As always, I got the username wrong…
Just don’t buy OLED and it won’t darken, if you buy OLED get ready to replace the extensive TV every 5 years no matter what brand you buy.
As for removing bloatware I have no idea since my TV is from around 2010 and I only use it connected to the computer, but you can always just get a raspberry pi and install kodi on it and use the TV as a normal dumb TV. It’s also good for your privacy.
“Mice do not have a special appetite for cheese, and will eat it only for lack of better options; they actually favor sweet, sugary foods. The myth may have come from the fact that before the advent of refrigeration, cheese was usually stored outside and was therefore an easy food for mice to reach.”
ikr? I have a friend who literally sold a cat in return for chickens.
Knowing how paranoid Putin is, I’m almost sure this is a body double
Lol no, if you only have budget for one mix it should be the one that preserves the most information, if “90%” of the viewers don’t care about the art form they are watching then they don’t have the right to ruin it for the people who do care.
As for music there’s the opposite problem, there’s a problem in the music industry where most modern music is an incomprehensible mess thanks to the loudness wars, where modern music has zero dynamics, high distortion, lack of tangibility and overall boring.
If you listen to a 70s or early 80s recording you will notice that together with greater dynamics, you have better sound quality, definition and tangibility, than modern trash. Independently of what system you listen it on.
But a good mix will translate well no matter what system you have, it will sound good either on a 10000 dollars HiFi system or on some cheap pair of computer speakers.
Seriously tho, personally I don’t understand people who can tolerate watching anything with on a TVs built in speaker, I rather watch 480p with good sound than 4k on a TV speaker, but that’s me.
If I can’t afford a reasonable pair of speakers then a 20 bucks pair of wired headphones can have excellent sound quality. So there’s really no reason to defend a nerfed mix.
With this, I’m not saying that some modern shows don’t exaggerate and that their levels are past ridiculous.
May not be the most polite thing to do, but when outside I always wear headphones walk at fast pace and don’t hear anyone no matter who speaks to be.
I’ve noticed that as long as I have my headphones on, even if they aren’t playing, most ppl won’t speak to me anyway.
Well, it’s now cinema is supposed to be.
Ideally they could make two mixes, one for serious viewing and good systems and another for bringe watching or bad speakers. But since that would cost more money and isn’t done, a good dynamic mix is preferable because you can always throw a compressor and some limiting to a dynamic mix, but you can’t recover information after it’s lost. And as a film and series enjoyer I don’t want my experience to be nerfed.
As for ads, I have no idea? I haven’t watched an ad since I got internet many years ago. Idk how you’re getting your media, maybe get an adblocker or use torrents?
Because cinema is supposed to be immersive, it’s supposed to take the audience into the action, it’s supposed to make you feel like you’re there. Dynamics play an important part of this.
It’s not enough to acknowledge that there has been an explosion or a monster has screeched, it’s important that the viewer feels in danger, like the monster can actually harm the viewer. To get that adrenaline pumping.
Ofc when your levels are ridiculously exaggerated and you stretch over to the volume control all the time, then the immersion is broken because instead of watching the film you’re too busy riding the fader.
You don’t hate dynamic range, you hate bad mixes, two different things, without dynamics audio sounds like shit. An explosion is supposed to be louder than talking speech.
It’s just not supposed to try to mimic the absurdity of an actual explosion, to the point of discomfort.
Also, like said before in the parent comment, most consumer systems don’t even even have the dynamics to reproduce it without distortion (or damage the woofers).
Technically speaking it’s very easy to implement, it’s just a compressor, oldest thing in audio after maybe the EQ.
VLC has a compressor under effects, if you’re using Linux you can add effects to pulse or pipewire really easy too.
“I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the knee”
I personally would throw the dishwasher away, and before that, permanently damage it to make sure no poor soul picks it up from the trash thinking they scored a free dishwasher without knowing it was once used to wash literal shit.
I would never be able to ever eat anything from any dish every washed on that machine, but again, that’s me and my personal emotional reaction to it. I understand that if it reaches 90C it technically kills all bacteria or something. But I would still refuse.
For that same reason I never buy used kitchen utensils, because I have no way to know what has be used for before.
Isn’t that true for most models until someone destiles and quantises them so they can run on common hardware?
Empty spaces > What shall we do now?
“What shall we do now?” Is basically the part 2 of “Empty Spaces” but was removed from the album as it wouldn’t fit the vinyl.
The song is still present in the film, and a boxset if I recall
I’m something of a musician myself, and it saddens me that I can’t find any active music production or audio engineering communities on Lemmy.
BTW, would be interesting having a community dedicated to free licensed/copyleft/0cc/creative commons/non profit music.
Paella
In my opinion, IRC is much easier to join than any meta slop, generally speaking you can just /connect check the /list and /join a popular room.
Meanwhile to join meta you need to first make an email, then create an account, fill a bunch of forms (and then I always get automatically banned after acc creation without posting anything lol)
That’s nice, now I only need 200k so I can buy a house with a backyard so I can make my own groceries.
I don’t think they are as stupid as you think them.
I mean, back when I was younger I learned pretty much all I know about IT by admining my own computer, and I pretty much did it by trial and error yes. However nowadays kids talk to each other over popular chat applications, eventually one tells another “hey just install this browser/vpn” the same way they install mods for their videogames.
Tho in the end I don’t think they will become techy savy tho, I guess just that tor and VPNs will become commonplace in UK.
Meanwhile the old boomers are the ones who are going to forced to shrug “just how it is”.
This, but synthesiser, while also play piano sounds on my midi keyboard, I find that synth sound is the most etheric, specially if I dial it myself or edit the presets.