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Is AV1 the future?
When encoding video for home playback instead of streaming the goal is to achieve the best compression and quality in the fastest amount of time. When streaming games file size does not matter as long as a you do not saturate your network bandwidth. While for home use compression is king. I wanted to test…
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How to Properly use Handbrake (To Compress Home Videos)
Handbrake is a powerful video transcoding program than is greatly misunderstood. A lot of discussion goes into which preset to use for the best quality and fastest encode times. However, Handbrake’s presets are designed for best compatibility of devices regardless of quality. If you are planning to playback on VLC or Roku Media Player not…
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What’s Up with Tech Reviewers?
An important question we need to ask is what is the purpose of the reviewer? Most people watch or read reviews to find out if something is worthwhile to purchase and to see how it compares to other in that price range. An important aspect of reviewers is to help their audience gain context about…
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Optical Storage the Backup King!
People when backing up data like to focus on speed and apparent ease. This is why people mainly focus on portable hard drives or SSDs for backup solutions. While easy to copy and paste on they are easily damaged, very expensive and slower compared to desktop hard drives. Another disadvantage of the hard drive solution…
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Wait People Think E-readers are Good?
At the beginning of the pandemic I was considering getting an e-reader so I could read and not have to go the store to pick up books. Then once the pandemic ended I would have something portable to read on. After looking into e-readers I decide to just buy physical books. Then in my news…
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