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Your friend is just probably confusing the 16:9 res of 1920 X 1080 (Called 1080p or Full HD) and the 17:9 res of 2048 X 1080 (2K),and is probably suffering from a bit of "I know everything" syndrome There is actually sometimes a lot of confusion surrounding resolution names and almost everyone seems to get something wrong. On the internet, and most everywhere else, 16:9 is the standard widescreen format and 21:9 is the standard ultrawide format. HOWEVER in the film industry different standards are used, where 17:9 is the standard widescreen format and 2.40:1 is the standard ultrawide/cinematic format. The trouble with these two naming conventions is that they have become mixed up. So let me clarify: 16:9 Aspect ratio 960 X 540 - "540p" - "qHD" (Quarter High Definition) 1280 X 720 - "720p" - "HD" (High Definition) 1920 X 1080 - "1080p" - "Full HD" (Full High Definition) 2560 X 1440 - "1440p" - "WQHD" (Widescreen Quad High Definition) 3840 X 2160 - "2160p" - "UHD" (Ultra High Definition) - Sometimes called 4K UHD 7680 X 4320 - "4320p" - Called 8K UHD to differentiate from 4K UHD 17:9 Aspect ratio 2048 X 1080 - "2K" 2720 X 1440 - "2.5K" (defacto name) 4096 X 2160 - "4K" - Often called True 4K 16:9 Ultra HD has become commonly referred to by most as 4K, which is incorrect. Using the "K" name for a resolution then became more commonplace, with 1440p hence being dubbed "2.5K" even though the actual resolution of 2720 X 1440 not actually existing as a standard. In the Film industry, 2.5K is most commonly used when referring to the native resolution of a video camera sensor, however the actual resolution will differ slightly from camera to camera, as in the Film industry the K naming scheme is used to give a general indication of the amount of vertical pixels when it is not referring to a standardised resolution (i.e. 2K and 4K are standard resolutions, but 2.5K and 3K are not) The astute of you may have noticed small amounts of letterboxing on professionally done widescreen short films on Youtube when viewed on a 16:9 screen. This is because of that video being exported in a 17:9 aspect ratio, or letterboxed into a 16:9 video for upload to YouTube. Now let's talk about the ultrawide format. 21:9 Aspect ratio 2560 X 1080 - "1080p Ultrawide" 3440 X 1440 - "1440p Ultrawide" These are the two standard "Ultrawide" aspect ratios that are becoming more and more commonplace in the monitor market. The equivalent to Ultrawide in the film industry is technically a very small range of ratios (between 2.35:1 and 2.40:1) caled "cinematic" ratios BUT over the last 5 years or so, every major movie studio has gravitated towards 2.40:1 and made it unofficially ubiquitous as "the" cinematic aspect ratio. 2.40:1, often referred to as "two-four-oh" is, like 17:9, slightly wider than the "ultrawide" consumer standard. For comparison, a ratio of 21:9 translates to the ratio of 2.33:1, and a ratio of 2.40:1 translates to the ratio of 21.6:9. I hope this helps clarify things for everyone. Source: Dad is a video producer and video editor.

Yea totes m8, coz ur showin 4x the rez of the original content Watching Brandon's review of the 5D Mark IV just gave me flashbacks of people telling me their phones are light years ahead of the several thousand dollar DSLR I'm holding in my hands because their little rectangles can "do 4K". *sigh*

And then there's Australia. Where ISPs take an off-the-shelf modem/router combo that's really good and load their own restricted firmware onto it. As of right now, Telstra (the biggest AND crappiest ISP in Australia) is just awful. There's an interface in the routers gateway for Port Forwarding, where you can enter ranges, but it does not actually do any port forwarding. It just sits there, claiming it is. (Telstra have claimed that this is deliberate, and don't plan to "fix" it anytime soon) UPNP only works half the time. NAT-PMP doesn't work (RIP online Ubisoft games) Not to mention that the router itself freezes up every day and a half or so, requiring a reset. Oh, and QoS isn't a thing either, so good luck trying to play any online game while someone else is watching Netflix. As of right now, my house gets about 5mbps down and 0.5mbps up on a good day. For the privilege of such atrocious speeds, we pay $120 per month (USD$90) So you can imagine why the whole of Australia hates our ISPs with a burning passion. /rant TLDR: If you believe an internet connection that works is sort of necessary in this day and age, don't come to Australia.

