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Post by mousestalker on Jul 24, 2020 18:27:18 GMT
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Post by rewindbutton on Jul 24, 2020 20:42:15 GMT
While he is right about tin whiskers, I'd argue that his approach is simplistic. The shorter life span of electronics is a complex problem and has a lot to do with the consumers' price expectancy. Cheap crap made in China won't last a lifetime. Shocker.
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Post by Energizer Bunny 211 on Jul 24, 2020 21:51:25 GMT
"Cheap crap made in China won't last a lifetime. Shocker. " Rewind
CHeap Crap made in China doesn't last at all. Period.
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Post by masseffectfanforlife on Dec 16, 2020 3:49:01 GMT
After several months, it happened again. Same error; same bullshit. It happened when playing Assassin's Creed Unity. I noticed that Windows needed to update. I updated. It happened again. A few hours later, a new driver for my GPU was available. Updated the driver, and now it's not happening anymore. Who's to say it won't happen again? Is this my computer's way of telling me a new update/driver is available? I really don't like the idea of playing a game wondering/worrying if or when the crash will happen again. Always being at the edge of my chair, constantly staying alert. That's not fun. That's stressful.
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Post by rewindbutton on Dec 16, 2020 13:38:25 GMT
I'm afraid we are right where we left five months ago. On the bright side, you got five months more out of your rig, which is like, forever in hardware time. But yeah, the reason for the failure most likely persisted despite removing some of the memory sticks. My best bets: -Bad memory sticks still remain. Solution, run memtest and swap as necessary. -failing PSU. PSUs are notorious for causing random crashes. Solution, swap PSU. -failing MB. Solution, buy a new rig. That's about it for now.
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Post by masseffectfanforlife on Dec 18, 2020 0:52:56 GMT
There's another thing I've noticed when playing games on my PC. Why does 1080p on my 4k TV look better than on my native 1080p monitor? On my monitor, 1080p looks blurry. On my TV, it looks clearer/sharper by comparison.
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Post by rewindbutton on Dec 18, 2020 9:51:19 GMT
Monitors aren't my area of expertise, something to do with post processing maybe? Energizer Bunny might know more.
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Ryan Toyota, loves movies and technology and owns a 4K TV. Updated September 15 · Author has 299 answers and 779.8K answer views Originally Answered: Do 1080p videos look bad on 4k TVs? It depends on a number of factors, including the quality of the video, the quality of the upscaling, and the perception of the individual, but in general no, 1080p videos do not look bad on 4K TVs and can actually look quite good.
About a year ago I bought a new Blu-ray player and since the technology at the time was moving to 4K, I wanted to future-proof my gear by getting a Blu-ray player that could play 4K Blu-rays, even though I didn’t yet have a 4K TV. Last fall I finally upgraded my television and purchased a 65″ 4K TV with HDR. By that time I had purchased a few 4K Blu-rays and was excited to try them out on the new TV, where of course they looked fantastic. Surprisingly though, I also found that some of my standard 1080p Blu-rays looked almost equally as fantastic.
Now, it helps that the Blu-ray player I purchased is known for its excellent upscaling ability. Upscaling is the process used to take a 1080p video and display it on a 4K screen. Going from 1080p to 4K involves taking an image with 2 million pixels and scaling that detail up to 8 million pixels. In theory you could do that by simply having every pixel displayed as four, but the reality is that wouldn’t look fantastic and thus no 4K TV does it that way. They all use some sort of upscaling algorithm that guesses as what each of the new pixels would be based on known patterns. Some algorithms are better than others, but I’ve found that my two main devices I use to watch movies (my Oppo UDP-203 Blu-ray player and my Apple TV 4K) happen to have excellent upscalers that sometimes make me think I’m watching 4K content when it’s actually a 1080p source.
To be honest, 1080p quality is already at or near the high limit of what most humans perceive in video detail at a standard viewing distance. 4K resolution is nice in that it pushes that detail limit past what’s perceivable, but I find the extra detail above what 1080p can provide is only noticable when you have a really big screen that you’re sitting fairly close to and the person watching is someone who notices fine detail and sharpness in movies. If you’re not paying close attention, a 1080p video will look just as good as a 4K video to most people. My wife has no idea when we’re watching 4K or when we’re not, nor does she care. Even when I point it out, she has a hard time seeing (or maybe a hard time caring about) the minor differences.
You may be thinking “yes, but when I upgraded to an HD display, standard definition content looked worse that it did before. Won’t the same thing happen with 4K?” It’s a sensible assumption, however the difference is that SD quality was well below the limit of what detail level humans can perceive, so enlarging that low level of detail to a new, sharper screen made that lack of detail more obvious. Additionally, I would assume that upscalers weren’t as good back then as they are today.
