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Post by T R W on Feb 21, 2013 11:57:08 GMT -5
20 years seems a bit much. The biggest roadblock on streaming technology is the cable companies and ISPs. Tech evolves quickly. 20 years ago VHS was booming, I had never heard of the internet, didn't have a cell phone or even a pager, and getting satellite tv meant having half of your yard filled with a giant dish.
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Post by Tye Hyll on Feb 21, 2013 12:54:32 GMT -5
20 years seems a bit much. The biggest roadblock on streaming technology is the cable companies and ISPs. Tech evolves quickly. 20 years ago VHS was booming, I had never heard of the internet, didn't have a cell phone or even a pager, and getting satellite tv meant having half of your yard filled with a giant dish. I say 20 because we need to find ways to expand bandwidth now because cable companies already dont like you streaming movies and a lot of people get throttled because of it. 20 until it becomes the norm because we are on the verge of 4k and we already cant handle streamed games now so the way we go about streaming will have to be completely overhauled to be able to keep up with technology. I mean 20 years is only 2 console gens away. Plus cable cant even broadcast 1080p yet so I think we have awhile.
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Post by T R W on Feb 21, 2013 13:50:55 GMT -5
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Post by J12 on Feb 21, 2013 15:47:24 GMT -5
20 years seems a bit much. The biggest roadblock on streaming technology is the cable companies and ISPs. Tech evolves quickly. 20 years ago VHS was booming, I had never heard of the internet, didn't have a cell phone or even a pager, and getting satellite tv meant having half of your yard filled with a giant dish. I say 20 because we need to find ways to expand bandwidth now because cable companies already dont like you streaming movies and a lot of people get throttled because of it. 20 until it becomes the norm because we are on the verge of 4k and we already cant handle streamed games now so the way we go about streaming will have to be completely overhauled to be able to keep up with technology. I mean 20 years is only 2 console gens away. Plus cable cant even broadcast 1080p yet so I think we have awhile. I agree. I'm not necessarily willing to commit on a number of years, because huge technical advances can be made any time that dramatically change the way we communicate and access media, but I absolutely think we're a ways out. Fiber optic cable lines would be the place to start, and those aren't even the norm yet. They're growing increasingly common in some areas, and especially for business, but fiber optic being the norm for home internet delivery is still a ways out.
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Post by Tye Hyll on Feb 21, 2013 15:54:40 GMT -5
Yeah we do need true fiber optics, not what cable companies say where its all copper up until your home. It needs to be fiber optic from point a to point b and Im very interested in this molecule manipulation they are trying for future processors which could revolutionize all technology.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2013 16:26:21 GMT -5
Isnt really worth it from what I've seen, it just looks like a slighty updated PS4. A lot of these "new" features are stuff I would never do. Hopefully microsoft will end up making the 720 or whatever it will be called, soon.
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Post by J12 on Feb 21, 2013 23:23:36 GMT -5
Yeah we do need true fiber optics, not what cable companies say where its all copper up until your home. It needs to be fiber optic from point a to point b and Im very interested in this molecule manipulation they are trying for future processors which could revolutionize all technology. This is a bit off topic, but just a quite anecdote regarding fiber optics... I've gotten to witness a true fiber optic network in the last couple of years. My mom owns a small shop in a large, renovated factory building. The renovation was a multi-million dollar project, with huge contracts and floorspace from the area's major hospital, as well as a state of the art call center for TD Insurance. When they were in the process of renovation, they signed up to be the guinea pig for full fiber optic connections in this area. Both Time Warner and Fairpoint come in and monitor the building's internet usage on a monthly basis to study response times, etc. Anyway, my mom just happens to rent a space on the retail floor, and while she doesn't need it, she obviously has access to it since the whole building is wired that way. I have never seen internet so smooth and blazingly fast in my life, anywhere, and I've been told by the tech in the building that the lines aren't even tapping a fraction of their true potential due to weakness in the origin signal being delivered by Time Warner Business Class. It's crazy to think about what it could be.
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Post by Ian from 616Entertainment. on Feb 22, 2013 1:38:44 GMT -5
Good luck with that logic, because you're going to be left behind.I thought Sony absolutely killed it tonight. A handful of game announcements, we saw footage, the new controller, a release date, the Blizzard and Bungie deals announced, it was a large amount of information. Excited isn't the word. The options for sharing with friends, man, wow. Uhhh no. Streaming is not up to par yet. This shabby stream proved that. Sony invested a lot of money in to blu ray, they would be stupid not to use it. Also Dual Layer BDs contain up to 50gigs of data. If you honestly think everyone can just stream 50gigs of data seamlessly AND play online you are nuts. Simply, their isn't enough bandwidth to go around. And if its download titles well you will need terabytes on top of terabytes for that to work. SO it will most likely support blu ray and if for some god awful reason it does not I can almost guarantee xbox will. I wasn't calling the PS4 a digital-only system. I'm saying that clutching to physical media, over time, will find you at the end of the line. That's all.
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Post by Tye Hyll on Feb 22, 2013 20:12:17 GMT -5
Physical media continues to be ahead of everything else so I doubt it.
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Post by Sully© on Feb 24, 2013 19:59:21 GMT -5
I'm really interested in this.
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Post by OYDK? on Feb 26, 2013 23:45:39 GMT -5
So every PS4 game will be available as a download.
Looks like I won't be buying any physical games with my console. So glad that this option is available.
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Post by Fleet Foxes on Mar 1, 2013 9:53:16 GMT -5
Physical media continues to be ahead of everything else so I doubt it. The pc is doing just fine with digital games. Can't see why the PS4 wouldn't be able to
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