Have you considered getting an AV receiver? If you’ve got decent speakers it would be worth it.
Re: casting, your TV may support it natively.
Rock8man
1928
Oooooh! You’re right. It does. I’d forgotten about that. But it was kind of moody about when it worked and when it didn’t. Still better than nothing.
If it was up to me, I would, but I’m guessing any kind of further non-hidden electronics in the living room would be a no-go for my wife. My brother is willing to go to war with his wife over stuff like that, but I’m just wanting to keep my blood pressure down and live longer, if I can, and avoid the fights over small stuff like that.
The ones my parents had never did work great though. It was always supposed to switch automatically to the thing that had ongoing input, but it didn’t work as well when multiple things were going at once. But I’ll definitely give it a try.
This is the one I’ve purchased most recently. Works well, although auto-switching is always finicky on these things. I’d rather they never auto-switched personally.
How much latency does one of those introduce? Is HDMI latency even a thing anymore? I know some of the older TVs I’ve seen have had an HDMI port labeled for PC that was supposed to be extremely low latency.
I’ve always avoided these HDMI switches specifically because I don’t want input lag on my games.
DaveLong
1931
I haven’t noticed latency. I’ve been using pigtail style switchers for years as I often have as many as eight or more HDMI devices connected to my TV.
Also, new TVs from Samsung have Apple Play built in if you stream from your phone and are in the Apple ecosystem. I’m sure some others have Google stuff built in. Plus the new TVs usually have all the apps too. I use YouTube, NBC Sports Live, FloRacing and a bunch of others in some combination of phone/TV for streaming various things. New consoles will have all the apps too most likely.
Fighting with a wife over how many devices are connected to a TV? Really? That’s a thing?
stusser
1932
The trick with HDMI switches is not to cheap out and buy a no-name Chinese brand. You want one that’s powered and from a reputable company. I’ve got this guy. It actually works.
I had that one. Also works well. Mine died though and I wanted more than 5 ports.
Dejin
1935
I feel similarly. The XBox Series S almost seems like a better fit, but … Although for me the biggest sticking point is actually the SSD size, particularly if as has been reported that an external SSD is going to run over $200, that suddenly makes the Series S a lot less compelling.
My current TV is only a 43” though and while I’m considering an upgrade, I doubt I’d go higher than a 55”. I’m not really sure at those sizes if I’d even notice 4K vs. 1080p gaming. I assume when used with a PC you’d notice the difference between 4K vs. 1080p just based on the quality and ease of reading text, but how large of a TV do you need to really notice the difference on a game designed for consoles?
stusser
1936
I am a lifelong gamer, and gaming is in my perineum.
Enidigm
1937
If it’s actually solidly and consistently 1440p, it seems better. If in reality it’s actually just 1080p most of the time, that feels a step backward from the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X. I could probably live with 1440p on a smaller 4K display - but i don’t want to spend $300 to get a worse performing console than what i have now either.
Petey
1938
I found 3 old phones and an X box one S to trade it so I’d have enough for the XSS…but dammit, I know I have other old electronics in my garage…or my kids room…she hoards all sorts of stuff I can maybe sneak out for more trade in value…would just rather have the XSX and be done with it.
stusser
1939
The XSS will definitely be a worse performer on graphics than the XboneX. It has a much slower GPU. But it’ll play all the XSX|S games while your XboneX won’t, and it has a fast SSD so everything will load fast.
If you care about resolution, don’t buy one. But really I doubt you’ll notice any difference.
Timex
1940
But the question i have, is whether it will be a significantly worse performer on a 1080p tv.
Like, if that extra GPU power is all going to support the cause to have a 4k resolution, which I’ll never use anyways, would it matter? Or will it not even be able to run the same framerate and effects, even at the lower resulting 6?
stusser
1941
Sorry, I meant to say the XSS will be a worse performer. The XSX has a vastly more powerful GPU than the XboneX.
Timex
1942
No, i got that, of course. (i actually didn’t even notice your typo, and read it as you intended)
I’m still curious as to whether the Xss will be able to essentially match the xsx, when the resolution is limited to 1080p.
I feel like it probably won’t, but i honestly have no idea.
stusser
1943
Ahh OK. Well we don’t know until review units are available of course, but if it doesn’t play XSX|S games at 1080p perfectly the XSS is a failed product. My guess is that won’t be an issue.
I wonder at what point reviews will come out.
Menzo
1945
Not until right before it’s available, one would assume. November 6th at the earliest would be my guess.
Timex
1946
Do you think perfectly means with all the same bells and whistles?
Or do we mean with the difference that we see between, say, the ps4 and the ps4 pro?
