BirdObserver
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- Comment on Sketchy social media post gives BlackBerry fans hope for the return of the smartphone brand 5 days ago:
I know we hate Reddit here but this site is just taken from and rephrasing this post, which is more informative (which at least they were nice enough to link to): reddit.com/…/a_startup_is_bringing_back_an_update…
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 1 month ago:
It’ll break saving books you bought from Amazon, but you’ll still be able to send books you got from other places to it from Calibre. Fortunately barely any of my ebooks on my kindle are from Amazon (though my next ereader isn’t going to be a kindle, that’s for sure).
- Comment on LG discontinues all UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players 3 months ago:
4K discs are so niche that this just isn’t really true, since they simply don’t bother to add that stuff. Almost every 4K disc I have just loads right into a bland generic menu with only a skippable logo for universal or whatever at the beginning. On top of that, they’re all region free.
Now most of these 4K discs come with a regular (often older) Blu-ray which contains the features from previous releases or whatever, and THAT’S where the bullshit you’re talking about is - lots of trailers (with it being a crapshoot whether you can skip straight to the menu, need to skip one at a time, or have to actually fast forward them), and, worst of all, defunct BD-Live stuff that in some cases you have no way to skip loading at all, even if you completely disable network connectivity in the player.
But yeah, modern 4K discs are mostly great and still absolutely way better video and audio quality than any streaming service I’ve used - the worst thing you usually get is maybe one dumb copyright notice. (LG’s 4K players were terrible anyway though making the experience bad for consumers for a different reason, but that’s for another comment).