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| tooki:
--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on January 12, 2022, 03:27:32 am --- --- Quote from: SilverSolder on January 11, 2022, 02:31:58 am ---How high performance does it need to be to show TV content though? --- End quote --- It takes a surprising amount of compute power to upscale to 4K. The mpv upscaler I tuned for my PC uses about 30% of a 970, about 1 TFLOPS of FP32. --- End quote --- Scaling just for display is typically done in hardware, though, and is thus “free”. Graphics cards have had scaler units for over 20 years now. |
| NiHaoMike:
--- Quote from: tooki on January 13, 2022, 12:50:45 pm ---Scaling just for display is typically done in hardware, though, and is thus “free”. Graphics cards have had scaler units for over 20 years now. --- End quote --- That's a "simple" scaler designed for very low latency. For video playback where latency is of little concern, a scaler that also examines neighboring frames does much better. |
| tooki:
Well that’s not just a scaler, then, that’s upscaling and motion interpolation. |
| Sal Ammoniac:
The Nvidia Shield TV has what they call an AI scaler, and I can confirm that scaling to 4K on the Shield is noticeably better than 4K scaling on the Fire TV (I arrived at this opinion through A/B testing, although it wasn't double blind). |
| blacksheeplogic:
--- Quote from: eti on January 06, 2022, 04:11:21 am ---I have two Amazon “Fire TV” devices. They work, JUST…. but they run THE worst variant of the already horrendous software bodge OS ever, Android. I digress… Amazon “Fire TV” remotes - DESIGNED to be thrown away! Yes, truly the most disgusting example of a total lack of awareness on the behalf of Amazon, that things need to be REPAIRED and not tossed and replaced. Trying to open one of their “Voice remote” remotes, demonstrates just HOW loudly and brazenly they silently shout “Hah, screw you, buy a new one!” When you discover the sheer amount of superglue used to seal the thing shut, and to add insult to injury, when you get it open you find (amongst fragments of torn remote control parts) that they SCREWED THE PCB IN!! Why?!!!! Morons. --- End quote --- You fck'd it up, take some personal responsibility. Next time try searching for a how to guide. |
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