Well, what would be your suggestion for better company? Philips? Samsung? JVC? There just isn't that many good and technical TV manufacturers.
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It seems to be based on Android, so if you have one of the older non-slim versions of PS3 (I do), changes are that you can actually install it on your PS3.
As they're getting near level 80 all the girls will get interested and want to have sex with the top-of-the-class guys, just like with World of Warcraft.
I don't think there is any incentive for Microsoft to start fighting against TVersity. It doesn't really matter for MS how you stream you content to your 360. Besides, both 360 (as well as PS3 and even many TV's) use Universal Plug and Play for streaming on network, not some proprietary 360-only technology.
No one, as most people don't really care if their game has DRM. If they want a certain game, they just buy it.
Ubisoft like always-online DRM does worry me, but I mostly play online games so I would have to be online anyway and their master serverlist servers would need to work too.
However, most people seem to suggest that fighting DRM with piracy is a good option. It isn't. If you're refusing to buy a game because of DRM, then you shouldn't pirate it either but spend your money on some of their competitor who is doing it correctly. Otherwise you get your gaming fix from the bad behaving company and don't support the good companies.
Isn't that the point of the article? If you want to have a game but not with DRM, wait until it's released or patched DRM-free. However the article implies that it's some obscenely long time, while in BC2 case it was just a couple of weeks. Personally I don't care - I buy the games I want from Steam and I can't really recall having any problems with them. Sure I don't like the idea of DRM and it would be cool to have the time to fight against every thing in the world, but sometimes it's nice to just enjoy the game.
Why would you use something like Zune for streaming to 360, especially if you're ripping your files yourself from DVD so they don't contain any DRM? Granted I rather stream to my PS3 than 360 because I like the interface and PS3 Media Server better, but TVersity works just fine with 360 too. Maybe there's some specialized 360 streaming software too like PS3 has. But streaming from Windows Media Player or Zune is just shit. Try the alternatives.
It doesn't need to be long time - this week EA removed SecuROM from Bad Company 2, only two weeks after release date. It's just the first sales and trying to make sure pirated version doesn't get out too early, even if that's not usually possible (wasn't now either). But EA has been really good at learning this, either they ship their game without any DRM or release it after a few weeks of first sales if pirated version is out already. As weird as it sounds to say this about EA, I wish Ubisoft and Activision would learn from them.
You're forgetting that using Theora instead of H.264 costs big websites like YouTube, MetaCafe and so on serious money on bandwidth bills. Theora doesn't deliver the same quality with same bitrate, and hence requires more bandwidth. With the size of those sites, we are talking about a few hundred million dollars extra a year - just because of using an another video codec.
Recall that Windows did not become the de facto standard OS by being better - it was definitely not better than the alternatives in the period in which it became dominant.
Are you comparing to '94 Linux? There's no way an casual user would got by with it. Linux is even still semi-hard for casual users, and it would had been hell back then. Windows however, even if it lacked what we now a days have, was superior. You really have to compare it to that days computers - they weren't nice.
I don't think we'd be back to the "this site requires IE 8.x or higher" days. That really is something from early 2000 and accompanied problems that carried for recent years. But it has been changing now and IE9 looks to be supporting all the new things like Firefox/Opera/Chrome/Safari.
Personally I think codec-neutral way is the best way. Because you know, otherwise it's going to be H.264.
60% of the Earth is filled with oceans. In some parts they go down as much as Mount Everest goes up. That means over half of our planet is still not searched. Some of the found fishes in there are really weird as well and look like aliens.
Imagine the land amount all those oceans would free if tried up.
The cost is still paid by the average user, it's just tacked onto the cost of the O/S or whatever you buy from Apple, MS, etc
Assuming the latest amount of 1.9 billion internet users (and not even accounting those not using internet), the $5 million cap per license, and Windows market share of 98%:
I do agree with the first point. It takes both backing of big players (hence support, as I addressed in the first post) and being technically capable.
As far as technical qualities come, closed formats do have competition there too. DivX (and it's open companion XviD) really did challenge MPEG-2. They were technically better and did gain momentum at least on the internet and even beyond that.
But as this is about online video, it makes more sense to have the more-bandwidth-friendly H.264 than more-cpu-friendly Theora.
You would be surprised how many actually use their PS3 to watch videos online. It's far from very small percentage (and I understand why, it's really convenient).
YouTube uses only H.264 with HTML5 video tag, and Flash directly uses H.264 as it's HD codec. I really doubt YouTube will change from H.264 anyway, as it's currently serving both Flash and HTML5 users and is easier on bandwidth.
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Well, what would be your suggestion for better company? Philips? Samsung? JVC? There just isn't that many good and technical TV manufacturers.
It seems to be based on Android, so if you have one of the older non-slim versions of PS3 (I do), changes are that you can actually install it on your PS3.
And who still thinks Google's fingers aren't everywhere? This will be just another datamining source.
Bad Company series of Battlefields actually have single player campaigns too.
