One possible future (and one which borrows from historic trends) would be for individual pipeline components to be reduced to individual hardware components.
GPU's are rapidly becoming CPU-like in their architecture (general purpose), so these individual pipleine stages will eventually exist as seperate chips - and possibly even seperate cards entirely.
Shadows by ATI. Shaders by Nvidia. Vertex manipulation by AMD.
This won`t affect joe publics' attitude towards Ogg as you hope.
It *may* affect the attitude of the techies / managers who implement format support for hardware players. however.
It`d be pretty funny if we started getting Ogg supported hardware players that didn't support the vorbis codec.:)
If apple ever decided for whatever reasons (*cough* microsoft cash) to include drm'd wma or even encrypted mp3, there is no reason why they shouldn`t choose Ogg as their delivery package of choice.
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I`m afraid this won`t affect player support much.
The device (pc/mp3player/whatever) still has to support the vorbis audio codec within the ogg wrapper.
Think of ogg as a bag of revels. The bag is standardised and easy to manipulate, but you just don`t know what you`re gonna get inside. Or even if you are gonna be able to handle it:) [1]
[1] I can`t decode the orange revels. My codec empties the contents of the buffer through the I/O.:p
It depends if you want to primarily:
A) Reduce traffic
B) Pollution
A) Requires alternative transport, infrastructure change, and, most importantly, attitude change.
B) Simply requires better cars.
Implementing method A to solve problem B is like using a hammer to swat a fly.
Both problems will have to be solved technically rather than socialogically. We humans are a stubborn bunch.
In order to keep up with the times, they'd have to employ the technology used in the new matrix flick, and creat a scene where JB saves the world by shagging a whole load of cloned evil hotties piled 10 deep on top of him.
Joe Pesci gets my vote for Postal 3.
Do I AMUSE you? Take DAT you MODDAFOGGA!
(I might even forgive him for that Leo Getz shit in the Lethal Weapon films...;) )
Has to be Bruce Campbell in Duke Nukem Forever.
(They`ll have to hurry up and mocap his ass, coz we`ll all be dead by the time the game sees daylight...)
I think this is more of strategic pricing aimed squarely at making the XBox + Halo 2 bundle hit the $200 mark when it`s released.
And hey, any more buyers of the hardware meantime means more sales when the next round of AAA titles are released...
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One possible future (and one which borrows from historic trends) would be for individual pipeline components to be reduced to individual hardware components.
GPU's are rapidly becoming CPU-like in their architecture (general purpose), so these individual pipleine stages will eventually exist as seperate chips - and possibly even seperate cards entirely.
Shadows by ATI. Shaders by Nvidia. Vertex manipulation by AMD.
This won`t affect joe publics' attitude towards Ogg as you hope. It *may* affect the attitude of the techies / managers who implement format support for hardware players. however. It`d be pretty funny if we started getting Ogg supported hardware players that didn't support the vorbis codec. :)
If apple ever decided for whatever reasons (*cough* microsoft cash) to include drm'd wma or even encrypted mp3, there is no reason why they shouldn`t choose Ogg as their delivery package of choice.
I`m afraid this won`t affect player support much. The device (pc/mp3player/whatever) still has to support the vorbis audio codec within the ogg wrapper. Think of ogg as a bag of revels. The bag is standardised and easy to manipulate, but you just don`t know what you`re gonna get inside. Or even if you are gonna be able to handle it :) [1]
[1] I can`t decode the orange revels. My codec empties the contents of the buffer through the I/O. :p
It depends if you want to primarily: A) Reduce traffic B) Pollution A) Requires alternative transport, infrastructure change, and, most importantly, attitude change. B) Simply requires better cars. Implementing method A to solve problem B is like using a hammer to swat a fly. Both problems will have to be solved technically rather than socialogically. We humans are a stubborn bunch.
In order to keep up with the times, they'd have to employ the technology used in the new matrix flick, and creat a scene where JB saves the world by shagging a whole load of cloned evil hotties piled 10 deep on top of him.
Joe Pesci gets my vote for Postal 3. Do I AMUSE you? Take DAT you MODDAFOGGA! (I might even forgive him for that Leo Getz shit in the Lethal Weapon films... ;) )
Has to be Bruce Campbell in Duke Nukem Forever. (They`ll have to hurry up and mocap his ass, coz we`ll all be dead by the time the game sees daylight...)
I think this is more of strategic pricing aimed squarely at making the XBox + Halo 2 bundle hit the $200 mark when it`s released. And hey, any more buyers of the hardware meantime means more sales when the next round of AAA titles are released...