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Actually after rereading LambChop's comments about boys and girls I actually agree with him there as well. Their are two chromasons, not god knows howany that some people would like us to believe.
 
Every day more and more tech threads are derailed into GD threads, when I look at the new posts it's like a list of hot social political topics instead of the latest tech news and overclocking
 
Richdog said:
Well, there is no rule at all stating PC's shouldn't be in a living room... indeed it's becoming more common though still because a 65" 4k TV is so much cheaper than a large high resolution monitor. When HDMI 2.1 hits en masse, TV's will arguably be better value and performance than most monitors. It still however won't make the ergonomics of using a keyboard and mouse in a living room any better, though gamepads will obviously work great.

In future I will consider running a very long HDMI cable from my PC in my bedroom to my TV in my living room so that I can game and view content there without having the PC physically in the room.
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I'm mostly single player controller games even on pc. I look in the market for monitors and all of these FALD and hdr1000 monitors are £1000-2000. Compares very unfavourably vs OLED or FALD LED tvs. The only monitors I'd have over my TV in the living room and TV in the gaming room cost £1500-2500. :S

I have a £700+ gsync ultrawide 120hz monitor that I bought a while ago - these things still sell for this price - and the picture quality of the panel just pales in comparison. Monitor market is in the pits.
 
Richdog said:
No it's not "weird", it's based on overwhelmingly common usage patters. Proportionally speaking, very few people use their PC with a TV vs on a desk with a monitor, and very few people use a console on a desk with a monitor vs with a TV.

It's not rocket science.
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Are you this bitchy to everyone?

And I know plenty of people who connect their PC to their TV. It's not "overwhelmingly uncommon" judging by the people I know.

LambChop said:
The same people that think that's weird probably also think boys can be girls and girls can be boys. A console should be in the living room as its home entertainment. A PC, well its a Personal Computer and monitor is designed to work with the PC only hence no tv card etc. There's nothing weird about that in the slightest, its actually how it should be.
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This is a very special post indeed.

XeNoNF50 said:
I'm mostly single player controller games even on pc. I look in the market for monitors and all of these FALD and hdr1000 monitors are £1000-2000. Compares very unfavourably vs OLED or FALD LED tvs. The only monitors I'd have over my TV in the living room and TV in the gaming room cost £1500-2500. :S

I have a £700+ gsync ultrawide 120hz monitor that I bought a while ago - these things still sell for this price - and the picture quality of the panel just pales in comparison. Monitor market is in the pits.
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The only downside to TVs is the lack of resolution options.

But as someone else mentioned the vastly superior scaling does kind of make up for that. It's almost like free AA.
 
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FoxEye said:
Are you this bitchy to everyone?

And I know plenty of people who connect their PC to their TV. It's not "overwhelmingly uncommon" judging by the people I know.


This is a very special post indeed.


The only downside to TVs is the lack of resolution options.

But as someone else mentioned the vastly superior scaling does kind of make up for that. It's almost like free AA.
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Lol :D
 
LambChop said:
The living room/lounge is the heart of a home, it where families spend their time. If you want to argue semantics I'm happy to get into it.
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There's more people in this country than just the usual "Mum, Dad and two kids, living in a two-up two-down house" types.

Think of all the people who rent a single room in a shared house.

A lot of them will use their TV as their monitor because it makes good sense, rather than having two screens.

Or they'll connect their console to their monitor as I do.

TNA said:
Lol :D
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You disagree?
 
FoxEye said:
There's more people in this country than just the usual "Mum, Dad and two kids, living in a two-up two-down house" types.

Think of all the people who rent a single room in a shared house.

A lot of them will use their TV as their monitor because it makes good sense, rather than having two screens.

Or they'll connect their console to their monitor as I do.


You disagree?
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12% of 16-24 yo rent. 16% of older people rent. - Thats 1-2 in 10 people that rent. Roughly 10% is a minority and while I dont know the statistics, I could hazard a calculated guess at that not every one of those renters have PC's or consoles or care how they play them.

Now over 70% of people have mortgages. I will hazard another calculated guess that a lot of them will be families (rentals have families too)

Lets say you're correct, a lot of them do use their TV as their monitor etc, lets say I give you that. It's going to be a tiny % that do. So small its not even worth bothering about. There is a whole world outside your thought bubble.
 
But your assumption is that 100% of the rest must use a monitor with their PC and it must not be in the living room, and they must use a TV with their console and it must be in the living room.

Seems like I'm the one saying people have options, and you're the one saying, "No, people must conform to what I believe is normal!"
 
bru said:
LOL that is not what he said at all, twisting what was said to fit your argument.
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Well he accepted that some renters might use a TV with their PC, then in the next breath said that renters were tiny % therefore only a tiny % would do this.

Hence the assumption that everybody who isn't a renter must be using a TV+console and PC+monitor.

It's right there in his post.

Also his stats for renting is wrong. > 1/3 of people in this country rent, according to the ONS figures. See the graph here (Figure 1)
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/articles/ukprivaterentedsector/2018
 
ltron said:
What about if you can plug a mouse and keyboard into it and it has a custom version of Windows on it with Steam, GOG, Epic etc. so you can play all your PC games? Some rumours I've heard suggest Microsoft may try to do something this radical. You then get the best of both worlds: super optimised AAA games and the ability to play all PC games.
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Seeing some of the games tested by Digital Foundry, I wouldn't call console gaming "super optimized" unless it's an ironic remark. :p
 
Calin Banc said:
Seeing some of the games tested by Digital Foundry, I wouldn't call console gaming "super optimized" unless it's an ironic remark. :p
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Considering the CPU in the current consoles is the equivalent of an AMD Athlon 64 from 2005 in terms of raw performance but with 8 cores then I would consider that super optimised. Imagine what they can get out of the modern 8 core Zen 2/Ryzen 3000 CPU in the new consoles.
 
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