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why would you take anything you see on the internet seriously?
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I would have said Teletoon is a no-brainer to put it on, but they’re owned by Corus/Shaw. I’m so out of the cable game I didn’t even realize Teletoon had been retired as a brand and replaced with Cartoon Network.
I went to go looking at the Bell Media offerings and you’re right, they simply do not have any kind of kids channel. Both YTV and Cartoon Network are owned by Shaw. They likely just don’t want to try to compete in this space, since Shaw would have the rights to basically everything worth airing and streaming.
Whatever happened to Shomi? Wasn’t that Shaw and Rogers’ streaming service? Rogers acquired Shaw a few years back and have the rights to all that stuff now I guess. They put it on StackTV and sell it through Amazon.
I like “Product Degradation” way better than “enshittification”.
Yep! Sure is!
They remastered Star Trek as well as The Next Generation, but claimed that the physical sales did not cover the costs which were purportedly around 10 million for each series.
They opted to not to continue to remaster any of the shows that came afterward, namely Voyager and Deep Space Nine. That’s where the fan community picked up the slack and made the AI upscales.
AI upscaling is probably just much cheaper and easier to do. I mean I do AI upscaling myself. The older Star Trek series that will never get a full Blu-Ray remaster/re-release has copies that have been upscaled from SD to HD and they are pretty flawless, especially considering it’s a fan project.
That being said I’ve also seen the other side of the spectrum, where they AI upscaled King of the Hill and there was a lot of really weird artifacting and stuff going on.
Really sad to see studios just cheap out on high resolution releases. It just makes them look bad in the long run and makes me less likely to buy physical media.
Cutting spending on social services is how it traditionally works.
They’re already suffering severely. It’s all downhill from here folks.
I think it’s prudent to be on an older node, using stock that’s more abundant, even if it’s older - especially if it still performs the duties well enough. You’re 100% on the cost side of things, especially considering that Nintendo has never had any consoles that were crazy expensive. Everything was always supposed to be family friendly and therefore family attainable.
I still think battery life is a higher concern for them than sheer power when in handheld mode though, and that’s a key differentiating factor between a Deck and a Switch, besides the Nintendo first-party library and chip architecture. It’s really cool that the Deck is flexible enough to do both high performance and low performance tasks with toggles for the draw.