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amyjess on June 8, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Impending Doom of Expiring Root CAs and Legacy...

As a side note, if you want to watch 4K video, keep in mind that as of right now, _the_ main draw of 4K is HDR (most 4K video out there is upscaled), and most cheaper 4K screens (both TVs and monitors) don't support HDR. Or if they claim they do, they only "support" HDR in that the monitor does tonemapping in hardware but can't render HDR colors.

The technology is still new enough that getting the cheapest 4K screen you can find is still a really bad deal.

account42 on June 10, 2020 | [–]

I really don't understand 4K 10bit HDR video that's still only 29 FPS. Why is smooth motion not a focus at all?

ansible on June 8, 2020 | [–]

For my work desktop, the main thing was to have more terminal windows open. Video was a secondary concern.

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