As an emacs user I’m picturing face buttons labelled Ctrl and Meta to go along with those custom keyboards.
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love to own a firetv
between this and the thing running slow as shit since the most recent ui refresh, what’s a good streaming device nowadays
I just use my PS4 when I’m not using my PC connected via a long HDMI cable
I’d also like to know what the good streaming devices are these days. The apps on my roku tv get slower with every update but I’m happy with the tv itself and don’t plan to upgrade anytime soon.
The ~$50 latest Google dongle is good for the price. I set one up at my mom’s place. You’re still at the mercy of Google’s whims but it’s probably better than Amazon.
It’s really hard to recommend an Apple TV or Nvidia Shield.
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yeah the apple tv remote makes me feel ill
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The new remote is good but the package is certainly not $180 good.
Google dongle sounds like a good idea, since they already know everything about me anyway from my phone.
fwiw, the Sony UBX700 UHD/4K player is still able to handle Netflix and Youtube, even though it is a few years old by now, is by no means a stick, was quite expensive for a stick, and has some minor niggles when it comes to the ytube app implementation (e.g. the PS4 Ytube app could depict Hangeul perfectly fine, whereas the UBX autoreplaces them with blank spaces, so i get a lot of
[_______ ] _________ - ’ ________ ’ (live)(4K)(2021.08.xx)
results shown.
On the flip side, it can play 4K UHD BRs, Mad Max Fury Road looks ace on my LCD, and will be even better on an OLED, so there’s also something good about it.
And the disc drive is leagues ahead of the shitty PS4, not even noteworthy, obv.
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Criterion’s going with Dolbyvision for their HDR implementation on their new 4K discs. I’m assuming I ought to get a player that supports that right?
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all I know about streaming devices is the nvidia shield is I think the only way currently to activate the dolby vision of a mkv that has it, which probably doesn’t matter if you pay for your movies
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Both your player and display need to support Dolby Vision for it to work. If one doesn’t support it, it should automatically fall back on standard HDR10, which uses a single tonemap for the entire disc, as opposed to per-frame. Dolby Vision looks better but it’s minor compared to the difference between SDR and HDR.
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Ok, that was my loose understanding. I figured my 4K player is probably going to outlast my tv (as someone with a laserdisc player [I need to go to the post office!!] and an s-vhs deck hooked up), so I might as well aim high on it. Thanks!!! Modern stuff is stuff a little foggy for me.
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thank you sincerely for inadvertently being the first person to succinctly explain to me what the difference was
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Atmos (on discs, anyway) works the same way, if your sound setup can’t do Atmos, it has a fallback 5.1 track embedded in the data
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Some devices can mix the Atmos signal down to DD5.1, too, e.g. an Apple TV.
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We simplified the connection then went ape with the standards.
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sincerely: lol I keep forgetting you have it, don’t worry
Did it ultimately end up on archive or sth?
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You are so kind!
If a copy did get uploaded, it was not by my hand.
I wanted to throw in copies of Hotel Rooms and On The Air off of my video tapes too, but had some frame drop issues on my first couple passes on my work set up. I sorted that since but haven’t brought them back in to redo.
if i want to make a pihole what do i need to buy
i have no raspberry pi, no experience in them, and no idea what like…peripherals i’d need. i basically want it for this one thing so cheap cheap cheap is fine