LudwigVonSneider

No mentions of battery life was a bit odd. Not sure how they stack up in real life test, but looking at the specs: Sony 30h, Bose 22h, Beats 20h and Microsoft 15h

I could see using something like this in some situations. Not necessarily in a day to day life, but where ever the isolation is strong enough they would shine. I've used similar tech earmuffs that allows you to hear whispering or sneaky footsteps easily (you can adjust the volume) and muffle shots from an assault rifle. Not that that's very useful for most people, but hearing normal stuff at normal volume and loud stuff at lower volume is pretty cool in many situations.

To answer their "What feature would make you buy the new google glasses": Google Translate (that works flawlessly). If you haven't tried it or seen it, it's pretty cool how it overlays translated word over the original with similar font. Imagine to be in a foreign country, put on glasses and see everything in English (or what ever). I don't think this generation of hardware will give the performance that would make me buy them though.

Imo it makes it look worse. It just makes everything soft and then cranks up the contrast and sharpening filter crushing blacks and drawing halos all over the place. If you look at the first side by side from Tomb Raider, it makes all the small highlights three times bigger blobs destroying all detail in the process. The same soft blobbiness is preset in the whole image, not only the highlights. Also notice the the halo from the sharpening in the bottom right corner. In the next side by side, Lara's jacket almost black (on my screen) with severe loss in detail where as the original looks completely fine. This contrast boost can be seen in every example, but here you can see the downside well. I'm not sure if this is the cables fault though, it could definitely be fuckup from LTT and how it was captured. Here you can see what the overly done sharpening filter does. Look at the edges of the character. There is noticeable halo all around the character. The pillar on the left is another good example. The original is perfectly fine, the edges are sharp and you can see some texture in it. The filtered has horrible edges and all the global softening takes away from the texture in the pillar. The whole image is just soft. The grass has little detail to left anymore. And look at the leaves and flowers, they are just blurry mess. Some of the 1080p videos didn't show too many negative effects, but it wasn't better either. The contrast boost can fool you thinking it looks better... well, I mean, if you like it, then just crank that shit up on your tv. You can find this type of conversations about bluray transfers from the day first blurays were released. Some people like digital noise reduction that removes film grain, sharpened and contrasty image. Others hate how digital noise reduction makes the actors look like wax sculptures, the halo around edges from over harpening and crushed blacks/blown out whites. (I'm one of the latter ones) I guess it boils down to - as it often does - personal preference.

I imagine the very poorly made enclosure has a big impact on that too. This is the second audio related video in a week that I have a serious issues with. Yes, the idea here is "can someone with little to no woodworking experience build..." BUT, no-one with half a brain could possibly build anything like that. Nothing lines up and there are visible gaps.

All the HDR reviews I've seen, including this one, are a bit problematic because we don't really know how close the standard bluray trasfer is to the 4k one. There can be massive quality difference between different blurays of the same movie. Bitrate, noise reduction, color timing, encoding, the list goes on. Sure you can compare if the HDR UHD looks better than the bluray, but saying that a specific thing is better because of HDR or resolution can be often wrong. For example, Linus mentioned the night sky in Sicario having banding issues on the bluray, but not on the UHD. This is more than often the result of higher bitrate and thus has possibly nothing to do with HDR or resolution. You can see this in caps-o-holic's comparison of two different bluray releases of Sicario: http://caps-a-holic.com/c.php?go=1&a=0&d1=7330&d2=7548&s1=69622&s2=71759&i=8&l=1 Lionsgate release has higher bitrate and less banding.