
> get a 40" 4k Smart TV for a few hundred?

Exactly. These things have gotten so cheap now that people sometimes just 
throw them away when they move instead of packing them up.

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