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Video Quality Matters Less If You Enjoy the Show
An anonymous reader writes "Rice University researchers say new studies show that if you like what you're watching, you're less likely to notice the difference in video quality of the TV show, Internet video or mobile movie clip, putting a lie to some of the more extravagant marketing claims of electronics manufacturers. 'If you're at home watching and enjoying a movie, we found that you're probably not going to notice or even concern yourself with how many pixels the video is or if the data is being compressed,' said the lead researcher. 'This strong relationship holds across a wide range of encoding levels and movie content when that content is viewed under longer and more naturalistic viewing conditions.'"
The quality of sex matters less if you're having it.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
My Playstation 3 came with a copy of the first BlueRay video I'd seen at the time: the latest Spider Man movie.
It's like Sony was trying to turn people off to BlueRay.
Ah scrambled porn. Waiting through 5 minutes of snow for one elliptical, green boob.
And it always has something appropriate: http://www.xkcd.com/732/
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You could produce "Keeping up With the Kardashians" in super-HD, 3D, 240mhz video and project it onto an 40' OLED screen with a one-trillion-to-one contrast ratio, and I'm still going to gouge my eyes out with a rusty fork before I'll watch it.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
...and with Primer it didn't even matter what order I watched the pieces on youtube!
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Some of my favorite games are 320x200, now get off my lawn. I'm feeling old.