Yep the picture of the back of the unit shows hdmi:
http://drh.img.digitalriver.com/DRHM...nnectivity.png
having a hdmi cable out the back goes against the whole wireless aspect though...
Yep the picture of the back of the unit shows hdmi:
http://drh.img.digitalriver.com/DRHM...nnectivity.png
having a hdmi cable out the back goes against the whole wireless aspect though...
I'll wait for the version with a mouse and WASD keypad
HDMI is an output port, to connect it to your TV.
I...really really want this. I was holding out for Pandora 2, but holy crap this might just be the Emulation dream machine.
The Wii U uses Miracast, there's no reason why this and your PC couldn't use it, either, or something very similar to it. In fact, I'll be surprised if this device doesn't also support Miracast output, to a nearby TV. Not sure how that'll work when streaming from your PC as well, though.I know but Wii U has only 1 frame of lag. That's pretty impressive and decent imo. No reason they can't do the same here. It's not like it's necessarily a 1080p screen on that thing either.
Last edited by Kushan; 07-01-2013 at 02:18 PM.
Yeah the WiiU uses a specially modified version of Wifi for a short-range, point-to-point connection to keep latency low, this uses standard WiFi over a LAN. Regardless of what software tricks they use, the fact remains that WiFi can and often does introduce significant latency and jitter.
1 frame is up to 33ms for a standard 30fps game, which is not that impressive in terms of additional lag. However, wireless probably doesn't account for as much of this as all the extra processing. I get 19ms ping and 0 jitter for my whole route connection to pingtest.net, which includes a wireless stage to my computer from the router. Wired I could probably get 17ms perhaps, but 2ms really is inconsequential.
o dear
Heh your Wi-Fi sucks less than mine then.
It's OK in the same quiet room but through walls or across a distance where signal rebounds occur and especially in a crowded region with lots of clients and other APs Wi-Fi quickly degenerates into a mess of jitter, unstable bandwidth and huge latency spikes.
My old flat was a Wi-Fi kill zone but I moved house recently to a nice quiet street, tried a Wi-Fi bridge between two wired areas and managed a jittery ~30Mbps - that's supposed to be 2-stream N up to 300Mbps, so basically I got 10% of theoretical bandwidth and it was variable according to Windows 8's new copy window. I can only detect a few other faint networks and I used a >£200 Netgear WNDAP350 with WN802T or WNHDE111 which had clear-air LOS between each other.
Switched to some cheap AV-200 powerline gear I had spare and I'm getting well over 100Mbps between some nodes, stable and latency penalty is a constant 2-3ms. Over 50% of theoretical bandwidth there (caveat: it's a brand new quite compact house with apparently quality wiring), and the upgrade to AV-500 is less than the cost of an 802.11ac or dual-band N900 AP.
I'm out of love with Wi-Fi at the moment, the good simultaneous dual-band gear is so expensive and doesn't even get close to the quoted numbers. The quoted "up to" numbers on Wi-Fi take the piss even more than ADSL2+ and 3G/4G.
Your wifi does suck then Mine is through several walls, though being a newish build they're not the thickest. I don't get full G bandwidth, but 48mbps is enough and the ping is great. Router is ye olde O2 wireless box II which is quite awful in most other regards.
Sure, but would that make any difference in quality? If many small packets can get through with zero packet loss why wouldn't a larger one? I genuinely know very little about this kind of stuff so perhaps there is a physical possibility of that happening. *Shrugs*
I mean larger packets take longer to transmit that the smaller ones used in basic ping testing, which can have an impact on latency.
wonder how well this will work for prolonged usage... balance of the device and weight in your hands.. hopefully they got that right
In addition to the above, battery life is another point of interest, Wii U controller battery life is awful from what I hear?
I'd imagine they will implement either their Wi-Di or the newer Wi-Gig and use it as an example of the benefits the technology presents.
Over 5gb/s ... Hell I'm already going for a P8Z77 i-deluxe just for this, but now I need to think about future proofing my GPU.. Do I still go for AMD'S 7850 or get an equivalent 6 series nvidia?
Such decisions have a massive impact on the future. Choosing my sons name wasnt even this tricky!
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