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A new platform has the potential for better moderation and better design to keep those unsavory elements in check. Since Musk has made himself the enemy, the only path forward is for Twitter to die. Nothing good will come from it as long as he is in charge.

If an infinite number of monkeys handed you an infinite number of books, how would you figure out which one is the one you are looking for?

They have infinite battery life because they are wired.

Though I would love to see where you are finding wireless earbuds with ANC, 8 hour battery, and touch controls for $30.

I have a feeling these more traditional comapnies like Fox actually want to negotiate. They are the ones made most vulnerable by the strike, since they can't lean on banked content and foreign productions like Netflix can.

The WGA recently stated that some major production companies have come to them wanting to end the strike, and there was talk of them leaving the AMPTP so they could negotiate separate contracts, but they didn't give out any names. It wouldn't surprise me if Netflix was being the stickler here while companies like Disney and Fox contemplate leaving the AMPTP so they can finally get back to business.

The AMPTP denies this, but their job is to present a united front for their constituents. They aren't going to publicly admit that some of their members are wanting out.

For $30 (<$20 if you know where to look) EarPods are actually a good value unlike like the older style iPod earbuds. They aren't replacing my IEMs any time soon, but I paid 4x as much for those.

No, I am not.

Who do you think makes these digital signage products? They all come from LG, Samsung, Hisense, etc.

If you don’t want to believe it’s a problem, I don’t expect anyone wants to waste their time trying to change your mind.

Show me a TV that ships with a cellular modem or that connects to open wifi networks without being prompted, and I won't buy it. I'm not the one with the burden of proof here. It's very easy to see if a TV does any of this shit before you buy it just by checking reputable review sites like rtings. So telling people any TV they buy at Costco does this is just spreading FUD.

"One Touch Play"/power control/CEC settings can sometimes be buried in weird places. If one device in your chain doesn't have it enabled, it can cause bad behavior. There are two different settings I had to make sure were enabled on my Denon AVR before devices plugged into it would turn on the TV. So I would double check in those usual places.

The only CEC related problem I've had with my LG has been that turning everything on with my Apple TV or Nintendo Switch will cause the PS5 to power on as well if it was the last device in use before power-off. I suspect this is actually a Sony issue, as I had it with my PS4 as well, and no other devices respond incorrectly to the one touch play signal like this.

You're just giving the same companies even more money when you buy their much more expensive "dumb" digital signage products.

Nobody's been able to show me a TV that actually does those other things you suggest. If one did, I wouldn't buy it, but I won't base my current pruchasing decisions on hypothetical future products.

The bugs I was having were related to eARC not working properly when G-Sync was enabled on my PC. I haven't had any problems with my C1 not responding correctly to "one touch play" CEC signals from my PS5 or Apple TV.

Bump it up to 16 GB of RAM.

Other than that, I think the base specs are fine. iOS app development isn't nearly as heavy as it used to be now that Macs and iPhones share similar SoCs.

I've installed two firmware updates on my C1 and they have never added advertisements. I installed them because they both fixed specific bugs I was experiencing with my home theater system.

I don't see why they would try to shove ads in an offline firmware update when it is both easier and more useful to download them from the internet once the device is connected. It's hard to make money from ads when you can't actually track user engagement.

That said I would only bother updating your TV's firmware if there is a bug fix or feature you need from a newer version.

VRR is really meant for video games.

You could still have your player device set to a static 24 or 30 without VRR, in theory, but none of the devices I tried (granted, this was ~8 years ago) supported that anyway.

That's interesting. Pretty much every Blu-Ray player should support this. I can confirm from firsthand experience that Apple TV, Roku, and Android TV devices also all support this. I can't speak for Amazon's fire stick thingy though.

The feature you are looking for is not to manually set the refresh rate, but instead for the device to set it automatically based on the framerate of the content being displayed. On Apple TV it’s called “match frame rate”.

Starfield seems like a pretty stark improvement over Fallout 4's shortcomings, so I don't think it is fair to say that they aren't improving. Just looking at my own playtime, I bailed out of Fallout 4 at the 20 hour mark, but I'm 60 hours into Starfield and haven't slowed down at all.

I think the bigger deal with Bethesda's engine is that it's built to be very easy for designers to iterate on, which is why it is also so easy for users to mod. They trade a lot of efficiency for scripting systems and level editors that let them whip up sprawling open spaces in a short amount of time, and fill them with dynamic systems like NPC routines and tracking thousands of physics-enabled props. This is probably also why their games are prone to buggy behavior.

Building all of the systems Starfield has at its disposal into Unreal would probably take years, and I'm not convinced the results would be any better.

GP's problem probably isn't even bandwidth, but rather needs to enable their TV's de-judder feature or configure their streaming box to set the refresh rate to match that of the content being played.

LG doesn't do this. They also have the good sense to allow firmware updates via USB. Which is great, because turning on WiFi long enough to install an update fills the home screen with junk.

How is this a downside of HDMI?

It sounds to me like the user's TV or streaming box are configured incorrectly. DisplayPort doesn't magically remove judder from 24fps content being rendered to a 60hz signal.

DisplayPort never saw widespread adoption in the home theater space because it never tried to. The standard is missing a ton of features that are critical to complex home theater setups but largely useless in a computer/monitor setup. They aren't competing standards, they are built for different applications and their featuresets reflect that.

Your streaming box was either not configured properly, or was very low cost.

The most likely solution is that you need to turn on a feature on your streaming box that sets the output refresh rate to match that of the content you are playing. On Apple TVs it is called "match frame rate". I know Rokus and Android TV devices have similar options.

Newer TVs can detect when 24 fps content is being delivered in a 60 hz signal and render it to the panel correctly, but this doesn't usually work if you have the selected input set to any low-latency modes ("Game", "PC", etc)

Having worked in this field, I can tell you how it usually operates: You want the most data for the least amount of investment. As soon as your operational costs start to eat into your already thin margins, the equation falls apart.

Complex solutions designed to capture data from that 1-3% of users who actively avoid it end up costing a lot more money than their data is actually worth. In order to make this particular solution work, you need to make enough money selling whatever tiny amount of data you get from those 1-3% of users to cover the cost of putting a cellular modem in all of your TVs plus the ongoing cost of paying various regional cellular networks to deliver that data to you. You are likely tripling or quadrupling the total cost of your data collection operation and all you have to show for it is a rounding error. And that is before we factor in the fact that these users likely aren't using the built in streaming apps, so the quality of the data you get from them is below average.

They aren't very good though. They are durable, but usually expensive and missing a lot of features you might actually want for that price tag. For example, I've yet to find any OLED "commercial displays" that support Dolby Vision, VRR, and eARC.

It's way cheaper and easier to just buy the TV you want and not connect it to your wifi.