A lot of monitors have particularly bad HDR, the max brightness being so low you might as well not bother. And as you’ve found out some games are really washed out for some reason. Like to the point where the game is almost entirely grey.

Worse, some games actually detect the capability in the monitor and turn it back on, and for that reason I wasn’t able to play Nex Machina on PC.

It’s basically HDR (the 10 bit display kind, not the Half Life 2 kind), but with more metadata.

What I find is that if you have a Dolby Vision capable TV, it will be already calibrated to something that looks good, rather than you having to fuck around telling it how bright “paper” is or some shit.

HDR displays are surprisingly tricky, even without Dolby Vision or HDR10+. Especially if you’re mixing SDR and HDR content on a display. I tried it a few years ago on Windows and it was flat out awful. I think they’ve fixed a lot of it up now with Win 11, but even they took their damn time over it.

MS do sell Atmos (and DTS:X) support as an individually licensed thing, threough Dolby Access and DTS Sound Unbound on their store.

I do wonder how it could work in Linux, as well as getting things like commercial streaming services in 4K.

Presumably some sort of black box hardware would be needed (for the super top secret Widevine L1 shit), the manufacturer of that can pay the Dolby fees, and then just some basic open source code to call the hardware features.

Yeah, it’s just what would work for me once I cancel Netflix Premium Plus with Reduced Adverts.

You’re absolutely right, that’s just me not wanting it for Jellyfin on those grounds.

For mainstream users, I would assume that Linux being unable to run streaming services at full quality would discount it as a serious contender as well.

Does it support Dolby Vision?

Because if not, I’m not sure how it’s going to compete with Android TV devices.

And then falling out over it anyway.

Do something you love as a job, and you’ll have one less thing that you love.

I fucking hate those sites. As far as I’m concerned if you can’t even browse without making an account, it shouldn’t show up in search engines.

Texas is America’s America.

I just can’t reconcile the guy that has to be told to tone it down a bit by Darth Vader, to the pussy he becomes in that show.

And even that is a masterpiece compared to the Obi Wan series…

How dare you slight the cohesion and vision of the Whatever Sony Has The Rights To Cinematic Universe?

They don’t half nip your plums though

Yeah, but I have to stick my face right up close and slowly move it away to do so.

Phone/tablet screens work best for it.

Right? I can’t tell you how disappointed I was to move to a “real” PC later and find the tools to be so much worse. Like you could position stuff with a GUI in VB or Delphi, but if you wanted to resize a window, it was a real faff to get everything moving about as it should.

My nan got all her cats this way. The last few were a trio of kittens she found huddled under the tree at the end of her garden during a storm. She did keep an eye out for the mother, but if she was around she never came back for them.

Most of them outlived her in the end, and my uncle ended up with them.

Java for this flash in the pan mobile shit? Sure, they like breaking things.

Java for enterprise? No. They’re probably only just finished converting that COBOL system to it, and they started 20 years ago. People have died while making it. They will never change anything.

There used to be a UI library on the Amiga called MUI.

It used a bunch of C macros to let you define the window and all the controls. Was honestly pretty good considering it was like 30 years ago.

Deshittify, technically.

I’m on VPN so my highest is like 6.

I’m got a 100Mbps upload but nobody wants it through a VPN. 😢