plateee comments on French retailer mocks €1039 Steam Machine with “Stim Machine” RX 9060 XT PC for €999

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[–] plateee@piefed.social 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

TL; DR - you can control some aspects of your TV (volume, input selection, etc) if your TV and GPU supports the HDMI-CEC protocol. I'm not sure if many retail GPUs support CEC, but I'm guessing the OP is suggesting they are few and far between.

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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago

As far as I know they don't exist at all. It's just not really needed for PC gpus

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Also, if you use an AV-receiver, you can switch all devices on with just the controller. That, in my eyes is a huge USP for the Steam Machine. Of course anyone can build a PC on a similar budget. But that won't work as well as a living room gaming device.

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[–] TingoTenga@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Ah, thanks. I just didn't get whether the implication was the Steam Machine would support it and the French Stim machine would not.

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