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10-14-2016, 09:50 AM
Soon it’ll be even easier to stream games from your PC to your TV. Valve and Samsung announced during Steam Dev Days this week that future Samsung TVs will include the Steam Link hardware inside, as Steam Spy (https://twitter.com/Steam_Spy/status/786259721820868608) first reported—potentially the first of many such partnerships.-
It’s not the most exciting announcement, maybe. The unassuming Steam Link (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2992645/software-games/hands-on-valves-50-steam-link-is-the-game-streaming-solution-you-wantmost-of-the-time.html) is only $50, making it by far the cheapest part of bringing PC games to your living room. It’s not running anything natively—just streaming the content from your high-end PC to the TV over your (hopefully robust) in-home network, then relaying your button presses back. So buying a Samsung TV to save…$50 and the cost of an HDMI cable? Not really a reason to rush right out and replace your current model.
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It’s not the most exciting announcement, maybe. The unassuming Steam Link (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2992645/software-games/hands-on-valves-50-steam-link-is-the-game-streaming-solution-you-wantmost-of-the-time.html) is only $50, making it by far the cheapest part of bringing PC games to your living room. It’s not running anything natively—just streaming the content from your high-end PC to the TV over your (hopefully robust) in-home network, then relaying your button presses back. So buying a Samsung TV to save…$50 and the cost of an HDMI cable? Not really a reason to rush right out and replace your current model.
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