Should You Get an "Ultra HD" 4K TV?

Did You Know? The number four is the only number whose English name is the same number of letters as the number it represents. Geek Trivia The Flattest Country On Earth Is? Maldives → Australia → Belarus → Denmark → Advertisement Download Free eBook: Linux from Scratch Linux from Scratch describes the process of creating your own Linux system from scratch from an already installed Linux distribution, using nothing but the source code of software that you need. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles By popular request, we're including a quick list of the daily articles at the top of the daily email as well as the regular format near the bottom. VR Is Almost Here: What Will I Need to Be Ready? Should You Get an “Ultra HD” 4K TV? Why are Contacts not Uniformly Placed on SD Cards? How to Turn Off Recent Items and Frequent Places in Windows 10 HTG Explains: How Do Movies Leak Before They Premiere? Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Context-Driven Testing Context-Driven Testing is particular type of software testing that takes into account how the final version of the program will be used and the particular environment(s) it will be used in. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. The blockchain will become our new signature "The conversation around Bitcoin has shifted from curiosity, confusion and doubt to one in which serious decision-makers are recognising the many ways blockchain ledgers can be used" [Wired] Why Saturn Is the Best Planet "We recently published an article naming Jupiter "the best planet." As everyone knows, Saturn is the best planet. We regret the error." [The Atlantic] In Defense of Learning Code the Hard Way "If you want to make websites, learn JavaScript eventually, but don't start with it." [Motherboard] Behind a Shopping Center in New Jersey, Signs of a Mass Extinction "Behind a Lowe's home improvement store here, scientists are methodically scraping and sifting through a quarry pit that may contain unique insights to the mass extinction that eliminated the dinosaurs." [NYT] First known hacker-caused power outage signals troubling escalation Highly destructive malware creates "destructive events" at 3 Ukrainian substations. [ArsTechnica] VR Is Almost Here: What Will I Need to Be Ready? After years of waiting, dozens of different developer kits, and more beta tests than we can shake a stick at, the era of truly immersive virtual reality headsets is finally upon us. Both HTC’s Vive and Facebook’s Oculus Rift are primed and prepped to hit shelves for everyone to buy for themselves…but with HD screens and gigabytes of extra data for things like movement and spacial positioning, what do these systems really need to get up and running completely? Read This Article → Should You Get an “Ultra HD” 4K TV? Manufacturers have been pushing “Ultra HD” 4k TVs for a couple years now. There are plenty of models available now, and they’re cheaper than ever, too. But should you buy one? Read This Article → Why are Contacts not Uniformly Placed on SD Cards? If you have ever looked at the contacts side of an SD card, you may have wondered why the contacts are not uniform in size or placement. Why is that? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answers to a curious reader’s questions. Read This Article → How to Turn Off Recent Items and Frequent Places in Windows 10 All over Windows, you’ll see menus with the most recently used items for a given application. Maybe it’s a document you recently opened, or some videos you recently watched. Frequent Places works similarly, showing you important folders in your account (Desktop, Downloads, Documents, Pictures, Music, and so on), plus folders you've pinned or accessed recently. Here’s how to turn off recent items and frequent places in Windows 10. Read This Article → HTG Explains: How Do Movies Leak Before They Premiere? At any given point, a large selection of recent movies show up on torrent sites, many of which haven’t even been released yet. For anyone who downloaded, streamed, or torrented these yet-to-be-seen-in-theaters selections, you might have noticed one common theme among all of them: they were stuck at DVD quality. Read This Article → Advertisement Download Free eBook: Linux from Scratch Linux from Scratch describes the process of creating your own Linux system from scratch from an already installed Linux distribution, using nothing but the source code of software that you need. Click here to download