Wasn't that long ago that Youtube ran into the same problem for view counts (on Gangnam Style). They were even using signed integers - gotta be prepared for negative views, I guess.
If it wasn't clear, I was saying motion interpolation is a failure. You can't add good data if it isn't there. The only place it might be useful is enhancing sports. Cinematography requires a certain amount of motion blur to work and the motion estimation actually removes it.
I also saw The Hobbit in HFR. The sweeping pans and helicopter shots were near-perfect - and they look terrible at 24fps in a lot of the LOTR movies. In the close-cropped conversation shots, it looked like it was in fast-forward. I think they used too wide of a lens. The other problem is that the shots were way too sharp. It's hard to get motion blur when you're shooting at half the shutter speed but you need it for realism. The CGI popped out for the same reason. Motion blur helps with realism. Most prime-time TV shows are 24p with pulldown to 60i or 30p. Soaps on the other hand are still shot in a true 60i, and that's what The Hobbit also reminded me of.
Saying that 4K is a scam is only partly true. In the theater, it makes a huge difference. My living room has no TV, but I have a home theater setup in the basement. In a home theater, you need either a monster TV or seats very close to the screen. I have the latter right now (two couches in series starting about 3-ft from the TV, but at 1080p (42"). At that distance, a 52" TV at 4K would make a noticeable difference.
Curved TVs are more of a scam than 4K. Unless you have an 80+ inch TV at close range, you're not getting peripheral vision with that and there's no point.
That is pretty useless and no defense. "May expire" doesn't tell you anything before you buy it. I've taken Blu-Rays home directly after buying them and the code inside is "expired" (but still worked). Sorry, but that's false advertising no matter whether the codes "may expire" or not. You don't buy "already expired" for the same price as "hasn't expired yet"
It also makes it cheap and easy to make "2D glasses" out of a couple pairs of used 3D glasses from the theater, for the people in the room who get motion sickness or headaches.
Yeah...and I didn't want to buy a new TV yet. I own the movies and a player but no TV to watch on. So count me as someone who wasn't on their preferred 2-3 year upgrade cycle but still looked forward to the new features.
The codec can still be decoded as a SBS frame. In fact, the base stream is for one eye and the second stream essentially "adjusts" this to the right-eye view with a difference encoding. Far less than double the bandwidth required, too.
It really depends on if the cinematography was done well (same as with wide aspect ratio, color instead of B&W, etc). A lot of action movie garbage is just an upconversion anyway. The movie Hugo was excellent and most Pixar films are done well without being overdone.
Active 3D glasses pretty much killed 3D TV right out of the gate.
The flickering was awful in the store demos I saw. I was waiting for passive 3D on 4K. And for my TV to be old enough to not feel stupid about replacing (the real reason new features "fail"). I even own some 3D Blu-Rays AND a player.
Not only were the glasses cheap, but you could just take home glasses from the theater instead of recycling. My wife's aunt/uncle have a passive 3D TV, and I made some "2D" glasses for her aunt who can't handle the 3D effect by popping and swapping lenses.
I bought my TV in 2010/2011. My TV is still working, so I haven't bought a 3D TV yet. I even own 3D Blu-Rays and a 3D Blu-Ray player. Hugo is an amazing piece of stereoscopic cinematography, even if you might call it a "kid's" movie. I bought it and may never get to watch it at home.
I thought 4K would finally be the savior for passive 3D (still have 1080p for each eye), because I hate active shutter flicker. Active 3D doesn't require much in the way of hardware, though, so I'm surprised to see it go.
They thought they could jumpstart a trend of selling new TVs to EVERYONE every 3-5 years the way HD made people want to upgrade. Problem is that they didn't realize most of the people were upgrading to get rid of CRTs and not even for HD. Every few years, a new driver for sales - HD, 3D, 120Hz+ motion interpolation, 4k, HDR, and combinations of the same. It didn't work. But that does not mean the new features are a "failure" (except motion interpolation).
The movie Hugo is an amazing movie in 3D - based on the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret. It's a "kid's" movie, but it's really a well done work of cinematography. There is almost no instance of 3D as a gimmick - just great stereoscopic cinematography.
It was so good that I went out of my way to buy the 3D Blu-Ray and I got a cheap 3D Blu-Ray player at a yard sale. But my 2D TV was in fine condition and I didn't want to upgrade just because of a new feature. Then, manufacturer's dropped passive 3D in favor of active 3D (when 4K would solve the limitations of passive 3D).
If my TV failed today, I would settle for active 3D if I could find a refurb. Most TVs still have high refresh rates of 120Hz or more. This means that active 3D is merely a software problem and requires almost no hardware aside from clock sync and glasses.
Anyone know why PBS stations don't carry any severe weather alerts?
