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| From | Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.misc, comp.sys.mac.system |
| Subject | Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? |
| Date | 2015-04-10 14:07 +0000 |
| Organization | People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates |
| Message-ID | <coq3oaFn99fU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | (3 earlier) <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> <100420151813587916%YourName@YourISP.com> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
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. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR
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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
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Re: Rumour: 8K iMac coming?!? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-04-09 18:12 +1200
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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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