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$1050 for 512gb no controller

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

What they should have done is made a new Steam Link with more capable hardware for cheap. That would have sold like hotcakes.

The Steam Link was pretty much a dumb terminal for VNC. In what way does it need to have "more capable hardware?"

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

The Steam Link did not have HW acceleration supported in streaming settings IIRC, and did not support H265.

The Steam Link was capped to 1080p at 60 FPS.

Those are some serious hardware limitations.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

I'm not sure anybody really cares about the streaming codec as long as it works with good quality.

But fair enough: I agree it would be nice to have a "Steam Link 2" that could do 4K60 (or better) and (as pointed out in a Machine review video I just watched) support HDMI CEC.