Recent content by consptheory77

I had this question on the Tom's Hardware forum until they deleted it after informing me that Tom's Guide had a forum too, and that was the appropriate venue for this question. The upshot of the discussion there was: Samsung's "A" line of phones is a reliable budget brand (I knew this, I...

I have a friend in his 70's that I bought a Samsung Galaxy S4 (circa 2014) last year to use with his budget phone plan, and it appears to have stopped working, so I got him a e Moto 6 (a budget phone for a budget plan, to be sure, but the latest budget phone) and he is pleased with it as the...

Well, I opted for the Samsung over the TCL because of the differential in reviews of reliability, and also because the TCL is a "smart TV" and I prefer to have that "smart" part separate (with the Roku), but despite the adage "you can't tell the difference between 720p and 1080p unless you're up...

I notice that TV manufacturers don't make 720p TVs if the TVs are over 40 inches. I have watched both Blu-rays and HBO HD streaming on the old 2007 Vizio and both did look good on it. Video games looked awful.

I have three setups in the house. There is the TV in the living room which is a 24" SDTV from the mid-2000's hooked up to a PS2. There is a TV in one of the bedrooms which is a Vizio 720p LCD from 2007 (terrible viewing angles, washed out blacks, but it was still an impressive upgrade at the...

Well, instead of Handbrake this time I used Super to re-encode. I set the video bit rate to approximately the same, and cut the audio bitrate in half (it was actually 2.0 to being with, not DD5.1). Super didn't re-encode it at exactly the same bit rate, it came in at about 1500 kbps less...

I'm trying to re-encode a movie that is about 6GB down to 4GB, I want to keep the video bitrate the same, but knock down the audio from 5.1 to 2.0, and I went to use Handbrake to do this, but I wound up with a file than was larger (13GB) than what I started with? How did this happen? I can't...

I'm looking to play the first few Final Fantasy games over the portable GBA format, and I bought a first version GBA SP but I am wondering if I should trade up to the GBA SP version 2 (with the backlit and brighter screen) or even trade up to one of the DS models? I mean, the screen is bright...