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| eti:
--- Quote from: Sal Ammoniac on January 14, 2022, 07:02:51 pm ---One thing I didn't like about the Fire TV remote is that it's small and totally black (the white icons on the buttons wore off a long time ago). It's easy to lose in the dark (I have a projector setup in a light-controlled room and the ambient light is very low). Some of my other remotes have glow-in-the-dark buttons, and that makes it easy to find them in the dark when I drop them. --- End quote --- And it wobbles back and forth when you put it down on a surface, like a rocking chair. Seeing this remote wobbling, in my peripheral vision, is extremely irksome, so I ran two long beads of hot glue down the back cover, lengthways, so they are at the same level as the “hump”(?) of the curve. What a silly design! |
| NiHaoMike:
--- Quote from: Sal Ammoniac on January 13, 2022, 05:55:22 pm ---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). --- End quote --- The original also had pretty good upscaling. The new one improves on that and might approach a desktop GPU in quality but the specs say it only works up to 30 FPS, not so good for fast action content. Had they upgraded to a newer CPU instead of a slightly faster version of the original, they could probably make it work at 60 FPS or faster. --- Quote from: Someone on January 14, 2022, 03:56:05 am ---Complaining that outdated/low end/cheap device doesn't do your preferred cutting edge image processing (for gains of a few dB in PSNR), lol.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 --- I wouldn't call a $200 Shield TV "cheap" or "low end" compared to $55 for the 4GB version of the Raspberry Pi 4. As for doing the processing offline, how would you store the data without incurring compression losses? It's not hard to find a SSD with sufficient bandwidth but one big enough for even one hour of uncompressed 4K video would be far more expensive than a good GPU. --- Quote from: tooki on January 14, 2022, 07:33:40 am ---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. --- End quote --- The processing on the HDMI inputs is basically the same as the output scaler in modern GPUs. It is simply impossible to look more than a frame or two ahead without introducing an unreasonable amount of latency. The apps that run on the TV can use whatever processing the hardware is capable of, so the UI gets the fast path but the video can have a lot more latency to allow better upscaling. In that case, the scaling is running on the GPU inside the TV, which generally leaves a lot to be desired. (How long before some manufacturer makes a "gaming TV" with an AMD APU or even a desktop GPU?) |
| SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on January 15, 2022, 01:46:49 am ---[...] (How long before some manufacturer makes a "gaming TV" with an AMD APU or even a desktop GPU?) --- End quote --- Windows Media Center Edition? - it was actually pretty good... |
| NiHaoMike:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on January 15, 2022, 02:12:34 am ---Windows Media Center Edition? - it was actually pretty good... --- End quote --- Nowadays, I'm thinking Steam OS, probably with some sort of Android container for Android apps. |
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