Ben Golus

Fuck Kansas.

Samsung said fuck it, we’re doing 5 ̷b̷l̷a̷d̷e̷s̷ layers now!

It also tickles me that both marketing teams have slapped the “tandem” term on the new generation of panels when they’ve literally both been multi-layered “tandem” technologies from the beginning.

But Samsung upped the number of layers in their QD-OLED panels from 2 to 3 just over a year ago. And in the last years LG moved from 3 to 4 layers for their “Tandem RGB WOLED” panels. Now Samsung has announced their own “Penta Tandem QD-OLED” that goes from 3 layers to 5!

The block you see when an OLED is off isn’t because OLED is black, it’s because there’s a black backing behind it. What if you stack layers of OLED?

Both QD-OLED and WOLED have been at least two or three layers of OLED from the start. And they’ve been pushing the tech as much as they can.

On top of that, a single OLED panel can only get so bright. If you push too much energy in, it gets hot, and OLEDs being organic material, that heat is bad and causes them to wear out. So how do you make them brighter?

Well, OLED layers are transparent.

OLED TVs and monitors have the OLED layer act as a single color backlight that goes through filters for each subpixel. This gets rid of the LCD part, but there’s still more than just the one OLED layer by itself.

OLED is self emissive so you just have the OLED directly emit the red, green, and blue for each subpixel! No filters or backlight needed!

But that’s only how it works for OLEDs on mobile phones, laptops, and other small OLED displays.

I kind of love how OLED TVs and monitors have gone about solving the technology‘s brightness limitations.

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Modern OLED TVs and monitors work a bit more like LCD panels than many people might expect. LCDs have a white backlight, color filters, and the LCD part to block light at each subpixel.

Apropos of nothing in particular, did you know Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be 39 in 2028?

It’s to distract you from the fact you can’t open that file to edit unless you pay Adobe their ransom.

Aaand, the order has already been "reversed" and they're no longer suspending the programs.

YouTube video by AlphaPhoenix I DROPPED my slomo camera to explain how gravity works

I loved this recent video by AlphaPhoenix on the topic.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rGa...

Star Trek TNG has a pretty darn good ending... which they kind of ruined with the movies after Contact.

Star Trek DS9 was controversial to say the least, but I think well regarded after the fact.

I actually think Quantum Leap had an amazing ending though.

Thinking about how the ending of Stranger Things disappointed so many, how much people hated Game of Thrones, and how dumb the ending of Lost was.

Has there been a long running well loved TV show with an ending that people actually liked?

Hillbilly Deluxe cover booklet lyrics for Dragula: "Dig through the Ditches. Burn through the Witches - I slam in the back of my Dragula"

TIL ...

Humorously YouTube Music's own lyrics show "and slam". Though no matter how many times I listen, I cannot hear anything other than "that slam". Not and slam, not I slam.

And yet the official cover booklet shows...

My favorite thing about Garashir is when the actor who plays Garak was asked what he felt about people shipping them and thinking Garak was gay his response was "I think its great, because I specifically played that first scene as Garak trying to hit on Bashir because he wanted to have sex with him"

At least near the end of CRT being a thing. The phosphors of Early and cheap CRTs would stay lit for a long time and look quite similar to old LCD TVs for motion.

But the high end CRTs were crystal clear for motion.

It's also why there is a die hard group of CRT fans still. They have much better motion clarity than modern displays. The example he shows of motion blur when following an object across the screen with your eyes wasn't an issue with CRTs because the image only stays visible for a brief moment.

And the 60hz people always point to... that comes from NTSC TVs, and was chosen purely because that's the frequency the US power grid runs at and we didn't yet have accurate enough electronics to sync signals without it.

The TLDR being the human eye doesn't _have_ a framerate.

But we've known since the late 1800's that most people can perceive flicker below 96hz.

But 10 fps is around the bare minimum that the human brain starts to perceive a series of images as continuous motion.

The sort of click-bait thumbnail stating 10 frames per second for Filmmaker IQ's video, and the 39,620 Hz in the title of techless's video may seem like they contradict each other. But they don't.

Filmmaker IQ's video explains why both are true.

YouTube video by Filmmaker IQ What is the Frame Rate of the Human Eye?

This video from two years ago goes a bit more into the biology of it, and talks about it in more the context of film.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=quWe...

YouTube video by techless The human eye can see 39,620 Hz

This is a great video to send anyone who still thinks humans can only see 60hz.

There are some minor pedantic things I could nit pick about it, but it does a really good job showing clear examples of why it's not remotely true.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb_7...

CEOs explaining the benefits of AI for increasing profit the same thing as South Park gnomes explaining stealing underwear.

One - Album by Kate Boy One is the debut studio album by Swedish recording group Kate Boy, released on 6 November 2015 by Iamsound Records.

Kate Boy is easily one of my top picks for this. Toured in 2014, released their debut in 2015, and a handful of singles after that and then was gone.

music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

One - Album by Kate Boy One is the debut studio album by Swedish recording group Kate Boy, released on 6 November 2015 by Iamsound Records.

What are some of your favorite short lived music groups you feel like no one else seems to know about? Ones that you feel came out hitting strong, and then disappeared into obscurity?

YouTube video by Technology Connections My car charger can boil water really fast

There’s a ”fix” for that.

youtube.com/watch?v=INZy...

In his tellings, he didn’t see any ICBMs. Instead usually lots of people wearing lab coats.

☝️

Small towns where he'd walk into a busy diner, be greeted warmly, show the briefcase and the entire diner would go quiet and stare at him with guns at the ready. Then have some guy in military attire appear and take the briefcase.

Usually they'd take a stack of cash and toss it his way.