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Having seen the Disneytoon Studios (which made much of the direct-to-video product) up close, having had a spouse that worked on direct-to-videos, also knowing the directors, writers, board artists and producers who toiled on various projects, here are some reasons product was sub-par:Budgets were way lower than for theatrical animated features; development times way shorter.Direct-to-video features in the 1990s and early oughts had pipelines (and budgets) similar to the Mouse’s animated series output — scripts were written fast, and artists boarded those scripts quickly in TV format. Key designs were put together (generally simplified versions of the theatrical versions), voice tracks were done on deadline, sometimes with the original actors, but often not. And then everything was shipped off to an overseas production house on the Pacific rim which could turn out finished sequences inexpensively and on schedule.(Case-in-point: The Return of Jafar. Produced on a TV budget, Dan Castellaneta substituting for Robin Williams — and nothing against Dan C. for he’s brilliant as Homer Simpson, but he isn’t Williams — also cruder designs, with off-model characters animated in the cruder television style. But it sold a bajillion video cassettes.)For freaking years, DisneyToons Studio was overseen by a less-than-great executive.I will name no names, but this person, who ran the division for a long time, was disliked by most of the staff, was considered to have zero creative chops, and was famous for canning the first directors put on a new project, mostly from reflex as much as anything else. Which did wonders for morale. Plus the exec was arbitrary, often capricious, and prone to changing his/her mind.(I know these things because I visited the studio on a weekly basis and heard the creative staff complain.)So why did this exec hang around so long? Because the direct-to-video division was making money hand-over-fist despite the mediocre direct-to-vid features, and Michael Eisner promoted and kept the exec on. (A veteran animation editor gave me the best short analysis of Eisner I ever heard: ”Michael is a micro-manager who pays no attention.”)Despite the foregoing, some Disney home-screen features turned out rather well.As the years rolled on, the Walt Disney Company did put more money into its direct-to-video product, and quality improved. (For awhile, the company owned some quite good production studios in Australia and Canada that turned out superior work.) And directors and artistic staff, who cared about what they were doing, found ways to improve the pictures on which they worked. A few titles (The Tigger Movie, Return To Neverland, A Goofy Movie) received theatrical releases.But in the end, Disney’s direct-to-video business came to a grinding, smoldering halt.Nothing is forever.The public started to stream movies over the internet rather than buy them on little silver disks, and the direct-to-video market withered and died. The less-than-great exec ran afoul of John Lasseter and was shown the exit, but even Lasseter couldn’t change market dynamics. Direct-to-video product ceased being a huge moneymaker, and Disneytoon Studios was shuttered in 2015.(And now, of course, the House of Mouse is into streaming in a big way!)

I would say Anki drive can surely be named as one of the best products released in 2013.Anki Drive is battle racing for the real world. With advanced Artificial Intelligence, each car thinks for itself and has one goal in mind.Anki DRIVE uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to deliver the first video game in the real world. Each car has been engineered to think: It knows where it is, makes decisions, and drives itself. Using your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, or iPad mini you can take control of a car to play against friends or AI cars. But watch your back. Anki DRIVE AI cars have been designed to take you out.Anki DRIVE Starter KitAnki (company)

The RTX 2060 is about equal to the base GTX 1080, so the GTX 1080 Ti should be significantly faster.However, there are some issues:Lacks hardware-accelerated raytracing (although… the RTX 2060 pretty much only has this on paper, as the performance isn’t good enough to run games like CP2077 with RTRT, so, eh).Lacks DLSS.Potential risk if NVIDIA stops giving a f**k about the drivers of 10 series cards (normally the peak in driver performance and reliability for a given GPU is somewhere a bit after product release, after that things start going down eventually - and 10 series is quite old now).