On the topic of Wi-Fi: then your kids must never grow up.
Let’s say there’s Mom, Dad, and two kids. Mom is watching her favorite soap opera streamed on the TV, Dad is browsing the internet (including YouTube) looking for instructions to fix the troublesome washing machine. Junior, who just turned 16, is gaming online on the PlayStation with friends, meanwhile running a group voice chat on his phone. The daughter, only 12 years old, is browsing YouTube and Instagram, all in HD of course. Her friend is sitting next to her on their phone, fully engaged.
Show me a Wi-Fi channel that wouldn’t collapse under all that traffic. Exactly for situations like this, you need one or another wired connection. The console and TV can reduce their bandwidth demand on the Wi-Fi by using Ethernet cables, freeing up space to supply the mobile devices with enough speed.
If, like Nordlys for example, you mostly have peace and quiet from the youth, then Wi-Fi alone is generally sufficient. But with kids around, it becomes a tricky issue, and it doesn’t take long for them to start blaming each other for slow internet.
Let’s say there’s Mom, Dad, and two kids. Mom is watching her favorite soap opera streamed on the TV, Dad is browsing the internet (including YouTube) looking for instructions to fix the troublesome washing machine. Junior, who just turned 16, is gaming online on the PlayStation with friends, meanwhile running a group voice chat on his phone. The daughter, only 12 years old, is browsing YouTube and Instagram, all in HD of course. Her friend is sitting next to her on their phone, fully engaged.
Show me a Wi-Fi channel that wouldn’t collapse under all that traffic. Exactly for situations like this, you need one or another wired connection. The console and TV can reduce their bandwidth demand on the Wi-Fi by using Ethernet cables, freeing up space to supply the mobile devices with enough speed.
If, like Nordlys for example, you mostly have peace and quiet from the youth, then Wi-Fi alone is generally sufficient. But with kids around, it becomes a tricky issue, and it doesn’t take long for them to start blaming each other for slow internet.
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chand198620 Aug 2018 13:21Nordlys schrieb:
The 12-year-old is supposed to go outside into real life with her friend, and the boy as well.24/7?
There should also be some kind of leisure activities online... and a responsible guardian doesn’t forbid this but limits the time available for it, so the kids learn to manage their own time budget independently. And if, after using up that time, they find it boring, they will go outside on their own.
But yes, it also glitches for you.
And no, I’m not going to forbid my children from having a console or later a smartphone. That would be just as silly as if I had been banned from using a Game Boy or Barbie doll when I was a kid. This has nothing to do with being an overprotective parent or having 200 network ports.
Just as Chand wrote: banning the toys that children actually use at the moment is not effective at all. Rather, it’s about setting educational limits when necessary.
At the last family gathering, my uncle complained about how confident our little one is with the phone. The poor boy is apparently wasting away. He conveniently ignored that the child had been playing outside for 4 hours beforehand, as well as the fact that he was watching an educational show on the phone explaining how a car engine works.
He also likes to badmouth the Lego toys, saying that stuff keeps the child inside and stops him from playing outside in the mud (my son hates getting his hands dirty, he doesn’t even voluntarily knead cake dough). I explained 10 times that the child spends the entire day playing outdoors at daycare and is actually happy to have a quiet room to do crafts alone in the evening.
And no, I’m not going to forbid my children from having a console or later a smartphone. That would be just as silly as if I had been banned from using a Game Boy or Barbie doll when I was a kid. This has nothing to do with being an overprotective parent or having 200 network ports.
Just as Chand wrote: banning the toys that children actually use at the moment is not effective at all. Rather, it’s about setting educational limits when necessary.
At the last family gathering, my uncle complained about how confident our little one is with the phone. The poor boy is apparently wasting away. He conveniently ignored that the child had been playing outside for 4 hours beforehand, as well as the fact that he was watching an educational show on the phone explaining how a car engine works.
He also likes to badmouth the Lego toys, saying that stuff keeps the child inside and stops him from playing outside in the mud (my son hates getting his hands dirty, he doesn’t even voluntarily knead cake dough). I explained 10 times that the child spends the entire day playing outdoors at daycare and is actually happy to have a quiet room to do crafts alone in the evening.
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Deliverer20 Aug 2018 14:12Knallkörper schrieb:
The image quality via satellite alone is no longer up to date. Nowadays, devices with an average size of over 50" are sold. Naturally, you want to watch in 4K if possible. And that's available on Netflix and similar services, but not via satellite as far as I know.Yes and no.
Yes, most 4K content currently comes through the internet.
No, most standard streams are lower quality (due to stronger compression) than the equally high-resolution satellite signal. They also have about a one-minute delay.
If you look purely at resolution, up to around 50–60 inches (127–152 cm), the smaller HD resolution (720p) is completely sufficient. ARD and ZDF demonstrate this.
From about 2 meters (6.5 feet) screen diagonal with a projector, full HD becomes useful.
No one really needs 4K for home movies and TV (even in the future). Even cinemas stop at 2K. Currently, 95% of all films in production remain at 2K.
At home, color depth (keyword HDR) and gentle compression of the material are more important.