The KDE Plasma Linux desktop environment is already a feature-rich desktop for both productivity and gaming, but the KDE development team has been hard at work adding ever more features to the DE and polishing the experience. One of the newest additions to KDE, apparently coming in Plasma 6.7 and no...
How do streaming services like Disney, prime, Netflix, and hbo run on these? Is it possible?
I need something dead simple for my wife.
I set up Jellyfin and my wife and kids love it. We have no streaming services now.
Unsubscribe to all off them and sail the high seas
I should also add that I live in a third would country so all the streaming services are dirt cheap here.
I think YouTube premium is like $3 a month or something like that.
If I pay for YouTube premium, Netflix, disney, amazon prime, HBO max, spotify. I have to spend around 70 euros a month. (4k content or family pack)
For all that, we are $30-$40 a month.
My wife pays for most of them. I think I only pay the Disney and Spotify.
I just made a server, download 4k content on a pirate site. Spend around 5€ for my mullvad VPN. And we don’t even need to go to the cinema anymore. Which is like 15€ per ticket at least. We do it sometimes for a date to get out of the house. But it just gets expensive very fast once you get candy and drinks.
cries in hard drive prices
I have an old PC with a gtx 1070 with 2tb ssd and 24 GB of hard drives, all bought before the AI price hikes of course. I am already at a net win.
Install Kodi and pirate shows from those services.
Or buy and rip DVDs to put it on your Jellyfin homeserver
Probably the same as on a Linux desktop now, the browser sites work fine but you won’t get 4k or HDR.
Worth it in my books. Might be my eyes going bad, but I can’t notice much difference beyond 720p
Resolution isn’t actually important. Dots per inch is, but also it needs to be scaled by distance. Low DPI isn’t noticeable if you’re far away, but even high DPI is when you’re close to it. It might be less that your eyes are going bad and more that you’re sitting further away from your screen or your screen is really small.
Either your eyes are bad or the files you’ve watched. There’s an absolutely enormous difference between 720p and proper 4k with a decent bitrate. Also a decent display with good HDR can add a lot as well.
I blame it on my eyes. On the positive, I don’t know what I’m missing.
With respect, if you cannot notice a difference between 720p and 4k on a 4k compatible screen, then you do indeed have something wrong with your eyes.
I sold TVs when 1080p was coming out and there were so many “your eyes can only see the difference between 720p and 1080p if the screen is X big or you’re X close to it” and it was baffling. How could people have such bad eyes? Then I hit 30, 40, and… fuckin HUGE DIFFERENCE STILL. A 16” screen 10m from me? 1080p is going to look FAR better than 720p, much less 4k.
No shade to folks with poor eyesight, but tons of shade to anyone saying there not a difference when they can see it, to justify their purchasing choices (like huge amount of people arguing for 30FPS during the XBone/PS4 gen)
My 60" TV is so far away from the couch that my Steam Deck’s screen in my hands is the same perceived size. Depending on what you’re watching, the difference between 1080P and 4k isn’t that noticeable at that distance. What really makes a difference is HDR. Also note that lower-res content is often way more compressed, which makes it much more noticeable.
You bring up another great point: higher rez with shitty compression or artifacting looks wayyy shittier than lower rez with good compression!
Quick edit: unfortunately for most any steaming service, you get shitty compression AND low rez through a browser D:
I mean… is the situation much better through an app? I haven’t noticed a difference, but I have very little experience comparing the two
It’s not just resolution and colorspace. The providers also drop the nitrate significantly. Which, in my opinion, is way more noticeable and jarring.
I was really confused for a moment over why monitors would use nitrate and how it could affect the experience. Then I realized you meant bitrate lol
Man, I’ve really got to get better at proofing my comments before hitting submit, on mobile especially.