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1 hour ago, 0verlord said:

can you choose to send 4K signal in firestick 4k max settings manually?

No matter what signal it sends, Firestick will downsample it to 1080p and your monitor upscales the 1080p signal to 1440p. 

 

This wouldn’t be the case if Firestick supported 1440p, but it does not. 
It wouldn’t make any sense for Firestick to add 1440p support coz movies/tv shows are only made in 1080p and 4k. 

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Hey. Looking to buy a Macbook Air for my dad, using my student discount. I noticed that airpods are free with a purchase on Apple's website - same deal as last year when I bought one for myself. 

 

Will any physical stores price match this deal, or is this the best option? Buying M1 only, more than enough firepower. 

I'm hoping to get one quickly, because buying directly from Apple usually takes 2 weeks to arrive. 

 

@Bird Bird Birdany insight? 

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6 minutes ago, North said:

Hey. Looking to buy a Macbook Air for my dad, using my student discount. I noticed that airpods are free with a purchase on Apple's website - same deal as last year when I bought one for myself. 

 

Will any physical stores price match this deal, or is this the best option? Buying M1 only, more than enough firepower. 

I'm hoping to get one quickly, because buying directly from Apple usually takes 2 weeks to arrive. 

 

@Bird Bird Birdany insight? 

 

Offline shops don't give as much student discount as Apple online store. Are you also getting 6k cashback via HDFC cards ? 

If yes, that'll be great buy ! 

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2 hours ago, Vamos said:

No matter what signal it sends, Firestick will downsample it to 1080p and your monitor upscales the 1080p signal to 1440p. 

 

This wouldn’t be the case if Firestick supported 1440p, but it does not. 
It wouldn’t make any sense for Firestick to add 1440p support coz movies/tv shows are only made in 1080p and 4k. 

so for any display with resolution below 4K, firestick will treat it as 1080p

 

it would have been better if firestick treated any display with resolution above 1080p as a 4K display because downsampling gives better image quality than upsampling and there’s no limitation of internet bandwidth also

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2 hours ago, 0verlord said:

it would have been better if firestick treated any display with resolution above 1080p as a 4K display because downsampling gives better image quality than upsampling and there’s no limitation of internet bandwidth also

I guess this depends on your monitor. 

 

Some 1440 monitors do accept 4K signal and downsample it to 1440p. 

You can check the list of monitors that are able to do this here

 

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12 hours ago, Bird Bird Bird said:

 

Offline shops don't give as much student discount as Apple online store. Are you also getting 6k cashback via HDFC cards ? 

If yes, that'll be great buy ! 

 

Yeah I have HDFC card for that discount. So with student discount+HDFC combined I might get same price at a store.

 

But free airpods is a really solid deal tbh, don't think any stores will offer that. I'll call Logix RD and Croma once and see, otherwise proceed on Apple's website. 

Wish delivery times were faster, it says the earliest is 9th August. 

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On 7/25/2022 at 10:57 AM, Bird Bird Bird said:

 

Citi gives you 3250 discount on the current price right now. 

I'm using my Citi for some other purchases, but if someone isn't, this will the cheapest option. 14.7k or so I think. 

When did it drop to 18k (-3.250 = 14.7?)? :cry:

 

I placed the order for these on Monday as well, price was showing 19.9 - 3250 for citi card so total at 16.7k.

 

Also weirdly it's still showing "Not dispatched", I wonder why it's taking so long. I hope they don't cancel the order.

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3 minutes ago, ox- said:

When did it drop to 18k (-3.250 = 14.7?)? :cry:

 

I placed the order for these on Monday as well, price was showing 19.9 - 3250 for citi card so total at 16.7k.

 

Also weirdly it's still showing "Not dispatched", I wonder why it's taking so long. I hope they don't cancel the order.

Was at 18k for quite some time.

It will come back to it again in a few weeks.

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18 minutes ago, KunjanPSD said:

Was at 18k for quite some time.

It will come back to it again in a few weeks.

Why do you think it will drop again? They're already back to 25k/29k ?

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7 hours ago, ox- said:

When did it drop to 18k (-3.250 = 14.7?)? :cry:

 

I placed the order for these on Monday as well, price was showing 19.9 - 3250 for citi card so total at 16.7k.

 

Also weirdly it's still showing "Not dispatched", I wonder why it's taking so long. I hope they don't cancel the order.

 

Are you confusing XH vs XF ? I posted about XF. If you placed the order on Monday for 19.9, I'm guessing that is for XH. 

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11 hours ago, ox- said:

Also weirdly it's still showing "Not dispatched", I wonder why it's taking so long. I hope they don't cancel the order.

Same here. Placed it on monday, now it says preparing for dispatch and arriving on Aug 3rd. 

 

Their delivery network is backlogged due to prime day i guess. 

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1 hour ago, SuperT said:

I think Sony does this on purpose - let's confuse the customers with our stupid naming conventions and have some fun when they keep getting it wrong.

All the memes on XM3s and XM4s worked really well for them, marketing wise. 

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5 hours ago, Bird Bird Bird said:

 

Are you confusing XH vs XF ? I posted about XF. If you placed the order on Monday for 19.9, I'm guessing that is for XH. 

Oh yes I purchased the Sony WH-1000XM4. Sony has such weird naming :slugshoot:

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1 hour ago, Vamos said:

Same here. Placed it on monday, now it says preparing for dispatch and arriving on Aug 3rd. 

 

Their delivery network is backlogged due to prime day i guess. 

I don't think that's the case, I've had so many orders delivered this prime sale all reached by Monday. Something seems fishy here :?

My order shows it will be shipped between 30th-1st. But if I try to buy a new pair from same seller (Apporio) it says delivery by today 5-9pm. WT THE HELL, if they have stock why aren't they fulfilling my order. Are we getting a "special sale wala" stock unit? ?

Had a chat with Amazon CC: they are useless as always, asked them to get me a callback from a specialist team who were also useless. Just told me to wait and if there is any issue in the product they will replace it.

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41 minutes ago, Ethan_Hunt said:

Fellas, can someone comment on this deal on Flipkart? It's been there for close to 3 days now. Not sure if it's legit.

 

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Whos the seller?

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