And the point here is that sometimes it's not the seller that's making the claims. They use all sorts of subterfuge and hire people to make fake blogs talking about how great it is. Thus they can claim they never advertised it fraudulently. If you can't trace the money trail back to the company, then the "blogger" should be liable. Of course they would be free to turn on the company that hired them - which would be better justice than going after the writer.
firstly, they managed to sweep up some highly regarded and almost certainly 100% safe products from reputable vendors in their "recall"
They had to. Amazon's biggest problem is co-mingling in the warehouse. If it has the same ASIN, it sits in the same bin - no matter the seller. Anyone can come along and ship shoddy/knockoff products to Amazon and say "I'm selling x" and Amazon takes them at their word that it really is "x" and drops it in the same bin.
This is why streaming still isn't as good as physical media. It's hard to see artifacts on a well-mastered Blu-Ray at 1080p. I haven't seen a 4K Blu-Ray, but since they use H.265 they should have plenty of room for a good quality image.
And lots of those were shot on film. Anything before about 1990 where the original prints still exist (and not just the telecined broadcast tapes) can be bumped up to at least 4K, though at 8K it's pretty much just sharper film grain. It was around 1990 when non-linear editing really hit its peak that shows were mostly shot directly on video. Everything from about 1990 to 2004 is hit or miss as to whether a high-fidelity transfer is even possible.
And for many of those older shows, they actually had good enough production values to hold up - though I think B&W probably fared better since better color accuracy would probably make some props look cheap or more fake. This should be a golden age for re-watching the golden age of television in a format that was never-before possible.
VideoCD approximates VHS quality, but with a bit more clarity. You're definitely at fourfold worse than DVD, though the difference is a lot more noticeable on some of the last-produced SD TVs that had better resolution.
HDR is an increased color gamut at the source and gives a better true dynamic range. Simulated HDR or dynamic contrast are both obnoxious. Similarly for audio, there is dynamic range compression, which is only good if you need to keep your TV really quiet for others to sleep - not for everyday use. Yes, movies get loud and soft at times without it. It's supposed to.
120Hz native for ultra smooth, realistic motion - Much higher dynamic range and more accurate colour rendering
Neither of these have anything to do with 8k other than sharing the same HDMI standard. Though I'll grant you that cheap 8k panels will have slightly higher color accuracy than their 4k counterparts due to less visible dithering.
This is called budgeting. If they paid for more content, you would pay more. As it is, they are already getting higher fees from distributors and have to increase their subscription rates without adding content.
1) The content variety was enormous compared to streaming.
FTFY. It's not so much that their streaming catalog grew, but they are dumping all their discs. Many of my movies on my DVD queue are no longer available or "Very Long Wait" because there is only one copy floating around.
Most apartments have an air gap the size of Texas in the door frame, because the owners don't pay the heating bills. It's easy to see whether the deadbolt is in place at a glance.
Now relatives with XP or Vista machines will have to use Internet Explorer, unless Santa drops by with a new computer with Windows 7.
Wrong. Would you rather be running a browser that hasn't been updated since 2014 or one that hasn't been updated since 2018? It's not like the Firefox 52 ESR will completely disappear. It just won't get security updates. Much like Internet Explorer.
New slang usually isn't in the dictionary unless you have a really big one. Scrabble rules dictate that you have to agree on the dictionary in advance. Hence my friends not letting me play caries. Before I play Scrabble with friends again, I'd better get myself an unabridged OED.
It's almost certainly a dumb thin client that becomes useless when the server goes away. No matter how much you pay for it, it will stop working when they decide they are done with it.
And regardless of any of the privacy concerns, the real concern should be that you're buying a subscription with an unknown expiration date. The same applies to the Echo and most "smart home" devices that can't integrate with without the manufacturer's servers. The only reason I bought a Nest was because I knew I would have enough energy cost savings to make up for buying it even if it stops working after a few years.
Many articles are just reposts from arstechnica, engadget, current political news, and trending social media stories...in the next 2-4 years, that slashdot will be no more.
Its current state is far better than what would happen if it was bought out by Fusion/Kinja.
Can you see the forest yet or is your head stuck in a tree?
Using Ookla as a test, you can still test to a geographically close network that isn't specifically in the provider's own private network.
Yes, outside networks matter. it's the "inter" part of Internet. Few web sites are actually collocated within Charter or Comcast's network outside of some edge caching services. Just because they don't say "Internet" speeds, it's implied - enough that the FTC would assume they mean Internet. Secretly meaning no high speed access to the outside world is just plain weaselly.
You didn't get the dial up modem story. I won't explain much further. But deciding what counts as uplink and what is local is arbitrary - and saying that you have 50Mbps but only to the node in the alley is not much different. How many hops until it counts as a valid speed to advertise with in your book? The clear assumption is that the internetworking speed is what's relevant here.
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They used to be better at hiding it, and still on the whole actually tried at something.
And the point here is that sometimes it's not the seller that's making the claims. They use all sorts of subterfuge and hire people to make fake blogs talking about how great it is. Thus they can claim they never advertised it fraudulently. If you can't trace the money trail back to the company, then the "blogger" should be liable. Of course they would be free to turn on the company that hired them - which would be better justice than going after the writer.
So make perjury legal too, while you're at it?
