Hi all, welcome to today's Subscriber Sunday video. So last week I posed the question:
Would you like to support us on Patreon by pledging one dollar a month to help keep us 100%
independent, and at the same time to be entered into a prize draw every month to choose from
a selection of items that we've been given to review basically here, or bought ourselves.
I didn't launch the Patreon campaign at that point, I wanted to get your feedback but astonishingly
over 16 of you have already pledged and we've now got $22 a month pledged already. If you'd
like to take part all you need to do is head over to our Patreon page, the link is in the
description and you can pledge any amount you like, starting at $1. It doesn't matter
whether you donate $1 or $10 it's still only one entry into the Patreon prize pool. But
what kind of things are you going to be able to win. Well, I've got them here. So one of
the items you could win would be the Innateck Bluetooth keyboard, 4mm thick, we reviewed
that the other day. We've also got an Innateck portable Bluetooth speaker that's waterproof. Very,
very nice. There's the Lumsing battery pack, recharge your smartphone or tablet when you're
out on the go and it's very, very small. We've got a variety of different tablet mounts,
provided by Oso. There are some Nyko Android game controllers. A NeuroSky Mindwave, control
your Android smartphone with your mind! It doesn't work very well. And of course there's
the Eachine M1 smartphone, a £99 Android smartphone. If you are outside of Europe do
bear in mind this device will not work on your local network. So this is really a device
that will be perfect for a winner within Europe. If you're in the USA I'm afraid this device
will not work for you. And finally, Sunset Overdrive! Yes, I've decided just to throw
this one into the prize pool. Normally we would swap these over as a trade-in so that we
can extend how many games we can get for our money but I thought why not put the inaugural
prize pool and have Sunset Overdrive. Probably the favourite game I've played over the last
couple of months. So, if you're interested in the chance to win one of these items all
you need to do, head over to Patreon, pledge an amount each month to support us
and keep us 100% independent and you'll be entered into the prize pool. We'll pull
the first name out of the hat on December 1st, so that gives you just over a week or
so. Now bear in mind the way we're doing the prize pool is whoever wins gets to pick what
they'd like from the prize pool. It's not the case that you're going to have something
forced on you or even that you're going to end up with loads of things you don't want.
You can pick the item you would really, really like. That might be a smartphone. It might
be a game or it might just be something a little bit more simple that adds to your life
in some way, but the choice will be entirely up to you. We'll be adding more stuff into
the prize pool hopefully every month and there'll be items that you guys yourselves may very
well have picked by contributing to our Patreon page. By letting us know what you'd like us
to review. Any stand-out things that are coming up onto release that you think we should be checking
out. Now, also this week, we've hit the one year anniversary of nex-gen consoles which probably
we should now just call them current gen after one year, but everyone is still kind of saying
it's next gen consoles so we'll run with that for now. So today we've uploaded our one year
anniversary video taking a bit of a look at how things have gone for Sony and Microsoft.
Well worth checking out. This week I've also been having a fair few problems with our workstation that
we use for editing all our videos on. Does seem that old spinning platter hard drives and video footage
at 60 frames a second is not particularly conducive to a quick working environment so
it looks like I'm going to have to get a couple of SSD drives to store that footage on to
make editing just that little bit easier. Unfortunately it seems that the bigger the file
plus the frame rate of 60 frames a second plus a spinning platter hard drive tends to
cause lots of problems in Premier Pro. Not something you ever experienced at 1080p 30, but at 720
60 we seem to be getting a fair old few problems there. Hey ho. All a learning experience as
it were. First time we've come up against that particular problem. But this shift over
to 60 frames a second I think is well worth it. It makes these videos just feel a little
bit more sharp. And also, in my opinion, makes it feel a little bit more true to life, doesn't
it, really? You know, that's the experience we tend to get in the games and, you know,
when you're sat opposite someone having a conversation, we see these higher frame rates,
not a big fan of this argument of 30 frames a second feels more cinematic. No it doesn't.
24 frames a second feels cinematic because that's what we use in the cinema. 30 frames
a second is just half of 60 frames a second and it is half the information that you're
actually able to see. So from my perspective, I really want to standardise at 60 frames
a second, 1080p. But that does tend to lead to a few technical problems here or there.
But anyway that's today's Subscriber Sunday video. I do hope you enjoyed it, and as always
let us know in the comments the kind of things you'd like to see and any advice or thoughts
or feedback you might have. Thanks for watching. Don't forget to subscribe on YouTube and Twitch
and do please like and comment on these videos as well. We love to chat. We're 100% independent,
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