Why is the actual title different to the one listed in Recent topics?

XPS has better battery life, crispier keyboard. Stealth has better screen, RGB lighting. That's about it.

Glad I could help fix the problem.

Time for an OFF TOPIC POST! So I never gave much thought to the Windows 10 Anniversary update when it was announced. About a week ago I wondered if I was even running it and discovered that lo and behold - it was the one update that Windows didn't want to do automatically. No big deal, so I install the update manually, my laptop does the thing, and boom, I have the Anniversary Update. So I open Messenger (windows app) and OH LORD NO!! PLEASE NOOOOOO!! - Windows now hijacks emojis system wide and replaces them with their own, and they look horrible unless they're super enlarged. Has anyone else noticed this? Is anyone else as triggered as I am about it? (It even affects emojis in browsers )

in that case, my best guess would be that the LCD is cracked. It might not be visible, but if you hold the screen up in front of a light, try to look for subtle cracks under the glass. Either way I reckon it's the display that's gone bust, and you'll need to get a replacement front display assembly.

I reckon it's more about profit (outfitting the lower model with the cheaper storage)

Well, I'm not that knowledgable about storage, and I just thought the article was worth mentioning for the people that don't have such knowledge already.

Okay.

Well, thank you for educating me. Do you reckon I should take down the thread if the speed difference is actually not that big of a deal?

I won't pretend to know anything about storage methods or anything, but in the test, the 7 Plus 32GB took 52 seconds while the iPhone 7 128GB only took 17 seconds. I just think that difference is a little bit silly.

http://www.redmondpie.com/storagegate-32gb-iphone-7-plus-reportedly-has-slower-storage-than-other-variants/ So it turns out that some iPhone 7 32GB and iPhone 7 Plus 32GB phones have slower storage than their 128GB counterparts. In the article above, they reference a synthetic benchmark in which they record a 10 minute 4K video on an iPhone 6S Plus 64GB, a 7 Plus 32GB, and a 7 128GB. The video was then trimmed exactly in half using iOS's inbuilt video editing, and the time it took each phone to create a copy of the new trimmed file was recorded. The iPhone 7 Plus 32GB has been found to actually have a lower overall Passmark Disk Mark than the iPhone 6S 64GB.

*prepares tinfoil hat*

I won't assume what it is, and I'm not going to suggest what hardware might be to blame because there simply isn't enough information to get specific. If you're brave enough, opening up the phone to check internal connectors might be the next step (take a look at iFixit) but I would take it to a phone fixer if I were you.

I reckon they'll be on the app store if you can delete them. Check your updates tab in the App Store and look at all your installed apps.

Well, then I'm afraid it's a hardware fault then.

What about download mode? (I think that's with volume down)

At least Google is upfront and honest with it's users that it does collect data for advertising stuff.

^^ This. I honestly have no idea why some people still use the crapfest that is Hotmail. Yahoo's been doing some really dodgy stuff lately. Come over to Google's services dude.

Hmmm. Can you boot into the phone's bootloader? If not then it's definitely a hardware fault.

In dropping your S6 you might have accidentally dislodged the internal display connector where it connects to your phones motherboard. Not being able to access your phones files will be due to encryption (I'm assuming you're running Marshmallow or higher). Other than the display, the phone appears to be behaving normally. (The blue light is probably notifications unless you don't have that set). It's awfully tricky to open an S6 to be able to properly diagnose and fix the problem, but that's my two cents as to what the problem might be. (Source: Had an S4 behave much the same way a couple of years ago, and it turned out that the LCD under the glass wasn't working, but the rest of the phone was)

^^ Was going to suggest this. Would highly recommend Kodi. It's a program for both Linux and Windows.

The one thing that leaves me salty is the general public's overreaction to this issue, due to the media calling every incident an explosion. Yes, I get that this is a real problem, but the percentage of phones that it affects is still absolutely miniscule. I would still buy the phone if I could, and I would simply disable fast charging because I don't need it. I mean, even Linus has it as his daily driver right now despite this whole debacle (to be fair though, he always charges his phones on 1A).