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We’re lucky that our babies are 31 and 35 and don’t live at home. However it’s been hard not seeing them on a weekly basis for a sit down meal at our place (although good for our budget).
He actually speaks in complete sentences at home. I’m definitely the big talker though.
Some people suicided over the robodebt debacle, didn’t they?
Here’s an article that I recall reading.
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This helps thanksWhat if I told you that you're all a little bit right, and then mostly wrong?
8k QLED isn't exactly great due to an issue known as 'contrast modulation'. Basically the resolution has now reached a point where contrast ratios are too poor to deliver the panel's true resolution due to light bleeding through from the backlight which illuminates the LCD panel. OLED doesn't suffer from this problem, but Samsung and LG are both working out the kinks and it should improve a tad.
The problems with motion on all panels (including OLED and plasma) is a combination of three things: refresh rate (how often the panel updates), response times (the speed at which the panel illuminates its pixels), and display persistence (how long it takes for this illumination to cease once the display stops the current pattern or changes it). You can crank up the refresh rate, but without good response time and low persistence, you'll notice issues with ghosting (slow response), overshoot (a response that literally overshoots the target), and the ocular impact of your always-moving eye trying to focus on each frame being shown for longer than it's prepared to sit still.
Plasma and CRT did motion better not just because of insane response times, but because their flicker reduced their persistence, and the two combined for very natural looking motion, but a rather dim panel with limited colour ranges. Both also used enormous amounts of power, and are heavy technologies to produce the kinds of panels and resolutions we've become accustomed to.
LCD has the worst response times and persistence (particularly the VA tech used in the vast-majority of LCD TVs) but this has slowly improved over time, and at the high end they offer well-calibrated backlight strobing to improve this further (at the expense of panel brightness). VA technology is mostly good enough for 120Hz, with its biggest issues being transitions from black to near black (and this produces a dark smearing look on dark content). The very latest in VA technology is very close to overcoming this, but you still have the option of utilising strobing.
OLED is fast enough to push for 500-1000Hz both in response time and persistence, but driving that from a bandwidth, voltage and controller board perspective is still very much the work of on-going research, so it too needs deliver a flickering effect to produce more natural motion perception for the human eye. In this case, because OLED is self-emissive and has no backlight, they simply insert black frames (again, at the expense of perceived brightness) between content refreshes.
You can roughly see the results here (8k QLED vs 4k OLED, respectively):
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Keep in mind the BFI on the LG OLED to this point has been 60Hz based, despite having 120Hz panels for 2 years. This year will see that change to 120Hz BFI, which puts it on par with the competing LCD options.
The older 100Hz and 200Hz+ TVs didn't typically have 100Hz refresh rates, let alone 200Hz: this was a reference to their motion interpolation technology, and what their processors put out when faking frames and modifying the image to try and 'clean' it for the specific panel technology in use. The TV signal was never going above 50-60 fps, and the refresh rate never above 100Hz from a PC source.
You can see the results this tech at 60 fps on both panels:
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The next technologies will likely be QD-OLED and microLED. QD-OLED is Samsung's OLED answer using quantum dots to clean up issues they've had, and it will only be an interim technology, one that probably will have voltage/thermal issues relative to LG's WOLED solution and existing LCD.
microLED is basically the inorganic version of OLED (where the 'O' literally refers to organic), and that should result in the best of LCD tech (high brightness, resulting colour volume, lack of burn-in) combining with the best of OLED (self-emissive benefits of contrast and fidelity), and then extending beyond with incredible response times, low persistence and extremely low energy usage.
The problem right now? They haven't developed a technology to produce this at the scale required to remotely compete with LCD or OLED just yet. So each current microLED offering (which is only Samsung, outside of prototypes), relies on machines picking and placing individual LEDs, millions of times. This is expected to be overcome by 2025.
The next challenge after that? Pushing towards 1000Hz, at which point human vision (most notably peripheral vision after around 200Hz) no longer requires flicker in order to see the image as natural motion. Things may go slightly further than this due to physiological response to the lights themselves (I think it needs to exceed 1300Hz to solve for this?), and this is all expected to happen in the vicinity of 2028-2035.
Why does this matter to you guys? The bigger the TV gets, and the bigger the resolution gets, the more this will become an issue. We've been in a hell hole of screen technology since most people moved over to LCD (and both the planet, and removalists' spines, thank you for this), but with the advent of 8k and later 16k TV, we need to move fast as TVs over 100" diagonals start to become more common place. Driving towards 1000Hz will probably be lead by VR and AR technology, however.
We should start seeing more 120 fps (HFR) content in the next couple of years, and we'll also start to see up to 360Hz TVs in the next few years. With every step up in refresh rate, the brightness impact of utilising strobing/BFI diminishes, but VA LCD will probably be left in the dust at around 200-240 Hz, at best (hence why Samsung is bothering with QD-OLED). The biggest thing now holding this back? Power/thermal requirements and bandwidth.
We won't talk about the bandwidth issue, because that then leads to discussions about video compression, machine learning, and how these interact with the development of hardware bandwidth both in TVs and in consumer internet connections, not to mention frame rate amplification technologies to fake frames better than ever before, because I've already written a ******* dissertation here.
TL;DR version:
OLED > QLED for contrast
4k OLED > 8k QLED for perceived detail currently
120Hz OLED with 120Hz BFI should start returning us to CRT motion (and in some ways, beyond)
QLED > OLED for colour volume
QLED > OLED for brightly coloured content
OLED >>> QLED for dark content
Once 8K is established (2020-2021), frame rates and refresh rates will take precedent for short while over 16K resolution, but the longer road will be to 1-1.3kHz refresh rates in around a decade.
Seniors card ?
we and the rest of the world should disconnect from the US if their cops continue using excessive brute force/killing of black people.Now we’ve upset the US.
Surely both “superpowers“ will see how even handed we are when we make policy and sign agreements that annoy them and just leave us alone. We’re clearly doing what’s in our best interest. A concept that they put above all others when they make their decisions.
Ambassador intervenes after Mike Pompeo warns US could 'disconnect' from Australia over Victoria's Belt and Road deal
The US ambassador to Australia plays down a suggestion from his Secretary of State that his nation can "simply disconnect" from Australia if Victoria's trade deal with Beijing threatens its telecommunication security.www.abc.net.au
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This is a sorry tale of an “instant replay“ that has been replaying for years. It’s America’s continuing shame which will eventually subside until it rises again. Such a sad situation. No doubt that the pandemic has heightened the outrageous behaviour we are witnessing through the media.
Adhering overly stringently to ideological consistency can sometimes be counter productive. But, there are conduct thresholds which need to be respected; and when crossed justify making a stand in more ways than merely words. Our ongoing commercial relations with China make it even more important to communicate displeasure when necessary. If this isn't one of those times when it shouldn't be business as usual, then I don't know what would.
They have a very poor reputation of how they treat; black people, asians, Mexicans and countries south of Mexico, and women (backgrounds don't matter, all are equally treated poorly).
I don’t doubt the influence of provocateurs but the sad thing about the narrative is that’s the fact. When will America learn being black shouldn’t label you as a criminal and subject to this appalling treatment.
Sadly, journalism is dead. It's all about ******* clicks. :-( Sad, it is so hard to find news stories without the bias.
