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Speaker 1: Get technology with tech Stuff from stuff works dot com.

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Speaker 1: Hey there, and welcome to tech Stuff. I am your host,

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland. I'm a senior writer for how stuff works

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Speaker 1: dot com and as always I like to cover all

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Speaker 1: things technical, technological, and otherwise techie on this show. Today,

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Speaker 1: I thought we would explore the world of ultra high

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Speaker 1: definition TV or u h D t V or four

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Speaker 1: K TV. There are a lot of different names for it,

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Speaker 1: and we'll also touch on other stuff like eight K

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Speaker 1: t V. Which is it twice as good as four

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Speaker 1: K TV? You'll have to wait and find out. But

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Speaker 1: it's really this episode not so much about the technology

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Speaker 1: behind what makes four K and eight K television possible,

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Speaker 1: but rather to kind of explain what are the differences

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Speaker 1: between the those the ultra high definition formats and our

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Speaker 1: current high definition formats and even older standard definition formats.

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Speaker 1: What has changed? Are those changes meaningful? Should you run

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Speaker 1: out and buy a four K television set right now? So?

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Speaker 1: I'll talk about times where u h D makes sense

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Speaker 1: and times where it might not make sense, where it

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Speaker 1: may be indistinguishable from an HD set. But be warned

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Speaker 1: this episode shall also be fraught with opinions fraught, I say,

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Speaker 1: and those opinions will be mine, but I'll do my

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Speaker 1: best to maintain a semi objective point of view for

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Speaker 1: the most part. Just keep in mind that some of

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Speaker 1: this is based off my own observation, and your own

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Speaker 1: experience could be probably not dramatically different from mine, but

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Speaker 1: different enough to be significant. So, uh, this is a

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Speaker 1: little more of an opinion piece than what I typically

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Speaker 1: do for tech stuff unless I get, you know, my

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Speaker 1: dander up about something like net neutrality. Now, if you

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Speaker 1: were to be super super cynical, and I am not

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Speaker 1: this person, but if you were super cynical, you might say,

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Speaker 1: four k's just a technology that's being pushed on us

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Speaker 1: by TV manufacturers because they need a way to generate customers.

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Speaker 1: They need to find a product that appeals to customers

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Speaker 1: so that they can sell stuff and make money, and

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Speaker 1: four K is just the gimmick that they're hitching their

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Speaker 1: cart to. This case, the gimmick is a four K horse.

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Speaker 1: I guess, well, how do you convince your customers that

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Speaker 1: they need to upgrade to a new television. You've got

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Speaker 1: to come up with something that creates a new demand, right,

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Speaker 1: because TVs tend to be fairly expensive. There might not

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Speaker 1: be the most expensive thing that you purchase. A car

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Speaker 1: is going to be more expensive, but they can be

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Speaker 1: significantly expensive. So it's an investment. How do you convince

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Speaker 1: people to cough up the dough to make an investment

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Speaker 1: in a new television if their old TV is still

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Speaker 1: perfect in working order. You have to come up with

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Speaker 1: things that add value to the product. So if you're

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Speaker 1: trying to convince people who are typically waiting several years

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Speaker 1: between television purchases to upgrade, you gotta figure out, well,

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Speaker 1: what what's the hook? Where do I get them? And

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Speaker 1: in the past we've seen a couple of UH misfires

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Speaker 1: from the television industry and trying to create the sort

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Speaker 1: of value added features in televisions that haven't necessarily paid

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Speaker 1: off the way the industry wanted it to UH like.

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Speaker 1: About a decade ago, TV companies began to experiment by

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Speaker 1: making television's smart, but those first few smart TVs were

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Speaker 1: awfully dumb. There was an overreliance on widgets and those

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Speaker 1: were mostly irritating not helpful. Over time, companies got better

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Speaker 1: at implementing smart features, and today smart TVs are pretty

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Speaker 1: standard in stores and there their features are a little

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Speaker 1: more useful than the old ones were for the most part. Again,

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Speaker 1: it all depends upon who's making the user interface and

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Speaker 1: how it's implemented with the television and the remote control

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Speaker 1: are a lot of factors that come into play. I

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Speaker 1: still do not own a smart TV, despite being a

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Speaker 1: smart TV craze had really taken off. It it started,

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Speaker 1: but you can still find plenty of televisions that were

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Speaker 1: so I skipped it. Uh, these days, I might not

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Speaker 1: bit later. Then, for several years, television companies were really

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Speaker 1: case scenario for three D technology. And these days you

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Speaker 1: don't see it touted as a major feature in television.

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Speaker 1: Is there's still a lot of TVs that are three

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Speaker 1: And now let's talk about resolution. To do that, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna start earlier than four K or even HD. This

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Speaker 1: is all about laying the groundwork, which you longtime listeners

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Speaker 1: to do things. So to begin, we're talking about image

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Speaker 1: as image quality. They're not synonymous. It is a factor

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Speaker 1: For example, those are very important elements in picture quality,

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Speaker 1: or if you don't have good color representation, the images

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Speaker 1: might be in really sharp focus, but they're still not

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Speaker 1: but megapixels are an easy way to point at differentiation

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Speaker 1: is what we're going to do today. If you listened

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Speaker 1: to UH, there's an episode of tech Stuff called What's

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Speaker 1: the Big Deal with Megapixels? We talked about this. This

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Speaker 1: was back in two thousand nine, and that was Chris Palette,

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Speaker 1: my former co host, and I. We sat down and

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Speaker 1: be all in digital cameras. You could almost take that

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Speaker 1: episode and do a search replace for megapixel to resolution

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Speaker 1: core resolution is referring to how many points of light

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Speaker 1: you much much, much smaller blocks, and you have sixteen

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Speaker 1: make an image of a car that looks much more

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Speaker 1: making people more confused. So yeah, now, just like HD,

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Speaker 1: you would have to get u h D content onto

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Speaker 1: your television set in order to really enjoy that higher resolution.

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Speaker 1: Otherwise you're really looking at more examples of upscaling, where

436
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Speaker 1: you're taking in a lower resolution image and adding more

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Speaker 1: information into it in order to display it in a

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Speaker 1: uh D format. Meanwhile, you probably heard of eight K sets,

439
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Speaker 1: which don't get me started on those is they're really

440
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Speaker 1: in the concept TV stage at the moment, so you're

441
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 1: not gonna have a whole lot of opportunities to buy

442
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Speaker 1: one unless you have a ridiculous amount of money. We're

443
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:10,920
Speaker 1: talking like a hundred thousand dollars for a television set

444
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Speaker 1: that has nothing to show on it. Um. Also, uh,

445
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Speaker 1: you would probably just end up watching four K content

446
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:23,399
Speaker 1: or or less on it, so you wouldn't really be

447
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Speaker 1: able to enjoy the full benefit of it. You could

448
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,440
Speaker 1: have an enormous TV at that size and sit really

449
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Speaker 1: close to it and not notice any pixels. That's one benefit,

450
00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:35,359
Speaker 1: but uh, without having stuff to watch on it, you

451
00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't really appreciate it very much. However, the technical

452
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,879
Speaker 1: specs for right K involve a resolution of seven thousand,

453
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Speaker 1: six hundred eighty by four thousand, three D twenty pixels.

