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Originally posted by dvdx2 View PostSounds good. I'd be interested to see how the new panny sets compare to their old benchmark plasmas like the VT/ZT. I wonder if the gap is closing, qualitywise. (Although nothing ive seen with my own eyes come close to my VT65)
The most impressive thing is the scaling...
Was playing last of us on ps4, and i sat there thinking it looks every bit as sharp as it does on a 1080p set even with four times as many pixels. Processing for 4k come along no end this year.
Streamed 4k stuff is fantastic obviously.
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Not really new hardware but it's going to feel like it. HDD died today after 5 years of being on. Hard to believe a new one is only ?45 for 1TB. So it was a Win7, updated to Win8 and then Win10. Doing a fresh install of Win10! Took 4 hours to dl the iso on my laptop
Everything is backed up on Sugarsync and a 2nd drive so hopefully nothing essential has gone missing. Was hoping it would live long enough for 1TB SSD to be viable, but never mindLast edited by charlesr; 28-10-2015, 17:14.
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1GB lol... Anyway, what are these Hybrids like? Various reports said they make no difference. Others say amazing.
I'm all set up again. Fiddly things like allowing the squeezeserver spotify helper app through the firewalls were tedious, but fresh install was definitely awesome. Boot is way faster (not that that happens often).Last edited by charlesr; 30-10-2015, 17:25.
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Hybrid drives use a small NAND-based memory to cache the most used files; the files are on the mechanical part though. They don't reach SSDs in speed but are usually faster than HDDs in start up and shutdown because they are optimised that way. With the price drop of SSDs and the relative low cost of large HDDs, they have become increasingly rare. Some laptops use a similar technology, where the NAND (SSD part) and HDD are physically separate but it works the same way.
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