On Amazon Prime Video, I started watching season two of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power on an SDR Display. Immediately, upon the first episode, I noticed that the dark scenes in the beginning were way too dark to be nearly unwatchable. I figured it may have been the HDR setting, so […]
I was a bit surprised despite HDR displays having been released to the consumer market since 2017 that taking screenshots that correctly captured the HDR tone mapping was very limited in terms of software availability; JPEG XR (JXR) is the most readily available HDR format in Windows via Xbox Game Bar and NVIDIA App for […]
So I recently bought Halo Infinite on Steam through a Black Friday Sale and for the heck of it, decided to try to run the game on few different Linux Distros with a PS5 Dualsense controller. I tested this on Kubuntu, Manjaro, and Linux Mint and was extremely surprised that the game ran out-of-the-box; the […]
Recently, I was browsing through the foreign movie category on Amazon Prime and noticed quite a few Mainland Chinese propaganda films that were made decades ago, likely around the 1960s or 1970s. Usually I see mostly Korean films and low-budget Japanese films in the section, but I was surprised to see this type in there […]
I was just scrolling through Amazon Instant Video with Prime checked in the checkbox and saw a funny assortment in the action & adventure category. Apparently kid shows like Dora The Explorer, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Dann Phantom, etc are grouped with 24, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Grimm, etc. I just wonder how a […]