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How do they compare to the Hololens? As you said, that's the real competition for it.

Which would have been fine... if Apple had sold it as such. If this was a "hey here's a dev kit/industrial product for people to start working with," it would be hard to give them crap. The price is in line with that and ya, this stuff has to start somewhere. But that wasn't how it was sold, it...

For sure, I don't mind that boards CAN disable the limits. That's long been a thing with enthusiast boards is you can push limits, often beyond what is reasonable. However it shouldn't be that way by DEFAULT. The default should always be manufacturer's recommendations, then let the user disable...

Well it depended on how good of a sample you had. While they had good yields and plenty of stuff ran faster, they only tested 300a units at 300. So if you had particularly bad silicon, it could still pass in that bin, even if it would have failed in a higher speed. My roommate had one that ran...

One of the first things I did when I built my 13900 system was to set back the Intel defaults in place. It shipped with much higher limits and it was always getting limited by heat. I was a little concerned about it running so hot under load, and it also seemed pretty pointless as there was...

And I think some people forget, you don't usually start good, it takes some experience and work. So Intel's drivers weren't banger out of the gate, that doesn't mean they have to be written off forever. A lot of things that are now good and used all the time kinda sucked in the first iteration...

Fair. At this point my HDR use case is almost entirely games, so I just switch it on when I'm playing (actually most games know how to switch it on themselves). I also go for the more aggressive Level 3 dimming in HDR mode, which makes it more noticeable. I find that in actual content I prefer...

I still tend to leave mine off. You are right it usually isn't that big a deal, but I can see it particularly on sites like Hardforum that use middle gray colors. Also I don't find high contrast to be a real benefit on the desktop so generally I leave it off on the desktop, and only on in games.

It's a hell of a monitor. Has its faults to be sure but on a whole man does it look good.

When you have HDR on Windows has a look at the monitor's gamut (which the inf file should tell it accurately) and if an application isn't HDR does mapping. It isn't always as accurate as a monitor's built in mapping so sometimes it is better to use the built-in sRGB, but if it looks good there's...

Second on the Trivex thing. It is the best optical quality material you can easily get your hand on in glasses and has the lowest chromatic aberration. It is better than some kinds of glass and if you can even find glass these days, most vendors won't tell you anything about it so you have no...

Where I found that ABSL gets annoying is in games that have scenes with lots of text you are trying to read. In particular Octopath Traveler 2 has real issues. I played it on the couch because it seems like a good couch game and the couch is an S95B. Well during "cutscenes" where there's a lot...

Hey, it's a good number. Intel likes that number. It brings them luck. :D Real talk though, it is so obnoxious that companies turned node names in to marketing terms. I dunno who did it first, but nobody's node is actually the size they say it is. TSMC 3nm is not in any way shape or form 3nm...

Also their base price is higher, which makes the lack of RAM less forgivable. Like I get if there's some cheap craptastic computer that is trying to hit a low price that has a small amount of RAM. I still don't like it, as it won't give the user a good experience, but at least I understand: You...

Well there are two problems with bringing it back. The first is as you note it seems like when a new MMO comes out the gameplay is boring, and it is pretty generic, and usually buggy (New World being an excellent example). However the other, perhaps even bigger, problem is people just get stuck...

Ya I'm not replacing the S95B any time soon. It is not a bad TV, far from it, it's the best TV I've ever owned. However at some point I'll get bitten by the bug to get something better, mainly for more HDR brightness. When I do... I might pay the Sony tax. I had though about it when I got this...

Absolutely and I am not at all hating on it. Trying to make a system look that good with 2KB of VRAM, and 1980s tech, is some next level shit. Just saying not to blame new things for getting big. Sometimes we get nostalgia for old things and forget how far we've come. It is fun to fire up a NES...

I don't know, I don't have one. I was hoping someone with one would post. However the thing about black level controls is if you just raise the black level while that'd work, it is less accurate. What we should want out of our high end displays is that they can accurately display the very faint...

I mean... It's optimization but it is also just not having much in the way of graphics or sound fidelity. Part of the reason NES games were small is the thing was only 256x240 and you didn't do it per-pixel it was almost all tile/sprite based with only 3 colors per sprite, maybe 20 colors total...

