Congratulations. Sometimes it pays to take a punt and you can have a win. Just need to decide how much your prepared to loose is all goes south.
But with the world at your fingertips you can often have the experience from a world of people that are willing to help.

macman26 - 2021-09-26 13:29:00

macman26 wrote:

Congratulation-
s. Sometimes it pays to take a punt and you can have a win. Just need to decide how much your prepared to loose is all goes south.
But with the world at your fingertips you can often have the experience from a world of people that are willing to help.

Talked to a few techs and researched as well, so took the punt.
Happy if we get a few more years out of it.
We are not techy people, so not inclined to change just to have the latest.
This computer is 20 odd years old that I'm typing on.

smallwoods - 2021-09-26 19:31:00

Just an update.
We have been using the old remote.
Tried the new one and a whole lot of new apps etc have appeared on the tv.
The tech who installed then told us that the new motherboard is an upgrade from the previous.
Picture is way clearer.
Oh, the tech also said, as we aren't gamers the refresh won't be a bother.
Also, in NZ, there aren't a lot of programs where 4k would be of benefit.

He said LG have done a really good job with parts, as he has had trouble with 3 year old "other big brands".

smallwoods - 2021-10-05 13:38:00

smallwoods wrote:

...Also, in NZ, there aren't a lot of programs where 4k would be of benefit...

Make your own, if you have a 4K camera which many now are.

There's some 4K streaming apps, the one that comes to mind is where you select a ski resort in Europe or America and watch live video of the lifts going up and down and snow falling (or not, depends on the season).

And YouTube has some 4K content.

Edited by gyrogearloose at 2:05 pm, Tue 5 Oct

gyrogearloose - 2021-10-05 14:02:00

But 4K video will take a lot more CPU cycles to edit than normal 1080p video, so a bog standard average computer might not be so good for 4K video editing.

tygertung - 2021-10-05 16:04:00

tygertung wrote:

But 4K video will take a lot more CPU cycles to edit than normal 1080p video, so a bog standard average computer might not be so good for 4K video editing.

Depends on the video editor - some can use a proxy at lower resolution to specify the edit (very good strategy at 4K) and then grind out the video in the background, then it doesn't matter how many CPU cycles it takes.

gyrogearloose - 2021-10-05 16:18:00