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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 2015-04-10 18:13 +1200
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <100420151813587916%YourName@YourISP.com> (permalink)
References (2 earlier) <080420151817254185%YourName@YourISP.com> <5524dfe5$0$44539$c3e8da3$66d3cc2f@news.astraweb.com> <55253459$0$24990$c3e8da3$92d0a893@news.astraweb.com> <090420150911091493%YourName@YourISP.com> <55273648$0$20134$c3e8da3$1cbc7475@news.astraweb.com>

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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.



> If the backlighting in an LCD TV were candles, I suppose marketing 
> departments would call it a "Candle TV."  :)

And it would probably cost five times more than a LED TV.  ;-)

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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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