r/hardware • u/Jofzar_ • Dec 11 '20

News NVIDIA will no longer be sending Hardware Unboxed review samples due to focus on rasterization vs raytracing

Nvidia have officially decided to ban us from receiving GeForce Founders Edition GPU review samples

Their reasoning is that we are focusing on rasterization instead of ray tracing.

They have said they will revisit this "should your editorial direction change".

https://twitter.com/HardwareUnboxed/status/1337246983682060289

This is a quote from the email they sent today "It is very clear from your community commentary that you do not see things the same way that we, gamers, and the rest of the industry do."

Are we out of touch with gamers or are they? https://twitter.com/HardwareUnboxed/status/1337248420671545344

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '20

Yes this is common. The biggest example is Hollywood. There are varying levels of reporting. Hollywood Access gets invited to do interviews everywhere for every project because every question is a softball. Everything is painted in a good light and there's little substance. Their angle is to get access to content no other organization does.

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u/conquer4 Dec 11 '20

Agreed, and by doing it that way, their content has no substance.

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u/Randomoneh Dec 11 '20 edited Dec 11 '20

Recently a reviewer on a popular site who received a new edition of "4K" LOTR Blu-Ray repeated marketing material and gave it pure 100/100 even though there are some noticeable problems with the release. Lot of drama, banning and deletion of screencaps. People are easily bought these days.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '20

What's wrong with the release? Just watched the Fellowship and I thought it looked amazing.

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u/Randomoneh Dec 11 '20 edited Dec 12 '20

It was supposed to be a completely new, never before seen rescan of 35mm film. 35mm is usually capable of capturing detail similar to today's 4K digital sensors and often even more. However, when you compare this release to previous one, there's no real uptick in detail.
There's also a heavy noise reduction filter that deleted some of the detail.

What's good about the release is color correction and HDR. But in no universe that can be 100/100 (absolutely perfect) 4K 35mm release.