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@anishmoonka The sound quality gets an even bigger downgrade

Your Netflix "4K" stream and a 4K disc put the same number of pixels on your screen. But the disc version of a two-hour movie is about 70 gigabytes. The stream is about 14. Same pixels, roughly five times less data filling them. You see it first in dark scenes. The stream doesn't have enough data to tell dark grey from black, so your TV just mashes it all into chunky blocks. Then you notice sunsets looking like a paint-by-numbers, with visible stripes where smooth color should be. Film grain is probably the biggest casualty. Directors add that slightly textured look on purpose to make movies feel cinematic. Streaming compression reads it as noise and wipes it. That's where the weirdly plastic, waxy look on a good OLED comes from. One comparison I can't stop thinking about. A regular 1080p Blu-ray (the older HD format, not even 4K) pushes about 40 megabits of data per second to fill 2 million pixels. A 4K stream pushes 15-25 to fill 8 million pixels. Four times the pixels. Less data. A plain HD disc from 2008 can look sharper than a brand new 4K stream. Sound is worse. Netflix sends "Dolby Atmos" audio at about 768 kilobits per second, compressed, with parts of the original permanently deleted. A disc sends TrueHD Atmos at up to 18,000, lossless, nothing removed. Up to 23x more sound data. If dialogue sounds flat when you're streaming, that's not your speakers. Netflix is getting better at this. As of late 2025, 30% of their streaming runs on a newer compression method called AV1, the same picture at a third less data. They also strip film grain out before compressing, then rebuild it on your TV during playback. Saves over a third on file size for most content, and up to two-thirds for really grainy movies. The rebuilt grain looks solid. The tradeoff won't go away, though. Netflix has to deliver a file that works over spotty rural Wi-Fi and gigabit fiber, adjusting quality frame by frame to whatever your connection can handle. A disc reads plastic. Same quality every time.

@ringmagazine Franklin saying he thought he could have got up 😂 - I think Itauma is great but I can’t see him beating Usyk (yet)

Itauma’s KO on Franklin was a work of art 🎨💥

There's Steve McQueen cool and then there's Sid James on a Raleigh Chopper cool.

After finishing my job with @eBay_UK & @soccerspeaker today the guys in the engineering firm over the road let me park my car in their bay .. when I came to grab it they had me all set up .. fair play and happy to oblige boys 🙌❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@NASA In 1969 you managed to get people walking on the moon, few years later whizzing around on a buggy, with almost zero computing power…of course you did.

In just a few days, we'll be sending humans on a flight around the Moon. Have you watched our documentary series on the mission? Watch Moonbound before Artemis II lifts off: plus.nasa.gov/series/moonbou…

@BethRigby @alexrogerssky @JoshGafson1 Not even hiding their true beliefs/goals. The country needs to wake up before it’s too late, it might already be.

What happens in Birmingham is going to be a massive story in the May elections with Labour facing a collapse in support. Must-watch on-the-ground reporting from @alexrogerssky & @JoshGafson1

@CineplexMovies Amazing film

Raise your hand if you saw #ProjectHailMary this weekend. 🤚 What did you think of the film? Let us know in the comments. 👇

@TheCinesthetic Fantastic film. Just watched it on XPlus must be amazing on IMAX - @RyanGosling was outstanding

Project Hail Mary in IMAX 70mm (🎥 Taylor Umphenour via IG)

Having received hundreds and hundreds of requests, I have made my letter to HM King Charles III available for anyone to sign. Please click the link below to add your name to the letter. openletter.earth/a-bishops-appe… @PhilHs10 @RevBrettMurphy @revwickland @PrayingPete @DominicMuir @realrikkidoolan @dshensmith @SBarrettBar @trussliz @NJ_Timothy @TDieppe @JohnCleese

What is Starmer scared of? What is he hiding on Mandleson? I’m sick of listening to Starmer’s pre-scripted drivel masquerading as answers at #PMQs We know the answer to the question @KemiBadenoch asked him 6 times, he just doesn’t want to say it. So I called him out for it.

@luireigns @Nickkg1979

WHEN STING RETURNED A MONTH AFTER BEING BEAT DOWN BY THE NWO 🦂 A STING DUMMY DROPS FROM THE CEILING AND CRASHES THROUGH THE RING… THEN WHEN THE NWO PULL IT BACK UP, IT’S THE REAL STING 😭🔥

@exQUIZitely Not sure I ever managed to completely break a Cheetah 125 - when the suction cups gave way it was wild.

We are gathered here today to remember all the joysticks that left this mortal world in service of Decathlon, the one true Joystick Reaper. They came into our lives shiny and new, full of promise. They never asked for this. They didn't sign up to be jackhammered left-right-left-right at inhuman speeds for the 100m dash. And oh, the 1500m... that final brutal endurance test often ending in plastic fatigue, spring failure, and the sickening sound of internal breaking. You weren't just broken. You were legendarily broken. Rest in pieces, dear fallen friends...

@thepropgallery I was 3 but played it when older and paperboy 2 - was rubbish at both

Paperboy from 1985 I was nine years old when this came out, who remembers it?

@BishopDewar Make it a petition and ask the people to sign it to all ask him to step in.

