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A few weeks ago, I asked the question, Flat vs Curved when it comes to TVs.
Flat vs Curved[^]
Well, I took the plunge and bought a new telly.
I came off the platform and the wife picked me up from the heli-port and on the way home, I decided to pop into one of the local Samsung distributor shops and check out which new and old versions they had on display and what prices were going for.
After wandering around and wondering what to consider, looking at the sizes, prices, styles, flat vs curved etc. etc.
In the end, I actually purchased one smaller than I was originally considering and decided to go with curved. I went with Samsung TV 65" KS8500: SUHD Quantum Dot, Curved & Smart TV[^].
A few reasons I elected for this;
a) The curve is really not that curved, even the wife changed her view once she saw it.
b) The picture quality was absolutely stunning
c) It was on 20% cashback offer and also came with a free Samsung R7, 360 speaker[^]
The guy asked when do I want it delivered, to which he got the usual, the sooner the better response, and he came back with, how about this evening? That will do for me! After being in the shop headed down to the school to pickup the kids and while we were there, got a phone call saying they were reading to delivery, so much for evening! They would have to wait until 4.30 before we would be back, so they would come back then.
Anyway, the guys rocked up and carried it into the house, and were a bit surprised when I said just to leave it as I needed to sort everything out first. They came with a free wall mount and also had all their tools ready to fire this puppy up on the wall!
After moving out the old telly and sorting all the cables out put it into place and fired it up....and what a picture. At the distance we normally sit on the sofa, you don't even notice it is curved, and the height it is at make it just look like a normal flat rectangle. Still to get a console fired up for a spot of CoD, but after a week of use, I am absolutely delighted with the purchase! Given the choice as well, means that I have effectively saved 75% of my budget for buying other stuff 
modified 16-Nov-16 8:49am.
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Bummer, at first I thought this was going to be a debate on curved vs. flat earth and thought there would be some good entertainment. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Could also have been about women, but then I think Nadia would have given Dave a proper slapping!
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: I think Nadia would have given Dave a proper slapping!
I much prefer improper slapping.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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RyanDev wrote: I thought this was going to be a debate on curved vs. flat earth
Contact Ben Carson - he'll debate this with you (albeit slowly).
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Here's your controversy. Flat earth belief hasn't really ever been a thing.
It's a myth of the modern world.
Myth of the flat Earth - Wikipedia[^]
I really shouldn'ta done that right? 
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Well, among scholars in Medieval times
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Hasn't it been scientifically established without any doubt that the earth is flat on 3 sides and octagonal on the fourth?
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We have a Samsung smart TV. We are thinking of getting another one for the game room (kids, etc.). Will look at the curved panels also.
Thanks for the update.
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DaveAuld wrote: I came off workthe platform and the wife picked me up from the heli-port and on the way home,
Not many of us can say that. 
I'd rather be phishing!
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Sitting a bit back from the screen I first read it as hell port.
BTW, been to Hell, nice little town in Norway, neat postcards, beats America by a long way (except for the coffee, no not USA - their coffee sucks esp. that from starbogs, of course I meant America: an even tinier town in Holland.)
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the "Any" key may be continuate
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You got a Samsung? I hope it doesn't explode.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Dammit - beaten to the cheap tasteless joke by mere hours!
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Their phones explode, now their washing machines explode too. I've heard of companies intentionally designing things to fail at the end of the warranty but this is becoming ridiculous.
Also, I haven't owned a Samsung product that lasted more than a year before dying except my current Galaxy S4
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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So when are you inviting us over? 
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... and then it burst into flames.
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You have a fire extinguisher nearby, right?
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No, not storing the photo in some memory chip. I mean taking the photo with a memory chip.
Dynamic RAMs store their bits in tiny capacitors. Their capacity is also tiny and all capacitors discharge over time, so these memories must be refreshed a few times per seconds if you don't want to lose the content.
Now, if you open the package of the memory chip and expose the memory array to light, this discharge is accelerated. Add some lens or objective, fill all memory cells with '1' and then expose the array to the image and look which bits have flipped after a certain time.
A memory chip as digital camera.[^]
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
modified 16-Nov-16 8:51am.
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That's brilliant!
The only trouble is de-capping the IC without damage...  ... I'd wreck most of 'em, being somewhat ham fisted!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: The only trouble is de-capping the IC without damage
Or contamination with dust. You can't just wipe it off.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I'm surprised it works that well - the greyscales are clear to see - I'd have thought that reading the cell content would have refreshed it, it did in all the DRAMs I used to play with.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yes, about every millisecond you had to do a refresh read to an entire row or column at once.
I think they made several fresh measurements with different exposure times < 1 ms. The greyscale values are calculated from the results.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Fortunately, all I had to do was set the CAS/RAS timing on the Z80 and it would handle all that for me!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Z80? Vade retro, Satanas! 
Remember how the nerd wars were all about processors back then?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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