Why are you so mad at HDTVTest?
I just feel like this channel was part of the problem, hyping HDMI 2.1 as an important bulletpoint to look for, and now he's putting himself out as part of the solution to combat the "misinformation" out there. Where'd that "misinformation" come from, HDTVTest? Also, the guy's not new, how is he just now learning that newly-specced HDMI features are not requirements?
I just don't get this "fake HDMI 2.1" panic. It's a spec. Nobody ever shopped for TVs based on the HDMI stamp before now. Everybody looked at the features listed on the box and picked the ones they liked for the price. Then 2.1 came along and for whatever reason shoppers assumed that to be an easy indicator of "good TV", which of course it was never meant to be. So I don't know how many angry gamers there actually will be, after opening their $buck-ninety-nine Costco Specials on Christmas morning and becoming enraged that the "HDMI 2.1 TV" they picked out for moms to buy them doesn't have all the big features that it takes costly specialized video processing chips to run... but I just don't get it. If you want VRR, shop for VRR.
Even if you do you shop for "
HDMI 2.1 TV" on Amazon, it's actually harder to find the HDMI version than it is the actual features included in the TV. Most companies don't even bother listing their HDMI version. (Vizio is the only company putting "HDMI 2.1" in the title of its listings, probably because they were the first to jump on the spec across most of its line, but then even
back when they made that announcement, they then listed the features specific to the different models of TV in the same news briefings.) So where did people get the idea that they should deceive themselves into buying TVs based on the HDMI cert?
Somehow, it is something a whole lot of people seem to have gotten wrong (including several tech-expert websites,) so ultimately it's something of a good thing to get the word out that HDMI 2.1 is a spec, not a standard, but where the mass-assumption came from that features were standard or why these tech experts are taking the "outrage" approach in communicating the situation, that I do not understand. This is not news. Anybody who knows about HDMI 2.1 should already know this, and anybody who doesn't know about HDMI 2.1 shouldn't need to know about HDMI 2.1 in the first place because it's not a shopping point.
And I'll tell you why I'm angry... because in
some other thread, somebody wrote about all the poor nerds being deceived by the "fake" number in the HDMI databox... 'nerds' ?! Goddamned nerds? You're talking about a class of people known for consuming knowledge and spreading minutia and being stickers for the finer points of details, especially on techie shit... but now we're supposed to feel bad for them because they
didn't do their homework? Nerds do their homework. That's what they do. Somehow, this whole thing is giving 'nerds' a bad rep...