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Even 1080p blu rays look better than 4k streaming sometimes because the image isn't as compressed. I have some blu rays that I can't stream like Lawrence of Arabia. A lot of the old remastered movies are only on disc.

I bought a Sony UBP 700 refurbed for $160 on Ebay. It has dolby vision like my Sony TV. I figured the same brand would make it more compatible.

That's about it. So you think a dedicated player would be better? I bought my dad a Sony X900H which is a pretty high end TV so I guess you would notice better colors and such on a dedicated player.

I have Netflix, Hulu, and Disney. The kids like to watch youtube on the Roku

I have some 4k discs that I'd like to watch and I also do a lot of streaming. So like 20% discs and 80% streaming. I absolutely hate live TV because it's a compressed 720p signal.

I didn't know 4k players were so expensive! They're basically the same cost as an Xbox one s. So should I just buy an Xbox one s? What would you suggest? A 4k player and a Roku or an Xbox one s? The Xbox one s has all the media channels I like so I'm not losing out on channels. It won't be used for gaming. I'd rather not mess with a 4k player's smart features because in my experience it's always a poor experience. Like slow navigation and such. But an Xbox one s is still a few dollars more than both of those. So would you say the few dollars more is worth it?

Smart features add a negligible cost to TVs nowadays that TV manufacturers put them in just about every TV. I hate smart features so I just never connect my TV to my internet. It's basically like having a non smart TV.

You can get a soundbar that plugs into the optical port for about $100. Of course if you spend more you can get better quality, but a cheap soundbar is going to sound better than tv speakers anyway. That's really your only option

How do I research if a TV has low glare or not? My living room is bright with glare and I want to buy my dad a new TV for around $700

I'm looking at a Vizio M558 G1 because it's on sale for $500 and I would like to play my games at 1440p but I heard that a 4K TV has to support 1440p mode for it to work. How can I tell if this TV supports 1440p mode?

What do you think about the whole Android in cameras thing though?

Really? I think he makes a lot of good points about the future of photography. He believes these companies need to adopt more user friendly and intuitive software for their cameras if they want to broaden their consumer base.

If you really want to know about how the camera industry is doing I suggest subbing to Tony Northrup on YouTube. He puts out videos about camera news and he says the smaller companies like Olympus are going to eventually fall off the radar, larger companies like Canon, Nikon, and Sony will survive as long as they continue to innovate. One area where I believe there needs to be innovation is in image processing in camera. The reason why your phone photo can look so clean and sharp with such a high F stop and small sensor is because of image processing in the phone. And in order to survive in the long run, there needs to be more innovation with user friendliness as well. There needs to be more accessibility for newbies and casuals if they want to sell enough cameras to survive as phones get more and more advanced. If they don't people will abandon real cameras for phone cameras. I know many people who can't navigate a real camera no matter how much time they put into learning and they just go with their phone. That should be a wakeup call to these companies to adopt user friendly OSes. Android is incredibly user friendly and instead of all these proprietary OSes on cameras, they could switch to Android based OSes and have the power of Android and Android friendly AIs behind the software. I've been a professional for 5 years and I can even get confused by some of the menu options on cameras. I did a studio shoot last winter and I have less experience in studio than outdoors and it took a bit for me to fiddle with the settings to get everything set up. User friendliness could be the camera automatically setting your exposure settings for studio lights. You input the wattage of the flash, etc. And your camera adjusts accordingly. This also means you can potentially download apps to your camera that make things easier. For example, if you're wanting to do astrophotography, you could have an app on your camera that helps you along the way. It automatically sets your exposure settings and analyzes the night sky in order to get you the best results, then it can stack your images in camera and create a TIF file for you to export into your editing software. And if you're doing portrait photography, an algorithm that recognizes people, like an algorithm that sees a white gown and automatically knows that's the bride, could help wedding photographers. These things are possible and it doesn't take much more power than is already in cameras now. In conclusion, quality of life improvements and accessibility is what can help companies stay in business in the next 10 years as phones become more advanced. Phones are the biggest threat to pro and consumer cameras. If you want people buying your products then you have to make them as easy as a cell phone.

Not a 15 ft hdmi 2.0. But I was thinking of buying an extra because sometimes this connection turns off suddenly. It even does it when I plug into other HDMI outlets. And I meant Xbox to TV not to PC. I hate all these acronyms

I get some weird pink artifacts on my PC to TV connection that don't happen on my PC to monitor and don't happen on the Xbox to TV connection. The artifacts don't show up in screenshots. Could it be the HDMI cable?

It's still under warranty. Rma it

what cable do you use?

Well you might not be out $2000. Do you have to return the ENTIRE PC if one part is bad or can you just return the bad part? One benefit to learning to build your own is that if a part goes out, you can return just that part. And the warranty on the 2080 should be 2 years and I don't think the 2080 has even been out 2 years has it? So maybe you can return just the 2080. I might be wrong about all of this but I'm just thinking of possible options here.

It seems that it wouldn't be worth it then

Stutters can be caused by all sorts of things. Run task manager or any software that shows your CPU, GPU, and RAM usage

The APU will use DRAM in place of VRAM so you're going to want to upgrade to 16 GB like he said above.

the 2060 is already here. Do you mean 3060? Probably near Q3. If I were you I'd wait until Q3. That's my advice to everyone right now. Wait until at least an announcement to see if your money can go further with the new technology.

They're going to have more sales on the GPU probably in the next 3 months. They're always having sales on GPUs. I'd buy a monitor because even if you can't get better resolution and frames in your games, at least you'll get better color and lighting.

How old is your card? If it's less than 2 years old then you can probably send it in for an RMA depending on what country you're in.

I just need it in my garage and driveway. The router is about 40 feet from the garage but I'm getting poor reception in the garage and driveway. It's running on 5 ghz which I'm thinking might be the problem and I wonder if switching to 2.4 would make the signal stronger. The problem with that is that I would have to change my phone's connection every time I went to the garage and I don't want to do that. I also have a T Mobile range extender plugged into the router that gives me better mobile signal and that also struggles to reach the garage. I was thinking of putting a cheap extender in the garage and if it craps out in a year no big deal. But like I said I don't know much about wifi and how the equipment works.