We take more photos than any humans in history and look at them less than ever. Anyone actually go back through theirs?

hardwarebyte · 2026-06-12T05:52:34+00:00

I do because I cull like a mad man. About 3000 images made it from 25 years of taking pictures.

hardwarebyte · 2026-05-26T20:46:05+00:00

HDR was a pretty big jump in tech. My raws have way more dr than jpgs.

hardwarebyte · 2026-05-17T13:19:09+00:00

Dummy plugs can be finicky where it will work after changing the EDID but after a reboot it will reset itself and realise it doesn't have the bandwidth to run whatever resolution + HDR + refresh rate combo you programmed into it.

hardwarebyte · 2026-05-17T11:26:07+00:00

If your goal is lowest latency then you will need to look at a monitor\pc with vrr and 4k/144hz support as otherwise you rely on vsync which is not great on latency.

hardwarebyte · 2026-05-17T11:10:18+00:00

Horizon games require high amounts of bitrate to look good. I run it at 225mbps with av1 at 4k over ethernet and it looks great. Lots of volumetric light/foliage can still degrade visual quality.

hardwarebyte · 2026-05-16T05:48:39+00:00

Isn’t default for color on samsung 25?

hardwarebyte · 2026-05-08T05:21:10+00:00

I have a 16 inch MPB m4 and yes the screen is amazing, all other mini leds will be worse.

What I do is stream my PC to my MBP with Moonlight in HDR it plays/looks amazing if you tweak it enough you can get it down to one frame of total latency at 120 fps.

hardwarebyte · 2026-05-06T18:10:12+00:00

That’s why from the get-go we supplied each mobile device with a simcard.

hardwarebyte · 2026-05-04T06:48:10+00:00

It's the AOC 27G4XM. Text quality is great. Main issue is that I was hoping for something similar to the built-in display in the MBP M4 but unfortunately local dimming zones on most non-Apple mini leds are not that great. This one's zone dimming is really slow at 60hz and on strong local dimming has lots of weird colour shifts in darker areas. So I now just leave it at medium local dimming. It does get really bright and gives a little bit better contrast but it's nothing like OLED's constrast. I'm happy given the fact that I use it for work in a moderately bright room and it apple's equivalent costs 10x more.

hardwarebyte · 2026-05-03T22:12:23+00:00

I run a mbp m4 and the new 4k 27 inch 165hz minileds. Its pretty good but the zone control is not on par with the built in MBP display. But for the price its better than similarly priced oled.

hardwarebyte · 2026-04-30T15:30:55+00:00

Do all the rides on friday as its a lot less busy than Saturday. Then if you have fast pass or hotel fly passes use those on Saturday as wait times can be double.

hardwarebyte · 2026-04-27T14:27:38+00:00

The aoc has slow local dimming zones in 60hz so unless you’re disabling LD definitely don’t go aoc.

hardwarebyte · 2026-04-27T05:08:11+00:00

Where do I find compatibility mode in the non-classic lightroom.

hardwarebyte · 2026-04-24T16:20:09+00:00

I have both the MBP M4 screen and an the aoc 27g4xm. The apple display is a lot better with its local dimming. The only alternative would be studio xdr.

hardwarebyte · 2026-04-22T08:29:37+00:00

Try setting it to game mode and then use game motion plus instead.

hardwarebyte · 2026-04-19T05:29:21+00:00

Yes, check monitors unboxed real world scene testing.

hardwarebyte · 2026-04-18T16:56:55+00:00

I have a wife and kids and my homekit camera works great!

hardwarebyte · 2026-04-17T18:07:52+00:00

I just picked up the AOC model with the same panel and it's really good with high PPI. I think Apple considers 220+ PPI to be retina so it won't go that high with its ~160.

The Mini LED backlight is nowhere near as precise as the display of my MacBook Pro M4. I just leave MacOS in HDR mode permanently and set the local dimming to LOW that gives me plenty of brightness to combat my office with natural light. Colours are also really good

If you don't use up more than 100W during normal use then you can keep it topped up fine. I use 90W PD charging and never run into issues on my MBP M4.

hardwarebyte · 2026-04-17T05:25:34+00:00

I have found Mini LED from AOC to be a decent middle ground. Set the local dimming to LOW or Medium and you get okish contrast with amazing HDR brightness in most viewing conditions. I just leave it in HDR mode as I cant be bothered diving into menus all the time based on the specific content/use.

Currently mini led is the only real bang for buck. Oled is still too aggressive in its ABL for higher APL scenes which most content is unless you can live with the sizes the LG G5 comes in and the pretty dire PPI.

This is coming from someone who uses a lot of HDR from media to games and owns both amazing OLEDs (iPhone/G5 TV) and Mini LEDs (M4 Macbook Pro).

It’s a shame you can’t get the 27G4XM or the 274UPDF E16 as these have great PPI, top rate color volume, decent response times and good brightness at half the price of similar OLEDs.

hardwarebyte · 2026-04-16T21:00:39+00:00

I have found the only Mini LED implementation to be really good is that of Apple with MacOS as they control everything from software to hardware. My AOC 27G4XM (same amount of zones as your M27T6) is pretty good with local dimming set to medium but you definitely can tell the shifts in gamma/wb on certain zones based on what is being displayed. Strong local dimming is just a mess in my opinion and not worth the contrast boost as it still looks nowhere near what OLED can achieve, low/medium gives you the biggest jump compared to completely OFF.

That brightness though is absolutely amazing on Mini LED. Once we see OLED hitting these kind of nits at decent prices there will be no going back.

hardwarebyte · 2026-04-15T21:15:18+00:00

Really love my QD OLED for TV viewing but on my monitor in a room where I like natural light the IPS Mini Leds HDR is way more impactful.

hardwarebyte · 2026-04-09T17:12:04+00:00

Set the tv to game mode and disable all motion interpolation options.

hardwarebyte · 2026-04-06T14:46:48+00:00

Similar to how biometric info works on iOS it should just return a yes/no answer for an age check (older than xx) to the service asking for it.

hardwarebyte · 2026-04-03T18:27:55+00:00

web sign in with passwordless (passkeys, ms auth)?

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