As a final example of 1080p being on the edge of perceivable detail, the most common resolution standard for cinema is 2K, which is very close to 1080p (2K is 2048×1080 while 1080p is 1920×1080). Most movies are still finished and shown at 2K resolution in movie theatres (yes, there are many new 4K theatres being built or upgraded, but I believe 2K is still the most common). Pixar actually did tests with rendering their films at 4K resolution vs 2K resolution and didn’t see enough visual benefit for 4K, so they continue to render their films at 2K resolution. On 4K theatre screens, that 2K video is upscaled to 4K, similar to what your 4K TV would do with a 1080p signal. Have you ever walked out of a Pixar film and complained that it didn’t look very sharp? If not, then there’s a good chance you won’t be bothered by the quality of 1080p video on your new 4K TV.
39.3K viewsView 38 Upvoters Related Questions More Answers Below Will displaying 1080p visuals on a 4k monitor look bad? Why does my cable look bad on a 4k TV? How can you tell the difference between a 4k photo and a 1080p photo on say a 1080p screen? Does 720p look bad on a 4k TV? What happens if you play a 4K video on a 1080p screen?
Dawson Gooch Answered August 1, 2017 It sorta depends on what you’re looking at. My laptop has a 4k screen and I have a 4k TV, so I’ve seen a wide variety of different media in 1080p on the screens. I’ll start off with what I think you’re probably asking about and then list some other stuff as well.
Movies: If the movie is Blu-ray or a high quality digital copy, you should be able to notice a slight improvement over playback on a 1080p screen, at least in my experience. This may be due to the fact that 4k screens generally have other improvements over 1080p screens like increased color accuracy, due to being more premium devices.
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Luthfi Zain Answered May 17 · Author has 1.6K answers and 991.6K answer views Originally Answered: Do 1080p games look worse on 4k? Yes definitely. It’s literally stretching an image 4 times it’s current size. Ugly. If on 1080p monitor you can spot rough edges of an object now you zoom it 4 times. Not just image, text won’t look sharp. If on a small 1080p monitor you feel like seeing a pen writings on paper, the same resolution on a 4k monitor would make it looks like a chalk writings on a blackboard.
So don’t get a high resolution monitor unless you also get the decent hardware to support you run everything at it’s intended resolution. 4k is expensive even by today’s standard.
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Björn Blomberg, Create systems and run vantechmag.com since 2000 Answered April 17, 2018 · Author has 353 answers and 2.4M answer views Depend on the quality of the up-scaler... With my Sony does it look excellent and if I sit clearly closer than 260cm (the optimal FullHD distance for a 65 inch) does it look even better than on a fine FullHD screen... But with a simple up-scaler (which mainly copy the pixels in three directions) may the picture look slightly worse, because of the smaller pixels with more empty black space between them.
You find more valuable info in my other answers... Source - Written by me (not a copy) to help everyone find a finer TV And I'm from Sweden, so I may write slightly strange... But I hope my answ
Related Questions More Answers Below How does my old 1080p TV seem to have a better picture than my new 4k TV? It's hooked up to my cable box and Blu-ray player which are both 1080p. Could it be that output from 1080p devices look better on an actual 1080p screen than on a 4k screen? Will my Samsung 4k TV downscale to show 1080p? How big should a screen be so that 1080p, 4K, and 8K doesn't look good on it? Would a good 1080p game look better on a 4K TV than a 1080p TV or would they look the same? What are the benefits of a 4k video on a 1080p screen? Is it true that a 4k video would still be somewhat better than watching the same video in 1080p if your monitor is also 1080p?
Graham Stephens, Retired Broadcasting Executive (2018-present) Answered June 22 · Author has 1.2K answers and 2.5M answer views Originally Answered: How well does a 4K TV display 1080p content? To watch HD content on a 4K screen requires that the TV has an up-converter.
Some TV’s are better than others at up-conversion but the result will never be as good as watching True HD content on a Native HD (1080p) screen.
However the up-conversion to 4K is relatively easy compared to de-interlacing a HDTV (1080i) broadcast which is the HD transmission format still used by most broadcasters. 1080i not only upscales poorly but is also more difficult to compress (all DTV broadcasts are compressed).
But thats the price you pay for the ability to watch compressed 4K video - hoping that the broadcaste
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Abhishek Gupta, studies at The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (2021) Answered November 9, 2018 · Author has 59 answers and 57.8K answer views Originally Answered: How good or bad do 1080p games look like on a 4K monitor? If the monitor is 15.6 inch to 25inch then you won't be able to find any difference.
But if its an 32 inch or ultra wide monitor then it will be like watching a 360p video on a 1080p screen. It will be playable but will look kinda blury.
