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What's up guiys it's me podel with a new video. Last vid of 2014 I guess, so Happy new year!!!!!!!!!!

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More than just resolution

Do you lust after more pixels? It's likely you upgraded your TV to a HD-ready version a decade ago and you're now watching one with a Full HD resolution. Few would argue the extra pixels do anything other than give you a better, more realistic image.

More pixels = better images.

TVs, like cameras and processing power, are a classic numbers product where more is marketed as so obviously better than less.

We all fall for it. We always do.

That all ends here. As Ultra HD 4K TVs get ready to roll the numbers are beginning to unravel. Just as cameras have moved on from offering more megapixels as a shorthand for improved quality, so to the proponents of the new Ultra HD 4K TVs and services are having to think beyond the basic maths of 3840x2160 pixels.

Beyond pixels

What are being touted as the 'Ultra HD technologies' include not just more pixels, but High Dynamic Range (HDR), High Frame Rate and Deep Colour tech. For those after the best picture quality possible, the highest possible resolution no longer takes top billing.

"Ultra HD is about offering a completely different video experience rather than just throwing more pixels at it," said Paul Gray, principal analyst at IHS DisplaySearch at the IFA 2015 Grand Press Conference last month in Malta.

"Ultra HD needs to be something completely different to conventional HD."

Surging sales

Not that sales of 4K TVs aren't surging.

Many analysts predict bigscreen TVs – classed at 50-inch and over – won't be anything but 100% Ultra HD within three years. Tops. In Asia they're already catching on fast, though in completely different ways in two of the major countries.

"It's really hard to buy 1080p sets in Japan," says Gray. "There is only a dark, dimly-lit corner for 1080p TVs."

He explains that Japanese TV buyers get to sit on a stool in front of (and very close to) each Ultra HD TV on sale and have the new tech explained to them. Meanwhile, in China numbers marketing still dominates, and the effect is massive; China is the only market where 4K resolution TVs don't have HEVC decoders.

No HEVC decoder means no 4K streaming. China badly needs Ultra HD Blu-ray.

The conclusion is obvious; in China they're selling 4K, whereas in Japan they're selling the Ultra HD experience. And there's a very good reason for that.

Too close for comfort

Subjective tests results from IHS DisplaySearch is revealing that 4K on its own is not what people want.

"Resolution doesn't have a wow effect," says Gray. "It's visibly better but you have to sit very close – just 1.5x the screen height away – to get the benefit of the resolution." Even from an 84-inch whopper that means sitting just 160cm away. "You need to sit very close to see the benefit."

So close, in fact, that 4K resolution is almost a waste of pixels in most people's living rooms.

The other three Ultra HD technologies get the thumbs-up, however.

"High Frame Rate was very noticeable," says Gray about the tests. "It depends a lot on the content – it has to be fast-moving – but it's critical for sports."

He says on 120Hz content it's possible to see what part of the bat or racquet the ball is hitting, and what part of a footballer's boot the ball is going to touch. So much so that you can actually start to make estimates about exactly what's going to happen next.

"It's very exciting for sports broadcasters," he says. For sports fans, High Frame Rate is the future; 4K then is a mere side-show.

Feature rich

High Dynamic Range

"HDR is also very noticeable," says Gray, who thinks that the competing technology, RGB LED, will also flourish. "As the peak luminance goes up people visibly perceive an improvement in picture performance."

However, he does point out that ad breaks could get ruined in all-new ways; just as advertisers already turn-up the volume now, in future they'll likely also push the luminance to maximum to take advantage of HDR TVs.

"You might need to put your sunglasses on," says Gray.

However, there's no denying that HDR will prove really popular for watchers of soap and general TV.

Quantum Dot & Deep Colour

The fundamental tech behind Deep Colour is Quantum Dot, which has been pushed so far by LG. The subjective test results demonstrated that Deep Colour, too, is also worth buying, according to Gray, who says that cinema and wildlife photography benefit hugely.

"Deep Colour has real value and people can see the difference," says Gray.

Genre-specific tech

Look at that in the round and you've got a pretty splintered video ecosystem; the three technologies – HDR, High Frame Rate and Deep Colour – all find their sweet-spot in completely different genres.

Unlike with the introduction of HD, which was seen as a general improvement across the board, the move to the Ultra HD technologies is more complex.

For instance, Sky will want to film sports in High Frame Rate, but not Deep Colour. Soap operas will be filmed to take advantage of HDR, but High Frame Rate won't matter. Film directors and the makers of nature documentaries will prioritise Deep Colour. And so on.

Not all video is alike.

"Hollywood has known about all of this for a century, they've been shooting action sequences with very short depths of field to take away the blurred background and de-focus it," says Gray. "It allows the director to guide the viewer's eyes onto the action, because that's the only sharp bit."

Live sports isn't like that; everything needs to be sharp, otherwise there's no sense of presence.