As they're getting near level 80 all the girls will get interested and want to have sex with the top-of-the-class guys, just like with World of Warcraft.
Can I pay for a Chinese man to power-level me through school?
How is that Assassins Creed 2 with Ubisoft's new online DRM working out for you? There still isn't pirated copies of that which work correctly.
I don't think there is any incentive for Microsoft to start fighting against TVersity. It doesn't really matter for MS how you stream you content to your 360. Besides, both 360 (as well as PS3 and even many TV's) use Universal Plug and Play for streaming on network, not some proprietary 360-only technology.
No one, as most people don't really care if their game has DRM. If they want a certain game, they just buy it.
Ubisoft like always-online DRM does worry me, but I mostly play online games so I would have to be online anyway and their master serverlist servers would need to work too.
However, most people seem to suggest that fighting DRM with piracy is a good option. It isn't. If you're refusing to buy a game because of DRM, then you shouldn't pirate it either but spend your money on some of their competitor who is doing it correctly. Otherwise you get your gaming fix from the bad behaving company and don't support the good companies.
Isn't that the point of the article? If you want to have a game but not with DRM, wait until it's released or patched DRM-free. However the article implies that it's some obscenely long time, while in BC2 case it was just a couple of weeks. Personally I don't care - I buy the games I want from Steam and I can't really recall having any problems with them. Sure I don't like the idea of DRM and it would be cool to have the time to fight against every thing in the world, but sometimes it's nice to just enjoy the game.
Why would you use something like Zune for streaming to 360, especially if you're ripping your files yourself from DVD so they don't contain any DRM? Granted I rather stream to my PS3 than 360 because I like the interface and PS3 Media Server better, but TVersity works just fine with 360 too. Maybe there's some specialized 360 streaming software too like PS3 has. But streaming from Windows Media Player or Zune is just shit. Try the alternatives.
It doesn't need to be long time - this week EA removed SecuROM from Bad Company 2, only two weeks after release date. It's just the first sales and trying to make sure pirated version doesn't get out too early, even if that's not usually possible (wasn't now either). But EA has been really good at learning this, either they ship their game without any DRM or release it after a few weeks of first sales if pirated version is out already. As weird as it sounds to say this about EA, I wish Ubisoft and Activision would learn from them.
Yeah +999 Insightful. Seriously, wtf?
Just tell her to stop watching all those recent vampire love-drama shows like True Blood and I'm happy :(
Opera also uses gstreamer, so you can get H.264 support too.
As far as technical qualities go, MP3 is still king of audio, despite being the worst supported format out there, proprietary or otherwise.
What?
MP3 is the de-facto standard. OGG is bad supported, open, but still better. But it never got the momentum MP3 had.
You're forgetting that using Theora instead of H.264 costs big websites like YouTube, MetaCafe and so on serious money on bandwidth bills. Theora doesn't deliver the same quality with same bitrate, and hence requires more bandwidth. With the size of those sites, we are talking about a few hundred million dollars extra a year - just because of using an another video codec.
Recall that Windows did not become the de facto standard OS by being better - it was definitely not better than the alternatives in the period in which it became dominant.
Are you comparing to '94 Linux? There's no way an casual user would got by with it. Linux is even still semi-hard for casual users, and it would had been hell back then. Windows however, even if it lacked what we now a days have, was superior. You really have to compare it to that days computers - they weren't nice.
I don't think we'd be back to the "this site requires IE 8.x or higher" days. That really is something from early 2000 and accompanied problems that carried for recent years. But it has been changing now and IE9 looks to be supporting all the new things like Firefox/Opera/Chrome/Safari.
Personally I think codec-neutral way is the best way. Because you know, otherwise it's going to be H.264.
Yeah, that's what I meant.
60% of the Earth is filled with oceans. In some parts they go down as much as Mount Everest goes up. That means over half of our planet is still not searched. Some of the found fishes in there are really weird as well and look like aliens.
Imagine the land amount all those oceans would free if tried up.
The cost is still paid by the average user, it's just tacked onto the cost of the O/S or whatever you buy from Apple, MS, etc
Assuming the latest amount of 1.9 billion internet users (and not even accounting those not using internet), the $5 million cap per license, and Windows market share of 98%:
$0.002 per user.
I just don't see so many people caring.
I do agree with the first point. It takes both backing of big players (hence support, as I addressed in the first post) and being technically capable.
As far as technical qualities come, closed formats do have competition there too. DivX (and it's open companion XviD) really did challenge MPEG-2. They were technically better and did gain momentum at least on the internet and even beyond that.
But as this is about online video, it makes more sense to have the more-bandwidth-friendly H.264 than more-cpu-friendly Theora.
You would be surprised how many actually use their PS3 to watch videos online. It's far from very small percentage (and I understand why, it's really convenient).
YouTube uses only H.264 with HTML5 video tag, and Flash directly uses H.264 as it's HD codec. I really doubt YouTube will change from H.264 anyway, as it's currently serving both Flash and HTML5 users and is easier on bandwidth.