Posts made by Mike Ralston

@Dashrender There's your answer. Film is done to look good, TV is done to comply to stringent FCC rules.

@scottalanmiller I guess I'd define "Common" as "What is common knowledge among professionals in a designated area"

@thecreativeone91 Maybe broadcast is more locked down in the US, but with Digital Broadcasting, a network can stream at the resolution and aspect ratio that it wants. The TV receiving it will downsample or stretch the image, but that's up to the hardware on the user end. And HD does not refer to Interlaced Scan video, only Progressive Scan. Interlaced is used for TV broadcasting, and the occasional piece of professional equipment, most everything else is progressive scan.

@thecreativeone91 HD is commonly accepted as 720p, 4K is properly known as 4096 x 2160, and so forth. Broadcast isn't standardized, as every network may choose to broadcast at a different resolution or aspect ratio. Film is done at 1.85:1 or 2.35:1 most commonly, and this can be viewed in it's proper glory on 21:9 aspect ratio monitor, a new generalized "standard" that has been out for a few years.

@scottalanmiller said:

VESA is just a company that sells standards and hasn't been a major player in decades. They were anything but standards for "all" displays and neither has had any important role in a very, very long time.

VESA is the group responsible for standardized monitor mounting, and the highest bandwidth consumer display connector currently available, DisplayPort, which is the only standard currently able to support Adaptive Synchronization. VESA is made of a large number of corporations who get to decide what the de facto standards are, that everyone else follows. Maybe they aren't OFFICIAL standards, but they are the industry standards that everyone involved in the display panel industry knows, and they are widely accepted. So, I was incorrect for saying they are Official Standards, as they weren't set forth by the FCC or some governing body, I apologize for the misinformation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC

@scottalanmiller All standards for display resolutions were set out by NTSC and VESA.

@scottalanmiller said:

UHD is standardized only in Japan, it looks like, but it is still an English language description that can't be a standard, in general terms.
UHD is the standard for 3840 x 2160, globally. Marketing teams call it 4K, and then suddenly the lines are blurred. It isn't 4K, it's UHD.

@scottalanmiller said:

Not does marketing claiming that something is a standard make it so. HD simply predates the standard. We had HD when I was little and no one had dreamed up 480p yet.

Just because people said high-definition, those are just words people use to describe it. High-Definition is now a standard, and since the resolution was developed, it has been called as such... And regardless of WHEN the terms were coined, they're still the industry standard, and the lines are very clear as to what term applies to what resolution. The only time that this isn't clear, is when people haven't been educated about the proper terms, which is perfectly fine, but the industry still uses accepted standards. Everything in the electronics industry is carefully categorized, display resolutions are the same way. And, as always, marketing is usually not correct, and popular belief tends to be based on what someone saw on Facebook, or a TV advertisement.

@scottalanmiller I don't know who set the standards, probably FCC, ISO, EGA, etc., but they are indeed standards, and have been since they were conceived... Marketing teams may use them incorrectly, but that doesn't change that HD is a standard, as is HD+, FHD, UHD, UXGA, and so on and so forth.

@scottalanmiller There's a whole lot of terms, and every single one is standardized, it's just that the general public doesn't know what each one means (but isn't that always the case?), and neither do people in marketing for said products. 720p and 720i are both HD, 1080p and 1080i are FHD (Full High Definition). 4K is actually a 16:10 at 4096 x 2160, which is not the consumer standard for "4K", which is actually 3840 x 2160, and is technically called UHD.

@Dashrender Are you asking why movies are not shot in the same aspect ratio that TV's and Monitors use?

@scottalanmiller said:

@Mike-Ralston said:

Well, with an APU, you're not going to be playing anything newer than 2008 on an Oculus Rift or a 1080p display...

The APU was based on your recommendations of it being so powerful for gaming in the other thread.

What? Nooooooooo. It's fantastic for normal workloads, and the Price to Perfromance is fantastic, even for games, but that doesn't make it good.

The Gigabyte Brix PC's are pretty good, but beware, the one with the GTX 760 in it, it is a full desktop GPU, not a mobile version. The heat output is massive, and after it's been on for a bit, the cooling can't keep up, and the card will throttle down to about 60% of it's actual performance. And, it is an actual 760. 870 isn't an actual card, the only version of anything 800 series are the mobile chips.

Well, with an APU, you're not going to be playing anything newer than 2008 on an Oculus Rift or a 1080p display... You're going to want a dedicated GPU for gaming, but even up to the 970 can be had in a micro form factor, like so http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125706&cm_re=Gigabyte_GTX_970--14-125-706--Product

What would your budget be, for said machine? That's always the easiest starting point.

@scottalanmiller Yes, an actual job. I'm a little out of the loop of communication, but it sounds like he's working for a restaurant.

@Breffni-Potter Actually only just this morning, Eloy has managed to get a job, and his significant other has gotten a place to stay, until they can afford to get an apartment or some such thing.

@scottalanmiller It was rushed, I don't really know the process behind choosing the person to do it.

@scottalanmiller Thank you soooooooooooooo much. We're making amends to this ASAP

@scottalanmiller One of them is extremely fluent in English, but that's it.

@scottalanmiller it's just the nearest place with an airport I guess