I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost - eviltoast

Reposting this from here from 2023, after I stumbled across it tonight and it hits hard.

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I love my smart TV. I love the way it takes a long time to boot up because it’s trying to refresh the advertisements on the home screen. I delight in the way it randomly restarts because it’s downloaded an update without asking me, each of which makes the TV slower and slower with every subsequent install. I adore the way it buries the apps that I want to use, and that I use without fail every single time, below the apps that it’s being paid to promote and which I have never touched in my life and would never use without the cold metal of a glock pressed hard against my sweating temple. I am infinitely thrilled by the way the interface lags constantly, due to the need to have one thousand unnecessary animations rendered on hardware ripped wholesale from a ten year old phone. I feel myself borne aloft on wings of pure joy when I am notified that my data will be collected and analysed to determine my usage patterns. Even now I am writing this from a field of beautiful flowers and soft luscious grass as I lie and look up happily at the bright blue sky, smiling happily to know that this is the future of technology

  • cygnus@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    But when I watch a movie, the “black” that I’m seeing in a particular scene isn’t the absence of light, because it’s not actually “black.” It’s a very very dark shade of grey or brown or whatever. And that requires light.

    What you’re seeing are the deactivated TV pixels absorbing light. This doesn’t work with a projector screen because the screen is of course designed to be reflective, otherwise you wouldn’t see anything. Point a projector towards a piece of black velvet and you see… black velvet.

    Even if there is some actual “black” (spots where no light is coming out of the projector), there will still be a gradient, and immediately after “no light,” you will have a light attempting to project a very dark shade.

    This is the contrast I was referring to earlier. It’s basically the accuracy of the projector in defining a limit between the areas it’s lighting up. But if you do this in a room with the lights on and the windows open, the image will be completely washed out regardless of how high the projector’s contrast is.