You guys notice how they’re pushing these HDMI 2.1 cables on like Xbox One s users and stuff with 4K TVs? Or even the 8K TVs that aren’t capable of the 120 frame rates and stuff like that.
It’s kind of crazy how they start marketing this s*** years and years before so you end up buying the product that doesn’t even do any good for you unless you can afford a crazy good gaming TV or monitor, or your PC player that actually knows what you’re doing, but you end up buying all this extra useless s*** don’t even realize that it’s not giving you any real upgrades to quality, and then by the time it actually is giving you upgrades to quality 2.6 is out.
My buddy just bought an 8K TV and his next door neighbor told him oh bro now you got to go get that HDMI 2.1 cable.
Your TV is not a gaming TV yes it’s 8K compatible but you can also achieve that with a 1.4. which you already own three of. And you’re certainly not going to pull 120 frames and if you do you’ll never pull 160. Not to mention your Xbox wouldn’t push 120 frames if you manually pushed 120 frames through it? Don’t really know where I was going with that. Point is let alone 160.
I tried explaining the concept of bottlenecking to him probably 75 times but he’s only ever owned one PC in his entire life and I’m pretty sure it was like a Best buy bought.
Capitalism is beautiful.
I am blissfully unaware of the differences, and since I’m playing the steam deck on my TV the only HDMI cable I rummaged around for and found in our pile of obsolete cables is doing the job.