So what’s gonna happen here is everyone is going to go back to pirating shows because the convenience no longer outweighs the cost. And then they’re all going to gripe about how everyone is pirating their shows again. We totally didn’t cause this! Never saw it coming!

It’s criminal that he did not mention any Mega Man games, though personally I would go for Mega Man 2 over X. Also Ocarina of Time of Link’s Awakening.

I’m not convinced. This sounds like they haven’t actually improved the panels any, they are just adding more processing, much like all that stupid auto motion plus crap. Which means that we are trying to move farther away from what the creators of the content actually intended us to see. Additionally, more processing…

If this kid is actually carrying this stuff every day then they are begging to get mugged. There’s $2000+ in there, easily.

That’s pretty much how I feel as well. What they are saying makes enough sense to me, but that’s not how ads actually work. Further, since I don’t like companies stalking me, I try to disable anything that might make ads relevant.

So are these features all exclusive to laptops or do you just hate desktops?

Having nodded my apparentlynrare toploader and purchased an upscaler to get it to look good on my HDTV, I can tell you that $500 is perfectly reasonable. I already owned the console and did the mod myself, so that was relatively cheap (about $40, I think), but the upscaler was about $300 or so. Plus some RGB cables…

If it makes you feel any better, when my band did a let’s play of this game, we died about 60 times trying to get through this level:

I was gonna make a joke about how it’s a good thing the game crashes all the time, but then my browser crashed.

As the viewers, there’s a real easy way to combat the problem: stop clicking on clickbait! I don’t care how interesting an article might be, if it starts with “You won’t believe” then I will not click on it.

I are sad now. But we still have Battle Kid to make us cry pathetic grown man tears.

I still say it should be mandatory for all old people.

My fiancee and I always joked when watching Arrow about the ridiculous amounts of Surface product placement. “Surfaxe? Surface Surface Surface.” I’ve actually noticed them in a lot of other programs now, too. Mostly I just find it funny because it’s so blatant.

I’m not an expert by any means, but it seems to me that device manufacturers are free to not use Google things, it’s just easier to do so. While they’re at it, why don’t they sue Samsung for not allowing my to remove their crap apps.

So it sounds to me like the issue is not actually mathematical, it’s an issue of technical limitations imposed by the formats. What I mean is this. Assume for a moment that the cameras are literally identical except for the sensor (a native 4k and a native 1080p, 1080 on a 4k sensor is of course going to be worse),…

I’m not sure how ending up with exactly the same number of pixels in both cases makes it a mathematical truth. As has been demonstrated (on this very blog, perhaps), more pixels is not always better. Choose a better sensor over more pixels.

I’m not actually convinced the principle does stand in the first place. Sure, shooting ona 4K-capable camera and then downscaling is better, but shooting on a 4k native and downscaling vs shooting on a 1080 native, the 1080 native should be better. Removing pixels always relies on algorithms to decide what should and…

I’m not sure, honestly. But it doesn’t restrict me to using their store to play it back, I can watch it using VLC if I want. I assume their must be some kind of DRM or the studio’s wouldn’t let them do it, but I haven’t looked into it much. I made my first ever digital-only purchase there when Star Wars came out and…

But, even if they do, even if you purchased on the Xbox, you can download a backup copy to your hard drive in a normal MP4 format that you can play without any special software. I have not found another service that allows this so far.

To my knowledge, purchasing on Xbone is a purchase through the Windows Store, which is also accessible (and downloadable) on your computer. So not really that useless.