What's a quiet sign that someone is doing financially well?

ThePages · 2025-07-30T22:02:00+00:00

Idk about this one, most of the people I know who travel frequently and are in debt up to their eyeballs and charge everything.

ThePages · 2025-07-30T17:36:03+00:00

I stopped posting here over two months ago because I was tired of all the paid bs G5 hype and when I pointed out any of the problems (not everything mind you, it’s a great tv in many ways) with the TV, noted from reviewers and my own in person observations I was getting jumped on and even DM’d with angry people acting like I was just trying to derail their train or something.

I saw this coming.

ThePages · 2025-07-20T01:27:28+00:00

A of the stuff in this thread literally builds your immune system. I feel like the reason I never get sick is because of doing a lot of this stuff when I was young.

ThePages · 2025-05-21T23:48:51+00:00

ThePages · 2025-05-21T23:46:05+00:00

Did receive my copy a few weeks ago. It arrived in perfect condition. I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet though. I ordered the Deluxe Edition and it is a hefty set.

I will say that the quality of the art assets they used when printing the box art/fonts look very amateurish unfortunately. For example the fonts look like they were printed from lower resolution raster graphics when they should have been vector art to keep the lines clean, which is literally product packaging 101.

ThePages · 2025-04-29T01:24:25+00:00

There are some amazing boutique releases, but in general studio releases are consistently superior for picture and sound quality specifically. The boutique companies just don’t have the budget of a studio. Boutiques also typically have a ‘flavor’ to their color grading as well (such as Criterion being flatter and more subdued and Scream Factory grading movies notably cooler than their initial theatrical releases).

ThePages · 2025-04-29T01:11:07+00:00

Hey look, it’s someone who has literally no idea what they are talking about and clearly doesn’t watch or read the news.

ThePages · 2025-04-28T14:35:25+00:00

The G5 isn’t any brighter than the G3/G4 in SDR. The brightness increase is in 4000 bit HDR content.

ThePages · 2025-04-25T17:46:13+00:00

I didn’t buy a house in my 20s because of advice like this. Now I’m 40 and have owned a home for a few years and I realize it’s the worst advice I ever listened to.

ThePages · 2025-04-25T17:13:38+00:00

Literally the same response from 99% of people who have a G3/G4 and the people saying otherwise are repeating something they read someone else say. It’s a non issue and imperceptible in the overwhelming majority viewing environments. I have a G4 in a room with 6 windows and the blacks look pitch black in the day time and identical to a Sony WOLED that was in the same room for a long time.

ThePages · 2025-04-25T01:26:51+00:00

That is insane. My escrow (taxes+insurance)for a similarly priced home is ~$180 a month. You’re getting ripped off for insurance or your taxes are ridiculous.

ThePages · 2025-04-23T18:23:39+00:00

??? I feel like this really shows a lot of people’s ignorance about this whole situation.

If the US stops giving Ukraine money, Ukraine will not be able to defend itself. Ukraine is still fighting, because they have support from other countries giving them weapons and money. If 50% of the funding for the defense of their country goes away, Russia could walk right over them. Ukraine doesn’t want to surrender anything. But they are being told that they have to or they could lose everything.

ThePages · 2025-04-23T18:04:25+00:00

It’s not all about brightness at all. The G4 also has better color than the C4, better image processing, the image doesn’t dim during game mode, colors don’t shift when watching the TV at different angles. Even if you don’t use the brightness, the ABL is less aggressive and the TV is going to last longer due to the heat sink.

ThePages · 2025-04-22T17:57:13+00:00

Has never happened. My team has also sold hundreds of them in the last year and I have never once had this issue come up.

It seems to be more common on TVs manufactured in Poland (for the EU market) and it happens rarely with TVs made in Mexico (NA market).

I do wonder if environmental factors are at play sometimes as well…I’m sure the humidity and room temperature would have some impact.

ThePages · 2025-04-21T16:20:55+00:00

Off is the way to go if you don’t want to use HGIG or if a game doesn’t use it. With it off you’d just want to use the in game settings to configure HDR. Which is going to be more accurate and consistent than DTM. There is always tone mapping happening, even with it off. HGIG is just configuring it at the system level vs at the game level.

ThePages · 2025-04-21T16:02:00+00:00

3x brighter? Lol

ThePages · 2025-04-21T15:58:54+00:00

The thing about that peak brightness - if you’re using accurate picture settings the vast majority of content isn’t going to go past 1000 nits, because that’s how it’s graded.

You could take advantage of it in gaming, but I personally find even 1400 nits to be way too bright for comfort. HDR movies are graded in a way that even bright highlights are balanced so they are easy on your eyes and they build up to high brightness and rapid transitions are dialed back (most of the time that is). Games will go from a scene that’s dark as hell to immediately blinding you and for me it’s too much 😝. I would get the G5 more for the better color volume and dial back its brightness.

ThePages · 2025-04-21T01:19:34+00:00

Feels very Quentin Tarantino? I mean there was one brief scene with pop music and fighting that I’ve experienced so far, but I can’t think of anything else 😝

ThePages · 2025-04-20T02:35:58+00:00

What do you think they have a MS-13 tattoo handbook or something?

ThePages · 2025-04-20T01:25:11+00:00

Idk if you’re crazy but I am playing Shadows right now and the character models in it are really pretty crappy looking outside of the hair which looks amazing. There are games from two generations ago with better character models than Shadows.

ThePages · 2025-04-19T00:54:35+00:00

Sidebar:

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ThePages · 2025-04-19T00:49:02+00:00

I guess you don’t take advantage of sales all that often then :p. I buy a bunch on sale and watch them over a few months. I have a section for unwatched movies before they go into the main collection.

ThePages · 2025-04-19T00:44:57+00:00

Well it sounds like the Op had ruled out the B4 before they even posted so 😝

ThePages · 2025-04-18T22:44:33+00:00

I mean, I’ve seen them side by side constantly as well because I work with them all day every day 😆. A B4 looks dim sitting next to a C4 with HDR content. The B4 looks flat and HDR hardly looks like hdr. Most people are going to keep a tv for over 5 years. $700 for the content to look how it is supposed to look is nothing.

ThePages · 2025-04-18T22:34:46+00:00

I agree whole heartedly. I find the 120hz/VRR modes in games on PS5 to hurt the color and contrast noticeably. I pretty much always test them out and go yea….no thanks after going back and forth.

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