You can clearly see the difference if you set up on a 55 inch 4k tv. And then play any 1080p games on it. You will notice major difference.
But TV's are not good for gaming, as their refresh rate is much higher compared to a monitor. In monitor you will get 1m/s - 5 m/s refresh rate. But in TV you will get more than 20–30 m/s refresh rate.
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Mason Hammers, studied Computer Science & Robotics at South Spencer High School (2020) Answered July 29, 2017 It actually looks exactly how 1080p would look on a 1080p screen. A 4k screen has exactly 4x the amount of pixels of a 1080p screen, (2x in each direction). So (1920x1080) x 2 = (3840x2160). What this means is that for every pixel on a 1080p screen, a 4k screen the same size would have 4 pixels. So if you give a 4k screen a 1080p input then scaling up is very easy as all the pixels line up perfectly and you have any that need to be split.
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Bob Myers, Display Engineer & Technologist Answered July 29, 2017 · Author has 9.7K answers and 6.1M answer views Just fine, if by “4k” you mean the 3840 x 2160 format. That's exactly twice 1920 x 1080 in both directions, so each pixel of the original image occupies exactly four pixels on the screen, requiring no additional scaling. If the 4k screen is the same size as a 1920 x 1080 next to it, then the image would appear at the same resolution on both and the two would be virtually indistinguishable.
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Jahil Nelson, Manager of Video Services (2013-present) Answered April 21 · Author has 484 answers and 1.3M answer views I think, in most cases, 1080p holds up pretty well.
Unless you are standing closer or the monitor/tv is very large, I would argue in most cases, the average viewer wouldn’t really see the difference.
I got my step dad a 65 inch 4k tv and everytime I see him watching a show, it’s a standard def channel!
Obviously that’s a little extreme and maybe he should have his eyes checked, but he doesn’t seem to mind watching standard def on a 4k tv, and 1080p looks great on it too.
4k looks extra sharp to me, but I’m an av nerd that looks for the stuff, to the average person it’s more about the basketball ga
Art Miller, lived in London Answered April 19 · Author has 816 answers and 824.9K answer views Originally Answered: Why does 1080p look bad on 4k? If you look at the TVs in shops the picture is stunning. The clarity breath taking.
But do not be fooled. Take that TV home and you will not see that clarity.
The shop display a dvd or Bluray image. Your terrestrial TV service broadcasts in HD or 1080p. Nothing like the 4K you were promised by the TV salesman.
Until there are regular 4K broadcasts that shiny new TV you bought will only look as good as the old one you dumped. Unless you watch a Bluray disc or some 4K content on YouTube.
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Mikhail Rozhkov, I tinker with hardware occasionally Updated February 25 · Author has 506 answers and 676.1K answer views Originally Answered: Do 1080p videos look bad on 4k TVs? No, they look OK. There’s good reason for that: 4K aka 2160p has exactly 4 times bigger pixel count than 1080p, so when upscaling, every pixel from the 1080p source is rendered by exactly 4 pixels on 4K screen. I have a 4K TV and watch 1080p movies on it rather often. The picture contains less small details in comparison with 4K source, and overall it is a bit less crispy, but there’s no usual scaling artifacts present in this case. When watching a movie from a couple of meters from the screen, it looks OK in general.
16.8K viewsView 9 Upvoters Related Questions Will displaying 1080p visuals on a 4k monitor look bad? Why does my cable look bad on a 4k TV? How can you tell the difference between a 4k photo and a 1080p photo on say a 1080p screen? Does 720p look bad on a 4k TV? What happens if you play a 4K video on a 1080p screen? How does my old 1080p TV seem to have a better picture than my new 4k TV? It's hooked up to my cable box and Blu-ray player which are both 1080p. Could it be that output from 1080p devices look better on an actual 1080p screen than on a 4k screen? Will my Samsung 4k TV downscale to show 1080p? How big should a screen be so that 1080p, 4K, and 8K doesn't look good on it? Would a good 1080p game look better on a 4K TV than a 1080p TV or would they look the same? What are the benefits of a 4k video on a 1080p screen? Is it true that a 4k video would still be somewhat better than watching the same video in 1080p if your monitor is also 1080p? Why does my LG 4K TV look blurry? Can you play 4k on a 1080p native monitor? If I am to start editing 4k and above footage which screen do I need or will my present FHD/1080p LED display suffice? Is it worth watching a 4k video on a 1080p screen? Why does my 4k TV look blurry? Related Questions Will displaying 1080p visuals on a 4k monitor
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Post by masseffectfanforlife on Dec 19, 2020 5:08:52 GMT
My 4k TV is a TCL R615 (or R617 in other places), and if you go to the review on rtings.com, it has a score of 9.0 out of 10 when it comes to displaying content in 1080p.
