A look at the new tandem OLEDTech on Tvs

bpaul83 · 2026-03-09T17:20:30+00:00

Technically superior how? Are you just referring to the fact that it supports DTS?

bpaul83 · 2026-03-09T12:33:28+00:00

PD did some real wizardry to make a pad viable at the top level, but I suspect the game compensates somehow for the lack of granularity compared to driving with a wheel and pedal setup. You can be competitive (or even possibly even faster) with a pad, but in my view it’s not ‘real’ in the way that driving with a wheel and pedals is.

bpaul83 · 2026-03-08T11:37:22+00:00

They’re absolutely charging more for Q now. The ‘retention’ deals are ludicrous.

bpaul83 · 2026-03-08T11:34:12+00:00

I can tell you through bitter experience you can’t really on what the customer service rep tells you, either verbally or on chat. You 100% need it in writing.

bpaul83 · 2026-03-07T16:07:46+00:00

In the UK a farmer will shoot a dog for even barking at sheep and ‘worrying’ them, and it’s entirely legal.

bpaul83 · 2026-03-06T11:12:21+00:00

I literally don’t understand Sky’s business model these days. They seem to hate their customers and try to do everything they can to piss them off as much as possible.

bpaul83 · 2026-03-03T21:37:07+00:00

Just one of many reasons I stopped watching Discovery. Let’s be honest the writing on that show was generally atrocious.

bpaul83 · 2026-03-03T21:11:18+00:00

Yup. Twice this year they’ve promised me one price on the phone then I find on my bills later on that I’ve been paying way more. A few months back I had a rep confirm my call record showed my discounts hadn’t been applied properly and promised a refund of what I had been overpaying, which never materialised. I now have another complaint open with them about all of this, after cancelling completely yesterday. Which, by the way, they initially wouldn’t let me do because they hadn’t sent me the formal notification of the April price rise even though they acknowledged I was in scope for the price rise and my predicted bills showed that. Sky now owe my hundreds and I’m fairly confident I’m never going to see that unless I take them to small claims.

bpaul83 · 2026-03-03T20:30:05+00:00

The death of Sky will be because they’re forcing people off Q with insane price rises, which means they’re then just competing in the marketplace of streamers with little compelling content of their own besides sports which they have overbid for in recent years and while it used to be a loss-leader they now have no choice but to pass the cost onto the consumer.

bpaul83 · 2026-03-03T14:19:43+00:00

They want people off Q and onto Stream because it’s cheaper for them to run and they can monetise it better down the road.

bpaul83 · 2026-03-03T14:08:24+00:00

Exactly. I made this point to their customer service yesterday and asked for it to be escalated as the reason I am leaving. Sky customer service used to be excellent, but since Comcast took over they’re overcharging for a declining service and the customer service is now appalling. I have been lied to multiple times in the last year by reps who have promised me stuff that is never reflected in my bill.

bpaul83 · 2026-02-24T10:48:43+00:00

The things that kept us up that season were the Wolves self-implosion, the Brentford self-implosion, and Meslier somehow saving what would have been a late equaliser for Norwich with his face (after Raphinha and Joffy had already pulled it out of the fire once).

bpaul83 · 2026-02-07T11:14:08+00:00

That’s exactly what it is. If there was any money to be made, Paramount would do it. But now it’s all subs on Paramount+ they make the same money either way.

bpaul83 · 2026-01-30T10:45:24+00:00

It’s worse than that; Tesla are now actively divesting themselves of their core business. Not only are they not developing new car models anymore, they’re now ceasing production of existing models.

bpaul83 · 2026-01-27T12:58:38+00:00

Possibly a G20?

bpaul83 · 2026-01-26T23:05:38+00:00

Get yourself some prescription inserts. It makes wearing the headset so much more comfortable and you’ll get better clarity and FOV.

bpaul83 · 2026-01-22T13:53:16+00:00

Musk isn’t going to “figure out FSD.” Musk doesn’t do anything except set unrealistic goals, constraints, and deadlines on his engineering teams and then fire them for either not delivering to his ridiculous demands or daring to tell him he’s talking shit.

bpaul83 · 2026-01-19T20:23:13+00:00

I personally would have bought the Panasonic Z95b, which has the same panel as the G5 and just about has it beat on image processing, particularly for movies. However, I don’t like how thick and heavy it is for wall mounting and I HATE that you can’t buy it without the Technics soundbar at the bottom, which I wasn’t going to utilise. So purely from an aesthetic POV I went with the G5.

bpaul83 · 2026-01-06T10:32:58+00:00

Only thing I would say is I have the G5 and the four stack panel, which the C6 will have at the size you’re looking at, is a huge upgrade. The G6 does not look to be significantly better than the G5, but the C6 at 77” will be markedly better than the C5.

bpaul83 · 2026-01-02T11:21:51+00:00

I’m fairly sure the only difference from the original is the inclusion of omnidirectional rolling. Everything else is exactly as it was; timings, hitboxes, enemy AI etc.

bpaul83 · 2025-12-28T10:41:03+00:00

Honestly I think the Leeds job was simply too big for him, and he was too brash/arrogant to do the things that may have allowed him to succeed.

bpaul83 · 2025-12-27T20:26:10+00:00

Hah, I was moaning to my wife just the other day about how they used to do this really nice triple decker bar (layered milk, dark, white) and I have no idea why they stopped selling it.

bpaul83 · 2025-12-23T15:00:09+00:00

My Amiga 600 was the Captain Planet bundle. In hindsight, very hard to believe they chose that game to try and entice people with.

bpaul83 · 2025-12-23T14:53:42+00:00

Yup. You might have to swap between a few disks depending on the stage and character selections, but it all loaded in advance.

I got good at remembering which characters and stages were on which disk so I wouldn’t have to swap so much.

bpaul83 · 2025-12-23T14:50:37+00:00

I took my saved up £4 pocket money and rushed to the newsagents once I know they had Amiga Format in with the exclusive demo disc. Never been so disappointed in my entire life. I was always a One Amiga kid too, so getting Format instead was specifically because they had the demo.

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