Component vs. HDMI - by gunsmoke
lost_soul on 27/4/2011 at 22:25
Quote Posted by CCCToad
I'd guess a yes, but his own smugness pales in comparison to what several other TTLG denizens exhibit. Its still pretty entertaining to read a rant worthy of Cave Johnson.
Lost Soul, the problem isn't what you're saying, but how you're saying it. There's nothing wrong with giving people a heads up or pointing something thats easy to forget. However, if you call people things like (literal examples) "an ignorant cockmunch" , or "uneducated, lazy, and overweight", or "retarded fucktards", you just alienate yourself from everyone else to the point where people stop listening to you.
This is a social skill you should have learned by the time you entered Kindergarten, but if you demean and browbeat people while making a point nobody's going to give two shits about what you actually said because they're too pissed off to care.
When I mentioned people being overweight and uneducated, I wasn't specifically referring to anyone around here. I'm referring to the people who care about nothing but eating junk food and playing the latest games, regardless of what invasive systems said games may contain. The people who will buy anything as long as it is the shiny new product of the month are the reason I can't have a clean graphics card.
gunsmoke on 27/4/2011 at 22:53
@Phatose: thanks for the heads up, buddy. I used to stream netflix through a Wii with component (only capable of 480p) so when I got my 360 I began to use it for netflix to take advantage of the heightened resolution. I use it at least once a day so any hinderance to its usage would be upsetting. Thanks again, I will look into it a bit more as netflix is used as much as the games are played on the system.
I am mostly trying to clean up cables. I have 4 consoles, a DVD/Blu-ray, and my VCR all hooked up to my HDTV. As for it being compatible/new enough for certain tech? My tv was purchased @ Christmas, so it is brand spanking new. I has a ton of features.
Anyway, I am still on the fence a bit, but I would LOVE to lose those 5 huge, thick component cables running out of the back of the tv. Add to that: I only have 1 component hookup and 6 HDMI. So, I have to switch the cables out behind the TV to go between Wii and Xbox 360 and PS2 (I have components for all 3). It is a massive pain.
june gloom on 27/4/2011 at 23:05
Quote Posted by lost_soul
When I mentioned people being overweight and uneducated, I wasn't specifically referring to anyone around here. I'm referring to the people who care about nothing but eating junk food and playing the latest games, regardless of what invasive systems said games may contain. The people who will buy anything as long as it is the shiny new product of the month are the reason I can't have a clean graphics card.
You're insufferably boring and arrogant and have no idea how the world works. Your insults and hyperbole have been rote ever since you got here and we're all very tired of hearing it.
You want to flail your arms and get all (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhD0UDIcwkc) Alex Jones-megaphone about how the 'sheeple' are responsible for games that run natively in Linux being few and far between, go find some sheeple and tell
them, not us. Or get a fucking tumblr or something. Just please don't do that shit here anymore. Please stop hijacking threads to push your own tinfoil-hat agenda.
PigLick on 28/4/2011 at 04:09
Quote Posted by CCCToad
I'd guess a yes, but his own smugness pales in comparison to what several other TTLG denizens exhibit.
you miss him, dont you?
lost_soul on 28/4/2011 at 04:36
I'm actually wondering if it is worth switching from VGA to DVI. It isn't that I have a particular problem with VGA, but I haven't seen a DVI setup in person to gauge the improvement in picture quality. VGA only begins to look like crap on screens 32-inches and up. I wonder if DVI makes a big difference on a 19-inch LCD.
The monitor and the GTX460 both support DVI, I just don't have the cable.
Fafhrd on 28/4/2011 at 04:46
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
As for it being compatible/new enough for certain tech? My tv was purchased @ Christmas, so it is brand spanking new. I has a ton of features.
Is it 3D? You'll need HDMI for the Xbox when MS rolls out the S3D update (if you're interested in actually playing any 3D games).
EvaUnit02 on 28/4/2011 at 22:54
Quote Posted by lost_soul
I'm actually wondering if it is worth switching from VGA to DVI.
The advantage I've found in the various TVs I've used with HDMI/DVI is that auto-detect the resolution and aspect ratio of the input it's receiving and thus display it correctly. Eg a DVD running in 576p 4:3 will be appropriately be pillarboxed, as it should be.
My current Samsung Syncmaster 226BW is currently slowly dying. I intend to replace it with a monitor that has 1:1 pixel-mapping. I found that fixed aspect ratio scaling of Nvidia video drivers is pretty hit and miss, especially when using unconventional custom resolutions like 1400x1050 (i.e. for games which don't widescreen resolutions or use vert- widescreen implementations).
I'm glad that 16:10 monitors have gone the way of the dodo in favour of 16:9 monitors. It made no fucking sense that monitors ignored the accepted standard AR for TV/home cinema (ditto for 5:4 being standard over 4:3).
242 on 29/4/2011 at 16:22
Get HDMI.
