Seems off topic but it really is the same issue as when MLK called out “excessive consumerism” as a main problem he saw in western societies. The entire part of the speech he criticizes that we are forever busy, forever trying to do more business. That our devices and machines are not always time saving devices, nor are they soul saving devices.
When I look at how competitive and specific TV and monitor technology has become, and think about this: what resolution did we enjoy Independence Day (1996) at? The Lion King? I am in tech and have a lot of it myself so I’m not ignorant to what the differences are, but damn…we have to stop pushing forward. Companies push to out new stuff to motivate us to spent more money on stuff we don’t need, but can’t stand that someone else has it better than us (Drum Major Instinct). Eventually reviewers get on board and start educating us on why some spec or tech matters and everyone has to have it.
Do we really need the blackest of black next to bright spots perfectly rendered on our TV? If we actually understand how vision works and just “watch” movies, there is no difference. You have to direct someone’s attention to see a problem with virtually all of the “artifacts” present in lesser TVs.
Same thing for nVidia’s RTX. Sorry, games aren’t really ray tracing an entire scene. Visual effects can easily be faked to achieve results ray tracing can, without extra special hardware to achieve it. That’s how the industry still operates today and RTX is still mostly a checkbox feature gamedevs have to put effort into to make it worth it.
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Seems off topic but it really is the same issue as when MLK called out “excessive consumerism” as a main problem he saw in western societies. The entire part of the speech he criticizes that we are forever busy, forever trying to do more business. That our devices and machines are not always time saving devices, nor are they soul saving devices.
When I look at how competitive and specific TV and monitor technology has become, and think about this: what resolution did we enjoy Independence Day (1996) at? The Lion King? I am in tech and have a lot of it myself so I’m not ignorant to what the differences are, but damn…we have to stop pushing forward. Companies push to out new stuff to motivate us to spent more money on stuff we don’t need, but can’t stand that someone else has it better than us (Drum Major Instinct). Eventually reviewers get on board and start educating us on why some spec or tech matters and everyone has to have it.
Do we really need the blackest of black next to bright spots perfectly rendered on our TV? If we actually understand how vision works and just “watch” movies, there is no difference. You have to direct someone’s attention to see a problem with virtually all of the “artifacts” present in lesser TVs.
Same thing for nVidia’s RTX. Sorry, games aren’t really ray tracing an entire scene. Visual effects can easily be faked to achieve results ray tracing can, without extra special hardware to achieve it. That’s how the industry still operates today and RTX is still mostly a checkbox feature gamedevs have to put effort into to make it worth it.