kieron115

Oh my bad I thought we were talking about the entire Ars team, not the individual author.

"malpractice" would have been not puling the story/issuing a retraction.

Journalistic integrity? On my internet? Well I never.

Yup, coffee lake is when intel quick sync gained HEVC 10-bit. I had a 6th gen in my server for a while and that one needed h.264 content.

hardware doesn't even need to be that recent! i'm using an i7 8700K for my plex server and it can transcode h.264 into h.265 on the fly.

I've noticed that things recorded on film hold up much better to low resolution compared to digitally filmed content.

The biggest issue with downloading x265 stuff from the high seas is that so many of them are just x264 that's been re-encoded in x265, resulting in smaller file sizes but reduced quality as well. x265 is superior in almost every way technically speaking but it needs a good source material, not an x264 reencode. Their "golden rule" is more like a rule of thumb and I absolutely wouldn't use some blanket criteria like resolution or dynamic range.

Gonna turn an old vacuum tube into an extruder nozzle to keep that nice, warm analog sound.

Can't wait til 3d printers get good enough to make records so i can stock up on audiophile filament!

I would also put a good bit of the blame on executives and marketing people being way out of touch with the average person.

to get something as flexible as my android tv i'd need an nvidia shield and those are going on ten years old at this point. maybe if/when they do a hardware refresh, assuming sideloading isn't completely impossible by then.

Yeah. To be honest on the DNS side it would probably be far easier to just do a whitelist instead, block everything except your specific service. and yeah, its a stupid amount of work. i hate smart tvs but i'll be damned if im gonna pay extra for a streaming box =|