Next gen gaming consoles

[bogan]

DLNA is good for all that stuff. Can stream fullHD across the existing wirelss network, no need for super expensive long HDMI cables or fucking about with routing wires.

[Headbanger]

. In Windows you just right click a song or movie and it plays to the currently selected screen, w00t!

I've set mine up so windows media player defaults to the 55", VLC to the 32", So simple even Mrs Headbanger got it first time.

[imdying]

I don't fuck about with wires, I wired the whole thing up top to bottom with CAT6 when I moved in

[imdying]

I've set mine up so windows media player defaults to the 55", VLC to the 32", So simple even Mrs Headbanger got it first time.

Good plan. My Mrs is smarter than me so I let her work out all the bells and whistles. So long as I can do it all the from the couch, I'm not too stressed!

[SMOKEU]

there's this shit called wireless, the blacks invented it in rotorua about the 1700s. look it up.

Is this wireless thing when some coons come up to your hose and thieve your wires for scrap metal?

cost enough in download cap.

Change to an ISP that doesn't charge extortion prices for small amounts of traffic then.

[imdying]

Change to an ISP that doesn't charge extortion prices for small amounts of traffic then.

Are you getting 800GB or more every month? One of the prices you pay for that is on-peak GB are charged differently.

[SMOKEU]

Are you getting 800GB or more every month? One of the prices you pay for that is on-peak GB are charged differently.

I'm on a 300GB plan with Snap but data caps don't worry me since it's unmetered between 0100-0700 every day.

[imdying]

I'm on a 300GB plan with Snap but data caps don't worry me since it's unmetered between 0100-0700 every day.

Yeah, well when you're hitting 800GB on a 40GB plan, you let me know... meanwhile, enjoy paying for that data.

[SMOKEU]

Yeah, well when you're hitting 800GB on a 40GB plan, you let me know... meanwhile, enjoy paying for that data.

A 300GB plan doesn't necessarily have to cost much more than a 40GB plan. It's just that most ISPs in NZ are a blatant con, but there are a few which have reasonable deals. The NZ public think that bandwidth is a very rare, precious resource which we must only use in moderation or it will run out. That's the excuse the ISPs have been using for years to rip ignorant fools off into paying exorbitant sums of money for plans with pathetically small data caps.

[Scuba_Steve]

But you can do that fine with a PC. Arguably much better too... you actually get 1080p from a PC in any game. PCs all have HDMI these days, so you just plug in a single cable and off it goes.

It's not the same as a console tho, console tends to be a "better experience", there's even a study out there to back it up (like going to the stadium vs watching on TV for sports)
Also some games lose what made them awesome when they "upgrade" silent hill is perfect case in point, that which made it scary is lost with enhanced GFX because they were playing to a limit & everything was built round that limit. Not everything is better "enhanced"

I don't fuck about with wires, I wired the whole thing up top to bottom with CAT6 when I moved in

Thats the way to do it

[bogan]

It's not the same as a console tho, console tends to be a "better experience", there's even a study out there to back it up (like going to the stadium vs watching on TV for sports)
Also some games lose what made them awesome when they "upgrade" silent hill is perfect case in point, that which made it scary is lost with enhanced GFX because they were playing to a limit & everything was built round that limit. Not everything is better "enhanced"

Yeh I fucking love watching the crosshairs buzz all around the screen except onto the covenant's (halo enemies, not available on PC) heads, much better experience than actually being able to aim with a mouse. Where do you come up with this shit?

[SMOKEU]

It's not the same as a console tho, console tends to be a "better experience", there's even a study out there to back it up (like going to the stadium vs watching on TV for sports)

I call bullshit. A PC can easily be connected to a TV via HDMI, and there are numerous gamepads available. MS has even released an XBOX360 kit for PC, which includes a wireless USB adapter and a normal XBOX360 controller connects to it. That can replicate the console experience quite nicely, but with the potential for much better graphics.

[Scuba_Steve]

Yeh I fucking love watching the crosshairs buzz all around the screen except onto the covenant's (halo enemies, not available on PC) heads, much better experience than actually being able to aim with a mouse. Where do you come up with this shit?

So you suck at using a controller then I take it

I call bullshit. A PC can easily be connected to a TV via HDMI, and there are numerous gamepads available. MS has even released an XBOX360 kit for PC, which includes a wireless USB adapter and a normal XBOX360 controller connects to it. That can replicate the console experience quite nicely, but with the potential for much better graphics.

And a TV feed will show you more of the game then being at the stadium, but it's not the same is it?
I don't know what it is maybee like with silent hill it's the over "enhancing" of games that spoil it but it came out people had more fun playing consoles. People are also happier to watch someone play console than they are to watch someone play PC regardless of screen size (all tests were done on same screen & brainwaves monitored)

PC's can be good for the eyes tho, another study shows FPS games on PC can actually improve eye sight (so much for "you'll ruin your eyes") but the catch is, you must play on CRT

[steve_t]

PC's can be good for the eyes tho, another study shows FPS games on PC can actually improve eye sight (so much for "you'll ruin your eyes") but the catch is, you must play on CRT

Link to this study, please?

[bogan]

So you suck at using a controller then I take it



And a TV feed will show you more of the game then being at the stadium, but it's not the same is it?
I don't know what it is maybee like with silent hill it's the over "enhancing" of games that spoil it but it came out people had more fun playing consoles. People are also happier to watch someone play console than they are to watch someone play PC regardless of screen size (all tests were done on same screen & brainwaves monitored)

PC's can be good for the eyes tho, another study shows FPS games on PC can actually improve eye sight (so much for "you'll ruin your eyes") but the catch is, you must play on CRT

Is fine for racing games or rpg ones you don't need to aim (I use it on my computer as I prefer it for most of these) but FPS is way to difficult with rate aim control, so much so if I wanted to get into FPS on console I'd buy a mouse adapter for it (though these are tricky as a lot get caught by aimbot type detectors).

Not really an apt comparison, on one hand you have something on screen, the other is something irl; but in this case you have something on screen vs something on a higher definition screen with better graphics. Maybe TV vs Cinema is a better comparison?