I just find it weird how 1080p looks worse on a gaming monitor with a native resolution of 1080p. It's a 32 inch FHD 165hz gaming monitor, yet my 55 inch 4k TV surpasses it when it comes to displaying games in 1080p.
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Post by rewindbutton on Dec 19, 2020 11:50:45 GMT
I would imagine that a 32" monitor with only FullHD resolution has too big pixels for the image to be any good. I have always been wary about FullHD; I mean there were far better resolutions even back in the day. My last CRT was a super expensive Sony that could beat FullHD easily. But it weighted a ton and could double as a radiator. Also, what I could draw from E.B.'s post, it's possible that your 4k tv does pixel extrapolation extremely well. That has been a thing for quite a while now.
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Post by Energizer Bunny 211 on Dec 19, 2020 13:20:52 GMT
I remember when I bought my very own TV for the first time. I bought it from a friend of my dad whom he had known for 30 plus years, and who ran a small (in terms of square footage) but very high-end TV/Stereo shop. Brands like Fujitsu, Nakamichi, Harmon Kardon, Bang and Olfsen, B&W, Yamaha, Denon, Boston Acoustics, Wharfdale, Martin Logan, TEAC, NAD, Technics (A Division of Panasonic) Marantz, Polk Audio, JBL, Klipsch and McIntosh (were his audio brands), Pansonic, Sony, Samsung, Hitachi were his TVs, plus he also did custom car stereos. Blaupunkt, Pioneers, Alpine, Kenwood, JVC were the car stereo brands. (in 2005 we bought a 50 inch Panasonic DLP TV before LEDs and OLEDs and HDR were even thought of, back when Plasmas were still high end and Panasonic still, to this day, made the best Plasma on the market) and even Pioneer. This was back when a inch Plasma The best LCD TV at the time (1998-2000) was the Panasonic, because it was the first to have a true 120hz motion refresh rate. It was 32" and had a resolution of 1366x768. Beautiful TV and I had it for nearly 15 years before the power button failed to function and the TV simply wouldn't turn on.
But when blu-rays were just coming out after the whole HD-DVD/Blu-Ray War and Blu-Ray won....We bought the first Blu-ray player model from Sony (which was garbage. I still have a hi-end Panasonic DVD player that is worlds better in quality and flexibility in terms of disk formats it will play)....But my point to all this is, is I remember trying to play a blu-ray on my TV (my dad wanted to see what the picture quality was like in comparison to a DVD)....and even though my TV was not the 1080p resolution of a blu-ray only having a resolution of 1366x768, I do remember thinking that a DVD like Transformers looked far better on my TV than a blu-ray, because the resolution scaling was waaaaay off. But I remember the owner took us into the back where he had a george lucas style true 'home theater' complease with stadium style seats, a 5.1 surround sound system from Bose....and the crown jewel was the 27" Plasma TV from Fujitsu for a staggering (at that time) 25,000 dollars CAD. Prices in that range or anywhere close were absolutely unheard of. That was the first and last time I ever saw a TV from Fujitsu....But it was a thing of beauty. In comparison by today's standards it would be the high end Sony and Panasonic OLED of the time. But companies like Nakamichi and Fujitsu still today are way to high in price to be sold here in North America.
But back in the days of CRT picture tubes....the only two companies (and the two very best companies on the market for CRT TVs) were Hitachi (with their UltraVision series) and Panasonic (with their GAOO series). They were the only two companies to ever actually make their own picture tubes. Everyone else at the time had the tubes made by Philips. But like Rewind said, I remember when a CRT TV as small as 21 inches weighed over 200 lbs (and that was mostly because of the amount of glass needed). Now you have TVs that are 85 inches and maybe 30 lbs, but only 1 inch thick.
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Post by rewindbutton on Dec 19, 2020 18:39:46 GMT
[snip] But back in the days of CRT picture tubes....the only two companies (and the two very best companies on the market for CRT TVs) were Hitachi (with their UltraVision series) and Panasonic (with their GAOO series). They were the only two companies to ever actually make their own picture tubes. [/snip] You forgot to mention Sony, which produced their own tubes as well. For a while, Trinitron tubes were a game changer.
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Post by masseffectfanforlife on Dec 24, 2020 1:47:50 GMT
A little off topic, but I have the game Star Wars Battlefront 2 (2017) on both my PC and on my PS4 Pro. I run the game on the PC at 1440p. Apparently, the game is set at 1440p to as low as 1296p on the Ps4 Pro. However, sometimes the PS4 version looks sharper/clearer than my PC copy. Is there some kind of upscaling tech the PS4 has that my PC does not? Granted, the graphics setting on the PC version are better.
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