On 27/01/2012 17:28, Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:
> In article<9og49iF4kjU1@mid.individual.net>,
> [ste parker]<imaginey@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Why don't they just put a cheap HDMI cable in the box!? WHY!? I've only
>> got one, and that came as a freebie from Amazon when I bought the 360
>> Slim, there wasn't one in that box. It ended up being used with the
>> not-cheap Panasonic blu-ray player, which also didn't come with one. And
>> now I've got the WD TV Live box, and that doesn't fucking come with one
>> either!
>>
>> I am annoyed.
>
> I remember when the Saturn first shipped in the States, it included only
> the composite video cord and no RF adapter. The day after Christmas that
> year, the stores were filled with angry parents who weren't able to
> connect the console to their televisions the previous morning. 
>
> I think that we hardcore gamers use video cabling differently to the rest
> of the public. We expect to be able to connect the blu-ray player, game
> system, digital satellite tuner, and video camera to the television all at
> the same time. We also expect (unreasably) for video switching to be
> seamless, automatic and instantaneous. Anecdotally, I've observed that the
> rest of the world simply unhooks the cable from one output and jams it
> into the device they want to use. Who needs multiple cables in that
> scenario? Although the fact that it costs the game company a few pounds
> less to pop a cable into the box is probably a bigger motivator. That adds
> up when you're shipping hundreds of thousands of hardware units.
>
> Even with DRM to consider, I'm happy nearly every game system has a
> standard video output connector now. That hasn't been true since the 3DO
>days,
>
I think now though, a hell of a lot of people no longer have a CRT and
therefore have something with HDMI connections, of which even the
cheapest even have a couple. It's not the same times as when an RGB
SCART switchbox was an essential home item for the savvy gamer, the
connections are there now so why not use them, or at least provide the
mechanism in the box to allow it when it's patently so bloody cheap to
do so. Just from a band marketing point of view you'd think you'd want
people to be able to get the proper experience out of the box rather
than a substandard one.
> -KKC, who owns no TVs with HDMI input.
Weirdo.
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[ste]