You've heard this before right? As of today, Valve will be sending out even more emails each time to invite people to purchase their reserved Steam Deck.
This is sounding a bit like déjà vu isn't it? You're not dreaming though. They just recently updated shipping windows and said reservations are higher than ever, before that back in the middle of August Valve announced that more invites were going out, following a production ramp-up announcement at the end of July. Here we are again and Valve developer Lawrence Yang just said on Twitter:
For those curious - yes, Steam Deck order emails are going out on Labor Day (they just went out). We also bumped up the number of order emails per batch with today's release.
So if you're expecting an order email to come through, which as a reminder is every Monday and Thursday, keep your eyes firmly peeled on that inbox. You'll also get a notification inside Steam too.
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UnixOutlaw Sep 6, 2022
Meanwhile in Australia, sound of crickets...
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Quoting: UnixOutlawMeanwhile in Australia, sound of crickets...
If you start an open petition, I promise I will sign it.
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rustigsmed Sep 6, 2022
Quoting: UnixOutlawMeanwhile in Australia, sound of crickets...
Will likely get on a waiting list after steam deck 2 comes out
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Quoting: EikeQuoting: PixelDropFor me the big ones were VGA + 3mm + Ethernet + at least 2 USB and of course a high enough pass through power rating to keep the deck charged while docked.
For what use case are you still using VGA? Old projector?
I and the people I know still have a lot of VGA monitors and TVs. I don't like polluting the world unnecessarily either, so until things stop working to the point I can't fix them or I actually have a truly good reason to move on I'll keep using them too.
Though VGA isn't even dead. A lot of even newer 1080p TVs and screens still have theme. Which there's quite a lot of people who don't like above 60hz or care about over 1080p, and generally most things that are 1080p and 60hz come with VGA ports. It's funny to really think about how fast 1080p took over as the common standard, once it became widely available and how long it's taken 2k~4k combined to even make up 16~% on steam despite being easily and affordably obtainable for over a decade. When you look at the steam hardware survey this month 1080 lost -1.36%, but it wasn't 2k~4k gaining that lost % [in fact they all lost too except 2560 x 1600 which went up only 0.01%] it was all sub-1080, and yet there's never been a cheaper time in history to pick up a 2k~4k over 60hz screen price wise.
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Quoting: PixelDropI and the people I know still have a lot of VGA monitors and TVs. I don't like polluting the world unnecessarily either, so until things stop working to the point I can't fix them or I actually have a truly good reason to move on I'll keep using them too.
That's a good thing of course.
Quoting: PixelDropThough VGA isn't even dead. A lot of even newer 1080p TVs and screens still have theme. Which there's quite a lot of people who don't like above 60hz or care about over 1080p, and generally most things that are 1080p and 60hz come with VGA ports.
My trouble with VGA is neither resolution nor frequency, but that it's analogue. I left analogue graphics transmission and display for computer signals 20 years ago for good.
Last edited by Eike on 6 September 2022 at 5:41 pm UTC
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Quoting: TodCGot on list for the 512G version on Nov 23.
Got invite on Aug 29.
Tracking says it should be here Sep 6.
I got my notice the same day but it took a week to ship out and I'm getting quoted the 12th 🙃
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Quoting: EikeMy trouble with VGA is neither resolution nor frequency, but that it's analogue. I left analogue graphics transmission and display for computer signals 20 years ago for good.
You know one of the weirdest things to me is that a lot [not all but a lot] of TVs that have VGA ports if you connect computers to them they will render better than the HDMI ports. I've never had that be the case on an actual monitor, at best you couldn't actually see a difference, but on TVs it's weird because very often font will be cleaner, colors will be better, or some other thing that makes me go "how the heck does this make sense?" Especially with LCD/LED TVs since they are literally just big monitors in theory.
Now one place I do use VGA for a PC monitor that digital doesn't work for well is a really long run monitor because DVI/HDMI/DP all have issues when you try to run them too far, even with boosters, but VGA you can run 100+feet with little to no issues and no extra equipment.
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Quoting: PixelDropbut on TVs it's weird because very often font will be cleaner, colors will be better, or some other thing that makes me go "how the heck does this make sense?" Especially with LCD/LED TVs since they are literally just big monitors in theory.
I just remembered my old theory on this. I was thinking that maybe* manufacturers actually apply hidden post-processing by default to HDMI because they figure video is going to be played on it and want to snazzy it up somehow, but for the VGA ports they just pass it directly through to the screen and that could be the reason why on so many TVs computer output tends to look so much cleaner through VGA vs HDMI.
Of course totally off the top of my head random theory I came up with, with zero proof whatsoever. Just Something I thought could be plausible to explain it.
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Quoting: PixelDropQuoting: PixelDropbut on TVs it's weird because very often font will be cleaner, colors will be better, or some other thing that makes me go "how the heck does this make sense?" Especially with LCD/LED TVs since they are literally just big monitors in theory.
I just remembered my old theory on this. I was thinking that maybe* manufacturers actually apply hidden post-processing by default to HDMI because they figure video is going to be played on it and want to snazzy it up somehow, but for the VGA ports they just pass it directly through to the screen and that could be the reason why on so many TVs computer output tends to look so much cleaner through VGA vs HDMI.
Of course totally off the top of my head random theory I came up with, with zero proof whatsoever. Just Something I thought could be plausible to explain it.
It could also be that analog has noise, so you get dithering for free
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Quoting: PixelDropQuoting: PixelDropbut on TVs it's weird because very often font will be cleaner, colors will be better, or some other thing that makes me go "how the heck does this make sense?" Especially with LCD/LED TVs since they are literally just big monitors in theory.
I just remembered my old theory on this. I was thinking that maybe* manufacturers actually apply hidden post-processing by default to HDMI because they figure video is going to be played on it and want to snazzy it up somehow, but for the VGA ports they just pass it directly through to the screen and that could be the reason why on so many TVs computer output tends to look so much cleaner through VGA vs HDMI.
Of course totally off the top of my head random theory I came up with, with zero proof whatsoever. Just Something I thought could be plausible to explain it.
I just wanted to write that! :) Modern TVs (should) have some "just display what I give you, freak!"-mode (they might have given it a slightly different name, though), which is not used by default - except if the TV is sure it's connected to a computer. So, VGA. You should be able to find it somewhere in the menus to enable it manually for other selected inputs.
Last edited by Eike on 7 September 2022 at 10:56 am UTC
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