The galaxy brain move is buying an old dumb tv for a pittance and use it for watching Jellyfin/Plex/stream from a browser with uBlock Origin/DNS filtering – all running on some relative's "obsolete" smart toaster from last year that they happily gift you because "the new version's bagel mode IS LIT – pun intended – but it needs the 128 gb DDR7 ram of the new model, can barely toast on the old one any more".

You can't really find a dumb TV anymore. I might see how big of a monkey I can find when I'm ready to upgrade, but I doubt I'll find one big enough and cheap enough.

Boomers economic policy is like if Issac Newton saw an apple falling from a tree, and came to the conclusion it would always accelerate at the same speed no matter what, even though the ground with the entire ass planet behind it is right fucking there.

Numbers can not constantly go up, it's just that's what was happening their whole lives and they can't accept that their childhoods was a blip and not how things always were and always will be.

They just can't wrap their heads around it. They have such shit tier empathy they can't comprehend that they're an exception.

Too right, brother

Wha?

AFAIK FireWire is part of the Thunderbolt protocol, you can get FireWire 800 to Thunderbolt adapters. Apple even used to sell one.

Praise be to Goofy.

*you would have to pay more because major companies know they can charge more. There isn’t a limited amount of profit a company wants to mae, and then they pick a price from that, they price it as high as the market will bear.

A bit more expensive? I was able to get a smart tv for like 800 bucks. The same equivalent dumb tv would have been a few thousand dollars and Best Buy said they would only sell it to business accounts which was infuriating to read.

Realistically, not only do I not want an 8k tv, but I might not get a tv at all, if I had to do it today. We rarely watch tv anymore. The brainrot is the same but we’re much more likely to use individual screens

I don't know why more people don't do this. Don't connect the TV to the Internet. Ever. Do updates using a flash drive if you must and connect whatever flavor streaming box you like. The TVs and their dumb os get slow and shitty anyway so why fuck around with it? Lol.

I fucking love my C3. Also not connected to the internet. It's gorgeous.

You don’t even need IMAX for 4K; ordinary 35mm film can normal scan to a nice 4K video. Films shot on the 65mm IMAX cameras would probably make good 8K content, but most of that was educational films, not what most people apparently want to watch all the time.

The digital IMAX projections were actually a step backwards in resolution.

They don't want IMAX in your living room, they want IMAX in the IMAX theater, where you pay a premium for their service.

IMAX is 4K or less content. Its edge is special projection that can look good and brighter on huge screens.

Only imax film prints are significantly better than anything else

You're probably aware of this since you mentioned bitrate, but a lot of 4K streaming services use bitrates that are too low to capture much more detail at 4K compared to a lower resolution. A lot of games will recommend/effectively require upscaling (DLSS/FSR/XeSS) to achieve good performance at 4K. All of this is still maybe better than 1440p, but it shows 4K is still kind of hard to make full use of.

Not true on paper but true in practice. Most people don't buy/use Blurays (or any other physical media) anymore to the point that retailers aren't even bothering to stock them on the shelves these days. Their days are certainly numbered and then all we'll be left with is low quality 4k streaming.

Yeah, you’re talking about bitrate. A lot of the 4k content is encoded using more efficient codecs, but if it’s sourced from the streaming services the bitrate is so abysmal it’s usually a tossup between the 1080p or 4k stream. At least the 4k usually has hdr these days which is appreciable.

Yeah. A 1080p Bluray clocks in around 20GB. A 4K bluray is 60-80GB.

If you're downloading something smaller it's probably lower quality

I feel like most streaming platforms plan lock it and still compress it to crap though.