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| eti:
--- Quote from: blacksheeplogic on January 14, 2022, 01:59:40 am --- --- 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. --- End quote --- 👏 😜 Are you free for life consultation? I’d like assistance with spatial awareness and general decision making. I can pay you in the appropriate currency - peanuts and bananas. |
| Someone:
For context the quote stream needs a rebuild: --- Quote from: tooki on January 13, 2022, 02:44:23 pm --- --- Quote from: NiHaoMike on January 13, 2022, 01:51:13 pm --- --- Quote from: tooki on January 13, 2022, 12:50:45 pm --- --- Quote from: NiHaoMike on January 12, 2022, 03:27:32 am --- --- Quote from: SilverSolder on January 11, 2022, 02:31:58 am --- --- Quote from: NiHaoMike on January 11, 2022, 01:49:06 am --- --- Quote from: Sal Ammoniac on January 10, 2022, 10:41:19 pm ---Rather than continuing on the Fire TV treadmill, I've switched to a Nvidia Shield TV Pro. Hopefully it won't have the planned obsolescence issue Fire TV does. --- End quote --- I'm disappointed Nvidia haven't upgraded it by much compared to the original in 2015. Mainly just a slightly faster version of the same CPU, 3GB RAM while the much cheaper Raspberry Pi 4 is available with 8GB. I would say that a PC would be the most future proof, although obviously for a higher budget. Would be an interesting challenge to see how much it would cost to build a PC (using only new parts) with performance comparable to a Shield TV. Back when the original Shield TV was new, building a PC with equivalent performance would be a lot more expensive. I'd be surprised if that's still the case nowadays. --- End quote --- How high performance does it need to be to show TV content though? I've always used middling PC builds to run projectors etc. (playing dvd and BluRay rips) and it was a pretty good experience overall... --- 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. --- 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. --- End quote --- Well that’s not just a scaler, then, that’s upscaling and motion interpolation. --- End quote --- ... that higher end TVs do internally already (examples as far back as 25 years at least). Live TV is so compressed through the chain that its unlikely to benefit much, and the decoder/de-interlace is a bigger influence. Complaining that outdated/low end/cheap device doesn't do your preferred cutting edge image processing (for gains of a few dB in PSNR), lol. Also, people have traditionally (and still do) the expensive video operations offline for later playback with minimum overhead. |
| Someone:
--- Quote from: eti on January 14, 2022, 03:00:07 am ---Are you free for life consultation? I’d like assistance with spatial awareness and general decision making. I can pay you in the appropriate currency - peanuts and bananas. --- End quote --- Bananas I'll happily accept as payment, 42kg per hour. However, peanuts might be cheaper for your delivery costs, 14kg per hour. |
| eti:
--- Quote from: Someone on January 14, 2022, 03:58:24 am --- --- Quote from: eti on January 14, 2022, 03:00:07 am ---Are you free for life consultation? I’d like assistance with spatial awareness and general decision making. I can pay you in the appropriate currency - peanuts and bananas. --- End quote --- Bananas I'll happily accept as payment, 42kg per hour. However, peanuts might be cheaper for your delivery costs, 14kg per hour. --- End quote --- I don’t think I’d replied to you. 😎 |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: Someone on January 14, 2022, 03:56:05 am ---For context the quote stream needs a rebuild: ... that higher end TVs do internally already (examples as far back as 25 years at least). Live TV is so compressed through the chain that its unlikely to benefit much, and the decoder/de-interlace is a bigger influence. Complaining that outdated/low end/cheap device doesn't do your preferred cutting edge image processing (for gains of a few dB in PSNR), lol. Also, people have traditionally (and still do) the expensive video operations offline for later playback with minimum overhead. --- End quote --- Don’t basically all TVs now have motion interpolation? I don’t think I’ve seen any TV larger than 32” without motion interpolation for probably 15 years. |
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