Well, I imagine, the longterm goal is that instead of needing to convince somebody to buy a $1000 PC, or even a $400 game console and $60 for every game, you can sell them a $50 box, that they might already have, and charge them a subscription fee.
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 9:38 AM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was just sitting here wondering what the reason is. Moving the graphics > processing to the cloud means....what? > > I suppose you can play good games on crummy hardware. > It's possible there's an energy savings in moving the computation to a > data center where compute loads can be managed. > > Are those reasons really compelling enough to push that much stuff onto > the network? What am I not seeing? > > -Adam > > > On 3/27/2019 10:04 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: > > > Playing games on it show about 40-50Mbps on my system. > > > > Holy bandwidth, Batman! > > > > It used to be the most important things to life as we know it were > electricity and water, and we were encouraged to conserve both of them. > Not just encouraged, mandated. Don’t get caught with an incandescent bulb > or a 3 gallon toilet. > > > > Now it seems everyone is telling us the Internet is the most important > thing (and don’t forget 5G). It is a national emergency to get everyone > faster and faster Internet. Yet we are encouraged to do the equivalent of > leaving the lights on and the water running when we’re not home. If > someone suggested ways to conserve Internet bandwidth, he would be laughed > at. So don’t use a game console, use one somewhere else and stream 40-50 > Mbps of video over the Internet to your screen. Maybe get your 3 kids to > join the game, each with their own 40-50 Mbps stream. Just like all the > people putting umpteen 1080p cameras around their house and then sitting in > their living room watching them … over the Internet. Or streaming Fox News > to every screen in the house so it’s always on as you walk from room to > room … which was not wasteful when we used broadcast TV, but now each > screen gets its own private stream over the Internet, even if it’s the same > show. > > > > I suspect this will never change, there will be no bandwidth conservation > movement, we will just keep using more and more and more. That convinces > me we need fiber not 5G, but apparently I’m wrong. > > > > > > *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf > Of *Sterling Jacobson > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 26, 2019 11:24 PM > *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> <af@af.afmug.com> > *Subject:* [AFMUG] Nvidia Geforce Now > > > > Just got accepted to the general beta for the new Geforce Now system. > > > > Playing games on it show about 40-50Mbps on my system. > > > > Works ok, some games playable but not as good as gaming native. > > > > This is the new era stuff, basically RDP/VM gaming remotely transmitting > graphics to your local screen. > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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