Administrators of certain groups will be able to charge between $4.99 and $29.99 a month for the privilege of being a member of their group and, hence, the ability to access the content within.
“We know that admins invest their time and energy to maintain their groups”, the statement from Facebook reads. “Some have told us that they would like tools to help them continue to invest in their community and offer more to members.”
Thank the pilot
Among the groups that will be a part of the trial are Declutter My Home, which does what it says on the tin, and Grown and Flown Parents, which provides members with counselling on college admissions and affordability.
These and the other participating groups will be sharing their feedback with Facebook throughout the course of the monthly-subscription trial, predominantly to see how much demand is truly there when dollar-amounts enter the equation.
As for Facebook’s motive, this is all apparently “part of its overall approach to helping creators and leaders to financially support the work they do to engage their fans and communities.”
What’s in this for Facebook?
At this stage, none of the money from these subscriptions will be landing in Facebook’s pockets, the company is seemingly just intent on building and supporting these communities, but this is not to say it won’t profit down the line.
This service will, however, operate via either iOS or Android and, as such, 30% of the first year’s worth of subscriptions will be snapped up by either Apple or Google, dropping to 15% after that.
While the trial is currently closed to the selected pilot groups, if they prove successful and financially viable, we could soon start seeing an admission fee to some of our favorite Facebook groups.
Update:Marvel’s Black Panther and the Academy Award-winning film The Shape of Water have been added to our list of the best 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray movies — check outpage 2andpage 6to see why they made the cut!
In our busy lives, it’s truly difficult to make it down to the cinema to witness the cinematic splendor of all the newest films like It or Dunkirk – we just have too much going on. But what if we told you there was another way? The best 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray movies can give you an experience that is about the closest thing you can actually get to having a movie theater in your living room. In fact, we’d with the advent of HDR, Dolby Vision and readily available Dolby Atmos sound systems, it’s arguable better. And let’s not forget the film buffs among us who simply want to watch certain movies over and over again.
The image fidelity that the best 4K Ultra-HD Blu-rays offer is the closest thing to a true cinematic experience that cinephiles can get outside of a movie theater. And now that high dynamic range (HDR) is slowly becoming more and more prevalent by the day, the color reproduction will make standard definition movies look decrepit in comparison. The high resolution and HDR combine to bring you an experience that is unlike anything you’ve likely seen before in your own living room. That’s not to mention that the best 4K Ultra-HD Blu-rays will absolutely demolish anything you can stream online.
While it’s true that some streaming services, like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video do offer a good amount of content in 4K – Netflix Originals for instance – you’ll be sorely out of luck if you’re trying to find the newest movies in 4K with HDR on those platforms. And even among older titles, finding titles that are compatible with both technologies will be rare indeed.
These streaming services might have a ton of amazing content that takes advantage of your 4K TV, but you it might take you a long time to be able to find the same amount of content offered by the best 4K Ultra-HD Blu-rays. And even if you do decide to just wait it out, the image quality of streaming video doesn’t even come close to the fidelity offered by 4K Ultra-HD Blu-rays.
With that in mind, we’ve compiled a list of the best 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray movies you can buy today. Each of the discs on this list, regardless of how good the actual films are, can be considered ‘reference quality’ and we’ve exhaustively tested each to ensure they’re truly worthy of our recommendation. Best of all, every 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc is region free, so anyone with a 4K Blu-ray player can enjoy these films.
Read on to find out which Blu-rays have made the list!
Fifth time’s the charm. At least that seems to be the case with Intel’s fifth round of processors based on the 14nm manufacturing process.
After the release of the laptop-centric 8th-generation Kaby Lake R processors back in August, Intel finally released the 8th-generation Coffee Lake desktop CPUs in October 2017, along with a lineup of processors and motherboards. We’ve also seen leaks for a X399 chipset, likely for the upcoming Cannon Lake processors.
Meanwhile, there are whispers of a new Z390 platform that likely also supports Coffee Lake and even the anticipated Canon Lake processors.
Intel has also released the Intel Core i7-8086K, celebrating its 40th anniversary, running 6 cores at a stock 5GHz clock speed. We also saw Intel showing off a 28-core CPU at Computex 2018, also running at 5GHz, but we don’t know if that’s at all indicative of its real-world performance.
In spite of earlier, more modest statements, Intel’s 8th-generation Coffee Lake processors are up to 45% faster than their Kaby Lake predecessors. This explains the requirement for users to upgrade to a new motherboard – even though some clever modders found a way around that.
Unfortunately, Coffee Lake CPUs were subject to the Spectre and Meltdown exploits, but Intel says that their CPUs will soon be immune, and fixes are currently being rolled out.
Unsurprisingly, the lineup includes processors in each of the Core i3, i5, i7, and the potentially new i9 categories.
Cut to the chase
What is it? Intel’s 8th-generation desktop CPU architecture
When is it out? October 5th
What will it cost? From $117 (about £85, AU$145) – $359 (about £265, AU$450)
Intel Coffee Lake release date
The Intel Coffee Lake processors finally touched down on October 5, 2017. Intel has also announced a new line of 8th generation Coffee Lake CPUs featuring Radeon RX Vega graphics that should be out sometime in the coming months.