Next time I'm going to have to pay the Sony tax. They just do software right :P

The different kinds of multi tools have different things they are good at. The wiki has full details. Royal ones are pretty good and of course S Class is best class.

Well because of how OLED works, you'd need a 480Hz OLED to do that. Since they don't have a backlight to pulse, all they can do is an "on and off" frame thing, which means they need double the framerate of whatever BFI rate you want.

Ya I won't do expensive things from Amazon anymore. Their QC is just complete garbage. They allow for shit like this, cross contamination of counterfeit goods, etc. B&H is my go to for AV stuff, including monitors. Mine I actually got from Walmart since they have it (online only) and they are...

That's a reason to keep on top of it with interconnects though: you never know when the next thing will come that'll need it. SATA was like that. When it first came out, it was slightly faster than PATA, which was already faster than magnetic drives needed, and it quickly doubled in speed...

I don't know if you can block them from a search, but you can from recommendations. You click the three dots next to the title and tell it not to show you videos from a channel anymore. I've had to do that quite a bit, and Youtube is now much better about what it recommends to me.

Why do you think there's so much time when it is getting revised and set up? They spend time working on the spec in no small part to make a spec that is going to be doable with the technology that is available.

I understand and I'm not saying I've never seen it, particularly since I run my monitor in an aggressive dimming mode which gives better highlights but maxes the zones more noticeable (level 3 in the menu, rather than the default level 2). My message to you and others is just to see how much you...

Specs have to precede rollout by quite a bit. It takes time to do all the design and engineering. So often you will see something like whatever is being rolled out now, the spec for the next version is either final or near final, and the spec for the version after that is under development...

Well something I'd note to look at/test with that if you can: Can you actually tell the difference on an image? The reason is that while our eyes have a staggeringly large total contrast ratio, the actual amount of contrast we can perceive at one time is not that high. Bright objects make dark...

I think both depending on the monitor, and on your own perception, the bloom thing can be overblown. While there are situations I can notice blooming, it is generally not an issue. To me it usually looks like the veiling glare that I see from bright objects on a dark background anyhow. Now...

They also seem to really value contrast ratio to the point they love VA panels and kinda hate on IPS, whereas I feel the opposite, I'd much rather have IPS to VA. In general, they are just a little too up their own butt about being "objective" and not realizing or admitting that their scores are...

They are good to look at but I will say I'd look at other sources as well, and I'd also ignore their rating and just look at their data. The things that they believe are important are not the things you may believe are important.

And in terms of what absolute brightness people run screens at, well it can vary based on their environment, as well as preferences. Sure, I'd like to play in a nice blacked-out room with only some low level lighting behind my monitor. I used to do that, had a nice studio in my old place, I...

For those interested in that, keep an eye on Monitors Unboxed. They are testing it. They are using it for all day-productivity with settings that preserve the life (like running the compensation cycles) but not ones that are annoying (like dimming the taskbar). So a torture test, but a pretty...

My very first 3D card. My mind was totally blown by what it did for game visuals.

Yes, it is a temporal dither, looks very much like the one on Lagom's black level page, though not nearly as strong (theirs is exaggerated on purpose). Normally the kind of thing you get on 8-bit panels, since they have to dither for HDR, but supposedly the Samsung OLEDs are true 10-bit which is...

But the problem is that doesn't mean it WILL BE. This problem wasn't found because it was open, it was found because a guy at MS said "Why is my SSH server being slightly slow?" and started doing analysis on the binaries running on the system. Likewise, in the things linked here, you can see how...

Depends on the project. Some it is sort of a RVB: Self particularly if the maintainer doesn't give a shit. Others development slows to a crawl because everyone hates on everyone else and nobody signs off on shit. Basically it is all normal human drama and as you say: The same kind of shit that...

I think most people who use and evangelize OSS, but don't actually develop it, don't realize how it actually goes on the back end. They think there are hundreds, or thousands, of eager beavers working on the project. Likewise they think people spend lots of time pouring over the code, analyzing...

I did notice that on my S95B. In games you don't really see it, particularly from couch distance, but when I was looking at test patches to check dark levels, all the dark patches has noisy spatial dither going on, which is odd since it is supposedly 10-bit. This was in minimal processing mode...