Comment on Steam machine prices are live
grue@lemmy.world 1 day agoWhat they should have done is made a new Steam Link with more capable hardware for cheap. That would have sold like hotcakes.
The Steam Link was pretty much a dumb terminal for VNC. In what way does it need to have “more capable hardware?”
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
The Steam Link did not have HW acceleration IIRC, and did not support H265.
The Steam Link was capped to 1080p at 60 FPS.
Those are some serious hardware limitations.
grue@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m not sure anybody really cares about the streaming codec as long as it works with good quality.
But fair enough: I agree it would be nice to have a “Steam Link 2” that could do 4K60 (or better) and (as pointed out in a Machine review video I just watched) support HDMI CEC.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 11 hours ago
The streaming codec matters because it (265) is incredibly better and more efficient, which is what you want for streaming.