You guys notice how they’re pushing these HDMI 2.1 cables on like Xbox One s users and stuff with 4K TVs? Or even the 8K TVs that aren’t capable of the 120 frame rates and stuff like that.

It’s kind of crazy how they start marketing this s*** years and years before so you end up buying the product that doesn’t even do any good for you unless you can afford a crazy good gaming TV or monitor, or your PC player that actually knows what you’re doing, but you end up buying all this extra useless s*** don’t even realize that it’s not giving you any real upgrades to quality, and then by the time it actually is giving you upgrades to quality 2.6 is out.

My buddy just bought an 8K TV and his next door neighbor told him oh bro now you got to go get that HDMI 2.1 cable.

Your TV is not a gaming TV yes it’s 8K compatible but you can also achieve that with a 1.4. which you already own three of. And you’re certainly not going to pull 120 frames and if you do you’ll never pull 160. Not to mention your Xbox wouldn’t push 120 frames if you manually pushed 120 frames through it? Don’t really know where I was going with that. Point is let alone 160.

I tried explaining the concept of bottlenecking to him probably 75 times but he’s only ever owned one PC in his entire life and I’m pretty sure it was like a Best buy bought.

Capitalism is beautiful.

  • Nikls94@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Upvote because it made me angry.

    I’ve come to the point where at least some people come to me for advice on buying electronics.

    Girl friend asked me for a TV to connect with her PlayStation, not that expensive, 4K/60 and low input delay for casual gaming, and it should last for at least 10 years and should be cheap. Long story short, I got her a 4K/60fps TV with a gaming mode that has like 2~3ms delay for € 550. It‘s a dumb Philips TV running Linux, so no google play and you can remove all spyware. It has apps, but she got the PS to do all of this anyway.

    • gazter@aussie.zone
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      1 month ago

      Huh, that’s interesting. I would have thought that a TV running Linux would be called ‘smart’.

      I’m with you though, it’s better to be more ‘modular’ and have your playback device- be it PlayStation, media server, heck even television receiver, seperate from the display itself.

      • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Yeah i think that tv is still a smart tv just not an android based smart tv (or it might still be Android since that is also very Linux like, especially when you remove Google services)