So they're calling it SteamOS now, an optimised gaming OS. I expect valve will flip the mid digit to MS and make HL3 a SteamOS exclusive to start with in order to promote it. Not sure how they are planning to stream older titles to the SteamOS frontend. Sounds good, about time someone made a dedicated gaming OS.
He'll be back for the sequel, it will turn out that wasn't really his body and was all an elaborate plan to escape the authorities, he's really in mexico... that is until some nosey reporter comes looking then all hell will break loose when he finds out his daughter has been kidnapped
Wikipedia != specification document. If you are relying on wikipedia for your information, I would advise against it. It's good for exploring references, and not much more.
Not to mention there is no "specification" as such. 1080p is just a shorthand for the first line in "your" wikipedia entry.
I can only assume this is correct. I don't know what TV your are referring to, but in the scenario you have provided I agree with you. The suspect TV only supports a 60Hz input, therefore any extra advertised frames will be interpolated.
Can you read, or wood y00 liek me 2 talk lyk dis? I was referring to no other limiting factors except for the TV input:
Yes, literally true infact. Perhaps you should read about the 1080p spec http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1080p. And then perhaps you should look at the input signals that the TV supports from it's spec sheet:
Notice anything about those? The max it supports is 1080/60p. That's a 60hz signal.
As I said, the frames are interpolated. The Sony TV uses Motionflow™ XR 400 for frame interpolation, from the Sony TV's spec sheet:
Quote from: Sony
Motionflow™ technology actually creates additional pictures which inserts into fast-moving sequences to effectively double the number of pictures, or frames, that make up the sequence. This improves motion performance so that fast actions appear clearer, sharper, and smoother.
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Nothing in there says they don't accept 120Hz+ input. I must also say there is nothing saying they support 120Hz+ input.
HDMI 1.4b supports 120Hz, so the ability already exists to push past that 60Hz barrier, I guess it's just up to the TV.
Seems silly to limit yourself to 60Hz, when there is a possibility to "future proof" for pittance.
So what? A cable spec does not define a devices capabilities.
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I would talk to the salesman at JB Hifi, they are professionals and know their stuff!
Sure they do, especially when they try and sell you a $400 HDMI cable - WITH GOLD PLATED CONNECTORS!!! Salesmen in general only half know what they are talking about. Sometimes it's fun to act dumb and see what kind of BS they can come up with by asking them technical questions. They should get target in on that shit it would be hilarious. Mind you some of them are okay, but they certainly are not technicians.
200hz refresh is just marketing bullshit and means fuck all, fact is that it only accepts a input of 50-60hz and then it interpolates frames using software - just the same as all the other tv's that claim anything over 60hz. Therefore the smoothness of the refresh rests solely on the frame interpolation algorithm. If your tv is shit then playback will be slow and lagged which is okay for movies, but then if you are gaming you will have to turn it off because the controller response latency is too high for gaming. This is why TV's have "Game mode" to turn off all that shit. Or something like that. Meh.
Can you say why sony sucks and samsung/lg are better?
It's more anti-fanboyish. Their inflated price point is too high for the quality they provide and comparative models from LG and Samsung are superior in both spec and feature. Sony have been riding of their brand for years and it used to be that a Sony product was good, but now they just knock out cheap shit. Their brand is shit, and their products "in general" are also shit. Have been for years.
Not much of a stretch to imagine that if you consider how evil and malicious their jealous god is.
Funny thing, if you read the bible and all it's contradictions and then look at how brain washing works you begin to see a similarity. Take the Scientology OT levels documents and look at how they do it, they are a bit more obvious for they literally break down your brains associations through repeated contradictions, starting with easily cognitions and ending up with confusing nonsense and reprogramming:
(all of the below is in hand writing making it harder to read and therefore more unique imagery) I should create I shouldn't create I must create I mustn't create I do create I don't create ... To disagree is to agree To agree is to disagree to detest is to get to get is to detest to hurt is to enjoy to enjoy is to hurt to dislike is to like to like is to dislike ... invent a bright self to stop a dim self explosion stop an informed self to invent a denied self explosion invent a receiving self to stop a rejected self explosion stop a loving self to invent a hated self ... invent a loving self to stop a hated self ... invent a bright mind to stop a dim mind explosion stop an informed mind to invent a denied mind explosion invent a receiving mind to stop a rejected mind explosion ... invent a near head to stop a far head explosion <--- my personal favourite stop an open head to invent a closed head explosion ... etc etc etc it goes on and on
by the end you're brain is a mush of disassociated and confused concepts which can then be gentaly reprogrammed.
You know for years now i've read your name as dirtyrape and have only just noticed it's ape
ohgodwhathaveIdone
lol - i'm sure Sigmund Freud would say something about that but don't feel bad I get that all the time. You'd think my avatard would be something entirely inappropriate if that actually were my alias...
I'll get one soon enough so I can have a play with it but i haven't the time atm. From what I hear it'll have to be jailbroken to run un-signed code, not sure if that's a surface thing or a Win8 tablet thing. It's trivial to JB them though and MS said they aren't going to patch and that the JBer did a good job and that they don't consider it an exploit but rather a "feature".
My summer drink has been a tall glass + broken ice + 1 measure vodka + ~1/4 measure lime + ~1/4 measure grenadine + top up 50/50 soda + ginger ale, it's like a shirley temple but with vodka. Refreshing. And Oranjeboom.
I think it's ugly, but it will probably just sit behind the TV so it's not like it matters.
The prototype is only 30watt so there isn't really a great deal you can do with that, but on the bright side it will be nice and quiet.
Valve said they are envisioning 3 main types of steambox: good, better, and best. So it sounds like there will be multiple steam boxes to match budgets. $999 was mentioned somewhere but not sure if that was good or best, I hope it's best. It's still too early to do anything but speculate, but if you want enthusiast level hardware then you will still have to build it yourself.
AMD are working on increasing performance for Linux drivers, http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_drm38_radeon&num=1. Too little too late? AMD cards have always sucked arse on Linux, it's going to be hard to change their image. But then the majority of people that will adopt linux as their gaming platform in the future will probably have no idea of such things.
That's a nice mame frontend, all the ones I had were budget. My xbmc box had mame and some xbox360 controllers on it until it got burgled and then i never bothered setting it up again. Might have to now...
