On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 02:28 PM, Bhairitu wrote:

Yeah, the next set will be HDR.

It's difficult to justify spending more money on a TV set when you already have a perfectly good set. Although my friend in Austin says to try and have backups of every device, just in case of a malfunction and you might miss something. YMMV.

One thing to watch for in the Vizio set beside the low price, is built-in Chromecast that I use with my small Chromebook. Vizio also has Pluto Watch-For-Free. IHMO.

Update:

Vizio M7 Series Quantum 2020 $499.99 Best Buy $439.00 Amazon

Source:

The 6 Best 4k HDR TVs - Spring 2021

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Not all 4K is HDR either.? The TCL got some firmware for HDR->SDR conversion so on Roku apps does that.? The Sony player also has HDR->SDR conversion.

Yeah, the next set will be HDR.

On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 11:31 AM, Bhairitu wrote:

My set is a TCL Roku 55" which is 4 years old and doesn't have HDR.

FYI: HDR, or high-dynamic range, is the current "must-have" TV feature. TVs that support it can usually offer brighter highlights and a wider range of color detail, for a punchier image overall. YMMV.

"Almost every new TV launched comes with basic support of HDR. Unfortunately, basic support simply means that the TV can accept HDR metadata and not necessarily that it will display the HDR content as intended."

What is HDR for TVs, and why should you care?



Best 4k HDR OLED TV: LG CX OLED $1,349.99 Amazon

Best 4k HDR LED TV: Vizio P Series Quantum X 2020 $1,529.99 B&H

Notable Mentions:

Vizio OLED 2020 $1,299.99 Best Buy

Vizio M7 Series Quantum 2020 $499.99 Best Buy

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On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 01:00 AM, Morgan Montague wrote:

I got The Ten Commandments for $19 and 2001: a space odyssey for $24.

Nice!

After seeing David Lynch's The Elephant Man (Honorary Oscar 2019) and Eraserhead in a theater on the UT campus, of course I was tuned into Twin Peaks, the TV series. Wild at Heart was great to see in an AMC theater too. I already have the VHS tape of Fire Walk With Me and the DVD set of Twin Peaks. My friend in Austin, the collector, who claims he owns over 2000 DVD discs, tried to get me to buy the Blu-ray set at $76.00 on eBay. But, I opted for the Blu-Ray FWWM at $24.49 from Amazon. YMMV.

From Amazon reviews:

"I highly recommend this set. A damn fine set!" - Russell T

"Viewing the first few episodes I was glad I'd made the purchase despite the bad packaging. Though now a period piece, the range of characters, locations, and plot lines makes this an addictive played-straight classic comic soap opera (I find it incredibly funny)." - Daniel B. Lyle

"I loved the weird story line. Had to watch the first two stories like 3 times before I could wrap my brain around this storyline. WOW! At first could not bare listening to the score of this show. Then I read up on this music and then I understood." - Rena R Trent

Twin Peaks: The Television Collection
Paramount, 2019
Format: Blu-ray

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
Criterion Collection, Special Edition, 2017
Format: Blu-ray, DTS Surround Sound

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Twin Peaks Theme - by Angelo Badalamenti - HQ

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I got The Ten Commandments for $19 and 2001: a space odyssey for $24. Not as good as your deal, but still in a reasonable range for 4K.

I'm not much of a collector.? The Redbox kiosks around here have UHD BDs for rent.? The last one they got was Wonder Woman 1984.? There is a lot of 4K streaming though and often not even marked as being 4K.? My set is a TCL Roku 55" which is 4 years old and doesn't have HDR.? The UHD player is a Sony 700X which I got a good deal on.? My other two UHD discs are DREDD and John Wick which I bought because it was $10 on a Black Friday deal.? DREDD I actually bought before I bought the player because I wanted the Blu-ray but the first edition sold out due to it being 3D.? There would be a few collector rescans I would like to collect including "Halloween III" which was rescanned in 4K but only released as a Steelbox BD.

I got The Ten Commandments for $19 and 2001: a space odyssey for $24. Not as good as your deal, but still in a reasonable range for 4K.

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SpaceX starship had ‘near miss with a UFO’

Clickbait.? Tell me where in the video is the UFO?
?

It looks like scientists at the Wuhan lab helped Chinese army in secret project to find animal viruses. Go figure.

"Scientists studying bat diseases at China's maximum-security laboratory in Wuhan were engaged in a massive project to investigate animal viruses alongside leading military officials."