454
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Speaker 1: This ups the pixel count tool whopping thirty three million,

455
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Speaker 1: one seventy seven thousand, six hundred pixels yeasa, But again,

456
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Speaker 1: you'd have to have that a K video source to

457
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Speaker 1: really enjoy that. So let's say you've heard all this,

458
00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 1: but you're thinking about getting a four K television set

459
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 1: where do you get your content? And how big of

460
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 1: a television should you get? And how close should you

461
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 1: sit to the screen. We're gonna answer those questions in

462
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Speaker 1: our next section, but first, let's take a quick break

463
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Speaker 1: to thank our sponsor. All Right, So let's say you're

464
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 1: in the market to buy a new television, and chances

465
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:30,360
Speaker 1: are in your area four KSE sets are dominating your

466
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Speaker 1: search because they're the flagship products for many manufacturers out there.

467
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 1: Their prices have been coming down in recent years, so

468
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 1: they're no longer in the realm of just like the

469
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Speaker 1: wealthy or the bleeding edge adopters. They're no longer like

470
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Speaker 1: two thousand or four thousand dollar sets, although you can

471
00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 1: certainly find some there in that price point. You can

472
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Speaker 1: find some now that are less than a thousand dollars.

473
00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 1: You can still find h D sets in a few places,

474
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: although that are becoming more challenging to find there being

475
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 1: phased out slowly by the market. You can make a

476
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 1: whole lot more money selling four K sets than you

477
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 1: can with HD sets. HD sets, the prices have come

478
00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,959
Speaker 1: down enough so that the profit margins are pretty narrow.

479
00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:18,119
Speaker 1: Four K sets that hasn't totally hit the bottom of

480
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Speaker 1: where where those prices are going yet, So there's an

481
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Speaker 1: incentive on the part of retailers to carry four K

482
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Speaker 1: sets to make more money and to up sell you,

483
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,400
Speaker 1: to convince you that the four K experience is better

484
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:35,679
Speaker 1: than the HD experience. Uh So, if you want to

485
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 1: look at four K, it's brand new relatively speaking, the

486
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 1: companies have an incentive to sell it to you. What

487
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: do you watch on it? Let's say that you want one,

488
00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 1: you decided to buy one. What do you actually watch

489
00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 1: on your four K set? What's available? Well, it's not

490
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 1: gonna be cable television because cable TV doesn't carry any

491
00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,120
Speaker 1: four K content. That means you're out of luck if

492
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 1: you're hoping to pull down ultra high definition versions of

493
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:06,040
Speaker 1: your favorite shows on cable. Now satellites a little bit different.

494
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 1: Direct TV and Dish Network have both done a little

495
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 1: bit of broadcasting in four K, but it's only been

496
00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 1: a little bit. Like it's it's again not widely available

497
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 1: across all their programming. So that means to really take

498
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 1: advantage of four K you need to do a couple

499
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 1: of other things. One thing you could do is get

500
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 1: a four K Blu Ray player and some four K

501
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 1: Blu Ray titles to play on it. If you get

502
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 1: a four K Blu Ray player and play a normal

503
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:34,360
Speaker 1: Blu Ray on it, you won't enjoy the four K resolution.

504
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 1: You have to get the actual discs that were encoded

505
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 1: in four K. Some devices like the Xbox one X

506
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 1: can play four K Blu Ray discs and tend to be,

507
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 1: you know, of a comparable price than two two four

508
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: K Blue ray sets. Four K Blue ray set that's

509
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 1: dedicated might be a couple hundred dollars cheaper than say

510
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 1: an Xbox one X, So it becomes one of those

511
00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 1: things you weigh, do you save a couple of hundred

512
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Speaker 1: dollars by getting the dedica Blu Ray four K player,

513
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 1: or do you shell out a little more money and

514
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 1: get an Xbox one X that's also a video game

515
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:10,040
Speaker 1: console and a media center on top of being a

516
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 1: Blu Ray player. Uh. But you also have to keep

517
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Speaker 1: in mind there's a limited amount of four K titles

518
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 1: that are on optical discs in the first place, so

519
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 1: not everything is available in four K resolution. Uh. They

520
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:28,560
Speaker 1: do have an advantage when it comes to four K

521
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 1: optical versus four K streaming optical discs. You're gonna run

522
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 1: into fewer artifacts. Artifacts are essentially the visual element that

523
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: is similar to noise in audio recordings. You get these

524
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,680
Speaker 1: things that can be very distracting. You can notice some

525
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 1: jagged edges or other issues from compression algorithms. That's because

526
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 1: streaming video you have to compress it in order to

527
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 1: have reasonable transfer times. You're sending so much data across networks.

528
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 1: If you want to make sure that the person receiving

529
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 1: it is getting a decent experience, you have to compress it. Well.

530
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 1: The more you compress it, the more chances there are

531
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Speaker 1: inserting artifacts into the signal. You don't run into that

532
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 1: as much. On optical disk encoding. It can happen, especially

533
00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:20,400
Speaker 1: with like a manufacturing error, but you were less likely

534
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:22,440
Speaker 1: to run into it. So if you go out and

535
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: you start buying discs again, you'll be able to watch

536
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 1: in glorious four K resolution. You can get four K

537
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: feeds from several popular streaming services, though, as I just mentioned,

538
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 1: they use compression algorithms, so you might run into the

539
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:42,560
Speaker 1: occasional artifact, and you do need a decent Internet connection

540
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:46,959
Speaker 1: to really take advantage of them. But they include Amazon Video, Netflix,

541
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 1: Voodoo YouTube, PlayStation Video Ultra Flicks, and the few others

542
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: that all offer four K content. In some of these cases,

543
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 1: in order to get access to the four K content,

544
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Speaker 1: you have to pay a premium to the service, so

545
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 1: you would have to step up a tier. In Netflix,

546
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 1: for example, you have to pay a little bit more

547
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 1: per month in order to have access to the four

548
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 1: K titles. And again it doesn't cover all the titles

549
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 1: that Netflix has, but only some of them. And typically

550
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 1: if you wanted to buy a four K title or

551
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 1: rent a four K title on a streaming service, they

552
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 1: tend to be a little more expensive than high definition versions,

553
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 1: which in turn tend to be a little more expensive

554
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 1: than standard definition versions. Essentially, the more data that has

555
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 1: to be pushed to you, the higher the cost is

556
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,479
Speaker 1: going to be to you. And if you don't have

557
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 1: that decent internet connection, then it's going to be a

558
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: miserable experience and you probably don't want to be streaming

559
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: four K content in the first place. If you're a gamer,

560
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 1: many video games for the PS four Pro and the

561
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 1: Xbox one X are going to include four K content,

562
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 1: although the PS four Pro is really more of a

563
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 1: slight upscale than Xbox one X is Xbox one X

564
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 1: can do true for hey, so you'll be able to

565
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 1: gain in four a K. That is going to continue

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Speaker 1: to change over time. You're going to see more and

567
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 1: more titles adopt four K technology, as well as more

568
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 1: shows and movies and other experiences will be upgraded to

569
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 1: four K as time goes on. The same thing was

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Speaker 1: true for HD back in the day. I remember when

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Speaker 1: the only HD channel you could get showed things like

572
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 1: sunrises and sunsets, and nature scenes and underwater scenes, stuff

573
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 1: that had a lot of vibrant colors and a lot

574
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Speaker 1: of detail. Those were the things that were featured on

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Speaker 1: this channel that would run for twenty four hours. It

576
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 1: would just do these things on a loop. It was

577
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Speaker 1: really impressive to look at, but there was no real

578
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 1: narrative there, and after a while you just kind of

579
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 1: give up on the plot ever moving forward, but obviously

580
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 1: over time we've seen HD content blossom both literally and figuratively,

581
00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 1: so that we have a lot more to choose from.

