Well of course not. However in this article the age old debate is put to rest. A $100 dollar HDMI cable does not carry a better picture than the $10 generic version from ebay. The article is quoted saying:
" The reason is this: when dealing with DVI and HDMI connections and digital surround audio connections, you are working with a "digital" signal, as opposed to the "analog" signal carried by component video cables and standard audio cables.
When working with an analog signal, the single greatest factor in determining the quality of the signal that reaches your TV or speakers is called the "signal to noise ratio". This is a measurement of how strong the signal is relative to the background "static". This ratio is affected greatly by several factors, including cable materials and quality.
In the case of a digital signal, though, the game is different. Signal to noise ratio doesn't factor in anymore. The only thing being sent down the wire is a stream of ones and zeros. It doesn't matter if the ones are a little fuzzy, because they're still going to be read as ones regardless."
Omar writes: "With the Horizon Festival coming to breathtaking Japan, you’ll need the essential gear to prove you’ve got what it takes to become a Horizon Legend as you cruise, drift and explore an open world full of spectacular driving experiences. That’s why we’re happy to announce the newest Limited Edition Xbox Wireless Controller and Wireless Headset collection, featuring inspired designs from Forza Horizon 6. The bright cyan and lime colorways celebrate the Horizon Festival’s recognition of iconic cars and hit music, with special features that are sure to impress any collector."
You can get Hall effect controllers slightly cheaper, but you'd struggle to find as feature-rich a package without some heavy, heavy sales.
Pascal Gilcher calls DLSS 5 impressive but shares the "AI slop" sentiment, explaining the likely tech behind it and why he dislikes it.
I fail to see how this is AI shhhhlllloooop. Looking at the different games they showed, this has made many of them look far better.
It's AI slop because it ignores the artists intent and changes the details ESPECIALLY when it comes to character faces. The scariest part of it is introducing it as the next stage of DLSS, a feature where the current iteration already has controversy surrounding it and for quite a lot of games cannot be fully disabled. So reasonably the precident is already set for what path this could take, and it's not good
In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost and so on. Many of the lighting deletes shadow, including shadow on the face like eyes even chin.
Why stop at art when it comes to human input - why not just have AI play the game for us, remove human input altogether
If you don’t like it, just don’t enable it. Personally I think it looks great from the videos I have seen.
And what about when you can't? Cause there's plenty of games where you cannot fully disable dlss already, i mean we're well into an era where it's a major crutch for developers to cover up their cut corners, why would this be any different?
You are playing with people's money and allow Nvidia to scam you.
In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost. This is all lie to raise the cost of the graphic card.
Making characters look more realistic not ok because we want the developer to decide on how the game was intended to look. - Internet
Change entire game through mods thus changing how the developers intended the game to be is ok. - Internet
Something consumers can do to a product after they have purchased it, entirely optional and can always be undone with a fresh install
VS
The leading gaming hardware manufacturer making this the next iteration of the main AA/Upscaling technique that is heavily relied upod by modern devs and is not optional in most games.
Not at all the same but nice try
At the moment you need 2 5090’s just to get an image on the screen so this is all vaporware until proven otherwise.
It's all about choice in the end. But, I would say that calling it 'more realistic' is quite a stretch. It looks like AI art, and that's rarely realistic.
All the comments I see are reminding me of how we got to the current state of gaming when microtransactions were first introduced: "It's completely optional guys, we promise! If you don't like it just don't buy it!"
I think we all know how that ended up.
I had the same exact thought the first time this was brought up in a separate article about a week ago. Took me straight back to the conversations surrounding “horse armor.” Just don’t buy it they said. Years later, many IPs I previously enjoyed are so infected with monetization schemes that I don’t even consider purchasing them anymore.
DLSS 5 and the like are the same thing wrapped in a different package. History rhymes but many of us never learn from it.
Biggest Scam. Overrides lighting and shadow. So why keep Ray tracing? It's all a scam to raise graphic card. We now see Nvidia with Microsoft downturn anything against them. Sony is next!
and Tech?
Thats true... I was going to buy a 100 dollar HDMI cable but found out all HDMI cable's work the same.... I really dont like how Monster thinks it can sell HDMI cables or any other cable at such a high price.. I hate how they overinflate the price of a product because of a BRAND name... Monster I use to love their brand now I hate them.... As well as BOSE
I've read plenty of tech forums and AV forums and through testing/comparing, they've all stated the same thing about expensive vs cheap HDMI cables. The result is that there were no noticible difference at all. I bought one of those cheap Ebay DVI-to-HDMI cable for about $10 a year ago and it works perfecly fine.
More expsensive cables are usally better sheilded thus less signal loss which in turn will produce a better picture as the cables ages and such; they are tuffer with a quality build so they last longer and do not break as easy on the ends as cheap ones do sometimes. I have ten dollar and one hunderd dollar HDMI cables, my Monster HDMI 400 Gas Injected cable sounds cool but it only has a better build mostly! lol you pay for ruggedness and the sheilding and flexability that allow the cable to never take shape and trash the cable. HDMI for $10's HDMI for $100, 1080p, 1080i what's the differnce who cares right?.
O.k. people. Lets get one thing straight. There is no such thing as a magical perfect no signal loss cable. If there were such a thing, cable and phone companies could run cable and phone lines for miles and miles with no data loss. Quality cable assures you of that. However, $99 is to steep for any cable. You can find companies (perhaps some of the no name ones as put in the article) that will produce a high quality cable using the same materials as the name brand cables.
Now, I'm not disagreeing with the article totally. However, degraded digital signal can result in a data loss which would result in poor picture quality (or none at all) signal. Typically when a cable does go bad in the digital world its all or nothing (compared to the analog world were you can watch a fuzzy picture). Where quality cable is needed the most is when a consumer needs to run more than 10 feet of cable or the cable is having to bend or twist its way out of some horribly designed Entertainment Center. Otherwise, the $10 cable is fine for the majority of customers.
That said here is just one link to a store that sells HDMI quality cables "with" a lifetime warranty for far less than Monster cable. It's not overkill, like Monster Cables, but is still really good quality cables. The biggest thing is here is a company that offers a "Lifetime Warranty" for far less than name brand. Actually offering cable sizes for less than $10 for sizes most consumers will use. Don't work for them just a happy customer.
http://www.mycablemart.com
Enjoy.
P.S.
Well what do you know, They actually advertise here at N4G. I stop reading Web advertisements - taught myself to tune them out a long time ago. If it wasn't for this article I wouldn't have notice the advertise on the page. Well not sure if N4G is advertising out of the kindness of their hearts ( sarcasm ) or if the advertisement helps in funding their website ( a greater possibility ) but go ahead and click through (Home Page - Right side) just in case to help support N4G and/or get good quality cables at great prices. :)