It's always the EU and their regulations 🤷

I keep seeing the phrase signage, but what does it actually mean?

and even more so with 8k

Oh so nothing. Got it

To add to this (rather than edit my response) 4k streaming on most services is roughly the same (and often times less than) the bitrate of a 1080p blu-ray (max 28Mbps).

Unless you're getting all your media from Apple TV+, which streams at 20 to 40Mpbs or from 4K discs, your 4K Television is outputting the same quality as a 1080p blu-ray, but with the addition of HDR.

Sure but the difference is sales tax is money coming from the consumer, with no tie to the collecting company.

Payroll tax is money the company hands to the employee, who immediately hands it to the government. It's money which was created by the company and which the government receives as a direct result of the company's economic activity.

The same legislation that grants you the right to have an inefficient 8K TV in March 2023.

We don’t say that retailers pay 6% of tax on sales. They COLLECT the tax from the purchaser on behalf of the state. It’s the same with an employee’s share of payroll tax. That is money that theoretically would otherwise go to the employee, but the company collects on behalf of the government.

I didn't say it was the same as income tax.

Why is it disingenuous? Where do you think the money is coming from?

Payroll tax is not the same as income tax. Crediting corporations for employee-paid portions of payroll tax seems disingenuous to me

how is that a right? What grants that right?

That's because there was no personal income tax until 1913.

In 2021, US Government revenue was 2.04T from personal income tax (50.7%), 1.31T from payroll taxes (32.6%), and 372B (9.2%) from corporate income tax.

50% of payroll taxes (16.3% of federal revenue) are paid by corporations, which means money directly from corporations makes up 25.5% of federal revenue. The other half (another 16.3% of federal revenue) is from employee-paid payroll taxes, which is just money handed from the employer to the employee to the government, so essentially 41.8% of federal revenue comes directly from the employer.

Looking at IRS data from 2018 and 2019 it appears that salaries and wage makes up about 2/3 of reported personal income.

Now that doesn't mean it is the source for 2/3 of the tax revenue of course, as deductions and credits alter that. Notwithstanding, if tax revenue from wages and salaries makes up only 16% of total personal income tax revenue, that would mean 50.0% of federal revenue is derived, directly or indirectly from a company.

The reality is that personal income tax on wage and salaries probably far exceeds 16% of all personal income tax revenue, meaning businesses are likely responsible for well over 50% of federal revenue.

That's without taking into account any other federal revenue streams from companies such as excise duties and customs taxes.

So companies are still a very very large driver of Federal revenue.

IKR? I have a 75" TV but my couch is 11 feet away. I doubt I'd be able to tell the difference between 4K and 8K content. Hell, I'm not convinced I can really tell the difference between 1080p and 4k content at this distance.

> 8K displays also require more sophisticated video processing than comparable 4K displays. That’s because there are four times as many pixels to process with the need to upscale nearly all current video sources today.

I love how they admit right there that there isn't even any 8K content to watch on the damn things.

YES MY DREAM AS A 8 YEAR OLD FINALLY CAME TRUE. I CAN NOW SMELL GASOLINE FROM MY HOUSE

Specially in developing countries where TV isn't even 1080p.. I've been saying this for a while, TV can't compete with streaming services/youtube if it won't even do 1080p, let alone 8K.

Bullshit.

Tbf majority demographics of YouTube are like:

1. Half probably bot net inflating viewers, astro turfing or annoying content creators

2. children who don’t care for HD cus they don’t know how to press buttons on their iPhone or TV, or mindlessly auto-playing watching kid shows or some dumb content creators

3. Everyone else, fifth or quarter of “everyone else” are probably vision impaired or old people where hd may not matter.

Also music vid viewers who don’t give a shit about video quality replaying over and over.

HD demographics are gonna be the minority when, need good internet (or patience), and don’t fall into above categories.

Personally I prefer HD vids but no way I can tolerate video buffering and shit ads on trash connection

8K mostly seems like a fad anyway. Except for maybe video and photo editing.

I’d go with LTT’s input over some tech journalist’s on Forbes’

Thanks. I will try some side by side comparisons between a blu ray and streaming.

Thanks. There's nothing I can do about what the streaming networks do at the front end. Which for a technophobe like me means it is one more thing I don't have to worry or educate myself about. I suppose the streamers will get nudged along by competitive pressures as 4k TV's become more common. (That assumes the difference is enough for most home viewers to notice or care about.)

Do you know what the current market penetration is for 4k's?

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1. because it never happens, it’s always targeted at everything BUT Corporations.

2. if corporations were doing their part, the rest wouldn’t even be needed. This is global, so needs to include China. But the energy consumption of the worlds corporations was collectively reduced even 15%, it would vastly surpass the world’s loftiest goals to reverse climate change.

Same thing with income tax(American): up to 1913, America was funded almost entirely from corporate taxes. In the 40s, it reached another level. Now today it’s almost the inverse, funded mostly by citizens. If corporations were taxed at the pre-war levels, they could fully fund the current post-secondary tuition bill, nationalized healthcare, and enough left over to start paying down the national debt, all with $0 income tax to the individual citizen.

Further, we no longer incentivize investment back into the company as a tax write-off like it was even a decade ago. This is to encourage stock buyback and consolidation, putting more money into billionaires pockets from the hands of the middle class.

3. China. Full stop. They don’t give a shit and account for something egregious like 88% of all pollution and energy inefficiencies. Nothing is sacred over their except for power, control, and ¥¥¥.

Individuals should fight tooth and nail to resist this to put the onus back where it belongs.

I kinda wish my 48" OLED is 8K instead of 4K. If you have to read a lot on the screen, a high res monitor will change your life.