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00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: The same thing will will be true with ultra high definition,

583
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 1: but we're not quite there yet. We're still seeing that

584
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 1: develop over time, so you might not have a whole

585
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: lot to watch or play on your four case set

586
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 1: once you get it initially. But that's only one thing

587
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:16,840
Speaker 1: that you have to consider. How far away are you

588
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,839
Speaker 1: going to sit from your television. That's an important question

589
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 1: for a couple of reasons. Every television has a range

590
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Speaker 1: of distances at which it is best to view content,

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00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,279
Speaker 1: and it also depends on the type of content that

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00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 1: you're watching. If you get closer to the television than

593
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:34,359
Speaker 1: that ideal range, you'll find that the set takes up

594
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,439
Speaker 1: so much of your field of view that it can

595
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 1: create an unpleasant experience. If you sit too far back, well,

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00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:43,719
Speaker 1: you would have the same effect as watching a smaller

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00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 1: screen closer up. So if you buy a seventy in

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Speaker 1: television but you're sitting twenty five feet back, you might

599
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 1: as well have had a smaller TV and set closer

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00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 1: to it. You'll get the same effect. And honestly, it

601
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Speaker 1: might even be difficult or even impossible for you to

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Speaker 1: tell the difference between an HD set and a u

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Speaker 1: h D television set, each running their respective video sources,

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Speaker 1: unless you get really close to them, and then you

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00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 1: might be able to notice the change the difference in

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Speaker 1: pixel sizes, but at the optimal viewing distance, they might

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00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 1: be indistinguishable from each other. Now, generally speaking, higher resolutions

608
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 1: become more noticeable when you are closer to larger screens.

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00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 1: The smaller the screen, the further back you are, the

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Speaker 1: less noticeable the difference between different resolutions. There's a site

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Speaker 1: called r T I n g S is essentially Ratings

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Speaker 1: but without the a that does television reviews. They also

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00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:42,360
Speaker 1: have some really great articles up about viewing distances, particularly

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Speaker 1: for different types of televisions. They've done a lot of

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Speaker 1: work to look at various TV viewing distance options and

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00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:51,400
Speaker 1: suss out which ones are the best ones for different

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Speaker 1: types of experiences. So I'm gonna rely on their system

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00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 1: very heavily. But if you want to check out their site,

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Speaker 1: which I have no connection to, I don't know anyone.

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Speaker 1: Oh we're there and they don't know I'm talking about them.

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Speaker 1: So this is honestly Jonathan's resource that he goes to

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Speaker 1: for his own use. Uh. It is www dot r

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Speaker 1: T I n g S dot com, and I think

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00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 1: it's a pretty handy resource. So happy to throw those

625
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 1: guys from traffic because they do good work. Now, one

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00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:25,320
Speaker 1: thing our teams concentrates on is the field of you.

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Speaker 1: Something that's important to create a positive viewing experience. So,

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00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 1: for example, sports can be a little disconcerting. They can

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Speaker 1: even induce nausea if you if it's taking too much

630
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 1: of your field of view while you're trying to look

631
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Speaker 1: at one specific point uh in the the the image.

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Speaker 1: So let's say that it's a football game and you're

633
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,760
Speaker 1: concentrating on the quarterback, but a lot of this stuff

634
00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:51,800
Speaker 1: is going on around it, around you, and some super

635
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:55,279
Speaker 1: high resolution and it's taking up a lot of your

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Speaker 1: field of view. That can actually make you start feeling

637
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Speaker 1: motion sickness, So you don't want to have it take

638
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:03,839
Speaker 1: up so much of your field of view. That's giving

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00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 1: you a negative uh experience. And it's also partly because

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00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,880
Speaker 1: sports tend to be really fast paced, so you end

641
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: up having to look around a lot, maybe even move

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00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,240
Speaker 1: your head, depending on how close you are to the television.

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00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 1: If it's taking up so much of your frame of

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00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 1: view that you actually have to turn your head in

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00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 1: order to follow what's happening, you're probably too close to

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00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 1: the TV. It feels like you're sitting in that front

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Speaker 1: row in a movie theater. That's really too close to

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Speaker 1: be a good viewing experience. You sit there, and you

649
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: think the only reason these seats exist is so the

650
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 1: theater can sell them. It doesn't have any benefit to

651
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 1: the viewer. You don't want to be in that first

652
00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 1: row or maybe the first two rows, depending on the

653
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 1: movie theater you're in. UH. But let's say you know,

654
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 1: you want to figure out what is the ideal viewing

655
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 1: area for your particular television and you want to take

656
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: all these factors into consideration television screen size as well

657
00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: as its resolution. What do you do? Luckily, you can

658
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 1: learn all about this over at that side I was

659
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 1: talking about. According to the site, the average human viewing

660
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 1: angle takes up about a hundred thirty five degrees. So

661
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 1: that's what you start with. You have a hundred thirty

662
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,800
Speaker 1: five degrees viewing angle just from human vision. Our teams

663
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: suggest that if you want your television UH to display

664
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Speaker 1: cinematic content, like you're gonna watch a lot of movies

665
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 1: on your TV, maybe look at around of that field

666
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,840
Speaker 1: of view being taken up by your television. If you

667
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 1: want mixed usage, so you've gotta use your TV to

668
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 1: watch TV shows and sports and all sorts of different content,

669
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 1: maybe video games as well. You want to go closer

670
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 1: to thirty degrees. You want to decrease the amount of

671
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 1: space it's taking up in your field of view. Uh,

672
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 1: because bigger is not always better, It doesn't necessarily mean

673
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,879
Speaker 1: you're going to have a more pleasant viewing experience. So

674
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 1: the size of your TV is going to help determine

675
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 1: what you need to do, like how far back you

676
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:02,759
Speaker 1: need to sit from it. If the size of your

677
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 1: TV and the distance you sit from it means it

678
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,400
Speaker 1: takes up fifty degrees of your field of view, it's

679
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,360
Speaker 1: going to start feeling like you're sitting in that super

680
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: close theater seat. That's totally unpleasant. So let's say you

681
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 1: live in a modest apartment and you have limitations on

682
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 1: your space. You just don't have a whole lot of

683
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 1: space to work with your chair or couch or bean

684
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 1: bag or I don't know, your faithful servant on all

685
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 1: fours his positions, so that you sit six ft away

686
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 1: from the television that you're watching. So if you're sitting

687
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,840
Speaker 1: six ft away at that distance according to the R

688
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 1: Team's site, you have a size distance calculator, you'd be

689
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:43,879
Speaker 1: best served with a television that's got a forty three

690
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 1: inch screen, So six ft away screens perfect ohen Remember

691
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 1: these screen sizes are measured on the diagonal. They're not across,

692
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: it's it's from one corner to the other corner, uh,

693
00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,280
Speaker 1: diagonally across the screen. Now, could you buy a bigger

694
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 1: screen for your place? Yeah, but it might not actually

695
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 1: give you a better viewing experience. So let's say that

696
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:08,680
Speaker 1: you've been doing really well for yourself, and now you've