Broadcasters wanting to offer Ultra HD – especially live TV – have so many more choices to make, and massively more data to handle than IP services like Netflix. Netflix can deliver in 4K already precisely because a lot of the video within movies and TV dramas is blurred to begin with, so can be easily compressed.

Nor is it consistent.

"The reality is that you can click the 4K button on Netflix, but bandwidth issues mean you're probably not watching it all of the time," says Gray.

Phones first

The Ultra HD video technologies might be trumpeted as TV-centric, but Gray thinks phone users will probably see them first.

4K tablets and 6.2-inch smartphones with over 700ppi screens will appear later this year, while a massive 200 million UHD smartphones are predicted to be sold during 2021 alone. By then there will already be 500 million 4K phones in use.

Now that's momentum.

"When we've got an Ultra HD ecosystem across TV, phones and tablets, content consumption is going to be very different to what it is at the moment," says Gray.

His research also shows Deep Colour, HDR and High Frame Rate technologies don't just work well on the small screen, but are actually more noticeable than on a huge TV. "Ultra HD in smartphones is going to be as big as Ultra HD in TVs," says Gray, "but it's about a lot more than just pixels."

Samsung Galaxy S7 release date

UPDATE: Our full, in-depth Samsung Galaxy S7 review is now live.

The Samsung Galaxy S7 is official, and while we'd gleaned a fair amount of information about it in the lead-up to the launch, there were still a few surprises on offer.

Those included an always-on display as well as some news on the internal storage of the phone.

Samsung also revealed the Galaxy S7 Edge at the same time with a 5.5-inch dual, curved display that looks gorgeous in the hand. But let's focus on the straight-edged Galaxy S7 first.

Cut to the chase

• What is it? The new flagship phone in Samsung's Galaxy S line.
• When is it out? March 11
• What will it cost? £569, US$199 on a two year contract, AU$1,149

• Read our Samsung Galaxy S7 review
• Check out all the best Samsung Galaxy S7 deals
• Read our Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge review

Release date

As you'll have noticed above, the Samsung Galaxy S7 release date has been set for March 11, with pre-orders open now.

Some retailers are promising to deliver the phone a little earlier if you pre-order, and some lucky people have already got their shiny new S7 in their hands.

Some, including Samsung itself, are offering up a few freebies with pre-ordered phones including the Gear VR headset. But it's worth checking before you order though, the deal isn't set to last for long.

Check out our hands-on and first impressions Galaxy S7 video:

YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONFbrPEYt0k

Price

There's only one storage size of the Galaxy S7 (32GB), so pricing is a much more simple affiar. The key digits are as follows.

In the UK you're looking at £569 SIM, or you can pick it up from as little as £49.99 up front on two year deals. In the US, it'll cost $199 on a two-year contract, but since carriers are phasing out these subsidized agreements, expect to pay about $27 a month for the handset over the course of 24 months.

In Australia the S7 is priced at AU$1,149 SIM free.

Design

The design of the Galaxy S7 looks pretty much like that of the Galaxy S6 – or so you'd think when you first lay eyes on it. The phone, from the front, does have a very similar look, with the metal edges and rounded corners.

But the rear of the phone has been rounded away (think the S6 Edge's front used on the back) in the same manner as on the Galaxy Note 5, and it feels completely different.

On top of that, Samsung's brought back the IP68 rating (meaning you can dunk it in 1.5 meters of water for 30 minutes) that we last saw on the Galaxy S5 – but this time, with the more premium design of glass and metal.

It's still a touch chunkier than other phones on the market, but it feels good in the hand, and the mix of glass and metal makes it feel like a phone worth spending a decent amount of cash on.

Screen

Samsung stuck with the same 5.1-inch QHD Super AMOLED display on the Galaxy S7 as on the S6. It's usually a bad thing when a brand doesn't add anything to the mix for its phone from one year to the next (we're talking to you, Apple…) but in this case, last year's screen was so nifty that it couldn't have been improved on much this year.

Super AMOLED tech means you're already getting great color reproduction and brilliant differences between the light and dark elements of the screen – and the results always seem to impress friends.

The QHD resolution is pin-sharp too – at 1,440 x 2,560 pixels it's closing in on a resolution that's so sharp the eye can't ever see the pixels.

It makes pictures and web pages, in particular, look smooth and clear, and as OLED technology is self-emitting, the display sits closer to the glass too. Side by side the two do actually look a little different, with the Galaxy S7 showing up as a little brighter - Samsung's clearly optimized the tech while not changing the resolution.

Here's how the Samsung Galaxy S7 compares to Apple's latest, the iPhone 6S.

YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYG8SZktfU8

Always-on display

While the display technology in the Samsung Galaxy S7 hasn't altered much, the way it's being used has.

Samsung's decided that it needs another headline feature, and the Always-On Display seems to be it. You can pretty much guess what this is from the name: when the phone is in standby it'll either show a clock, your calendar or some weird pattern.

