Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RonB Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: My Hate List (Revised) Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 18:07:50 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <4gj9qj9bh76le8nih8g2lgfre5q88hlkfh@4ax.com> <2p4pP.2117978$oR74.1555797@fx16.iad> <5p5aqjtifqicrulfmm3fn66495is03ku24@4ax.com> <53jaqj5lt1a126ibbqr6h7rrrc85sesuf5@4ax.com> <331cqjtublaatb84g88ob6vsatp8ckphag@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:07:50 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="5ddfd67483ee3d025c84dfbd5f231e18"; logging-data="3789452"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+dTq9oBDKmQdYbuaBnQSIf" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:x/bXvlNKsqP33MhgjE5v0KrDjU8= Bytes: 2923 On 2025-02-07, chrisv 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? -- “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