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Displays for Gaming

Along with toilet paper, laptops, webcams, and all sorts of other things that one might never have thought would have shortages at the start of the pandemic, add video game consoles to the list. In hindsight, it makes sense. People stuck inside and unable to congregate found video games to be a great way to release the tension and boredom, as well as use the “chat” features to converse with others.

At this point, anyone who is interested in console or PC gaming will likely know more about the comparisons between Xbox Series X and PS5, as well as the benefits of the latest PC graphics cards such as the highly sought after Nvidia RTX series. However, at the end of the day, the source has to be connected to a sink. Once the only option for that was an RF connection to a TV, later surpassed by baseband video. On the console side, however, it used to be “VGA or nothing.” Now, with the exception of specialized applications where you might see DisplayPort or Thunderbolt on a source device, everything is HDMI. Great, that matches up to

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