I think you should read your link again. It clearly says 720 is “HD”.

“HD Ready” was a marketing term that was sometimes used for things that were both 720 and close to 720.

Honestly, I stopped trying to understand them after 1080.

I’ve worked on broadcast for over a decade and up until recently is been almost exclusively 1080i that I’ve dealt with.

Chef John is purely videos of recipes. He never did 40 minute episodes about which salt is the best.

It still is.

720 = HD 1080 = Full HD

Then I think there’s UHD, before they start labelling them as shortened numbers like 8k

Here’s a crazy idea: we don’t need cereal with crazy colours. “Froot Loops” could be the colour of grains and no one would suffer because of it.

I think the joke is that alchemists believe they could turn lead into gold and a primary ingredient was urine.

In fact, a lot of Alchemy involved using piss for things.

Anyone who yearns for their life as child has developmental issues. I’m not trying to say that as a sick burn, I think it’s honestly sad and source of suffering for some people.

Stable vs unstable just means if there are changes happening or if it’s a static version. It doesn’t mean unstable as in wobbly or about to fall over. It’s a poor choice of a term, but that’s what developers use now.

This is a tricky one, though, isn’t it?

The end price of the console is ultimately set by the retailer. The retailer will typically make that price higher than they got it from the manufacturer. Some of that cost was paid by the retailer as tariffs, maybe some extra manufacturing costs were higher because of tariffs.

Who is getting the refund? A Japanese company? Or the Americans who had to pay tariffs? Either way, Sony don’t sell directly to the consumer, so the retailers would have to be gifted a refund by Sony, and then choose to trace and refund their customers.

I’m I completely wrong about this? How should this work?

So, about that asshole thing…

To clarify on this, there is no possessive apostrophe with ‘it’ like their is with nouns. “Its” is a possessive pronoun like “his” or “hers”.

There are plenty of people who worry about being an asshole and end up never standing up for themselves. I don’t think it’s as simple as “if you’re worried you’re the asshole, you probably are”.

Not that is should be a valid response, but you can jail break PlayStations to play whatever game you have a “back up” copy of. That tends to be my method of playing legacy PS games because it’s easier than dealing with discs.

At the end of the day, console gaming is a different product to PC gaming. That’s more obvious with Nintendo, but overall expectations should be different.

The comparison still doesn’t make sense. You can’t play a PlayStation disc on a different platform. If you buy a disc on console you are locked to that ecosystem.

Sony are doing this because not enough people buy discs to make it worth manufacturing, and PC gamers should know this because this new age of digital gaming started with the PC. Switching to PC just proves their point.

I’ve already done that, and still there’s a notable delay when I right click things. Especially anything in the taskbar

You had to pay to play online on Xbox a decade before that. It was free on PlayStation. When they changed it I just stopped playing online.

The PS2 stood out because at the time all your video devices were silver or grey coloured plastic. The ps3 stood out because it was almost completely curves.

I have 10 at home, 11 at work.

11 is so slow. Right clicking anything has a noticeable delay. I won’t even bother listing the other problems. How do you make an os that is just sluggish and think “this is the next major release”

What did Square Enix do?

A private company who’s entire use case is facilitating streaming pirated media. The only time Plex blocks or exposes it’s customers is the time the company completely implodes