697
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:11,879
Speaker 1: got a nice large home theater room and you've got

698
00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:15,160
Speaker 1: your diamonds studded lazy boys at up about ten point

699
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:18,560
Speaker 1: nine ft or three point three one meters from your television,

700
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 1: and you plan on watching the Stanley Cup finals. So

701
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 1: how big a television will you need? Well, at that distance,

702
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: you need a screen that's eighty inches to take up

703
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,919
Speaker 1: thirty degrees of your field of view. So you're looking

704
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:34,879
Speaker 1: at an eighty inch television screen. Huge, right, But will

705
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:37,919
Speaker 1: you actually notice the uptick and resolution if you're using

706
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 1: a four KSE set and getting a four K feed

707
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:43,799
Speaker 1: of the hockey game versus an HD set with an

708
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:46,719
Speaker 1: HD feed of the hockey game. Our things did this

709
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:49,840
Speaker 1: work too. If the screen is small and we're sitting

710
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 1: far away, we cannot perceive a distance or difference rather

711
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 1: in resolutions. You won't be able to tell the difference

712
00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 1: between standard definition, High def aisition and ultra high definition

713
00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 1: because you're looking at a screen that's too far away

714
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:08,400
Speaker 1: and too small for those details to be perceivable. It

715
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:11,319
Speaker 1: does take this idea to the extreme, however, because if

716
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:13,840
Speaker 1: you're looking at s D versus HD versus uh D,

717
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:18,160
Speaker 1: you have to be really far away before those differences

718
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 1: no longer register with you. So let's say you've got

719
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:25,439
Speaker 1: a forty inch screen, it's a decent sized television. How

720
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 1: far away must the TV B so that you cannot

721
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Speaker 1: tell the difference between standard definition and high definition video sources?

722
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:36,239
Speaker 1: You'd have to have a fourteen feet away or four

723
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 1: point three meters. That's pretty far. Most people I know

724
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 1: don't set up a television fourteen feet away from where

725
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:43,879
Speaker 1: they're going to view it. So this tells us that

726
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:48,399
Speaker 1: the jump between standard definition and high definition is big

727
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 1: enough in quality to be perceptible at normal viewing distances

728
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:56,839
Speaker 1: with your typical televisions. So if you're not gonna sit

729
00:41:56,880 --> 00:41:59,919
Speaker 1: closer than fourteen feet, then it doesn't matter. But chance

730
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:02,399
Speaker 1: is are you are, so high definition would make sense.

731
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Speaker 1: But what about seven twenty high definition versus ten eighty

732
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: high definition. How close would you need to be to

733
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 1: this forty inch television to be able to tell the

734
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 1: difference between those two Well, you'd have to be about

735
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 1: eight feet away or two point four meters, so almost

736
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:21,720
Speaker 1: half the distance as the previous jump, So the seven

737
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 1: twenty entry level high definition. Once you hit eight feet away,

738
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 1: you would notice the difference between seven twenty and ten eight. Still,

739
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:32,520
Speaker 1: you might very well have your chair set up within

740
00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 1: eight feet, like you might be closer than eight feet

741
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:39,439
Speaker 1: when you have a forty inch television set. In fact,

742
00:42:39,480 --> 00:42:42,800
Speaker 1: the ideal viewing distance for a forty inch television screen

743
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:46,960
Speaker 1: is five point six feet, So if you followed that guideline,

744
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 1: you definitely be able to tell the difference between the

745
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 1: seven twenty and a ten eight resolution screen. But what

746
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:55,279
Speaker 1: about ultra high definition? So now we're looking at ten

747
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:59,439
Speaker 1: eighty versus four K. The ideal viewing distance to see

748
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 1: the difference in resolution for a forty in ultra high

749
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:08,280
Speaker 1: definition television is two point three ft or point seven

750
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 1: one less than a meter away. That's that's for you

751
00:43:12,239 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 1: to get to a point where you start noticing the

752
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 1: resolution limitations. So chances are. You're not gonna be sitting

753
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,399
Speaker 1: that close to your television. You're probably not saying within

754
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:24,799
Speaker 1: two point three ft of your TV, which means that

755
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 1: there's not any real difference between the HD quality and

756
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 1: the uh D quality as you perceive it because the

757
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:34,759
Speaker 1: limitations of the human eye. This has nothing to do

758
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 1: with the technology. The differences are there, we just can't

759
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 1: see them because our eyes don't pick up detail at

760
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:47,319
Speaker 1: that level. So while the technology makes it possible, we

761
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 1: can't really enjoy it unless we're sitting uncomfortably close to

762
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 1: our televisions. Now, obviously that's forty in television. That's not

763
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:58,879
Speaker 1: in the realm of the big, big screen TVs. It's

764
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: a decent sized tele vision, but you know they get

765
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:03,160
Speaker 1: much larger than that. What if we were looking at

766
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: a seventy inch television, If you had a seventy in

767
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:10,399
Speaker 1: uh D television, you'd have to sit closer than four

768
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:14,399
Speaker 1: point four feet or one point three five meters before

769
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:17,319
Speaker 1: you hit its resolution limitation. So my point is is

770
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:20,280
Speaker 1: that in most viewing cases, you're not likely to see

771
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: a big jump in picture quality on resolution alone unless

772
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 1: you're sitting right up on your screen. But one thing

773
00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:29,360
Speaker 1: you will get with a four K or U h

774
00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 1: D t V is the freedom to sit at whatever

775
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 1: distance you prefer from your television without it affecting your

776
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:37,239
Speaker 1: perception of the resolution. So you open up a lot

777
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 1: more options with your home theater system. If you're going

778
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:42,160
Speaker 1: four O K, you don't have to worry about, oh, well,

779
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 1: this seat is a little too close because I can

780
00:44:43,600 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 1: actually see the the pixels here. You're not gonna have

781
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:49,760
Speaker 1: that happen with four K unless you set the chair

782
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:52,400
Speaker 1: where you can reach out and touch the screen of

783
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:55,080
Speaker 1: the TV, which I do not recommend you do, particularly

784
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: with a seven inch television. Um So, it doesn't necessarily

785
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:04,440
Speaker 1: mean that the experience is going to be measurably better.

786
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:08,160
Speaker 1: You might notice it occasionally, depending upon the feed, but

787
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:12,680
Speaker 1: it's not as big a jump from h D to

788
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 1: U h D as it was from s D to

789
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:18,760
Speaker 1: h D as far as our perception is concerned. Anyway,

790
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:27,320
Speaker 1: technologically it was a huge jump. Now, it doesn't necessarily

791
00:45:27,320 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 1: mean this picture is going to leap out at you

792
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:32,200
Speaker 1: with lifelike quality. If you've seen four K demonstrations and

793
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:35,440
Speaker 1: stores and you've noticed a huge difference between four K

794
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 1: and ten eight, and you thought well, Jonathan, you're crazy.

795
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:41,759
Speaker 1: I've been to a television store and I've seen the

796
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:44,560
Speaker 1: four K sets and the quality is amazing. And then

797
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:46,280
Speaker 1: I looked at the h D sets that are running

798
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:48,719
Speaker 1: the same video, of the qualities nowhere near as good.

