Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!?

From	Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.misc, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!?
Date	2015-04-11 16:11 +1200
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID	<110420151611028015%YourName@YourISP.com> (permalink)
References	(5 earlier) <090420150911091493%YourName@YourISP.com> <55273648$0$20134$c3e8da3$1cbc7475@news.astraweb.com> <100420151813587916%YourName@YourISP.com> <coq3oaFn99fU1@mid.individual.net> <mga2ei$9l3$1@dont-email.me>

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In article <mga2ei$9l3$1@dont-email.me>, John McWilliams
<jpmcw@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 4/10/15   PDT 7:07 AM, Jolly Roger wrote:
> > On 2015-04-10, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
> >> In article <55273648$0$20134$c3e8da3$1cbc7475@news.astraweb.com>, Joe
> >> <joe@nospam.com> wrote:
> >>> On 4/8/2015 4:11 PM, Your Name wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> These days it's all become a massive gimmick fest by TV makers to try
> >>>> and con the public into throwing away their current equipment every
> >>>> year or two and buying a new over-priced TV set, set-top boxes, and /
> >>>> or services they don't really need.
> >>>>
> >>>>    - LCD / Plasma / LED
> >>>>    - DVD / Blu-ray / 4K Blu-ray
> >>>>    - DVD recorder / Blu-ray recorder / Digital recorder
> >>>>    - TV / HDTV / UHDTV / SUHDTV / 4K / 8K
> >>>>    - Widescreen / Extra-widescreen / 3D / Curved / Smart
> >>>>    - Freeview / Freeview Plus / Sky / Streaming
> >>>>    - etc.
> >>>
> >>> Hopefully you realize there is no such thing as an "LED" TV; it's just
> >>> another marketing gimmick.  The screen is still LCD, but the
> >>> *backlighting* is LED instead of a CCFL.
> >>
> >> Yep, but marketing departments needed a new name in their attempts to
> >> con people into throwing away their recently-new and still working LCD
> >> and buy a new "better" LED.
> >
> > Despite your apparent love of hyperbole, there's nothing insidious going
> > on here. The terms "LED display" and "CCFL display" are simply natural
> > ways for us to distinguish between displays with different technologies
> > used to light the panels. While nobody should throw away a working CCFL
> > display just for the hell of it, LED back lights are actually better
> > than florescent back lights in a few different ways. They have a much
> > longer lifespan, consume less energy, and emit a more uniform brightness
> > across the display, for instance. So if given the choice, I'll generally
> > take an LED display over a CCFL display.
> 
> And I will stick with my plasma, thanks! I'd love an OLED UHD, but can't 
> justify dumping the plasma.

Ewww, yuck!! Plasma is ancient obsolete technology.  ;-) 
I don't think anyone even makes Plasma TV sets any longer (shops have
certainly been dumping them at very cheap prices). LED is the preferred
TV type these days.

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Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-07 13:34 +1200
  Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-07 19:10 +1200
  Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? heron stone <heron@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-07 23:05 -0700
    Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? heron stone <heron@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-07 23:13 -0700
    Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-08 18:17 +1200
      Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-04-08 03:59 -0400
        Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-04-08 09:59 -0400
          Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-04-08 07:15 -0700
            Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-08 10:49 -0400
              Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-04-08 08:38 -0700
            Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-08 19:00 +0000
              Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-04-08 16:51 -0400
                Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-04-08 21:43 -0700
                Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-09 18:12 +1200
                Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-09 10:32 +0000
                Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? Joe <joe@nospam.com> - 2015-04-09 21:27 -0500
          Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-09 09:11 +1200
            Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? Joe <joe@nospam.com> - 2015-04-09 21:32 -0500
              Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-09 22:54 -0400
                Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? Joe <joe@nospam.com> - 2015-04-10 07:04 -0500
              Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-10 18:13 +1200
                Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-04-10 14:07 +0000
                Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-04-10 19:56 -0700
                Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-11 16:11 +1200
                Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-04-11 07:48 -0700
                Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-04-11 11:14 -0400
                Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-11 15:33 +0000
                Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-11 15:28 +0000
                Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-04-11 16:08 -0700
                Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-04-12 01:02 +0000
                Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-04-11 18:26 -0700
                Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-12 14:01 +1200
                Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-04-11 19:30 +0000
                Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-04-11 19:27 +0000
              Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-10 11:46 +0000

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