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      while its not correct, a major thing about the steam machine is that its supposed to function as a console as well as a PC meaning that you would be required to use HDMI for one of the major use cases which 2.1 would be useful for

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          You do realize that all modern consoles support upscaled 4k at 120hz right and the steam machine is directly competeing with these console.

          Most people don’t have a tv capable of outputting this but newer tvs do support higher frame rates for reasons like high frame rate gaming

          Hdmi 2.1 will be important for future proofing

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            You do realize that all modern support upscaled 4k at 120hz right and the steam machine is directly competeing with these console.

            I do not understand this word salad.

            newer tvs do support higher frame rates

            Yes, very expensive high end ones that very few people are buying. And always will, because they’re niche products.

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                In that case, I’d argue thats just marketing nonsense because they’re not going to be running anything more graphically intensive than Tetris at 4k/120.

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                  Yep modern consoles upscale to 4k so some games can run upscaled 4k/120 which is marketing nonsense when they advertise true 4k.

                  The point is that if I have a tv that is capable of outputing what the hardware is advertising (regardless of how rare that tv is), then I should be able to see that output on my screen regardless of the port I use for display