also OLED displays with persistent black bars burn in unevenly over time, so eventually the outer parts of the screen you see in HD and up will be brighter than the middle with time.
With the older sets, even if you're like me and prefer the entire screen over bars, which, sorry, annoy me and look wrong, they still produce an excellent picture. many DVD players don't even require you messing with the aspec ratio anyway since many DVDs already fill the screen, so you're no seeing the noticeable distortion and nothing is being cropped to fit. It comes off looking just like HD since you're still either at native resolution or having resonable upscaling done by the CPU in the TV.
It's like this, a 1440x900 resolution looks HORRIFIC on a modern, curved 50 inch PC monitor designed for 4K. but on a monitor that only supports up to 1440x900, it looks as clean as the 4k resolution would look on the 4k monitor.
Another problem I have with modern sets is that someone decided that glossy, glare-prone reflective displays are the best thing since sliced bread, instead of the more glare-resistent matte displays that have better viewing angles, and on a non OLED, less backlight bleed.
Latest purchases:
DVDs and Blu-Rays of:
Non-stop, Pokemon 4-ever, Bonanza 34 episode collection, Ozzie and Harriet 20 episode collection, Galaxy Quest, and Oblivion.
another mechanical watch, a very '70s looking Timex with date indicator as well as second hand, was already running, didn't need repair or service. It's also water resistent, and at 5 dollars, I had little to lose testing that in my shower, and it was still water resistent.
A 2013 Dell Optiplex tower PC, 8 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD, and Windows 8 Pro. I ignored the HDD and put my gaming PC's 1TB Linux drive in it, hoping that the games I play will still play well enough with a more period-correct PC, as the other was just 'too new' and I am trying to keep my tech in the 2006-14 range while other bits are truly vintage, such as my tube radios, vintage watches, clocks, clock radios, stereo consoles, and so on. Kinda ironic how all the vintage computers are now Dell, like that's literally what shows up secondhand. Linux Mint booted perfectly, almost like nothing had changed, and ran fine with the 1440x900 monitor from 2008 I had paired it with. the PC cost 34 dollars, the monitor was given to me. Fallout 4 as well as Farming Simulator '17 should play fine, they being the two heaviest games on the system, since the former played quite ok on a much less specced system originally, albeit it had some framerate issues at 1080p, so the lesser resolution monitor should take the load off of whatever on-board GPU this thing has. Heck, I was able to progress quite far with less than 15 fps in 2017, even managing to kill Kellogg, and gain Strong as a follower.