799
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:53,920
Speaker 1: It is demonstrably better with four K. This could be

800
00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 1: an example of a store gaming the system. I'm not

801
00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 1: saying all stores do this. I'm saying lots the stores

802
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:04,720
Speaker 1: do this. So there's more money to be made selling

803
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 1: four K TVs than h D t v s. There's

804
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:11,200
Speaker 1: an incentive to move those four K televisions. To do that,

805
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 1: you need to show that the four K sets are

806
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:16,759
Speaker 1: much better than the ten e D sets, at least

807
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:19,200
Speaker 1: until the standard is shifted enough so that the ten

808
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 1: sets are pretty much no longer an option in the

809
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:25,080
Speaker 1: first place, so you only have four k's to choose from.

810
00:46:25,239 --> 00:46:27,359
Speaker 1: One way you could do this is by stacking the deck,

811
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:31,279
Speaker 1: by making sure the video feeds going to four K

812
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:34,960
Speaker 1: sets are true four K video. So you've got true

813
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 1: uncompressed four K video going to these TVs. That's gonna

814
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:42,359
Speaker 1: give you the best quality video at least as far

815
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:46,399
Speaker 1: as resolution is concerned on those sets. Meanwhile, you might

816
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:50,799
Speaker 1: use highly compressed high definition video sent to the high

817
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:55,360
Speaker 1: definition sets. So while it is technically HD content, it

818
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:58,839
Speaker 1: has been compressed and therefore has introduced artifacts and some

819
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:03,120
Speaker 1: other elements that make it less ideal. So you can

820
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:05,839
Speaker 1: notice the difference between four K and HD, but in

821
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:09,840
Speaker 1: part because it's been manufactured, it's that it's not playing

822
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:13,400
Speaker 1: on a level field. The one set is getting the

823
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:16,680
Speaker 1: absolute best equipment and the other sets getting the worst

824
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:21,880
Speaker 1: or at least substandard. So that's a possibility. I'm not

825
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:24,240
Speaker 1: saying every store doesn't. I'm saying a lot of stores

826
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 1: do do it, though, so you might run into that. Also,

827
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Speaker 1: when you're looking at televisions in a store, chances are

828
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:33,440
Speaker 1: you're going to be standing a lot closer to the

829
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:36,360
Speaker 1: TV than you typically would at home when you're viewing

830
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:41,320
Speaker 1: it in your home theater space. As you are closer,

831
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 1: you will notice differences in that quality. The higher resolution

832
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:48,279
Speaker 1: when you're closer is going to hold up better than

833
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:51,719
Speaker 1: a lower resolution. But again, once you get into the

834
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:54,839
Speaker 1: viewing conditions of your home, you may be far enough

835
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:58,880
Speaker 1: back where that difference doesn't play up so much you

836
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:03,520
Speaker 1: can't really notice it. So keep that in mind as well,

837
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:05,319
Speaker 1: and I think this is a good place for me

838
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:08,239
Speaker 1: to relate a personal anecdote. I remember going to C

839
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Speaker 1: E S a few years ago when four KSE sets

840
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 1: were still in the concept phase, kind of the way

841
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:16,960
Speaker 1: eight case sets are now. I remember walking up to

842
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:20,840
Speaker 1: a company. I won't name the company, but they weren't

843
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 1: the only one. Several companies were doing this where they

844
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:26,799
Speaker 1: had two different television sets side by side, running the

845
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 1: same loop of video next to each other, and one

846
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 1: of them was a four case set and the other

847
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 1: was a high definition set. And I remember walking up

848
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 1: and as I walked up, looking at the two and thinking,

849
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:39,400
Speaker 1: I can't tell the difference. If they did not have

850
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:43,160
Speaker 1: the signs there, or if someone put one sign over,

851
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:45,879
Speaker 1: like if they swapped the two signs with each other,

852
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:49,040
Speaker 1: I still wouldn't have known. I wouldn't have said, Wow,

853
00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:51,840
Speaker 1: this HD actually looks better than that ultra high definition.

854
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:54,400
Speaker 1: To me, they looked almost identical. It wasn't until I

855
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:57,880
Speaker 1: got very close that I started to notice the differences.

856
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:00,480
Speaker 1: But then I was beyond where I would normally be

857
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 1: watching the television. I would have been further back had

858
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:06,400
Speaker 1: this actually been in my living room, so it was

859
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 1: largely lost on me, and at first I thought maybe

860
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:12,040
Speaker 1: it was just my limitations of my vision, but a

861
00:49:12,120 --> 00:49:14,480
Speaker 1: lot of other people felt the same way. Now I

862
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 1: think there might have even been a bit of a

863
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:19,279
Speaker 1: bias for some folks, because if you tell them this

864
00:49:19,320 --> 00:49:22,560
Speaker 1: one's got a higher resolution than that one, they might

865
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: believe they perceived that higher resolution, even if it's not

866
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:31,239
Speaker 1: within human levels of perception. You've got this in biases

867
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:34,120
Speaker 1: all the time, and in various experiments and studies. You

868
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:37,880
Speaker 1: have to be extra careful to build in for that

869
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 1: so that way you don't uh you don't skew the results.

870
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: So if you have the option, you should do a

871
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:48,520
Speaker 1: double blind test, which means neither the people running the

872
00:49:48,520 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 1: test nor the people taking the test know which display

873
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 1: is HD versus which one is u h D, And

874
00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:58,320
Speaker 1: if you could still tell the difference at normal viewing

875
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:01,640
Speaker 1: distances between the two, that tells you that uh D

876
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:07,400
Speaker 1: has a demonstrably better resolution if it's perceptible, But otherwise

877
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:10,080
Speaker 1: you would just say, well, you really can't tell the difference.

878
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 1: The same thing, by the way, is true of the

879
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:15,759
Speaker 1: eight case sets I've seen. Actually, I would argue it's

880
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:18,880
Speaker 1: more true even though you've got way more pixels with

881
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 1: an eight KSE set than you do with a four

882
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 1: case set. Those changes in details are so subtle to

883
00:50:24,640 --> 00:50:27,880
Speaker 1: the human eye as to be impossible to tell the difference.

884
00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:30,320
Speaker 1: So while I think you could probably tell the difference

885
00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:33,440
Speaker 1: between HD and four K if you're close enough, you

886
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:36,520
Speaker 1: have to be real, real close to an eight case

887
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:38,239
Speaker 1: set before you can tell the difference between an eight

888
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:40,560
Speaker 1: K and a four K. I just don't think that

889
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:44,359
Speaker 1: leap in pixels, as impressive as it is, has any

890
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:48,319
Speaker 1: real benefit. I do remember seeing a demonstration of an

891
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:52,680
Speaker 1: enormous one eight K television set in which I was

892
00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:56,120
Speaker 1: invited to take a magnifying glass and walk right up

893
00:50:56,160 --> 00:50:58,200
Speaker 1: to the screen so that I could finally see the

894
00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:01,759
Speaker 1: individual pixels with the help of magnification, which was an

895
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:07,920
Speaker 1: impressive display pun intended, but it was not really practical

896
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 1: for any everyday use. I mean, first of all, it's

897
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:13,399
Speaker 1: a hundred inch television. I definitely don't have a space

898
00:51:13,400 --> 00:51:17,360
Speaker 1: where a hundred inch television would fit and make any sense.

899
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 1: Some people do, I guess, but I can't imagine a

900
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:25,000
Speaker 1: situation where that eight K would actually result in a

901
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 1: noticeable difference in quality, at least not unless you had

902
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:31,960
Speaker 1: your nose pressed up against the screen. So the question

903
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:35,920
Speaker 1: is am I completely opposed to four K and higher resolutions.

