Steam on your TV

Zhokel · 10 Sep 2012 at 19:44

Not sure why but I've been excited about this for months and it's nearly here.

Martini1991 · 10 Sep 2012 at 19:48

I must be missing something.
Just looks nice a UI suited for a large screen while you're far away, as opposed the conventional UI and Windows desktop experience which makes it painful from a distance.

It's obviously nice, but I'm not grasping the hype.

Witcher1979 · 10 Sep 2012 at 19:55

Nah, just a button that makes the UI bigger and a bit different.

Metalface Mark · 10 Sep 2012 at 20:13

Martini1991 said:
I must be missing something.
Just looks nice a UI suited for a large screen while you're far away, as opposed the conventional UI and Windows desktop experience which makes it painful from a distance.

It's obviously nice, but I'm not grasping the hype.

Its optimised for controllers, if you can launch into it from windows startup it will be brilliant

Gimpymoo · 10 Sep 2012 at 20:27

http://store.steampowered.com/bigpicture/

LAUNCHES LATER TODAY in Beta.

Paul_cz · 10 Sep 2012 at 21:47

iv-tecman said:
Maybe I've missed a valid point myself, a post above mentioned bypassing windows, maybe poster meant windows still loads but you never see the windows login screen, it boots direct to Steam?

maybe its me missing a point, so dont worry about it lol

Of course windows has to load first, but the point is - you turn the PC on, and when it is finished loading, steam is active in fullscreen and ready to be controlled with gamepad. So you can play games like on a console without ever touching mouse or keyboard. The fact that windows has to load (because, guess what, Steam is not an operating system) is obvious.

trentlad · 10 Sep 2012 at 21:49

Thank you OP!

So essentially this is a steam interface that can be navigated with a controller. The biggest thing seems like the browser interface.

Given that I've just wired up my PC to my TV downstairs (powered USB hub + 50FT HDMI+USB+CAT6), this could be good.. even though I just bought this little puppy.

Gimpymoo · 10 Sep 2012 at 22:05

This also seems like it would fit nicely into Windows 8 as a Metro Tile/App.

Murray · 10 Sep 2012 at 22:09

They said it'll be up by the end of Valve's working day. So probably around 1am

Winky_The_Winking_Turtle · 10 Sep 2012 at 22:22

Could I connect the pc thats in my room to my TV thats in my room too using a hdmi cable? Then i can play games in bed on Sundays

chaparral · 10 Sep 2012 at 22:23

It would be great if steam let us sort are steam games like on there store page...

Winky_The_Winking_Turtle · 10 Sep 2012 at 22:26

Is that it? I want that on my Desktop Steam

and the colour scheme is cool too...

LegendaryDread · 10 Sep 2012 at 22:28

You can still use it on your.. er.. "desktop" Steam.

One · 10 Sep 2012 at 22:39

Winky_The_Winking_Turtle said:
Is that it? I want that on my Desktop Steam and the colour scheme is cool too...

You can. It's just fullscreen steam. It won't know whether you're plugged into a TV or not. Thing is though, for a pc user I would have thought the normal interface will be easier to use as all it is used for is launching games.

Metalface Mark · 10 Sep 2012 at 22:41

And you can make steam look similar anyway with the icon boxes

GizmoTheMogwai · 11 Sep 2012 at 00:12

It's out.

It's pretty polished, I kind of wish Valve were into film/tv rental business too.

Frenzy · 11 Sep 2012 at 00:24

This will work well with my projector

One · 11 Sep 2012 at 00:27

Oof! It seems to require quite a bit of fire-power; it's pretty sluggish running from my laptop! It does look nice though.

welshdapper · 11 Sep 2012 at 00:28

had a look and i must say it is very cool but why a browser ??

ThePirateHulk · 11 Sep 2012 at 00:30

Metalface Mark said:
Its optimised for controllers, if you can launch into it from windows startup it will be brilliant

But most of the games won't be so it'll still be a PITA.