Originally, in February 2017, Intel stated that Coffee Lake would surface in the latter half of the year. Intel reassured us of this claim at Computex 2017 held in Taipei, Taiwan.
Later into 2017, the Santa Clara chipmaker came out and teased an August 21 livestream reveal of its 8th-generation processors, which turned out to be a refresh of its 7th-generation processors for Ultrabooks and laptops, called Kaby Lake Refresh.
At Computex 2018, Intel announced the Core i7-8086K, celebrating its 50th anniversary. This beast of a chip rocks 6 cores and 12 threads, and you can preorder it now.
We’ve also seen some speculation that an 8-core Coffee Lake ‘Refresh’ CPU will be launching in September. This would finally put some pressure on Ryzen, so we’re hoping it’s true.
Intel Coffee Lake price
Arguably the most elusive aspect of Coffee Lake leading up to its canonical announcement was pricing. Aside from looking at the processor market AMD Ryzen rewrote, we didn’t have much to base our speculation. And now that Intel has released its first CPUs with discrete AMD Radeon graphics, we don’t have much to base the pricing for the laptops that will feature them.
Luckily, Intel has revealed a total rundown of the latest 8th-generation Coffee Lake chips since their announcement. And with that reveal, we finally knew that the Santa Clara tech behemoth was going to unleash an entire assortment of processors with a wide range of different prices.
Starting with the cheapest, the Intel Core i3 CPUs are Intel’s entry-level line is priced as follows.
Intel Core i3-8100 – $130 (£99, AU$145)
Intel Core i3-8350K – $180 (£160, AU$240)
Intel Core i3-8300 – $138 (about £98, AU$180)
Intel Core i3-8300T – $138 (about £98, AU$180)
Intel Core i3-8100T – $117 (about £83, AU$152)
At the mid-range you have the Intel Core i5 CPUs, aimed squarely at a mainstream audience. They’re priced as follows:
Intel Core i5-8400 – $190 (£183, AU$250)
Intel Core i5-8600K – $257 (£190, AU$325)
Intel Core i5-8600 – $213 (about £150, AU$277)
Intel Core i5-8500 – $138 (about £98, AU$180)
Intel Core i5-8600T – $213 (about £150, AU$277)
Intel Core i5-8500T – $192 (about £137, AU$250)
Intel Core i5-8400T – $182 (about £129, AU$237)
And, then you have the Intel Core i7 CPUs, aimed exclusively at enthusiast consumers, and are perfect for media editing, or any other multi-threaded workloads. They’re priced as follows:
Intel Core i7-8700K – $350 (£290, AU$520)
Intel Core i7-8700 – $313 (£290, AU$430)
Intel Core i7-8700T – $303 (about £215, AU$395)
Intel Core i7-8086K – $425 (£380, about AU$560)
Comparatively, an Intel Kaby Lake processor on its own will, as of this writing, set you back anywhere from $42 (£39, AU$66) to $350 (£415, AU$469), while Ryzen processors range from $168 (£158, AU$245) to $499 or £499 (AU$650).
Intel Coffee Lake specs
Although all of the 8th-generation Coffee Lake chips are still manufactured on the 14nm node, Intel has proven that there’s still plenty of life in the process yet.
Again, starting from the ground up, the Intel Core i3 chips this time boast four cores each for the first time in the mainstream CPU space. What’s more, whereas the Intel Core i3-8100 takes advantage of four cores and four threads running at 3.6GHz, the unlocked Core i3-8350K totes the same number of cores and threads, but instead opts for a base frequency of 4GHz.
As for the Core i5 range, the plain Intel Core i5-8400 is a now a hexa-core monster, bearing six cores and six threads. Moreover, its base clock is 2.8GHz, and it operates at 4GHz with Turbo Boost.
Meanwhile the Core i5-8600K also squeezes six cores and six threads into the 14nm chip while brandishing base/boost speeds of 3.6GHz and 4.3GHz, respectively.
Then you’ve got the Intel Core i7-8700 and i7-8700K. The former is yet another six-core demon, albeit with double the number of threads as the i5-8600K. Its overclockable analogue, the Intel Core i7-8700K, poses a threat to the AMD Ryzen 7 1800X, sporting six cores, 12 threads and base/boost clock speeds of 3.7GHz/4.7GHz.
Then, rounding out the Core i7 Coffee Lake CPUs, you have the Intel Core i7 8086K, which a 6-core 12-thread chip, clocked at 4.0GHz with a whopping 5.0GHz boost clock. This makes it the highest-clocked consumer chip Intel has released. Fitting way to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
And, following the announcement for the anticipated H-Series Coffee Lake Processors, including the Core i9-8950HK, clocked at 2.9GHz with a 4.8GHZ boost clock, we’re going to see some blazing fast laptops powered by these 6 core, 12 thread behemoths. Intel has also announced a new line of low-powered T-series desktop CPUs that should effectively fill out the budget segment of the CPU market.
That’s all we know for now. We’ve gotten the first batch of 8th generation Coffee Lake CPUs, but we are sure to get more. We’re anticipating Coffee Lake processors for laptops, though we don’t know in what form they’ll appear – ditto for the inevitable Coffee Lake X chips.
There still a ton of news to come. Per our usual advice, we encourage you return to this page periodically for in-depth coverage of the latest Intel Coffee Lake reveals.
