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    Greatest redemption arc I've ever seen. When the game came out it was trash. Not just because of the over-promising, even if you evaluated it with a blank slate, knowing nothing about what had been said, it was a bad game. Buggy, janky, and just...
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    That, sadly, is almost all of it. The reason everyone I know who has a PS5 has one is "the exclusives were better". It's sad that consumer unfriendly tactics like that work... but they do. Sony paid devs to get exclusives people wanted more, so...
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    Monitors Unboxed got their hands on it and it looks... not super impressive other than the 480Hz features. It doesn't look BAD but when there's the QD-OLEDs for about the same price it isn't as tempting. The HDR performance doesn't seem to be any...
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    I feel that :P
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    For sure, but that's not only running trusted code, that's scanning the system and the code on it to try and filter out code that might be malicious. That's a good thing and we all should do it, but it is still basically blacklisting whereas only...
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    I mean... that's always been the best answer but it is hard if you want functionality and flexibility. To have only trusted code would require going to something like the Apple/Microsoft store and only being able to install things the OS vendor...
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    Ya I'm watching all the OLED developments with great interest. I firmly believe that it is the future of displays and while they'll never eliminate the possibility of burn in (always going to be inherent to any emissive technology) they'll...
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    I think I'm going to stick with my 'spensive MiniLED. While I really would like something with less blur, I'm too addicted to the good HDR. Also still nervous about burn-in, though Monitors Unboxed is working on a good test for that. They are...
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    For whatever reason, it is just something that has never happened on the PSU side. On the other side we have plenty of standardization, of course. But on the PUS side? Nope, manufacturers do what they like. I THINK that is one thing that has...
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    I mean, I think they started circling the drain when they discontinued GPUs. Yes I know their official excuse was that nVidia was mean and wouldn't let them make enough money... but I don't buy that. I don't see all these other manufacturers...
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    That's how it usually goes. Any time a country, or heck even company, starts talking about their own "home grown" OS it is basically always a fork of a popular Linux distro. Nobody actually wants to do the work of trying to build their own OS and...
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    For the Samsung S95B it is box 3 on the SDR test and somewhere around 0.05 nits HDR (in the calibrator I couldn't quite see 0.05, but in the DisplayHDR test going to level 17 did it). That's better than when I got it so later firmware updates may...
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    There was a note on the TFTCentral review about the ASUS that it suffers from black crush, at least in SDR mode. This is something I notice on my Samsung S95B TV as well, which is also QD-OLED. So I'm wondering two things: 1) Is this just...
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    S95B. When I do the lagom black level test the first 5 squares are not any difference than off, even at close range. On my PG32UQX, even #1 is clearly visibly different from the background.
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    Sycraft replied to the thread What is wrong with B&W speakers?.
    I mean I think mostly they get crap because they are a popular high-end brand and it seems like people like to hate on popular things. That said (as someone who has owned them), they don't tend to perform up to their price class. While there is...
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    Sycraft replied to the thread Is OLED worth it?.
    They have to calculate the correct balance of backlight vs panel, whereas OLED just drives panels to a given level. Now I don't know how much it matters in reality, I notice little difference but then I may not be particularly lag sensitive. It...
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    Sycraft replied to the thread Is OLED worth it?.
    I'll answer in a couple parts: For desktop usage? No. If I'm just scrolling text, doing Excel, that kind of crap, LCD is just as good or better. You don't actually want high contrast in that situation, as it can be more fatiguing on the eyes...
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    Ya just an FYI for people, it IS a thing with some HDR displays. Now as to how much it matters, depends on the games. A well designed game will let you adjust its own tone mapping, so you can choose how bright you want the game to be on average...
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    Sorry I mistyped it, it is the 32 and no you can't adjust it. It is greyed out in the menu when you are in HDR mode. As I said that is the "correct" behavior by the spec, luminance values are absolute so you display the value specified, up to...
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    Depends on the screen. On the PG32UQX, you can't actually. It operates in true, by the spec, HGIG mode and brightness in HDR is fixed. However not all screens are like that, my S95B TV will let you turn down brightness, and just adjusts it tone...
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