I doubt they have anyone present to put them on. Putting every EAS alert into a crawl automatically might be overkill - especially a 3-day long ice storm warning (like I had last weekend). Since mobile phones receive most of these alerts, the importance is a lot lower than it used to be anyway.
why not make these things a part of an Intranet of Things
This is what I want. In an Internet outage, there's no reason my smartphone shouldn't be able to control a smart thermostat. Better still, this makes it more likely that there will be a way to make arbitrary connections to these devices from a home server and custom scripts. A lot of my home actually operates this way - I use an Amazon Dash button for my doorbell (ARP sniffing), my Asterisk caller ID shows up on my MythTV screen using contact photos from an offline cache of my Google Contacts. Just a few scripts as glue and I can do just about anything with devices that are made to be good citizens among arbitrary tech - it's why protocols were invented.
It's the price, but it's not the cost. The incremental cost to manufacture replacement boards is probably under $30. Reasonable replacement parts pricing should be a regulatory requirement to keep appliances out of landfills - and I'm surprised the EPA isn't on that yet.
Monopolistic buyouts will someday make this "dream" a reality. You pay for connectivity, not for a subscription to "the Internet" as if it's some sort of monolithic service.
If you want a big wired pipe, it's better for pricing and for it to be a competitor to cellular providers.
I'm aware of your timeline on that story - but none around here seem to do that even now. And "MeTV" never gets pre-empted. Seems like a complete waste of resources.
For a usual weekly show, you'd be a few days behind with DVR, so you'd only have spoilers for that episode.
For a usual weekly show, I go an entire season behind with DVR. Roll your own Netflix-style viewing experience with any OTA show - a 2TB drive helps. When I finish one entire show, I move on to the next one. So I still have to avoid an entire season worth of spoilers - sometimes for almost a year after it airs. It's still worth it.
I have a terrible memory, so I can't really maintain continuity at one episode per week.
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On the back of the outer case? Yes, I did. Only a generic message that it will expire at some point in the future, which is not sufficient.
Wasn't that long ago that Youtube ran into the same problem for view counts (on Gangnam Style). They were even using signed integers - gotta be prepared for negative views, I guess.
Mine only said that on the insert inside the shrink wrapped case. Nothing to see pre purchase. Insert inside was expired when I got it home.
If it wasn't clear, I was saying motion interpolation is a failure. You can't add good data if it isn't there. The only place it might be useful is enhancing sports. Cinematography requires a certain amount of motion blur to work and the motion estimation actually removes it.
I also saw The Hobbit in HFR. The sweeping pans and helicopter shots were near-perfect - and they look terrible at 24fps in a lot of the LOTR movies. In the close-cropped conversation shots, it looked like it was in fast-forward. I think they used too wide of a lens. The other problem is that the shots were way too sharp. It's hard to get motion blur when you're shooting at half the shutter speed but you need it for realism. The CGI popped out for the same reason. Motion blur helps with realism. Most prime-time TV shows are 24p with pulldown to 60i or 30p. Soaps on the other hand are still shot in a true 60i, and that's what The Hobbit also reminded me of.
Saying that 4K is a scam is only partly true. In the theater, it makes a huge difference. My living room has no TV, but I have a home theater setup in the basement. In a home theater, you need either a monster TV or seats very close to the screen. I have the latter right now (two couches in series starting about 3-ft from the TV, but at 1080p (42"). At that distance, a 52" TV at 4K would make a noticeable difference.
Curved TVs are more of a scam than 4K. Unless you have an 80+ inch TV at close range, you're not getting peripheral vision with that and there's no point.
That is pretty useless and no defense. "May expire" doesn't tell you anything before you buy it. I've taken Blu-Rays home directly after buying them and the code inside is "expired" (but still worked). Sorry, but that's false advertising no matter whether the codes "may expire" or not. You don't buy "already expired" for the same price as "hasn't expired yet"
It also makes it cheap and easy to make "2D glasses" out of a couple pairs of used 3D glasses from the theater, for the people in the room who get motion sickness or headaches.
The resolution of 4K is much more important than HDR for immersion - you just need MUCH bigger screens or video walls.
Yeah...and I didn't want to buy a new TV yet. I own the movies and a player but no TV to watch on. So count me as someone who wasn't on their preferred 2-3 year upgrade cycle but still looked forward to the new features.
The codec can still be decoded as a SBS frame. In fact, the base stream is for one eye and the second stream essentially "adjusts" this to the right-eye view with a difference encoding. Far less than double the bandwidth required, too.
It requires me to wear glasses over my glasses
Or just get clip-ons - https://www.amazon.com/3D-Glas...
It really depends on if the cinematography was done well (same as with wide aspect ratio, color instead of B&W, etc). A lot of action movie garbage is just an upconversion anyway. The movie Hugo was excellent and most Pixar films are done well without being overdone.