As a Bishop, I cannot stay silent. I have today drafted and sent an open letter to His Majesty King Charles III, the text of which reads as follows: To: His Majesty, Charles III, King of the United Kingdom and the Realms, Supreme Governor of the Church of England, Bearer of the ancient title Defender of the Faith. Your Majesty, I write to you neither as a politician nor as a commentator, but as one of your loyal subjects who, as a bishop of Christ’s Church, cannot remain silent while the Christian foundations of this kingdom are steadily dismantled. Sir, there are moments in the life of a nation when silence becomes a form of betrayal. If I refused to speak to Your Majesty now, this would be such a moment. For more than a thousand years the Crown of this realm has stood in solemn covenant with the Christian faith. The laws of this land were shaped by it. The liberties of our people were nurtured by it. The conscience of our civilisation was formed by it. From the abbeys of medieval England to the parish churches of our villages, from the preaching of the Reformers to the missionary zeal that carried the Gospel to the ends of the earth, the Christian faith has not merely influenced Britain — it has defined her. Yet today that inheritance is being quietly but deliberately eroded. Across the institutions of this nation there is a growing hostility toward the faith that built them. Christian belief is mocked in the public square. Christian morality is dismissed as intolerance. Christian institutions are pressured to surrender doctrine in order to conform to the ideology of the age. Within the very Church that bears the name of England, voices have arisen that appear more eager to mirror the spirit of the age than to proclaim the eternal truth of the Gospel. Meanwhile, beyond the walls of our churches, powerful political movements openly speak of removing Christianity from its historic place within the life of this nation. What would once have been whispered is now proclaimed openly: that Britain must become a post-Christian state. It is in this context that I write to you, Your Majesty. For the British Crown does not stand apart from this crisis. The Sovereign of this realm bears a title that is not merely historic but sacred in its origin and meaning: Defender of the Faith. Those words are not decorative. They are a charge. They speak of a monarch whose duty is not merely to preside over the ceremonies of the Church, but to stand as a guardian of the Christian inheritance of the nation. Yet many among your subjects now ask, with increasing anxiety: “Who will defend that inheritance today?” They see a nation drifting from its foundations. And they ask whether the Crown will remain silent while that inheritance is dismantled. Your Majesty, may I be so bold as to observe that your coronation oath was not a poetic formality. It was a solemn vow made before Almighty God to maintain and preserve the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law. Those words bind the conscience of the sovereign. They remind the Crown that its authority is not merely constitutional but moral. The monarch is not merely a symbol of national continuity, but a custodian of the spiritual inheritance that shaped this realm. History records moments when kings and emperors were confronted by the Church and reminded that their authority was accountable before God. In the fourth century Ambrose of Milan stood before the Emperor Theodosius I and reminded him that even the ruler of an empire must bow before the moral law of Christ. That tradition of prophetic witness has never disappeared. Nor should it. For when rulers forget the foundations upon which their authority rests, the Church must speak — not with hostility, but with holy clarity. And so, I write to say this, Your Majesty: The Christian character of this nation is under profound and accelerating assault. If the Crown does not stand visibly and courageously in defence of that inheritance, history will record that the guardians of Britain’s institutions watched in silence as the foundations were removed. The issue before us is not nostalgia. It is civilisation. Remove Christianity from the story of Britain and you do not create a neutral society — you create a moral vacuum. And history teaches us that moral vacuums are never left empty for long. Your Majesty now stands at a crossroads that few monarchs in modern history have faced. For the erosion of Britain’s Christian inheritance will not ultimately be judged by speeches made in Parliament or debates in the press. It will be judged by whether those entrusted with the guardianship of our ancient institutions chose to defend them — or merely preside over their quiet surrender. You may preside over the quiet dissolution of Britain’s Christian identity. Or you may rise to the ancient responsibility entrusted to the Crown and speak with clarity about the faith that built this kingdom. The first path requires little courage. The second will require a great deal. But it is the path that history honours. Your Majesty’s subjects are not asking for religious coercion. They are asking for leadership. They are asking that the sovereign who bears the title Defender of the Faith remember what that title means. They are asking that the Crown hear the growing cry of anguish from Christians across this land who feel that the spiritual inheritance of their nation is being surrendered without resistance. And they are asking whether the Crown will stand with them. For the faith that shaped Britain is not merely a cultural ornament. It is the wellspring from which our laws, our liberties, and our moral imagination have flowed. If it is cast aside, the nation will discover — too late — that it has severed itself from the very roots that sustained it. Your Majesty, to many the Crown is a symbol of authority. But before God it is also a symbol of stewardship. And stewardship carries with it the duty to defend what has been entrusted. May Almighty God grant Your Majesty the wisdom to discern this hour, and the courage to fulfil the sacred duty entrusted to the Crown. Yours faithfully, Bishop Ceirion H. Dewar FSHC Missionary Bishop Diocese of Providence Confessing Anglican Church @PhilHs10 @RevBrettMurphy @revwickland @BishopRobert1 @GBNews @TalkTV @danwootton @Jacob_Rees_Mogg @LozzaFox @BackBrexitBen @RupertLowe10 @KemiBadenoch @JohnCleese

Dutch Opera Singer Maria Fiselier covering Eminem's "Lose Yourself", in 2018. What an amazing rendition! 👏

🚨Labour Minister CAUGHT LYING as MP pulls up the PROOF on his phone

@TheCinesthetic One of my favourites….keep hoping the release it in UHD

You may not remember it, but Disney once made a movie called Condorman (1981), about a comic-book artist who becomes a secret agent with a winged flight suit fighting the KGB. A wonderfully bizarre piece of Disney history.

Have you heard Nelly Furatdo’s remix to Missy Elliot’s “Get Your Freak On”👂🏾🔥

Saturday night fever to the Only Fools and Horses theme tune. You're welcome. Credit-@Pandamoanimum