@cranky47

think you sell ordinary blokes like you and I short.

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I actually think we are both close to "rich" globally. Only need a household income of ~25k a year (before taxes) to be considered "rich" globally, (top 20%). Course if you want true "rich" (top 5%) you need 85k for the household a year.

It is all subjective I guess. I meant rich in the sense of: access to a reliable car, air conditioning, solid roof over your head, and not food insecure, and can afford to buy things like new tv's and computers and a decent internet connectivity. As well as solid medical care.

Then Samsung joined with TCL and Hisense to sell its response to OLED ,its QLED TV.

I seriously considered the Samsung QLED series as well, and was considering getting that, until I managed to score an OLED at a price point I was happy with. QLED's do phenomenal pictures, just as good as OLED unless you put them side by side, and feed the OLED top of the line HDR 4k content in a completely light controlled setting.

I put black fabric behind the wall I mounted the TV on, left the other walls white. And at night turn off all other nights when I am watching a movie with good 4k hdr content/high bit rate. The effect is stunning the picture "floats" and top/bottom bars for wide format content disappear entirely. Even my wife who always thought new TV's were silly, noticed the difference. (upgrading from an old cheap 1080p lcd tv.)

The light from the TV makes the whole room match the scene on the TV. Hot sunny desert? The room is lit up as such in many ways. A dark scene? The room is dark. I watched some HDR lighting storm content, and "my jaw was on the floor" When there is no lighting, the room is completely dark, then the lightning happens, and wham it is almost blinding, just like real lightening. And all you see is lightning and anything the lightning lit up (like clouds.) I imagine you can get similar effect on your QLED.

Seems like you are quite technically proficient. You are correct, no need for an expensive video card and top of the line processor if you are not playing games or doing professional photo/video editing or something like rendering. Sadly the way the build things (even macs) you do not want a computer for more than 5 years anyhow. This computer I am typing on I have upgraded a few times, but it is nearing 5 years old now.

In the meantime, I think there will soon be entire wall LCD's, tailor made for the ordinary house. . After a couple of years, ,economy of scale kicks in and prices drop.

Agree with you there, depending on what you mean by a "couple, of years." It is available soon as now, in a more "janky" set up. But 1 continuous, uninterrupted 4 meter screen for prices even the top 20% globally can afford, is probably at least 5 years away imho.

But bigger is definitely getting cheaper fast in multiple ways. With TV's getting down to less than 5 dollars per diagonal inch, (if you are not too concerned with picture quality.) Having a wall of tv's eithir a single piece or or multiple screens, is rapidly becoming financially feasible. I seen 55 inch TV's for as low as 200 bucks. So for 800 bucks you can have 110 inch diagonal "wall" if you were okay with some bezels. Spend a little more and you can get close to bezel's TV's making an almost uniform picture. Bigger budget, can easily net you 4 meter diagonal measurement over all the screens. Many houses do not even have walls that big unless the bottom screens are pretty close to the ground.

With both my wife and I working from home now in IT heavy fields, we already have a "wall" of monitors in our office, sitting on our desks. 5 Screens between us, sometimes more when we use our laptop screens too. It is actually somewhat hilarious looking.

I had a friend that had a 3d projector, it is fun, but mostly a "few times" gimmick. It too used glasses, and had drawbacks over just a standard format picture.

However 3D in VR.. especially in a highly detailed computer generated world you can explore in, now THAT is impressive 3D. I tried it on the older HTC Vive, and was blown away. I Can't wait to see what the same stuff looks like in the new Vive Index. (higher resolution, more field of view, etc.) I heard reports that the new Vive Index and playing games like half life Alyx, for too long, reality becomes disorienting, instead

"But that pales when one realizes that the distance to the moon was calculated by the Greeks 270 BC."

Thank you. One less of the vast number of things of which I am presently ignorant .

I think they also correctly calculated the circumference of the earth. I understand Christopher Columbus underestimated the earth's

--The Muslim claims pale when one takes a real look at most of them. Doubly sad when considers the Muslim golden age*** and its advances.

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*** 8th to the14th centuries.

"The Islamic Golden Age was a period of cultural, economic, and scientific flourishing in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 14th century.[1][2][3] This period is traditionally understood to have begun during the reign of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid (786 to 809) with the inauguration of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, the world's largest city by then, where Islamic scholars and polymaths from various parts of the world with different cultural backgrounds were mandated to gather and translate all of the world's classical knowledge into Arabic and Persian.[4][5] Several historic inventions and significant contributions in numerous fields were made throughout the Golden Age that revolutionized human history."

The full wiki article is fascinating and well worth a read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Golden_Age