Net Neutrality...

Fri Jul 18 18:49:28 UTC 2014

On 7/19/2014 午前 03:35, William Herrin wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Rob Seastrom <rs at seastrom.com> wrote:
>> Michael Thomas <mike at mtcc.com> writes:
>>> On 7/17/14, 2:15 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
>>>> /me makes popcorn and waits for 4K displays to drop under US$1K and
>>>> watch the network providers completely lose their shit....
>>> http://www.amazon.com/Seiki-SE39UY04-39-Inch-Ultra-120Hz/dp/B00DOPGO2G
>>>
>>> $339!
>>>
>>> I use it for doing dev. It's *fabulous*.
>> "Refresh rate is limited to 30Hz with 4K"
>>
>> Bracing for my first seizure ever in 3...  2... 1...
> Hi Rob,
>
> An LED screen doesn't refresh the way a CRT does, right? The light
> doesn't flash and fade, it stays constant until the next change. So
> why would a 30 hz refresh rate make any difference at all for tasks
> which update the screen less often than 30 times a second? Mike did
> say he used it for doing software development.
>
> Movies were shot at 24fps and TV shows at 30fps (60 interlaced), so
> I'm not sure where the harm would be there either.
>
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
>
>

For all intents and purposes, it actually does work fine -- yeah.

I've got a few friends who bought it, it seems to work fine.