Re: AMD weighs in on HD versus 4K

On 6/4/2025 1:28 AM, JAB wrote:

On 01/06/2025 17:23, Xocyll wrote:

(I'm pretty sure if it were up to my mother, she'd have had me watch
TV from the other room. I wonder where the 'you'd go blind' rumor
start anyway?)

Or been like my parents who bought into the whole "TV makes you stupid"
thing and allowed us 1 hour of TV ... a week.
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Star Trek on Saturday afternoon of course.
2pm if I recall correctly, which I likely don't since it was 50+ years
ago.

 I've always found that a weird argument as it really depends on what you watch. I remember being fascinated watching Life on Earth with David Attenborough, that's was pretty educational for a ten year old.
 The strange thing is there isn't that same stigma about books even though there are lots of books which are complete trash. You get the same thing with watching 'too much' TV but being a bookworm is considered a positive.

Not by everyone.  There are segments of the population that feel someone who reads too much is "not to be trusted" and/or is lazy and won't work.   "Reading anything more than the Bible and working hard are all there is to life!"
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