Bit of a stretch - we upgrade machines every day....never heard it was an upscale. Now housing or a restaurant you might have a point.

The topic is 4k TVs and upscaling within that category is done at the TV end not post.

Yeah infrastructure for 5g is gonna cost big time ....but chicken and egg the content needs to be there to drive demand and that means high demand for 4k and HDR content especially with the streaming wars going on.

The interesting spill over is what will it do to the fixed line copper/fiber business model

Copper is on its last legs, I know that my ISP wants to cut it off totally withing 5 years, I'll have to switch to fiber

Macdoc wrote:The topic is 4k TVs and upscaling within that category is done at the TV end not post.

I'll just leave you to continue your solitary wankfest, lest this thread is another "strictly moderated" one of yours, and I become a victim of it.

" strictly moderated" such as ???

Stay on topic and no problem. Do you actually own a 4k TV or monitor?

Whether you read, particpate or ignore this thread is immaterial to me ...it serves my ongoing purposes some of which have nothing whatsoever to do with this forum.
Generally I'm used to people that participate have either.
Actual experience.
Honest questions.

My first hard drive was 5 meg. I remember looking at it and thinking "fuck me, I'll NEVER use that much storage!".

laklak wrote:My first hard drive was 5 meg. I remember looking at it and thinking "fuck me, I'll NEVER use that much storage!".

What was the density of a floppy disc at the time?

felltoearth wrote:

laklak wrote:My first hard drive was 5 meg. I remember looking at it and thinking "fuck me, I'll NEVER use that much storage!".

What was the density of a floppy disc at the time?

Depends on which one you're talking about - 8, 5¼ or 3½ inch. Also, whether they are single- or double-sided.

It would not surprise me if laklak wasn't thinking of any of them. He strikes me as a true computer veteran. True computer veterans cut their teeth punching holes in cardboard - using assembly.

If he had a 5meg hard disc it would be after punch cards and before 3.5 inch discs. Most hard drives around that era were at least 20 meg. I’m guessing 5-1/4.

felltoearth wrote:If he had a 5meg hard disc it would be after punch cards and before 3.5 inch discs. Most hard drives around that era were at least 20 meg. I’m guessing 5-1/4.

My first PC came with the latest 5¼ drive. It could work with floppies of varying densities ranging from 360 KB to 1.2 MB. It didn't take me long to add a drive that handled 3½ inch floppies all the way up to 1.4 MB. And a mouse. The mouse was great. Even before the release of MS Windows 3.1 most software programs supported its use. Except for DOS v.3.3, of course.

Returning to the subject of resolutions, my monitor managed to display 640x480 pixels using four colours on a 12" Cathode Ray Tube. It was driven by a video card with 256 kilobytes of RAM. None of that monochrome, low resolution EGA shit for me.

Most DSDD 5 1/4 disks were 360K, this was early 80s. I cut my teeth on punchcards in Fortran and Assembler, an IBM 360 system with 128K of RAM. Got a job on a 370 and we had 4 (count 'em, 4!) terminals for about 30 programmers.