On 25-Mar-2009, at 14:57, Roger Howard wrote:
> TOTAL vaporware
> or
> - Something completely different, less interesting, and much less
> useful,
> but which they will try to sell as a v1.0 which they'll promise will
> grow
> into something closer to what they promised, eventually.
Yeah, I don't know. They are claiming two orders of magnitude
improvement in compression/decompression speed of streaming video.
It's hard to believe, but the demo looks damn impressive.
IF it is true it will be the end of consoles in very short order.
> Why not just a simple, trimmed back PC, a Steam Appliance for people
> who
> just own PCs to play games (like me). Bonus points for making the GPU
> modular, so it can be upgraded, though as an appliance if they can
> get the
> specs just about right so people only want to upgrade every 2-4
> years it'd
> still be competitive with consoles. Could they do it for $400 retail?
Because even a pretty crappy video card can put out 720p video all day
long without breaking a sweat. If what they are saying is true (and I
grant that is a massive IF) it is fucking impressive. The fact that
they acknowledge that their biggest bottlenecks are 1) the last mile
adding 15-25ms latency and 2) the limitations of the speed of light in
the distance to their data center gives me enough pause that I am not
willing to dismiss it out of hand.
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