New clues about the origins of Covid

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 12:23 PM, WillyTex wrote:

maybe Ghislaine will clear it all up in her trial.

Let's get this out of the way right now - Ghislane Maxwell did not commit suicide.

New photos show Epstein and Maxwell were VIP guests in Clinton’s White House.

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On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 01:50 PM, Bhairitu wrote:

The Mexican general retired here and the town is named after him.

You've simply got to stop making sense!

Everyone knows that Latinos are not a separate race, they are European Caucasian. Everyone knows that the Native Americans are Asians, but that is a point of origin. Most people when they talk about race they are really just talking about ethnicity or a common language. This whole race theory is a myth. It's actually akin to brainwashing and conspiracy theories.

There are no human races in nature. Modern science regards race as a social construct, an identity which is assigned based on rules made by society. Race does not have an inherent physical or biological meaning. According to what I've read, the idea of race is inherently naive or just simplistic. Among humans, race has no taxonomic significance because all living humans belong to the same subspecies, Homo sapiens sapiens. YMMV.

There's also a theory that South America was not populated by Russians crossing the Bering Strait but by India sailors who got off course.? They believe that's the reason some SA temples resemble like Shiva temples.

Indians are also considered caucasian so it was funny to have my tantra guru refer to us as "white guys".? However I notice how Asian looking people in early Indian art look.

The differences really are race but cultural anyway.? Funny thing is we often like to celebrate other cultures so why is there a problem.

On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 12:12 PM, Emily Mae wrote:

What can a recently "woke white person" do?

This just kind of sounds like race theory, Emily. YMMV.

The association of race with the discredited theories of scientific racism has contributed to race becoming increasingly seen as a largely pseudoscientific system of classification. Apparently there is a consensus among anthropologists and geneticists that race as largely discrete, geographically distinct, gene pools – does not exist.

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 01:50 PM, Bhairitu wrote:

The Mexican general retired here and the town is named after him.

You've simply got to stop making sense!

Everyone knows that Latinos are not a separate race, they are European Caucasian. Everyone knows that the Native Americans are Asians, but that is a point of origin. Most people when they talk about race they are really just talking about ethnicity or a common language. This whole race theory is a myth. It's actually akin to brainwashing and conspiracy theories.

There are no human races in nature. Modern science regards race as a social construct, an identity which is assigned based on rules made by society. Race does not have an inherent physical or biological meaning. According to what I've read, the idea of race is inherently naive or just simplistic. Among humans, race has no taxonomic significance because all living humans belong to the same subspecies, Homo sapiens sapiens. YMMV.

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Vallejo?

I think you are asking about the town where I live which is Martinez.? It's also where John Muir settled.? His mansion is up the street and I live in what was once his orchard.

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 01:50 PM, Bhairitu wrote:

many of the residents are descendants of the Mexicans who were here before California was a state.

The "critical race theorists" are a fringe on the left and right extremes, and the facts keep getting in their way. It’s today’s woke history that’s oversimplified and racist. History is as complex as life itself.

The vast majority of people with Texas blood flowing in their veins instinctively recognize the Alamo as the enduring symbol of freedom that it is, but others need to hear the facts about what happened there, including especially that it had zero to do with “white supremacy.”

At the Alamo

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On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 11:28 AM, Bhairitu wrote:

Probably not for the children here.

This might be more their speed. YMMV.

Wild At Heart - Love Me (Performed by Nicolas Cage) Lynch movie

I have that movie.... on laserdisc. ?

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 10:55 AM, Emily Mae wrote:

Anyone who spouts Republicanism in todays world is fooling themselves and hasn't faced the truth yet.??

You kind of sound like you're in some sort of denial, politically speaking. As they say in China, "Don't trust government - government is asshole!" YMMV.

So, I almost always do a write-in when voting in national elections, usually for the Green Party or sometimes Libertarian. You should vote for the Party, not the man (or woman). I'd never vote for that war-monger Hillary Clinton who voted to bomb the shit out of Libya trying to save it, or George W. Bush who invaded Afghanistan and got us in a boondoggle that has lasted eighteen years. The last eight US Presidents have been involved in wars all across the planet - and not a single one has been able to win a conflict since the Allied victory in WW II, including the invasion of N. Korea or the civil war in Vietnam.

It's just outrageous the incompetence in government!

On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 11:28 AM, Bhairitu wrote:

Probably not for the children here.

This might be more their speed. YMMV.

Wild At Heart - Love Me (Performed by Nicolas Cage) Lynch movie