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I didn’t realize how much Wi-Fi was slowing down my video game console
Summary An Ethernet connection offers stability and consistency for streaming and downloading. Low latency is essential for online gamers to prevent lag or delay. A Wi-Fi 6 router provides fast speeds when setup in a nearby area. With so many devices connected to Wi-Fi, from smart TVs to e-readers, printers to gimbals, it can be…
Nintendo Switch 2 vs Switch 1: I played the new console and these are the differences
Nintendo showed off the Switch 2 today. The internet has a lot of thoughts about it, good and bad. Allow me to weigh in. After the Nintendo Direct livestream ended on Wednesday morning, I got to spend several hours getting quality hands-on time with the Switch 2 and many of the games that were shown…
The Console Wars Are Over And Nobody Really Won
For decades, a war has been raging online and in stores. A fight between massive corporations trying to sell you plastic boxes that play games and their weirdly dedicated supporters. The fight was always silly, but very real and expensive, involving massive companies spending hundreds of millions of dollars on marketing, game development, and hardware….
Tamron’s TAP-in Console: A nexus for camera lens update and control
Camera lenses were originally fully mechanical (and in some cases, still are; witness my Rokinon Cine optics suite). The user manually focused them, manually set the aperture, and manually zoomed them (for non-fixed-focal length optics, that is). Even when the aperture was camera body-controlled—in shutter-priority and fully auto-exposure modes, for example—the linkage between it and…