Facts aren't "hateful"
motivation and wording are.
firstly, they managed to sweep up some highly regarded and almost certainly 100% safe products from reputable vendors in their "recall"
They had to. Amazon's biggest problem is co-mingling in the warehouse. If it has the same ASIN, it sits in the same bin - no matter the seller. Anyone can come along and ship shoddy/knockoff products to Amazon and say "I'm selling x" and Amazon takes them at their word that it really is "x" and drops it in the same bin.
In cases where competition is legal, collusion isn't and companies just divide up the region and everyone charges triple fair market value.
Dividing up by regions is implicit collusion (if not secretly explicit). What needs to happen is some cracking down on this.
This is why streaming still isn't as good as physical media. It's hard to see artifacts on a well-mastered Blu-Ray at 1080p. I haven't seen a 4K Blu-Ray, but since they use H.265 they should have plenty of room for a good quality image.
And lots of those were shot on film. Anything before about 1990 where the original prints still exist (and not just the telecined broadcast tapes) can be bumped up to at least 4K, though at 8K it's pretty much just sharper film grain. It was around 1990 when non-linear editing really hit its peak that shows were mostly shot directly on video. Everything from about 1990 to 2004 is hit or miss as to whether a high-fidelity transfer is even possible.
And for many of those older shows, they actually had good enough production values to hold up - though I think B&W probably fared better since better color accuracy would probably make some props look cheap or more fake. This should be a golden age for re-watching the golden age of television in a format that was never-before possible.
Or increasing the viewing distance to fit more people into the room.
VideoCD approximates VHS quality, but with a bit more clarity. You're definitely at fourfold worse than DVD, though the difference is a lot more noticeable on some of the last-produced SD TVs that had better resolution.
almost everything we watch is compressed
This is the real reason I'm a cord cutter. A plain old DVD looks better than an HD cable/satellite channel.
HDR is an increased color gamut at the source and gives a better true dynamic range. Simulated HDR or dynamic contrast are both obnoxious. Similarly for audio, there is dynamic range compression, which is only good if you need to keep your TV really quiet for others to sleep - not for everyday use. Yes, movies get loud and soft at times without it. It's supposed to.
And keeping it at 72ppi (points per inch, not dots) will give a nice sharp image and reduce eye strain.
Few people want tiny print, except for people who don't have room for multiple screens.
120Hz native for ultra smooth, realistic motion
- Much higher dynamic range and more accurate colour rendering
Neither of these have anything to do with 8k other than sharing the same HDMI standard. Though I'll grant you that cheap 8k panels will have slightly higher color accuracy than their 4k counterparts due to less visible dithering.
You can trivially prevent the problem by not buying the device.
Retroactively?
stop removing as much as they add month to month
This is called budgeting. If they paid for more content, you would pay more. As it is, they are already getting higher fees from distributors and have to increase their subscription rates without adding content.
1) The content variety was enormous compared to streaming.
FTFY. It's not so much that their streaming catalog grew, but they are dumping all their discs. Many of my movies on my DVD queue are no longer available or "Very Long Wait" because there is only one copy floating around.
Most apartments have an air gap the size of Texas in the door frame, because the owners don't pay the heating bills. It's easy to see whether the deadbolt is in place at a glance.
Mozilla is already barely a large niche themselves these days. A niche of a niche is nice, but too small to bother with.
"Anti-Fascist" is a deceptive way of saying "Communist".
Sorry, no. Both are extremist POV's and both led to some of the worst leaders of the 20th century. The opposite of extremism is not more extremism.
Now relatives with XP or Vista machines will have to use Internet Explorer, unless Santa drops by with a new computer with Windows 7.
Wrong. Would you rather be running a browser that hasn't been updated since 2014 or one that hasn't been updated since 2018? It's not like the Firefox 52 ESR will completely disappear. It just won't get security updates. Much like Internet Explorer.
New slang usually isn't in the dictionary unless you have a really big one. Scrabble rules dictate that you have to agree on the dictionary in advance. Hence my friends not letting me play caries. Before I play Scrabble with friends again, I'd better get myself an unabridged OED.
It's almost certainly a dumb thin client that becomes useless when the server goes away. No matter how much you pay for it, it will stop working when they decide they are done with it.
And regardless of any of the privacy concerns, the real concern should be that you're buying a subscription with an unknown expiration date. The same applies to the Echo and most "smart home" devices that can't integrate with without the manufacturer's servers. The only reason I bought a Nest was because I knew I would have enough energy cost savings to make up for buying it even if it stops working after a few years.
Many articles are just reposts from arstechnica, engadget, current political news, and trending social media stories...in the next 2-4 years, that slashdot will be no more.
Its current state is far better than what would happen if it was bought out by Fusion/Kinja.
Can you see the forest yet or is your head stuck in a tree?
Using Ookla as a test, you can still test to a geographically close network that isn't specifically in the provider's own private network.
Yes, outside networks matter. it's the "inter" part of Internet. Few web sites are actually collocated within Charter or Comcast's network outside of some edge caching services. Just because they don't say "Internet" speeds, it's implied - enough that the FTC would assume they mean Internet. Secretly meaning no high speed access to the outside world is just plain weaselly.
You didn't get the dial up modem story. I won't explain much further. But deciding what counts as uplink and what is local is arbitrary - and saying that you have 50Mbps but only to the node in the alley is not much different. How many hops until it counts as a valid speed to advertise with in your book? The clear assumption is that the internetworking speed is what's relevant here.