Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

Post by zo1 » Thu, May 15, 2014, 2:21 PM UTC

cincinnatus wrote: post #58

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Why? Are you implying that it's going to do something nefarious because it's made by an Asian/Chinese company? How would you feel if people said that about American products? Maybe I should be scared about getting irradiated from American products because Americans have killed a metric ton of people using nuclear weapons within the last century?

Don't be an ass. https://spideroak.com/privacypost/cloud-security/is-your-sma...

Post by pedrocr » Thu, May 15, 2014, 2:34 PM UTC

reitzensteinm wrote: post #59

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>For watching full screen video, I just drop the resolution down to 1920x1080 to overcome the 30hz limitation the display currently has. Why is 30hz a limitation for video? Most video is 24 or 30fps, so 30hz should be fine, no? I can see 30hz being a limitation for gaming but you wouldn't be able to get good fps at 4K resolution anyway. So basically you should be able to run this at 4K all the time.

24fps video on a 30hz display isn't going to be smooth. Every fourth frame of the video will last for twice as long as the rest. I haven't seen it in person - one of the downsides of being in rural New Zealand is no friends with cool toys :) - but I've seen much less severe problems on paper be quite nasty. In game development, my day job, the industry has recently been cracking down on micro stutter, where even rand…

Post by RobotCaleb » Thu, May 15, 2014, 2:43 PM UTC

zo1 wrote: post #61

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Don't be an ass. https://spideroak.com/privacypost/cloud-security/is-your-sma...

You could have just linked to the article in question, rather than calling me an "ass". But thanks.

Post by dmm » Thu, May 15, 2014, 3:19 PM UTC

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reitzensteinm wrote: post #59

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24fps video on a 30hz display isn't going to be smooth. Every fourth frame of the video will last for twice as long as the rest. I haven't seen it in person - one of the downsides of being in rural New Zealand is no friends with cool toys :) - but I've seen much less severe problems on paper be quite nasty. In game development, my day job, the industry has recently been cracking down on micro stutter, where even rand…

>24fps video on a 30hz display isn't going to be smooth. Every fourth frame of the video will last for twice as long as the rest. I see what you mean. Doesn't the HDMI standard have a way to fix this? It could just have a mode where you have 30 frames per second sent to the screen with the indication of which 60hz or even 120hz timeslot to use them in. It might need a little more/faster memory in the screen but shoul…

Post by devy » Thu, May 15, 2014, 3:37 PM UTC

polshaw wrote: post #45

NB the linked page is currently for the MiTV 1 (1080p, 47"), but the topic is about V2;[1] On the SOC side, it's 4x cortex A9 @ 1.45Ghz with Mali 450 MP4 GPU-- h265 decode at 4K/30fps, 2GB RAM supports miracast, airplay, dlna, widi, SMB, dual band ac wifi, USB3, micro SD, bluetooth 4 (BT LE remote with finder). 15.5mm thick and 6.2mm bezel. It has everything, except the HDMI version is conspicuous in its absence-- so…