Board:   [DoveNet] Entertainment
Subject: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass pr
From:    poindexter FORTRAN
Date:    Fri May 22, 2026 09:01

Subject: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
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Subject: Re: Lifetime Plex Pass price increase
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-=> fusion wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

 fu> you have the actual 2d/3d rendering cores.. you could think of it a bit
 fu> like floating point processors for other types of math. that just so
 fu> happen to be able to also instantly copy the result to the screen.
 fu> instead your favorite LLM program reads the result and decodes it.

 fu> then you have one that does video encoding and decoding .. and these
 fu> ones are specific ..

 fu> i probably shouldn't have been concerned cause it looks like a P400
 fu> (~GTX 1050) does 8x1080p or 4x4k just fine and those are $30-40 on
 fu> eBay..

 fu> the only thing it sounds like you might want to watch for is if you
 fu> want HDR content (needs 10bit), want more 4k streams, or if you want
 fu> AV1 support

 To clarify, I don't need to run LLMs and transcode at the same time -
 these would be operations I'd run while using the computer for
 basic web/office work.



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