Easiest option is to get a 5 port HDMI switch with auto-source detect (https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=15374) so that when you turn on a console, it switches to that input automatically, and use it for all the mini-consoles. As a bonus, the switch is USB powered, so a single 4-6 port USB power adapter can run…
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Our last rental house, before we bought two years ago, was $2,400 a month. The house we bought, in the same neighborhood and slightly smaller but much newer, is $2,500 a month including taxes and PMI and insurance, and we get to deduct all those taxes and interest every year so it winds up being much less than that.…
Because the HDMI versioning system is broken. To claim to support a version of HDMI, you only have to support a feature of that version, not everything that is part of that version. So you have HDMI 2.0 chipsets that are technically HDMI 2.0 because they support 4:2:0 chroma subsampling, which is an HDMI 2.0 feature.…
Elvis Costello was the musical guest on SNL in 1977 and was supposed to play Less Than Zero. So he started playing it, then stopped a few bars in saying “I’m sorry, ladies and gentlemen, but there’s no reason to do this song here.” and instead launched into Radio Radio. SNL wasn’t happy and it got him banned from…
The Timbers (Portland’s MLS team) wanted to expand their stadium since they’ve sold out every game since they started. The only break they got from the city was an agreement not to charge the ticket tax on the new seats for 10 years or so. The city is giving up $2M in revenue over those 10 years, but that revenue…
Sure, and if I happen to forget that, now I can’t work. Or if a colleague has a USB-A flash drive and I don’t have an adapter, now I’m stuck. It’s too much of a pain to be stuck without a single legacy port today to go with a laptop that doesn’t have one. Some people can but many of us can’t. Hell, coming back from…
Some of us have hardware, hardware that costs $7,000 or possibly more, that has a hardwired USB-A cable. Sure, I can use a dongle with it, but those are sometimes finicky, and if I forget or lose a dongle, now I can’t work because Dell can’t keep a single legacy USB port there? This is why I gave up on Apple and went…
I worked a temp job at Boeing straight out of college, going around replacing computers at night. But of course, lots of those computers were in their Everett building where they were making 747s and they were incredible to see up close as they were built. I’d stand under them and realize just how amazingly large they…
The one thing not factored in is if you have to pay monthly rental fees for a HD box as well. If you do, then it adds up fast with more than one TV, and especially if you add on DVR service. With most companies at $10/month per box, and $5-10 more for a DVR one, two TVs can cost $20-30 a month on top of the cable…
The B7 and C7 have the same panel and SoC and therefore the same input lag. Same with the E7 and W7. They only differ in design and audio quality, the image and input lag are identical. Rtings also hasn’t tested a B7, only the B6, so they wouldn’t have different input lag ratings for the B7.
“It plays back content at 4K with HDR when applicable. Finally.”
Except it doesn’t. It plays back everything in HDR if it detects your display is HDR. So SDR is expanded to HDR, causing tone mapping issues and likely clipping dynamic range. It also doesn’t switch between 24p and 60p, so you either get sports at a poor…
With an LG OLED you’ll get 95% of the way there by using the ISF Expert modes, the correct Warm color temperature, and setting the Brightness/Contrast/Sharpness controls correctly. Despite what the poster above said, you should not copy the white balance settings from someone else, as those are adjusted at the factory…
I used to run while wearing boxers with my running shorts with a liner, but this was a good 14 years ago when I first started running. Then I stopped, and that was smart. First, you have two layers of clothing instead of one (I don’t know any good running shorts without a liner) which means more fabric to hold…
Had it been 4th down, he would have had to recover his own fumble to advance it on the play. Since it was only 3rd down, anyone was able to recover it and advance it.
I think you’re thinking of Yu-Gi-Oh and not MTG if you think there is power creep. The MTG development team has spent lots of the past few years getting the power level balanced to a position they want, by which they mean more combat-focused, interactive games. As a result of this, spells have come down in power,…
To put this in terms Ed Werder might understand: pretend you’re having a Fantasy Football draft, but doing it auction style. Everyone has $200 to spend, so you go spend $50 on Andrew Luck, and $45 on Adrian Peterson, and so one. After everyone has picked up 4 players, you give everyone an extra $200 to spend. So now…
Vizio is using Google Cast for Audio on those, which means they function like a speaker with Chromecast Audio built in. As the full piece mentions, the proliferation of these systems is something to look forward to as it can really be a Sonos competitor. Being a bit more open also means people might make speakers that…
It goes to the conferences, and gets distributed through a calculation based on how many teams in that conference made the tournament, and how many games they won. This is averaged out over a certain number of years. For a small conference like the CAA, when George Mason goes on a run to the Final Four, your share of…
With consumer electronics gear, you very rarely find true balanced inputs or outputs until you get to very expensive gear. Instead you find it is converting an unbalanced output to a balanced one, and it winds up with worse performance than the unbalanced when you measure them. Very few environments have enough noise…