The German translation I got automatically reads like a fever dream. Grammatically it often makes no sense and even worse, some things are translated literally. Doc is now "Dok", but no one would ever shorten it like that. The da Vinci quote is shortened to one sentence, and now makes no sense at all.
I know translating is hard, but it's kind of unsettling here.
I mean, I totally get your side, but DVD is 1/24 the resolution of 4K and actual 4K with HDR on an OLED is simply another dimension of immersion for me.
As with all compressed media, resolution takes a backseat to quality of mastering / compression.
I've yet to see a poorly mastered Blu-Ray, and only watched a couple Blu-Ray 4k discs, but online streams at 1080p or 4k are sometimes rather bitstarved so...
With DVDs, some, perhaps many look just fine on a larger screen, but there are some whose mastering is very poor, and those will look really bad on a larger screen. My copy of Forest Gump features closeups where the characters face translates around on their head. But most of the other DVDs I've watched are fine. Yes, Blu-Ray would be better, but not so much that its worth rebuying.
I myself saw "Road House" on Thursday, 4K stream. A lot of dark scenes, perfect for OLED. But also very vulnerable to bitrate related quality problems. And it was fine.
But other examples, like the first season of "Reacher", look like shit in 4K. Many artifacts resulting in skintones that get pushed into green or red. Super weird.
Good encoding comes a long way, and not all services go the extra mile.
Dark scenes don't have higher bitrate requirements than brighter scenes. The problem with dark scenes in movies is simply that video encoders have been tuned based on shit perceptual models that don't match how humans see things. If anything, something encoded for a constant bitrate will have less problems with dark scenes than something targeting an overall file size but with the encoder given leeway to assign bits to different parts of the movie.
It might be exaggerated, and the Apple Silicon MacBooks still fall behind as soon as gaming or other GPU-centered tasks come up.
But having a super thin laptop that does 4K Video editing and has an really good battery life doing it, is amazing.
What they can do with 30W from the wall is simply amazing. Not even talking about the Pro/Max Chips that can decode and encode several ProRes Streams at once.
But again, some people don't just edit hi res video.
I love my shield TV Pro, but I might `adb shell pm uninstall` the shit out of it, so I can launch my apps in peace.
The Update that replaces the old launcher was the biggest middle finger I ever saw. And it's a 200€+ device. This isn't your average 20€ Amazon Fire crap.
The middle-finger update seems to be geo-fenced. On my fully updated shield, the launcher is almost the same as the original one -- it just got a new apps tab on the top; no recommendations, no ads. So hopefully it will stay that way.
It's always using a VM so I am guessing Rosetta is involved and a x86 emulation ist happening. (Again, this is a guess!)
If docker is a priority, Asahi Linux might be a great option, but this will of course create new problems, as it's far from done, and switching to Linux is a project on its own.
I for myself use a Debian ARM64 VM in UTM to have the most control over the VM and then just use docker in there. Works much better than I anticipated.
I know translating is hard, but it's kind of unsettling here.