tdmullen

After an hour an a half of internet searching. I finally found the solution on the roku forums. https://forums.roku.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=98163. You press "*" four times on the remote. I don't know how I managed to turn it on by accident but I'm glad it's gone. There's also a way to turn it off in the settings but it's not available in my settings for some reason.

I was hoping if anybody knew how to get rid of this horrible feature. There's information on how to get rid of the voice view on the Amazon Fire Stick on Google by hilding the back button and home button on the home screen. That obviously wouldn't just happen to work for the Roku and there isn't anything that I can find in the settungs to disable it.

Of course. The transition from older to newer technology seems to be consistent though. VHS being introduced in the late 70's and then stopping in the mid 2000's and then having DVD being introduced in the late 90's and maybe being faded out by the mid 2020's. Blu-Rays were introduced in the mid 2000's and maybe fade out in the mid 2030's. So roughly 25 to 30 years for a video format and 10 to 15 years for a transition to new video formats.

I would think that there would be a limit at some point. Our eyes can only see to an extent as well as our ears can only hear a certain range of frequencies. I guess that doesn't mean that they would have any reason to try not to sell it to you. They would probably claim that watching your movies in "Brand New 64k Resolution That Has Health Benefits!" or something like that. Anything that sells. Maybe some fancy tv watching glasses that allow you to "actually" see the quality of your tv. I would buy more Blu-Ray movies myself, but since my PS4 doesn't play Blu-Ray's and I haven't gone around to buying an actual Blu-Ray player, I don't have a lot of them (Mainly ones that were given to me and ones that also have DVD in them as well).

So I've been poking around Amazon for some movies that I've been looking for movies that I'm wanting to buy and I got to thinking that if I buy all the movies I want with Blu-Ray and then over the next 20 years (at this rate), we will have all the movies I've previously bought on Blu-Ray on UHD. Of course in the following years, 4k tv's will go down in price and become more affordable for the average consumer and then when that happens, you will have all these Blu-Ray movies that won't be able to take full potential of your new 4k tv. Then you would have to go out and buy all your movies that are remastered in 4k/movies that can actually are actually 4k quality if there isn't already a higher movie format already by then. My next thought was about buying all the movies digitally, but then you would have to buy storage for all the movies you download or happen to just stream them online. I don't believe that when you buy movies in a lower resolution, that you would get an updated higher resolution movie for free and then you would have to just go buy your movies digitally again. It's a never ending cycle it seems. I'm sure there would be no reason to buy 8k movies in the future, but I feel like we thought the same way about HD movies when they came out too, or from what I can remember. My thought is to might as well just buy the movies you want right now in Blu-Ray. Not like I'm going to buy a 4k tv anytime soon. What do you guys think? Would you guys buy all the movies you have again in UHD format after already buying them all in Blu-Ray?

That would make sense. I'll have to contact Amazon to get it replaced. I'd hate to potentially void any warranty by fixing it myself.

So I happen to have this brand new Kindle Fire 7" from Amazon that I got less than 2 weeks ago. It just seemed to randomly happen. It hasn't been dropped but if it was, it has the child protection case to protect it. It's not the invert color option in the settings, it's not overheating. I did a factory restore and the software is updated. Do you guys think that its a hardware problem? If so, then I can just return it through the Amazon 90 day warranty. I just wanted to make sure if there was anything else I should try before getting in contact with Amazon.

Lol I couldn't resist

I did find a place a town over that does actually recycle a cracked laptop screen for a small fee. Being in a college town, I would've thought that there would be someplace in town that could recycle them. Guess not though. The nearest Free Geek to me would be in Chicago which sucks because I've been wanting to check them out if I ever got the chance.

That's a neat idea about reusing a hard drive for screw holder etc. I can't imagine what I'd reuse the old cracked screen for unless if I turned it into some light project

Please move if I'm not in the right category. I have an old broken hard drive and a broken laptop screen that I have no idea what to do with. I'd hate to throw them away and I've looked around my area and I haven't seen anything about recycling them. I don't have any actual computer stores near me and Best Buy only recycles cords and other small things like that that I am aware of. Any help is appreciated.

My GTX 960 2gb does kind of the same thing. Sometimes when I play any game, my frame rates have been cut in at least half. If I let the GPU sit there for a minute, sometimes my frame rates will go back to normal and sometimes I have to restart the computer. Even during loading screens or the home screen, my frame rates are cut in half. My GPU doesn't get above 60 degrees Celsius so I'm not sure what it is. It may be just the 960, or it could honestly be just the drivers.

I also remember switching the "Adaptive" setting in the NVIDIA control panel to "Prefer Max Performance" as well. That also didn't work. ?

My GTX 960 used to have the "Display driver stopped responding has recovered" error. It would happen at random times it seemed, regardless of whether I was playing a game or not. I'm not sure if it was a windows 10 update or an NVIDIA driver. I tried using previous NVIDIA drivers and it didn't help. My gpu never seemed to overheat and I never could figure out what it was. I even went as far as to go into the registry as such on Microsoft's website: Link. You can try it yourself, but changing stuff in the registry is potentially dangerous and I'd reccomend saving your registry before making any changes to it. I haven't recieved an error in about a month or two but I'm always expecting it to come back up sometime. Good luck trying to find a solution.

That would make sense. Thanks for the info!