Even though Plasma looks far better than LCD, the average consumer cannot really distinguish image quality (many consumers prefer a overly color saturated SD display over a well-calibrated HD display).
They plan for this next year, SED has been planning to enter the market for several years, too. The problem for all of them is that some companies like Panasonic are able through mass-production and new factories to really push the price down for Plasma displays.
If they can make screens even flatter and brighter and at a low price, it might have a chance to succeed.
If it is just an expensive, better looking device, it can only survive in a fringe market.
I flew with Lufthansa two weeks ago on their Munich to JFK route and used the broadband service. It is amazingly fast. I phoned friends for an hour using Skype and then played the drug World of Warcraft. That was the coolest way to blast a few hours away during the flighttime. The lag in WoW was green and under 100ms.
The way how the RIAA is set up they could never make explicit comments about specific technologies. They can only make general comments about 'concerns on developments' and potentially use the IFPI to document potential solutions without rating them against each other....
There is no way that they could have a meeting like that, especially since all of them are lawyers that are very skilled at avoiding anti-trust problematic issues, neither would there be any way that a high-profile execs would join such a 'secret' meeting.
I mean why did the Register post this? Is it April Fool's day in some bizarre religious calendar?
Sadly, what many people are ignoring is that not only the Linux ports are losing out, but the PC as a platform, too. To get the last 4 games that I bought run on my Win system, I had lots of trouble, lots of tweaking to do. For me that's fine, but for the average John Smith user it's a nightmare. I went to E3 last week and at the PS2 booth I overheard Jay Wilbur behind me (formerly id, but now I guess working for Epic), saying that though they sold UnrealTournament poorly on Win, they hope that on PS2 it will receive the attention it has lacked so far. I think this may be the last year of the PC as a gaming platform, as - let's face it - the second generation of console platforms are just very attractive for developers - potentially much higher sales and much better issues regarding technical support. QA is getting to be a major trouble these days. As much as many/.ers may believe that Linux ports are the key to success, I think that the platform losing out is the PC in general. If there are PC ports in the future it will be ports from existing 2nd gen consoles and if these ports are from XBox, it is clear that this may be problematic for Linux ports.
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Price and formfactor is what matters.
Even though Plasma looks far better than LCD, the average consumer cannot really distinguish image quality (many consumers prefer a overly color saturated SD display over a well-calibrated HD display).
They plan for this next year, SED has been planning to enter the market for several years, too.
The problem for all of them is that some companies like Panasonic are able through mass-production and new factories to really push the price down for Plasma displays.
If they can make screens even flatter and brighter and at a low price, it might have a chance to succeed.
If it is just an expensive, better looking device, it can only survive in a fringe market.
I flew with Lufthansa two weeks ago on their Munich to JFK route and used the broadband service. It is amazingly fast. I phoned friends for an hour using Skype and then played the drug World of Warcraft. That was the coolest way to blast a few hours away during the flighttime. The lag in WoW was green and under 100ms.
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The way how the RIAA is set up they could never make explicit comments about specific technologies. They can only make general comments about 'concerns on developments' and potentially use the IFPI to document potential solutions without rating them against each other....
There is no way that they could have a meeting like that, especially since all of them are lawyers that are very skilled at avoiding anti-trust problematic issues, neither would there be any way that a high-profile execs would join such a 'secret' meeting.
I mean why did the Register post this? Is it April Fool's day in some bizarre religious calendar?
Sadly, what many people are ignoring is that not only the Linux ports are losing out, but the PC as a platform, too. To get the last 4 games that I bought run on my Win system, I had lots of trouble, lots of tweaking to do. For me that's fine, but for the average John Smith user it's a nightmare. I went to E3 last week and at the PS2 booth I overheard Jay Wilbur behind me (formerly id, but now I guess working for Epic), saying that though they sold UnrealTournament poorly on Win, they hope that on PS2 it will receive the attention it has lacked so far. I think this may be the last year of the PC as a gaming platform, as - let's face it - the second generation of console platforms are just very attractive for developers - potentially much higher sales and much better issues regarding technical support. QA is getting to be a major trouble these days. As much as many /.ers may believe that Linux ports are the key to success, I think that the platform losing out is the PC in general. If there are PC ports in the future it will be ports from existing 2nd gen consoles and if these ports are from XBox, it is clear that this may be problematic for Linux ports.