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  • CEO of Canada's Rogers sees 'anemic' demand for Apple's iPhone 8

    irnchrizirnchriz
    I would like sales to fall flat, proving that Apple his hit a price point where a lot of existing customers just say, “nope, I think I won’t bother upgrading”.

    That said, I will pick up an X to try out the new features but I’m not sure about keeping it as it’s the same narrow display at the non plus models.
    williamlondon

  • Ad industry complains Apple Safari update is 'unilateral and heavy-handed' against trackin...

    irnchrizirnchriz
    Screw them, if they want that info then ask for goddamn permission. Then we can opt in, if we want.
    chaickalostkiwikevin keerandominternetpersonwatto_cobra

  • First look: Apple launches iPad Pro in new 10.5" form factor with vibrant 120Hz screen

    irnchrizirnchriz
    ireland said:
    kevin kee said:
    schlack said:
    Ugh that camera nub. Won't it get scratched up when only using the smart cover? So unApple like.
    I am only interested in one thing with this new iPad Pro: the 120 Hz display! (is it the same thing as 120 FPS?) That is one hell of display.
    They aren’t “frames” as the screen isn’t playing a film. Hertz are cycles per second. But tbh I’m unsure how it relates to FPS. You’d be inclined to think they are the same thing but it’s not clear to me that they are. E.G. a video shot a 120 FPS appears to slow down, but a 120 Hz iPad display smoothens interactions and visuals and in some ways (drawing latency) appears to speed up; your interactions do not slow down. I could make what I consider are some obvious assumptions, but I’d lack the expertise to know.

    Another example is most TVs are 50 or 60 Hz, but they don’t seem to mess with a 24 FPS film—quite a different number. And some 120 Hz TV displays with certain settings active completely ruin the filmic look of a standard 24 FPS movie making actors appear to move in a hyper-robotic fashion and the picture can appear very digital and unreal or inhuman and fake (it could be another setting and reason, but I’ve never seen a 50-60 Hz TV do similar crap). Hence why I assume Apple throttles Hz for certain kinds of content. Thankfully they have the sense to do this. Judging by the out-of-box experience of some TVs I doubt other makers would be as smart.
    FPS describe the frames played back per second and Hz is the number of times the display is refreshed per second.  If you record at 120fps and play it back at 120fps it plays at normal speed.  If you play this back on a 60Hz display you will essentially see every other frame but it will play back at normal speed.  If you match the playback FPS to the display Hz e.g. 120 down to 60 the video will play at half speed.  If you play back footage at 24fps on a screen that only supports 60Hz or 50Hz you start to see judder in tracking/panning shots as frames are skipped or only partially displayed. Most modern displays support multiple frequencies.

    Some displays try to smooth out FPS and Hz differences by creating frames to make up the difference, whilst this can work well for sports it causes the hyper real images during movies which you described above.
    tgr1kevin kee