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cortex_m0:

--- Quote from: eti on October 26, 2022, 10:41:37 pm ---You say "Technology has come a long way" - I beg to differ. The dots on the TV are packed closer together, some chips have got faster the thing is thinner to RIDICULOUS levels (not sure why we NEED a TV as thin as paper - not like ya gonna carry it round the house) and the "apps" have multiplied like bacteria, most of which are useless, spammy noise.
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I'm sorry, are you're complaining that the TVs are higher resolution, but thinner and weigh less than the CRTs of the 90s or the plasmas of the 2000s?  Name me one advantage if I put an extra 3 cm of thickness and an extra 300g of weight from the larger housing in your TV.

Smart TVs cost less than the combination of a "dumb" TV and a set top streaming box (Apple TV, Roku). Often quite a lot less. That's why they won the market.  Yes, the pre installed apps are there to advertise streaming services to you. But they are also a matter of convenience for the masses.



--- Quote ---The junk coming through the cable is EXPONENTIALLY WORSE than the quality programmes we used to have (at least here in England, and we are condescended to on EVERY level of TV programming).

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Repeat after me: The programs are not the tech.

Halcyon:

--- Quote from: eti on October 27, 2022, 12:54:38 am ---I wouldn't class the "ThinkPad" range as consumer grade laptops.

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I would. I class anything as "consumer grade" if it's readily available for purchase by anyone. You can jump onto Lenovo's website and just order one as an individual. Which is why I would put them in the high-end of the consumer bracket, but yes, they also cross over into the commercial market. You often find a lot of "power users" (I hate that term), buying them because of their capabilities and build quality. I personally use a ThinkPad P1 as my daily driver.

Product I wouldn't classify as "consumer" would be devices which you typically (but not exclusively) need to have an account with a reseller or distributor for. A lot of higher-end computer networking equipment tends to fall into this category, as does some video and photography products.

The line isn't clear and it certainly depends on your interpretation of it, but the above is just my opinion.

deadlylover:

--- Quote from: james_s on October 26, 2022, 07:33:33 pm ---Maybe there's a way to change it, but this is what it looks like on my friend's iphone, I was in disbelieve that Apple would do something like that, I'm quite confident that Steve Jobs would have put his foot down and never let that happen.

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If you mainly watch YouTube 16:9 content (or slightly wider) you won't see the notch, it's not default behaviour. You have to specifically "zoom to fill" if you want to see the notch on most content. The default native iOS video player will also hide the notch by default even on 21:9 content, but all bets are off on third party apps (like YouTube grrrrrr).

Apple usually has a very generous return policy for the holidays, so keep an eye on in November for them to announce it. You'll be able to try the phone for like 2 months.

I have to bring up this meme again.  :P

AVGresponding:

--- Quote from: Berni on October 26, 2022, 05:22:13 pm ---Retro gaming is indeed one good use for CRTs. The scan lines are part of the look, so is the blinking scan frequency of the display along with the instant response time of throwing video voltage directly into the electron gun.

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Indeed, as the graphics were designed for the softer pixels, and look much better, screen size being equal, on a CRT vs anything modern. There's a pic I saw demonstrating this that I might add to my post when I get home from work, if I remember.

Berni:
The YouTube app on a Samsung S52 (Android 12) does not use the camera punch area to show video unless you zoom in to force video into that area. Maybe it is a iOS problem. In general on Android the apps have to specifically ask to use that area of the screen, so and legacy apps that don't know about this don't get to draw UI there while the OS continues to use the area for the status bar.

But yes default settings on Android tend to make the status bar white so the camera hole is very obvious whenever the phone is on. I assume this is more of a style choice to show off the phone being modern enough to have a holepunch camera. Unfortunately mobile phone design is driven by fads. Just change to a theme that makes the status bar black and you won't notice the hole/notch.



--- Quote from: Halcyon on October 27, 2022, 04:04:05 am ---
--- Quote from: eti on October 27, 2022, 12:54:38 am ---I wouldn't class the "ThinkPad" range as consumer grade laptops.

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I would. I class anything as "consumer grade" if it's readily available for purchase by anyone. You can jump onto Lenovo's website and just order one as an individual. Which is why I would put them in the high-end of the consumer bracket, but yes, they also cross over into the commercial market. You often find a lot of "power users" (I hate that term), buying them because of their capabilities and build quality. I personally use a ThinkPad P1 as my daily driver.

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Yep there is no razor sharp line between consumer and professional products.

Most products are the "average Joe consumer" products where it just has to be cheap and have whatever features are popular at the time, performance is secondary. But there are still plenty of products that are aimed at more demanding costumers, yet are still sold by simply walking into a store or clicking buy in a webshop.

For example a lot of professional video/audio production equipment is available to anyone with deep enough pockets. In terms of networking Mikrotik sells routers/APs in just general stores even tho it is actually a professional grade router running the same software that the big rack routers running entire companies use. You likely won't be able to even open ports on this router without a step by step tutorial (unless you are an actual professional network engineer). Yet you can still just walk into a store and buy one.

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