So, does anyone here calibrate their televisions for use with their console, or do they stick with presets?
I'm looking into TV calibration now for use with a 360, and it's kind of ridiculous, what you have to do to "properly" calibrate a set.. One webpage even advises going into the service menu, just to get back to high contrast settings for televisions with an optimal resolution of 1360x768 resolution (Basically, that's a PC resolution, and disables a lot of TV settings..)
We have a very good DELL monitor in our studio, having looked at that, I pretty much know how the image on our TV's should look, when I put some our material on show, on those screens. But that does not exaclty help you... Seeing the image on various TV's I can honestly say that I wish more people would give this a thought. Some people have it either way to bright, or dark, too many colors, not disabled the built in 200Hz feature or whatever. Making the image on their movies look very far away from what the creators intended.
Usually there will be a standard preset. If you disable all the gimmick features such as enhanced contrast, motion+ (hz) noice reduction and so on and so forth, you should be well on your way. I always disable all of those, and then I go fiddling with the contrasts and brightness. Try to get as flat an image as possible. Maybe download some colorbars image aswell in good quality. All TV's are different, so you might have better luck asking in a hi-fi/tv forum, where someone might have tried with simillar models.
I know that the Ouya gaming console isn't current, but is anyone thinking of getting one? I mean it's open source, small as a mug, and very neat looking. What I mean by open source is that you will be able to swap out older hardware as the system ages for newer, faster hardware. I mean sh1t for a price point of $100.00 US I'm certainly entertaining the idea of getting one. In my opinion, this is something that the big three should have done from the door, instead of us having to continue to buy console after console. Any thoughts?
The new xbox may now be called "Fusion".
Xbox Fusion confirmed – if you run a WhoIS search for Xbox Fusion and Xbox Infinity domain names you will notice one fact that clearly points to the official Next Xbox name. XboxFusion.co.uk, XboxFusion.de, XboxFusion.biz, XboxFusion.info and XboxFusion.com are all registered by the Microsoft Corporation, hosted on the MSFT.NET name servers and redirect to Xbox.com. None of the Xbox Infinity domains so this.
http://www.inentertainment.co.uk/20130504/real-xbox-720-name-fusion-vs-infinity/
I still love "Infinity". Sounds better and seems like the more lucrative buzzword.
Originally posted by ThorinWoofer
Does anyone use the Netflix app on Xbox?And if so, when you're signed into your gold account, and want to watch movies on Netflix, does it ever say you need too have a gold account?
No.
But I thought needing gold to watch Netflix wast the dumbest piece of shit operation from MS, ever.
Why are gamepads always so bad for fighting games?
I mean, I don't expect perfection, but how could they be as bad as they are? Don't they playtest different genres in the development stage? Try them out with tps's, fps's, fighters.. All the common stuff that they know will be on a console?
Or do they just try and make them as cheap as possible, and let the suckers (Us consumers) and game developers work it out?
http://kotaku.com/ea-sports-developer-calls-wii-u-crap-and-nintendo-wa-508481261
EA Sports Developer Calls Wii U 'Crap' and Nintendo 'Walking Dead'[...]
"The Wii U is crap. Less powerful than an Xbox 360. Poor online/store. Weird tablet," tweeted Bob Summerwill, listed as a senior software engineer at EA Canada, in a reply to a tweet posting a link about EA's no-Wii U news. "Nintendo are walking dead at this point."
[...]
Summerwill didn't let up after that first tweet. "Nintendo are still operating like it's 1990," he goes on, saying it should have gotten out of the hardware business and made its Mario and Legend of Zelda franchises exclusives on either the PlayStation 4 or next Xbox.
Which is sort of funny, since EA sports has been making the same game(s) every year since 1990
(yes, that joke is the only reason I posted this (because some alleged EA employee allegedly saying something on twitter is not news)
"Xbox 360 and Ps3 support to continue until 2017 despite Xbox one and Ps4 unveilings."