Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Xocyll Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: AMD weighs in on HD versus 4K Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 06:38:57 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 62 Message-ID: References: <19nb3k5q4pho824jtoqf3kbrsned4n7db6@4ax.com> <1015m1m$2t1jh$1@dont-email.me> <7stg3ktsmgruok4vhe9ano5he6itmjhkrv@4ax.com> <101br9k$d9mh$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 12:39:00 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1256fcd98b836749ff6fc5ad774343ef"; logging-data="478932"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+kEKeq/DoLpb0e63e9+l+J" Cancel-Lock: sha1:5dnxbxj+/I2A3a1s0wu5XLHXBrU= X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.640 X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 250529-4, 5/29/2025), Outbound message JAB looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say: >On 30/05/2025 04:30, Justisaur wrote: >> On 5/29/2025 8:24 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: >>> On Thu, 29 May 2025 10:09:13 -0500, Zaghadka >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, 28 May 2025 05:22:56 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, >>>> Xocyll wrote: >>>> >>>>> 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. >>>> >>>> I do Bluray for the audio. There I can definitely hear a difference. I >>>> found this out when I got Fight Club on Bluray. >>>> >>>> But a 4k picture is only noticable to people with 20/10 vision on a >>>> minimum 90" screen from 5-10 feet. >>> >>> >>> Heh. I saw a 98" UHD TV the other day in a store. THERE I noticed the >>> difference... when standing less than a foot away. The pixels were >>> big! >>> >>> But even I wouldn't be using a TV that big unless I was sitting on a >>> couch. And I'm the weirdo who uses a 47" display as one of my >>> monitors. Just the thought of dragging a mouse across a screen that >>> big makes the carpal tunnel flare up! ;-) >>> >>> (I was surprised at how inexpensive screens that big had become >>> though; it seems that just a few years ago anything larger than 60" >>> was in the $5-6000USD range, and now you can get a 98" screen for less >>> than 2 grand). >> >> The 2 grand isn't the problem, it's the couple hundred thousand I'd need >> for a bigger place where I even had a wall that big around here without >> going to a worse neighborhood. >> > >It's something I did think about when we got our last one. If we got a >TV that was too big it would have to go above the fireplace which is >probably not good for it and it'd be a poor viewing angle. The other >option would be to remove the sofa and sit on high chairs instead! Redneck it; put the couch up on cinder blocks like it was a pickup truck in the front yard. >I also don't like the idea of a TV dominating the room. Well there is that. 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 -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com