Re: My Hate List (Revised)

On 2025-02-10, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-02-10 3:08 a.m., RonB wrote:

On 2025-02-09, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-02-08 2:23 p.m., chrisv 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.

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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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I doubt I would have been able to find anyone who could even fix that
plasma television, to be completely honest. For all I know, the
replacement panel would have cost me $80, but where do you even find
someone who is able to open up the device and replace the faulty part
anymore?

I don't know much about plasma TVs except that they came out before the
curret crop of flatscreen TVs.

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