this post was submitted on 27 May 2025
448 points (97.5% liked)

Technology

70461 readers
2545 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
(page 2) 21 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

reads meta data 1st We gotta get Alec to show up on William's chaos ranch for an episode of Farmer's with Brain Damage. If anyone can get 1 ~~million~~ billion Sunflowers to grow in sand and not get eaten by Kevin's dog it'll be Alec.

Now I'll watch the video. I'm sure it's good. It's always good.

edit: Yep. Interesting.

I think, it's not very expensive or difficult to find work around solutions to the few people holding onto standard definition media.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

You're taking about bringing a man of control and order into that den of chaos and goblinry? I don't think Alec would enjoy it.

[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

After watching his video it feels like it was already left behind.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What is the "it" that you think got left behind?

[–] neclimdul@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I meant that in the video it's consistently not worked for a very long time. Seems the switch to HDMI left it behind. While it would be nice if devices supported it like he asked, the fact it was skipped in the HDMI standard and not mandated by law means it's unlikely devices racing too the bottom line will ever care. And that's basically what we see. Only the most expensive devices even acknowledge it's an issue.

That said, I hope VLC devs see his video and improve things. I'm sure it's more complicated then it seems but it would be cool for them to add that to the ways they're better than every other player put there.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Honestly, physical media formats in general have been left behind decades ago at this point.

load more comments
view more: ‹ prev next ›