904
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 1: We'll find out in a second, but first let's take

905
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:48,680
Speaker 1: a break to thank our sponsor. All right, bottom line,

906
00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:52,840
Speaker 1: do I think four KTVs are worth it? If I

907
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:56,719
Speaker 1: were shopping or television right now, I would probably look

908
00:51:56,719 --> 00:51:58,839
Speaker 1: at four K sets since they're starting to come down

909
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 1: in price and it will help me future proof my TV.

910
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:03,839
Speaker 1: So as much as it sounds like I've been bad

911
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 1: mouthing four K, I'm really just trying to build the

912
00:52:06,960 --> 00:52:12,280
Speaker 1: case to explain why that higher resolution is not necessarily

913
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:15,239
Speaker 1: the selling point you should look at. You should not

914
00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:18,480
Speaker 1: look at that number and think this number is bigger

915
00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:22,640
Speaker 1: than my old TVs number. Therefore this television set is

916
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:25,879
Speaker 1: better than my old TV. It is more complicated than that.

917
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 1: But I would look at four k's if I were

918
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:32,920
Speaker 1: buying a television right now. When they first debuted, they

919
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:35,120
Speaker 1: were costing thousands of dollars. I am not in that

920
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:36,799
Speaker 1: tax bracket. I am not going to be able to

921
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:39,759
Speaker 1: spend five grand on a TV. That's just not who

922
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 1: I am. It's not I don't make that kind of money.

923
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:44,840
Speaker 1: If someone wants to make me an offer, let me

924
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:48,480
Speaker 1: hear it. Otherwise, I'm going to buy televisions that are

925
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 1: more in my price range and only when I really

926
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:53,719
Speaker 1: need to upgrade. I don't think that four K on

927
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 1: its own is enough to push you to upgrade to

928
00:52:57,280 --> 00:53:00,640
Speaker 1: a new television if you're old television is working well,

929
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 1: If your old TV is still displaying a good picture,

930
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:08,480
Speaker 1: and you're satisfied with the way it performs and it

931
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:11,239
Speaker 1: works with all of your other equipment, I do not

932
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:14,799
Speaker 1: see a reason to upgrade right away. If you are

933
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:18,880
Speaker 1: looking to upgrade, four K is probably the way you

934
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:21,759
Speaker 1: should go rather than trying to find h D. The

935
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 1: differences in price have have come down to a point

936
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:27,799
Speaker 1: where it just makes more sense to look at four

937
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:34,000
Speaker 1: K than to keep looking for HD. So just don't

938
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:37,200
Speaker 1: expect it to be an enormous leap in picture quality

939
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:42,160
Speaker 1: from resolution alone anyway over an HD. Uh, It's not

940
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:44,799
Speaker 1: as big a leap from HD to four K as

941
00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:47,719
Speaker 1: you noticed from s D to HD. So instead of

942
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:50,960
Speaker 1: fixating on resolution, I would actually look at other factors

943
00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:56,000
Speaker 1: to help guide me to purchase the right television set

944
00:53:56,480 --> 00:54:02,399
Speaker 1: for me, for example, is just smart TV. This might

945
00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 1: surprise you, because if the answer is yes, it's a

946
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:09,280
Speaker 1: smart TV that actually makes me pause when it comes

947
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:13,960
Speaker 1: to buying the television set. I want to know what

948
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:16,759
Speaker 1: those smart features are, and I want to know how

949
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:20,960
Speaker 1: they are implemented in the television set. Is the television

950
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:24,719
Speaker 1: potentially going to compromise the security of my home network

951
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:28,520
Speaker 1: if it's an attack vector for a hacker, I don't

952
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:34,839
Speaker 1: want it Not. Everyone incorporates smart technology in a smart way,

953
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:39,759
Speaker 1: meaning a way that prevents outside attackers from getting some

954
00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 1: sort of access to your network. Now, a hacker might

955
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:45,040
Speaker 1: not be able to access everything on my home network

956
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:49,200
Speaker 1: through my television. It may be that that's just not possible,

957
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:51,840
Speaker 1: but they might be able to turn my TV into

958
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 1: a bot for a bot net and send traffic to

959
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 1: some other poor, unsuspecting web server out there. I don't

960
00:54:59,160 --> 00:55:01,560
Speaker 1: want that to happen. So I need to know that

961
00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:05,320
Speaker 1: the smart TV technology has been implemented in a way

962
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:09,319
Speaker 1: that is safe, which means doing research. I don't, off

963
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:12,120
Speaker 1: the top of my head know how all the different

964
00:55:12,120 --> 00:55:15,840
Speaker 1: implementations are, so I couldn't just rattle off which brands

965
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:19,000
Speaker 1: are are good and which brands might be less good

966
00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:23,759
Speaker 1: at security for your home network system. But beyond that,

967
00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:26,360
Speaker 1: I also want to know what features are in there.

968
00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:29,719
Speaker 1: Are there any voice activation features? If so, how does

969
00:55:29,760 --> 00:55:33,799
Speaker 1: that voice activation work? And is it constantly monitoring me?

970
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:38,280
Speaker 1: Is it something that could potentially record conversations? Again, whether

971
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:40,600
Speaker 1: a hacker attacks it or someone on the back end

972
00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:43,799
Speaker 1: of things flips the switch. I don't want that. I

973
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:48,120
Speaker 1: want to maintain my privacy. So in those cases, I

974
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:53,080
Speaker 1: would say, let's not get that smart TV because it

975
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:58,279
Speaker 1: ultimately could compromise my own privacy and security. So I

976
00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:01,719
Speaker 1: don't jump immediately on the smart TV bandwagon. Even though

977
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:05,080
Speaker 1: I love technology, I love getting the new toys with

978
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:07,680
Speaker 1: all the new bells and whistles, I don't want to

979
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:12,920
Speaker 1: jump on that wagon at the expense of my own safety.

980
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:16,640
Speaker 1: So I I would probably be a little cautious about

981
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:20,440
Speaker 1: buying a smart TV, unless, of course, I researched it

982
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:24,240
Speaker 1: and saw that either the application was really really safe

983
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:28,400
Speaker 1: or that the features that were involved are such that

984
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:31,160
Speaker 1: it's not likely to be a privacy risk in the

985
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:33,920
Speaker 1: first place. However, I've got a lot of other equipment

986
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:37,560
Speaker 1: that already allows me to access lots of streaming services,

987
00:56:38,160 --> 00:56:40,960
Speaker 1: web browsing, that kind of thing that are already connected

988
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 1: to my entertainment system, so I don't really need my

989
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:45,920
Speaker 1: television to do it too. But it would just be

990
00:56:45,960 --> 00:56:48,080
Speaker 1: a redundant system on top of the other ones I

991
00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:53,040
Speaker 1: already have, unless its implementation is so much better than

992
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:56,120
Speaker 1: the experience I get on my various consoles and other

993
00:56:56,160 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 1: equipment that it just makes sense to switch, because that

994
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:03,480
Speaker 1: could happen. If a TV interface is somehow better than

995
00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:07,040
Speaker 1: whatever other equipment I'm using, then I would switch, but

996
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:09,480
Speaker 1: again it would have to meet that level of privacy

997
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:13,280
Speaker 1: and security that I require before I adopt that technology.

