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Hey! Sorry if there was a better thread to post this in. I looked but couldn't find anything. I'm looking at buying a new place to live. This place may not have a study for me to have a seperate PC\Room for gaming and being a geek. So what I'm thinking of doing instead is wall-mounting a big screen (Say 50 inch) in the living room, using it as a TV (obviously), hooking up my game consoles as well as my PC. That way I can make badly worded SomethingAwful threads from my living room! I figure I'd get a wireless keyboard\mouse, and a fold-away table for when I'm not lazily scrolling through YouTube and stuff. Is this a possible thing? Is this a doable thing? What are the pros\cons of this setup?
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Jun 10, 2019 03:08
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How many consoles? Most/all new TV's have multiple HDMI inputs so it's a non-issue. Conversely, some new TV's don't have legacy inputs or make the old consoles look like crap, so if you're looking to hook-up pre-HDMI consoles you'll probably not want to go with an all-in-one solution. Either way, using a computer on a TV is a miserable experience and I don't recommend it unless all you're using that computer for is gaming.
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Jun 10, 2019 03:41
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ItBreathes posted:How many consoles? Most/all new TV's have multiple HDMI inputs so it's a non-issue. Conversely, some new TV's don't have legacy inputs or make the old consoles look like crap, so if you're looking to hook-up pre-HDMI consoles you'll probably not want to go with an all-in-one solution. Probably just a Switch and a PS4. I don't have either yet, but I like to future-proof. What makes using a computer on a TV so miserable?
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Jun 10, 2019 03:45
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It's real, real big, and most software is not designed to be pleasant to interact with on a screen of that size. Hunting around for window controls and reading poorly scaled text gets old fast.
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Jun 10, 2019 03:57
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ItBreathes posted:It's real, real big, and most software is not designed to be pleasant to interact with on a screen of that size. Hunting around for window controls and reading poorly scaled text gets old fast. These sound like issues I was having when I switched to a 4K screen. Most programs have scaled text these days. What window controls did you find to be a particular pain in the rear end? I don't mean to be deliberately difficult (Though I acknowledge I'm doing a pretty drat good job of doing so!)
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Jun 10, 2019 04:15
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Any reason you wouldn't use a laptop for shitposting from the couch?
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Jun 10, 2019 09:53
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Chikimiki posted:Any reason you wouldn't use a laptop for shitposting from the couch? I absolutely could do that, but I'm also thinking about gaming. My PC is where I do most of my gaming.
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Jun 10, 2019 12:12
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Just go hook your computer up to whatever tv you have already and see if it works for you. I did the monitor-tv thing years ago and it was a pain but maybe things have changed.
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Jun 10, 2019 14:12
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I did TV as monitor for a while and it's not great. Apart from the issues with UI scaling, TVs generally have much lower pixel density which means most text tuned for a PC monitor will look crap on a TV. If the use case for plugging your PC into your TV is gaming, Steam's Big Picture mode is far from perfect but provides a nice tv-friendly, controller driven interface and you can add non Steam games as shortcuts. I eventually got a Steam Link once we had a dedicated study for the PC, but Valve have stopped making them. I guess the Nvidia Shield TV does something similar?
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Jun 10, 2019 15:01
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The Shield does both Nvidia's own streaming (if you own a GeForce GPU) as well as Steam streaming, since Steam Link became an app a few months ago. Obviously this will work better if both the PC and the Shield are wired.
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Jun 10, 2019 20:54
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I've been running an HTPC for 8 years. I've been on 4k TV for the last 18 months. It was a lot harder to make it all work back in the beginning, compared to now. The text scaling on my 4k 65" TV is fine. It's still got some corner-cases (old games), but most newer applications and game handle the scaling seamlessly. And because the panel supports 1080p @ 120hz I end up using that for most games, so then the text is nice and huge on old games. The only hard problem is viewing web content (because your web browser's rendered pages don't automatically scale to your windows text size). But I've had success viewing most websites with FORCE MINIMUM FONT SIZE to 17. That works with SA Forums, Facebook, Google, Amazon, you name it. I only have issues on layout on a few older sites, or maybe a making a plane reservation (easy to turn off the override). defaultluser fucked around with this message at 06:16 on Jun 23, 2019 |
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