Active 3D glasses pretty much killed 3D TV right out of the gate.
The flickering was awful in the store demos I saw. I was waiting for passive 3D on 4K. And for my TV to be old enough to not feel stupid about replacing (the real reason new features "fail"). I even own some 3D Blu-Rays AND a player.
Not only were the glasses cheap, but you could just take home glasses from the theater instead of recycling. My wife's aunt/uncle have a passive 3D TV, and I made some "2D" glasses for her aunt who can't handle the 3D effect by popping and swapping lenses.
Maybe they're hoping for a 3D upconversion of Roswell, featuring a theme song by Dido.
I bought my TV in 2010/2011. My TV is still working, so I haven't bought a 3D TV yet. I even own 3D Blu-Rays and a 3D Blu-Ray player. Hugo is an amazing piece of stereoscopic cinematography, even if you might call it a "kid's" movie. I bought it and may never get to watch it at home.
I thought 4K would finally be the savior for passive 3D (still have 1080p for each eye), because I hate active shutter flicker. Active 3D doesn't require much in the way of hardware, though, so I'm surprised to see it go.
They thought they could jumpstart a trend of selling new TVs to EVERYONE every 3-5 years the way HD made people want to upgrade. Problem is that they didn't realize most of the people were upgrading to get rid of CRTs and not even for HD. Every few years, a new driver for sales - HD, 3D, 120Hz+ motion interpolation, 4k, HDR, and combinations of the same. It didn't work. But that does not mean the new features are a "failure" (except motion interpolation).
The movie Hugo is an amazing movie in 3D - based on the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret. It's a "kid's" movie, but it's really a well done work of cinematography. There is almost no instance of 3D as a gimmick - just great stereoscopic cinematography.
It was so good that I went out of my way to buy the 3D Blu-Ray and I got a cheap 3D Blu-Ray player at a yard sale. But my 2D TV was in fine condition and I didn't want to upgrade just because of a new feature. Then, manufacturer's dropped passive 3D in favor of active 3D (when 4K would solve the limitations of passive 3D).
If my TV failed today, I would settle for active 3D if I could find a refurb. Most TVs still have high refresh rates of 120Hz or more. This means that active 3D is merely a software problem and requires almost no hardware aside from clock sync and glasses.
I thought it was better. I really didn't like Season 3. It went back to more of the original storytelling style in a very good way.
Not if they're the same company (as it seemed like you were asking for)
Anyone know why PBS stations don't carry any severe weather alerts?
I doubt they have anyone present to put them on. Putting every EAS alert into a crawl automatically might be overkill - especially a 3-day long ice storm warning (like I had last weekend). Since mobile phones receive most of these alerts, the importance is a lot lower than it used to be anyway.
I don't really get the hate. They finally went back toward the original storytelling style that made the first season so good.
Sherlock is on Netflix.
Not 2017 Sherlock.
but is also restricted in how it can offer taxpayer sponsored programming to other countries.
Is that really true? BBC America airs Doctor Who almost on the exact same schedule. Sherlock is licensed to PBS. What restrictions are they under?
why not make these things a part of an Intranet of Things
This is what I want. In an Internet outage, there's no reason my smartphone shouldn't be able to control a smart thermostat. Better still, this makes it more likely that there will be a way to make arbitrary connections to these devices from a home server and custom scripts. A lot of my home actually operates this way - I use an Amazon Dash button for my doorbell (ARP sniffing), my Asterisk caller ID shows up on my MythTV screen using contact photos from an offline cache of my Google Contacts. Just a few scripts as glue and I can do just about anything with devices that are made to be good citizens among arbitrary tech - it's why protocols were invented.
costs $400
It's the price, but it's not the cost. The incremental cost to manufacture replacement boards is probably under $30. Reasonable replacement parts pricing should be a regulatory requirement to keep appliances out of landfills - and I'm surprised the EPA isn't on that yet.
I want to have ONE subscription to THE internet
Monopolistic buyouts will someday make this "dream" a reality. You pay for connectivity, not for a subscription to "the Internet" as if it's some sort of monolithic service.
If you want a big wired pipe, it's better for pricing and for it to be a competitor to cellular providers.
You don't have to decode the video and your GPU doesn't have a framebuffer?
I'm aware of your timeline on that story - but none around here seem to do that even now. And "MeTV" never gets pre-empted. Seems like a complete waste of resources.
For a usual weekly show, you'd be a few days behind with DVR, so you'd only have spoilers for that episode.
For a usual weekly show, I go an entire season behind with DVR. Roll your own Netflix-style viewing experience with any OTA show - a 2TB drive helps. When I finish one entire show, I move on to the next one. So I still have to avoid an entire season worth of spoilers - sometimes for almost a year after it airs. It's still worth it.
I have a terrible memory, so I can't really maintain continuity at one episode per week.