998
00:57:13,719 --> 00:57:16,800
Speaker 1: Then there's refresh rate. This tells you how frequently the

999
00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 1: television creates the image, How quickly does it paint with pixels?

1000
00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:23,760
Speaker 1: How many times per second does it refresh the image

1001
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:27,040
Speaker 1: that you are looking at. Old standard definition televisions in

1002
00:57:27,080 --> 00:57:30,680
Speaker 1: the US had a refresh rate of sixty hurts, which

1003
00:57:30,720 --> 00:57:35,000
Speaker 1: was sixty frames per second. The really we're talking interlaced,

1004
00:57:35,360 --> 00:57:39,200
Speaker 1: so really it was thirty lines of pixels refreshed every

1005
00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:43,520
Speaker 1: second and thirty other lines of pixels refreshed every second,

1006
00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 1: with the two alternating each second, so or multiple times

1007
00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:52,480
Speaker 1: each second, so all the odd lines would be displayed.

1008
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:56,200
Speaker 1: Then all the even lines would be displayed, then all

1009
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:58,400
Speaker 1: the odd lines displayed again, then all the even lines

1010
00:57:58,480 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 1: displayed again, and both both sets would refresh thirty times

1011
00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:07,400
Speaker 1: a second with the full array of pixels. Uh being

1012
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:10,000
Speaker 1: you know, that's where you get your sixty. You can

1013
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:11,800
Speaker 1: take the thirty times too, That's where you get your

1014
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:16,120
Speaker 1: sixty hurts. But nowadays you can find refresh rates at

1015
00:58:16,120 --> 00:58:18,800
Speaker 1: a hundred twenty hurts or two hurts, or even higher

1016
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:22,680
Speaker 1: than that. Now does that bigger number mean better? In

1017
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:26,320
Speaker 1: my opinion, no, It's very similar to resolution, except in

1018
00:58:26,360 --> 00:58:28,160
Speaker 1: this case I would argue that the bigger numbers are

1019
00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 1: actually creating a less enjoyable viewing experience, at least for me.

1020
00:58:33,400 --> 00:58:37,680
Speaker 1: This again is personal preference. The higher refresh rates create

1021
00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:41,080
Speaker 1: a smoothing effect, so you reduce motion blur, you get

1022
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 1: smoother transitions, you can follow fast moving action much more clearly.

1023
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:48,400
Speaker 1: It's very good for stuff like sports. Let's say you've

1024
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:52,840
Speaker 1: got a really fast sport event that's on display on

1025
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:55,880
Speaker 1: your television. With a high refresh rate, you can really

1026
00:58:56,640 --> 00:59:02,280
Speaker 1: follow the action easily. But to me, that same quality

1027
00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:07,760
Speaker 1: makes certain television shows and movies almost unwatchable. It creates

1028
00:59:07,760 --> 00:59:10,560
Speaker 1: what people have referred to as the soap opera effect,

1029
00:59:10,680 --> 00:59:14,120
Speaker 1: this feeling that you're watching a digital video soap opera.

1030
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:17,480
Speaker 1: That feels a bit uncanny, right, It doesn't feel like

1031
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:21,560
Speaker 1: you're watching film or movies, or or television or anything

1032
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:26,320
Speaker 1: like that. And I personally don't like that effect. So

1033
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:29,160
Speaker 1: I would not be looking at any sort of television

1034
00:59:29,200 --> 00:59:33,240
Speaker 1: that has a refresh rate of two forty hurts. Hurts

1035
00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:35,840
Speaker 1: would be the top level that I would look at.

1036
00:59:37,040 --> 00:59:39,640
Speaker 1: The tricks used to create those refresh rates can smooth

1037
00:59:39,640 --> 00:59:42,920
Speaker 1: things out so much that again, it just becomes this

1038
00:59:43,000 --> 00:59:46,480
Speaker 1: negative experience. And I always talk about the Hobbit forty

1039
00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:51,480
Speaker 1: eight frames per second version that I saw. I hated

1040
00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:55,320
Speaker 1: that effect. I had a very negative reaction to it.

1041
00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:58,480
Speaker 1: I know there are filmmakers who love it. I despised it.

1042
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:02,160
Speaker 1: There's also other things to consider. The way the television

1043
01:00:02,240 --> 01:00:05,160
Speaker 1: is back lit is important. So you've got to have

1044
01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:07,800
Speaker 1: light coming from behind the television screen in order for

1045
01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:10,960
Speaker 1: you to see the displays that your television shows. Right like,

1046
01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:13,440
Speaker 1: you won't see any picture if there's no light coming

1047
01:00:13,560 --> 01:00:17,320
Speaker 1: from the TV. But some televisions use light that is

1048
01:00:17,400 --> 01:00:21,680
Speaker 1: called edge lighting. Edge lighting creates columns of light across

1049
01:00:21,760 --> 01:00:26,160
Speaker 1: your television, So that means that the color and light

1050
01:00:26,200 --> 01:00:29,360
Speaker 1: representation is going to be more accurate within those columns

1051
01:00:29,360 --> 01:00:31,920
Speaker 1: than it will be at the edges of those columns,

1052
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:37,480
Speaker 1: and it's not as good as a fully backlit television

1053
01:00:37,520 --> 01:00:41,680
Speaker 1: that has what is called full array local dimming. If

1054
01:00:41,680 --> 01:00:44,960
Speaker 1: you have full array local dimming with a backlit television,

1055
01:00:45,240 --> 01:00:48,280
Speaker 1: it's just gonna be a more convincing image. In general,

1056
01:00:48,320 --> 01:00:51,560
Speaker 1: the colors are going to be more accurate, and the

1057
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:54,720
Speaker 1: lighting will be more accurate as well, and it can

1058
01:00:54,760 --> 01:00:59,440
Speaker 1: provide lots more gradiations in light intensity, so you can

1059
01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:05,520
Speaker 1: have more subtle differences between various say darkly lit scenes. Uh.

1060
01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:08,840
Speaker 1: I always think about the Batman films when I talk

1061
01:01:08,920 --> 01:01:13,720
Speaker 1: about this level of of quality for television. If you

1062
01:01:13,720 --> 01:01:16,320
Speaker 1: think about Batman movies, particularly the ones that were made,

1063
01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:20,919
Speaker 1: you know, in the nineties and up to present day,

1064
01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:23,840
Speaker 1: they often have action sequences that take place in the dark.

1065
01:01:23,920 --> 01:01:26,880
Speaker 1: Batman often is lurking in the shadows. But if you

1066
01:01:26,880 --> 01:01:31,680
Speaker 1: don't have a really good display that's able to show

1067
01:01:31,720 --> 01:01:38,880
Speaker 1: these gradations in and uh similarly colored items on screen,

1068
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:42,360
Speaker 1: like things that are dark gray versus black, everything gets lost.

1069
01:01:42,440 --> 01:01:44,800
Speaker 1: You can't make out any detail, so you need to

1070
01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:48,120
Speaker 1: have that subtle change in lighting to be able to

1071
01:01:48,120 --> 01:01:51,040
Speaker 1: make out what's what's actually happening. Otherwise you might as

1072
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:53,080
Speaker 1: well just be watching a black screen and play the

1073
01:01:53,200 --> 01:01:58,320
Speaker 1: movie soundtrack on on the stereo. Then there's contrast ratio,

1074
01:01:58,400 --> 01:02:00,959
Speaker 1: which is related to this. You want a really good

1075
01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:04,600
Speaker 1: contrast ratio, but there's a problem. There's no standard of

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Speaker 1: measurement for contrast ratio. Contrast ratio is something that a

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Speaker 1: lot of manufacturers talk about, but there's no simple metric

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Speaker 1: to point at where you can you can judge one

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Speaker 1: television versus another just using that metric. It doesn't exist.

