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The FACT is that the driver apis haven’t changed. Please go find me an example of them breaking kernel interfaces recently. I’ll wait. Bunch of IT guys that don’t understand drivers...

Any WDDM display driver still works as does any WDM audio driver. This is years. Your feelings aren’t facts. Between minor kernel revs Linux has changed things like PCI struct definitions. You clearly don’t have any experience writing drivers.

You don’t work for my employer so I’m not sure why you feel qualified to generalize about projects you don’t know of and that I’m not allowed to elaborate further on. You are generally correct but it doesn’t apply to my situation. Anyway this is getting way off topic. Fact is, the lack of...

It’s possible to have an entire line of products at multiple stages of development, you know. A lot of the changes are pre FDA submission. Some devices take several years of development before they hit the market. Their teams and their lawyers decide how to comply with the GPL. Some of this...

Yeah, 12-bit is asking a lot when these lazy fucks can’t be bothered to do true 10-bit despite it being common in professional monitors 10+ years ago.

I only maintain custom Linux distributions for several large corporations for embedded medical devices. Clearly I don’t know what I’m talking about. They love having to rewrite their drivers when updating to a new kernel. Windows drivers are distributed as binaries and work for years. Good luck...

The best desktop Windows was actually 8.1. Seriously. All the speed improvements that 10 has over 7 but none of the software as a service and update bullshit. The start menu takes the whole screen, big deal.

A desktop operating system needs to have stable kernel driver APIs. Linux does not and will never have it as long as Torvalds is in charge. You can’t have every update breaking drivers left and right. I can still use audio drivers for Windows 10 that were written for Vista. Linux drivers need...

It’s not just that, the die size of the top GPUs now is ridiculous. They weren’t really pushing the envelope before. But they are now that die shrinks don’t do much. Same situation as the CPU market.

Qualcomm is a bit of a patent troll despite being a practicing entity. They should never have been granted a patent on envelope tracking. It’s one of those “application patents” for something that was basically invented in the 1930s and 1940s. Intel are a bunch of assholes, but Qualcomm has...

I still prefer IPS for monitors. I use my monitor in a well-lit room, VA color shift is more of an issue for me.

Surprised the GPUs don’t offer it, it’s basically nearest neighbor, easier than bicubic or whatever they normally do.

What I want is a 27 to 32" 5k monitor, 5120x2880. This way I can get excellent image quality in normal tasks and run pixel doubled in games to get the perf of 2560x1440.

I think the difference will be minimal. If we are talking high end TVs, sure. For everything else, I don't think OLED will get any significant market penetration except replacing FALD LCD TVs. LCD will be around for a very long time until Micro LED becomes cheap enough to replace edge-lit...

I am wondering how RGB OLED will work. I have been less than impressed with every OLED except the LG W-OLED with color filters. They don't have the cavity effect color shift that all mobile displays have.

I think I found a description of the root cause: http://lcd.creol.ucf.edu/People/dxu/Publication/JAP%20Image%20Sticking.pdf It is basically parasitic capacitance / charge buildup that prevents the LC from changing state fully. It seems that it only applies to lateral arrangements like IPS /...

I'm not aware of any manufacturing defect that leads to burn-in on an LCD. So, I would hazard a guess that they all do it.

I’m not saying it’s right, but that’s the perception. It’s a drop in the bucket though for NYC. They will be adding an unnoticeable amount of jobs to a city that’s already so populated.

It's called a talent pool. In the real world, it is hard to get top mid-career employees to live in flyover states with poor K-12 education.

Take their money out of FL and see how it goes. Already has an abysmal education system. Most of FL is a shithole. Don't worry, people will be fleeing it starting sometime in the next 20-50 years due to rising sea levels, worse hurricanes, and the expansion of tropical mosquito-borne diseases.

Your eye has limited dynamic range itself. If you like to watch dark movies in dark rooms, great, buy an OLED. Otherwise, with the average brightness of content and the average brightness of viewing rooms, I find the blacks on top notch LCDs to be good these days. The black plastic bezel on my...

Go find a burned-in LCD at your office. Try, I dare you. The only LCDs that have demonstrated burn-in (that is not some kind of one-off defective unit) are some models with LG IPS panels.

This is not true for most LCD panels and may only affect specific types. I have an LCD here at work next to me that has displayed the same image for 5 years almost continuously, 24/7, 365. It has no burn-in. Not a single tiny trace of it. You literally just quoted a VP of Marketing - who more...

Or maybe some developers don't want their fucking balls touched by their boss? You can go back to 4chan.

I know, people are so fucking stupid. The notch is just space that was previously bezel. It lets them move status indicators up into the area around the notch that was just bezel before. It’s an actual slight improvement.

At work we replaced a bunch of EEPROM and battery backed SRAMs with Everspin parts. They are really nice and the applications aren’t cost sensitive. We are mostly afraid they will kill the parts or go out of business. They do deliver on their promises though.

I know. I basically read the comments here because this place is full of the trendy new school “conservatives” that think it’s worth taking it up the ass from corporate America as long as the “libtards” get pwned and can’t do anything via the government. That’s the devil’s path to socialism...

Too bad... If I wanted a monitor with burn-in I'd buy a LG OLED TV lol. Actually, I bet the OLED wouldn't even burn-in this fast.

You are clearly a smart guy, I was a bit rude in my first post. Not challenging your experience, but you are oversimplifying a bit and talking about things that do not apply to best practice line level at audio bandwidths. About CFAs - Yes, every datasheet will show you what happens when you...

No, very different part for different purpose. They made thousands of parts. They were talking about PCM1794 DAC. That part was not even designed by what is left of the Burr Brown group within TI. That DAC was designed by a TI group in Japan.

Yep. Also, lower gain settings usually have lower distortion. Maximum feedback is applied at unity gain for a negative feedback amplifier. It depends how the "gain" switch is implemented though. There are some products which run at a fixed gain internally and the gain switch is really an...

You're a moron. These policies are always pushed by law enforcement and intelligence agencies. They are overwhelmingly conservative in every Western country. Not that it matters, because a shit law is a shit law.

Audio is easy, but you don't seem to get it. You may have spent too much time at RF. Either way, what you wrote is completely wrong. First, "current feedback" has nothing to do with whether or not you are using an inverting or a non-inverting amplifier. Most headphone amplifiers don't use a...

There was still a dot pitch with CRTs. A lot of CRTs would accept resolutions they could not really display without blurriness. It is true you could go down pretty well, though. I could never go back to a CRT, honestly. They just have a softness I don't like compared to fixed pixel displays...

Cat is already out of the bag. They have the skills and IP now to develop their own stuff for the most part. If we put an embargo on China they would probably nationalize TSMC or something, too.

Bendable screen is going to be a huge flop. I know they claim it won't crease for 100k cycles, but I have yet to see a clear plastic that does not.

For electronics, no one else can manufacture like they can now. Plus, you can source all the components locally since they make everything else. At work, we actually get higher quality on the PCBAs produced and assembled in China than our US fab that we use for prototypes. I am sure Samsung...

How has your scaling experience been in Windows 10? I am worried I'll buy a 4k monitor and hate it because scaling can be an issue still with some programs.

I don't think we can say that yet. A number of LG IPS panels have suffered some kind of burn-in or image retention going back 10 years now. If that is permanent then I agree, it's a total dealbreaker.

In my experience, most people's subconscious blink rate is lower with LCDs, which leads to dryness and irritation. I'm not sure why, but it's worse with high contrast and high brightness.