I can't say for 4K, but for standard and 3D bluray, the PS3 is a pretty cracking all-rounder.
You can get a slim easily for under £100 second hand now.
Making it harder to traverse
Have you ever actually walked down oxford street?
The pavements are normally crammed, and there are 3 million cars a minute fighting for the road space.
Adding 5x as much space for pedestrians is a fantastic idea.
It'll be a tiny, tiny minority of people not visiting OS because they can't park/taxi/bus to the shop front, and a huge number of people going there because it's a nice experience with no traffic.
So it's correct to say Trump Tooted?
Oh damn, I'd missed that the PS5 Pro was mechless.
I guess once you get into £700 games consoles, the argument of "it's the same price as a decent bluray player" goes out the window.
And now everyone is locked into the PS store, unless they buy an external drive.
Like when Demon Days finally got a repress.
The market of people paying £100+ because they were the only copies dried up, leaving only the people who wanted a first pressing.
Funny how the MPs get involved when people are complaining about new utility poles, not when it's going in the ground.
It's made worse by companies not telling anyone what they're up to until the last second.
We had contractors for two altnets digging at the same time at one point.
This is a good site for reading about it too (I think I've seen you post ispreview before, but here it is anyway): https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2024/09/telecoms-minister-updates-on-effort-to-limit-uk-broadband-poles-via-infrastructure-sharing.html
I think it was more that after finding an ISP that generally didn't, I wondered why I ever used an ISP that did.
Hell, when I first signed up, they had a "fixed price for life" deal on!
Sure, I probably pay a little more than if I re-negotiated and switched providers every 18 months, to get the new customer deals.
But I'm too old for that shit, I just want reliable internet that I don't need to think about past the ONT.
My experience of virgin was a router that spiked pings, constant price rises out of contract, and a cancellation line that said "if you're unhappy with your current price rise, press 1 to reduce it by £2.50 for 6 months".
Just stupid.
So now I have a grown up ISP, that doesn't raise the price in contract, and so far hasn't changed it out of contract either.
Don't worry, we're quite good at censorship here too 😇
(Actually the policy is that genuinely awful content gets removed, other things get left so that the community can respond/vote up/vote down)
For most squishy remotes, you can disable the buttons by taking the remote apart, and putting tape on the underside of the rubber button.
While not strictly a QR code, I always liked that the Dolby Digital data between perforations on a film strip had a tiny Dolby logo at the centre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound-on-film#/media/File:35mm_film_audio_macro.jpg
Is that why you're banned from John Lewis?