Re: My Hate List (Revised)

On 2025-02-08, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:

RonB wrote:
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chrisv wrote:

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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.
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I guess when they start building homes with entire walls being video
displays, 4k will make sense for video.  Until then...

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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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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. 
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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.

Same here (about sitting closer). We have a Roku flat screen (I think 55")
and I have to sit closer than I would have thought when we use it. What's
amazing is that my first (personal) TV was a 19" b/w and it seemed fine at
the time. A lot has changed since then.

Honestly I don't watch much on the TV any more. Most of my movie watching is
done on my computer monitor. My wife likes crap I have zero interest, like
"Married at First Site," and related "reality" shows. When Cardinals
baseball is on MLB.tv I'll sometimes watch that on the Roku, but even then
it's mostly on my computer. 

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