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Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

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Re: Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

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Post by math0ne »

alex_c wrote: post #68
RobotCaleb wrote: post #64

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How does one handle window placement in a single monitor setup like that? I quite often use Windows' fill right, fill left, maximize, fill height options for window arrangement.

I use a 39" Seiki with my MacBook, and managing windows is a relatively minor but real annoyance. I just drag and resize manually, and usually end up with overlapping windows of different sizes all over the place. I still love the display and would never go back, but it feels like I'm not using it quite as effectively as I could. I suspect this is a gap that will be filled pretty quickly once these monitors become mo…

Check out divvy: https://mizage.com/divvy/

Re: Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

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Post by zo1 »

RobotCaleb wrote: post #65
zo1 wrote: post #61

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

Don't be intentionally obtuse, then. Ass is a bit ambiguous.

What on earth are you going on about?

What exactly was I obtuse about? And for that matter, what is ambiguous about calling me an "ass"? Especially in the tone the OP used it, which was as some sort of insult because he disagreed with my opinion.

Re: Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

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Post by RobotCaleb »

wernercd wrote: post #88
RobotCaleb wrote: post #64

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How does one handle window placement in a single monitor setup like that? I quite often use Windows' fill right, fill left, maximize, fill height options for window arrangement.

http://winsplit-revolution.com/ is a good option. Haven't tried others because this has been simple to setup and has easy shortcuts that use cntrl+alt+keypad to move window into various spots.

Thanks, I'll check it out.

(15 minutes later)

Okay, this is great. It just works. Thanks for the recommendation.

Re: Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

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Post by michaelbuckbee »

RobotCaleb wrote: post #64
Bud wrote: post #60

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He means without the several sets of bezels you'd normally have from the normal way of getting this much screen area, i.e., by having several monitors.

How does one handle window placement in a single monitor setup like that? I quite often use Windows' fill right, fill left, maximize, fill height options for window arrangement.

When I got my Seiki I basically tried all of the different Mac Window managers, most of them were immediately out of the running as they couldn't support a large enough grid to make sense (2x2 was the standard). With Divvy I could set up a 6x6 grid which is perfect as you can easily set global shortcuts to treat it as either a 3x3 grid or a 2x3 grid with your keyboard shortcuts on the Command and Numpad (see image) http://imgur.com/3E474eP This is awesome as you don't have to really 'remember' a bunch of shortcuts as the keyboard grids look just like what your screen grids are.

Re: Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

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Post by rane »

RobotCaleb wrote: post #64
Bud wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He means without the several sets of bezels you'd normally have from the normal way of getting this much screen area, i.e., by having several monitors.

How does one handle window placement in a single monitor setup like that? I quite often use Windows' fill right, fill left, maximize, fill height options for window arrangement.

Possibly with this, https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst

> Tiling window manager for OS X similar to xmonad

Re: Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

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Post by pedrocr »

dmm wrote: post #67
pedrocr wrote: post #63

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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 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…

That sounds like what Nvidia's G-Sync does. A in-monitor computer buffers frames and displays them at a rate specified by the computer. http://www.anandtech.com/show/7436/nvidias-gsync-attempting-...

It sounds like it indeed. Although that particular implementation won't go below 30hz so wouldn't fix this particular case.

Re: Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

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Post by wmf »

pedrocr wrote: post #96
dmm wrote: post #67

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That sounds like what Nvidia's G-Sync does. A in-monitor computer buffers frames and displays them at a rate specified by the computer. http://www.anandtech.com/show/7436/nvidias-gsync-attempting-...

It sounds like it indeed. Although that particular implementation won't go below 30hz so wouldn't fix this particular case.

In that case you can display movies at 48 Hz.

Re: Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

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Post by pekk »

wmf wrote: post #78
rsync wrote: post #77

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"On the SOC side, it's 4x cortex A9 @ 1.45Ghz with Mali 450 MP4 GPU-- h265 decode at 4K/30fps, 2GB RAM" Is this because it is a "smart" TV, or should I expect all computer monitors to have this degree of complexity these days ? I'd like my monitor to be as dumb as possible, thanks.

It's definitely a TV not a monitor.

The difference is more marginal than ever.

Re: Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

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Post by pekk »

zo1 wrote: post #47
blueskin_ wrote: post #32

Anyone put its traffic through Wireshark to see what it's up to yet?

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?

Since the NSA scandals started, people on HN do imply exactly this about American hardware. And say that American service providers are guaranteed to spy on them and such.

Re: Xiaomi launches 49-inch 4K TV for $640

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Post by alexkiritz »

willholloway wrote: post #11

I use a Seiki 50" 4K display for coding and it was a revelation. I love all the bezel-free screen real estate and I would never go back. For watching full screen video, I just drop the resolution down to 1920x1080 to overcome the 30hz limitation the display currently has. More competition in the ~50" 4K space is welcome news.

That completely contradicts my experience and everything else I've read from others.

Less than 60 hz is generally annoying when trying to use a screen as a monitor because of cursor lag, but almost all video is at 30 fps or less so 30 hz is fine for video.

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