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To my chagrin:

1) Robinhood for normal stocks

2) Disney+ vs AmazonPrime/Netflix

-> HDR for no additional fee, remastered exclusive content, a very full non region-locked (AFAIK) library, consistent streaming quality, straight-to-VOD shows, and premium movies.

->Some might argue not 10x, I can be convinced to agree. It's a solid 1.5x at a minimum though.

3) AWS Workspaces vs RDP

-> Ease of use out of the box is just unparalleled.




> HDR for no additional fee

The first thing I turn off when I get a new TV is motion smoothing. The second thing is HDR.


Why?


Most mid-to-cheap end "HDR" TVs look absolutely awful on HDR. The colours are washed out and the contrast is blown out. If your device sends an HDR signal, in many cases it'll look worse than not having HDR at all.


I completely agree. I was an early adopter of a Sony HDR10 set and am pretty worse off for it. Genuinely curious though as to what you consider a good HDR tv though.


The only way HDR looks good is on an OLED screen with perfect black levels, in my opinion.

When the entire screen can be pitch black, and a single pixel can be fully lit up, that's when HDR really shines.

All of the LED/LCD HDR solutions look like shit, in my opinion. Even the screens touting a hundred different lighting zones. Nothing compares to OLED.


OLED is about double the price, but IMO, it's worth it.

Being able to have TRUE blacks with no light bleed anywhere is amazing. Yeah, you've got TVs with a hundred zones as you said, but that just means you get blocks of grey when there's something on top of true black. Depending on the scene, that compromise can look even worse than just allowing all the black to be grey from the backlight.




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