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Speaker 1: What you want is the ability for your television set

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Speaker 1: to display true black colors as as close to true

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Speaker 1: black as possible, and true white colors as as close

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Speaker 1: to bright white as possible, with as many different gradations

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Speaker 1: between those two extremes as you possibly can get. The

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Speaker 1: more gradations you get, the more accurate you can represent

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Speaker 1: different colors in different levels of light. So keep in

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Speaker 1: mind that if you go to a store to check

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Speaker 1: out these televisions, because really the only way you can

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Speaker 1: get an idea of a television's contrast ratio is to

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Speaker 1: see one of the TVs showing something. You need to

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Speaker 1: watch the TV so you can see what the contrast

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Speaker 1: ratio looks like like. Do the dark portions of the

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Speaker 1: screen actually look dark? Do they look charcoal gray because

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of light bleeding through. You need to

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Speaker 1: actually be there in person and view it. The problem

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Speaker 1: is if you go to a store and you go

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Speaker 1: and watch these TVs, they may not be calibrated properly,

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Speaker 1: which means you might not be seeing the television at

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Speaker 1: its best example right. It might be miscalibrated. So it

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Speaker 1: may require multiple trips to multiple stores to get an

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Speaker 1: idea of which sets are have the best contrast ratio.

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Speaker 1: Or you can rely on review sites that have people

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Speaker 1: who calibrate these sets and do measurements and they try

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Speaker 1: their best to say which ones have the best contrast ratio.

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Speaker 1: That's your other option. I do highly recommend doing that

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Speaker 1: research because contrast ratio does make a big difference, especially

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Speaker 1: if you like to watch movies in a dark room,

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Speaker 1: It's gonna make a huge difference. This is getting a

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Speaker 1: little calm implicated, but that's the way good televisions are.

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Speaker 1: And now there's high dynamic range or HDR. This isn't

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Speaker 1: about resolution, but this is about color replication. It can

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Speaker 1: also contribute to better contrast ratios if you have HDR. Now,

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Speaker 1: HDR is a technology, it's a set of standards, which

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Speaker 1: actually it's a competing sets of standards as it turns out,

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Speaker 1: but it's starting to shake out now. But like four

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Speaker 1: K resolutions, in order to enjoy the the technology of HDR,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to have content that was shot or

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Speaker 1: processed in HDR. In other words, if you just play

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Speaker 1: any old video on an HDR television set, it's not

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Speaker 1: like the colors are going to suddenly turn magical and

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Speaker 1: feel like you're right there. You have to have HDR

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Speaker 1: content to take advantage of this technology, just like you

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Speaker 1: don't have to have a four K video to take

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Speaker 1: advantage of four K resolution. Now, if that is the case,

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Speaker 1: if you do have HDR content and you have an

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Speaker 1: HDR set, you're going to enjoy a much more subtle

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Speaker 1: palette of colors than one that does not have HDR.

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Speaker 1: Images are going to appear more vibrant, they're going to

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Speaker 1: the brightest colors are going to have very subtle changes

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Speaker 1: in them. So it looks very realistic, to the point

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Speaker 1: where if you have a really good high resolution television

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Speaker 1: with HDR, they might look like you're looking at a

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Speaker 1: window into another scene. So if it were a garden,

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Speaker 1: it might look like you're looking at actual physical plants,

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Speaker 1: and the television is really just a portal that leads

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Speaker 1: you in there. So it gives you an amazing sense

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Speaker 1: of depth. It's not three D the way we traditionally

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Speaker 1: think about like we think of three D is stuff

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Speaker 1: coming toward us from the screen, But this is three

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Speaker 1: D in the sense of depth, Like it feels like

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Speaker 1: you could step into the screen and go further into

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Speaker 1: the scene itself. That's how effective HDR is when it

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Speaker 1: is properly implement it. There's always a qualifier because you

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Speaker 1: can do bad HDR and it won't make it won't

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Speaker 1: make it look magical, it'll just look bad. So UH

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Speaker 1: is pretty powerful stuff, though, so I highly recommend that

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Speaker 1: if you're going television shopping you look at HDR. So

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Speaker 1: if I'm buying a television today, i'd look for something

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Speaker 1: around the fifty inch range because that's about what I

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Speaker 1: have now. Maybe go up to sixty inch because I'm

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Speaker 1: tempted to. I know that sixty inch is probably too

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Speaker 1: large a television for my living room, but I kind

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Speaker 1: of want to make that mistake anyway. My wife, however,

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Speaker 1: being the voice of reason, keeps me grounded, sometimes literally

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Speaker 1: grounds me. But that's a concept for a totally different

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Speaker 1: type of show. So I'd probably stick somewhere in the

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Speaker 1: fifty range. I'd want HDR because even though it's early

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Speaker 1: days of HDR and there's still not a huge amount

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Speaker 1: of content out there, the difference is really noticeable, more

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Speaker 1: so than four K resident Suan, So I would definitely

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Speaker 1: want HDR to be part of the television. It probably

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Speaker 1: would be a four case set. I don't think I

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Speaker 1: would find an HDR HD set out there, or I

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Speaker 1: don't know that I would necessarily want one. Might as

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Speaker 1: well go to four K if I'm gonna go with HDR,

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Speaker 1: and it probably would not be a smart television and

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Speaker 1: it would have a true refresh rate of twenty hurts

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Speaker 1: at most. Otherwise I would not be interested. Now if

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Speaker 1: some company out there is saying, Jonathan, you're totally off base.

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Speaker 1: You have miss misrepresented these technologies are televisions are amazing.

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Speaker 1: You will definitely tell the difference between this ultra high

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Speaker 1: definition resolution and whatever you're currently using, we can guarantee it.

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Speaker 1: Here's how we can prove me wrong. Just send me

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Speaker 1: the television and I'll be happy to give it a

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Speaker 1: full test drive and report on it and let you

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Speaker 1: know what I thought, because Dad, he needs a new TV.

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Speaker 1: This never works. By the way, years ago, I mentioned

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Speaker 1: on an episode of Tech Stuff that I really wanting

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Speaker 1: to go on a helicopter ride. And there are a

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Speaker 1: couple of helicopter pilots who are out there who are

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Speaker 1: tech Stuff fans, including one who works around Atlanta, and

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Speaker 1: I have not been in a helicopter yet, so I

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Speaker 1: anticipate I will not magically be the recipient of a

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Speaker 1: four K hd R TV anytime in the near future.

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Speaker 1: But a guy could dream, right, And it was my

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Speaker 1: birthday just the other day, all right. More seriously, guys,

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Speaker 1: that wraps up this discussion. Is four K resolution really

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Speaker 1: worth it? It's debatable. I side on the probably not

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Speaker 1: for most cases. But at the same time, if I

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Speaker 1: were buying a television today, I would get a four

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Speaker 1: case set because that there are other options that are

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Speaker 1: frequently bundled with four K that make a very real difference,

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Speaker 1: and who knows, it may be one of those times

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Speaker 1: where I would notice a little bit of a difference,

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