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An expensive TV is a poor investment, and people spend FAR too much on them
themadhippy:
--- Quote --- I dare you to dive into tweaking a Kuro PDP, as it has about 20 different parameters adjustable from the service menu
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only 20,if you want a real challenge the old barco 3 head crt projectors can give you hours of fun
eti:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on February 03, 2022, 01:05:24 am ---
--- Quote from: tom66 on February 02, 2022, 10:53:17 pm ---[...] if there are people on here that enjoy calibrating test equipment and so on, I dare you to dive into tweaking a Kuro PDP, as it has about 20 different parameters adjustable [...]
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You haven't lived until you've tried adjusting the colour convergence on an old school tube colour TV! :D
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And don't forget waving a de-gaussing coil around in circles, as you slowly.... slowwwwwwly back away as if you're cautiously stepping away from a live bomb! :-DD
RJSV:
YES, you are right ! But......
I bought an early DVD Player, that is; a 'portable', plus it had the, required, OPTICAL PORT, (for surround audio). Yeh, it 'ran too hot', went scruzntzy screen when hot, and not many movies, on DVD (1996).
The Matrix, was acting, virtually, like a DVD marketing tool; excercising every feature they could.
Yeh, too expensive, can't get shi7, BUT...
I got a decent intro into DVD and 5.1 audio. Yeh, my woofer bass, was a 1970's boom speaker, tweeters were $ 2 .79 crap from 79 cent store, but...
Yeh, portable player screen was tiny, BUT: it was 1 : 2 format or whatever, just a tiny, tiny wide.
Haha, the audio player / 5.1bit stream decoder was huge, like a 1940's record player (19 inch chassis).
Yeh, wires up the ying-yang, and very little 5.1 audio material...BUT...but that was OK,
I GOT TO TRY 5.1 audio / DVD movies !
Circlotron:
--- Quote from: Halcyon on February 02, 2022, 05:46:10 am --- For example, if you go and compare your basic run-of-the-mill 165cm model from brands such as TCL, Kogan or Hisense (at something like AUD$1000) to a more mainstream brand such as Sony, LG, or Samsung, you're going to notice quite a significant difference in quality.
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Yep.
13 years ago got a HiSense and it quit just short of the 3 year warranty. Screen all green and fuzzy, no pic. Replaced free and the new one (gave it to friends) went for about 6 months and the right side of the screen went green. After the first one we went and got a Samsung and it's still going strong after 10 years.
Interesting thing, the first NonSense as I call it, ran Linux and someone did a bit of hacking on theirs and they said the X video subsystem was set for max resolution of 720p, not 1080p. The actual physical screen was 1920x1080 though.
Zero999:
--- Quote from: Gyro on February 02, 2022, 11:45:48 am ---What about BBC World service Radio? You should maybe ask international readers to comment on the world service, there are many in more 'troubled' parts of the world who rely on listening to the World Service to find out what's actually happening in their own countries. In the worst countries, governments make listening to it a punishable offence! I suspect that the BBC probably has more foreign correspondents than any other news network.
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Authoritarian governments prohibit all outside media. North Koreans face death for listening to South Korean radio.
--- Quote ---With regard to news in general. The BBC represents that ideal of a state broadcaster that is owned by the whole population, not the government (how many around the world would, and do, die for such principles). It is an organisation that can, and does, hold to account the government, of whatever flavour (and even utility companies for polution etc.), without the bias of proprietors or advertisers (show me a newspaper that doesn't have a proprietor bias either). In these days of government spin and twitter output over integrity, it is an institution that we should defend at all costs. Yes, we would all like the licence fee to be lower, but it is a small price to pay for independence. The only flaw in the system is that the government can 'punish' it for telling the truth as Benta mentioned previously.
We typically watch a couple of hours of news and current affairs in the evening, the news at 6pm for UK and main international, and then over to the BBC news channel for Open Source to get a bit more in depth on the international situation.
These days far to many get their 'news' from clips social media, complete with all the hidden agendas, misinformation, and conspiracy theories, an then have the nerve to proclaim themselves knowledgable about what is happening in the world. That's how you suddenly get the mobs turning out.
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I don't mind bias, as long as I'm aware of it. I'll happily watch GB News and read the Guardian, but this difference is, I know they're biased.
The BBC are very selective about what parts of the government policy they criticize. I could give a list of examples, but it'd would be too political for this forum.
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--- Quote from: Zero999 on February 02, 2022, 11:19:20 am ---News coverage is horribly biased. They way they've dealt with COVID-19 and the government's response just proves this. They've failed to adequately challenge the government's policies: lockdown, school closures, mask mandates etc. Perhaps they were right and necessary, maybe the BBC agreed with them, or perhaps they were an over-reaction, with greater harms, than benefits, but that's not the point. It was their duty as a public broadcaster to question policies which placed the greatest restrictions on our freedoms, during peacetime.
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That's not entirely true. While the BBC's actual news program coverage of COVID has been really bad, I've listened to several genuine analyses on Radio 4. Things where they have broken down government announcements, shown how deceptive they are, and basically called out the lying scumbags.
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I haven't listened to Radio 4 for years. You're right, it's often more balanced than their other channels, but it has relatively low audience compared to the main news. That sort of thing should be on prime time TV.
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