In fairness to Samsung it does add a level of gloss to the look of the phone, but it does also draw power. The claim is that it's less than 1% per hour, but that still adds up over the course of a day.

The claim here is that some users check their phones 150 times a day, mostly to check the time, and in doing so wake up the phone and start munching down on power. Whether many people look at the clock that many times a day is, well, less certain - but Samsung thinks this is a key way to actually save power by leaving the display on.

The screen API is also open for developers, meaning you'll be seeing new display choices in the near future - imagine a WhatsApp message that stays on the front screen,for example.

Storage

Samsung has now confirmed the Galaxy S7 is only available in a 32GB model. Considering that Samsung offered 64GB and 128GB variants in the past, that doesn't seem like much of an offer.

But in reality it's more than enough, thanks to the addition of a microSD card slot in the SIM tray – something Samsung fans have been crying out for over the last 12 months.

However, while Samsung is claiming that the performance of this card will be good (in the Galaxy S5 it really slowed down the gallery when you had loads of photos on it, for instance) there's a slight surprise here: it's not adoptable.

What does that mean? Well, with Android Marshmallow on board the Galaxy S7, in theory Samsung could have used the new Adoptable Storage feature to take that card, encrypt it and make it part of the internal storage, enabling you to install apps and such on it as you would on the built-in storage – essentially giving you a 288GB phone for not a lot more cash.

Camera

This is an area where Samsung's going to have to do a lot of work in terms of spending its marketing dollars: the Galaxy S7 has a 12MP camera, down from the 16MP in the Galaxy S6.

While that sounds like a downgrade, in reality it's a big change for the better, thanks to the fact it'll be letting in more light – 25% more, thanks to the 56% large pixels being used.

There's also less strain on the processor, as it doesn't have as large file sizes to work with – so taking pictures is faster, and images are sharper.

The autofocus has also been hugely improved, with Samsung's new dual-pixel sensor technology offering lightning quick focusing – it seems to be on a par with what Sony's put together in the Xperia range, so should result in clearer pics even with a shaky hand.

Battery

Power-hungry users will be pleased to learn that Samsung seems to have put a lot more effort into the battery pack with the Galaxy S7 – boosting it up from 2550mAh in the S6 (which was actually a reduction from the S5) to 3000mAh.

While Samsung doesn't have the best track record when it comes to power management in its phones, the combination of the improved power management in Android 6 Marshmallow and more mAh to work with could mean we've finally got a long-lasting Galaxy flagship.

OS and power

The Galaxy S7 is one of the first Samsung phones to jump to Android 6, which comes pre-installed on the handset.

That's running on top of two different chipsets: the Qualcomm 820 CPU and Samsung's own Exynos unit plus 4GB of RAM, which means the S7 is able to handle really meaty tasks like stitching together 360-degree video on the fly from the new Gear 360 camera.

Both engines offer a huge amount of power and graphical grunt to make the stuff on the phone's display shine - with the Exynos nipping ahead in the benchmarks. Samsung has told techradar that the intention is to use the Snapdragon 820 in US markets, and the Exynos for Europe and most other parts of the world.

Is it too much power? Probably – and here's hoping the new Qualcomm chipset doesn't suffer from the same thermal issues as its predecessor.

Game launcher

The other big feature on show here is the Game Launcher, a sandboxed area where you can store the latest gaming titles you've downloaded, and access a suite of tools to improve your gaming experience.

For the lower-power games you can shed framerate and processing to save battery, and while in-game you can lock the buttons, disable alerts and even record footage of your gaming experience.

It's a neat idea and one that, combined with the Vulkan API under the surface should yield a really powerful gaming experience, although just chucking in all that power doesn't mean gaming will instantly get better - that's going to be a good test.

• Now read our hands-on review with the Galaxy S7

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Because everyone knows that the best part of waking up is staying in your soft pants all day and eating cereal while watching Warner Herzog documentaries, the chilled out folks on the West Coast are pairing your morning cup of joe with marijuana to start the day.

Brewing up a steaming cup of THC-infused marijuana is within your reach if you happen to live in somewhere like Seattle, where recreational marijuana use is legal: Yahoo! Finance reports that one Seattle pot shop is selling pods of “premium infused coffee” for $10 a pop.

Each pod contains 10 mg of THC and fits in standard single-serve coffee makers.

“I liken it to a Red Bull and vodka,” the shop’s sales manager says. “I had more energy, but I still had the relaxation you get from cannabis.”

This isn’t the first commercial coffee/cannabis combination, as a California company sells also sells marijuana-infused coffees, teas and creamers to medical marijuana dispensaries in that state, with the hopes of moving to Nevada when medical marijuana businesses open up shop there.

Marijuana K-cups and coffee pods are here [Yahoo! Finance]

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A new establishment where people can drink and play arcade games is expected to fill the former Ye Olde Town Inn restaurant space in downtown Mount Prospect around Labor Day.