Right now, people can get unencrypted, DRM-free, commercial-free files, which (will always) work anywhere, any time, for free.
It's already ad-free, it's tax-funded. IIRC the mandate they're operating under prohibits them from including ads (although they've found a loophole, so some of sports broadcasts are preceeded by "this programme is presented by ").
All in all by doing this, they're providing a better service for me, the tax-payer.
Agreed that the gaming-experience are much more fun and enjoyable on consoles or computers. Consoles are after all designed with a good gaming-experience in mind (at least to some extent). The regular cell-phone isn't designed to be a gaming-platform, it's mostly a phone. The exception may be nokias N-gage, tho I don't have any personal experience with it.
I am however guilty of playing some of my cell-phone-games, when I have nothing better to do, and nothing at all available to fiddle with. While i.e. forgetting to bring something to read while taking a dump or sitting on a bus.
I don't think mobile-phone-games will be a good "replacement" for console-gaming or pc-gaming anytime soon, but they serve their purposes.
Why people would want 3d on their phones: It looks and sounds cool, and the marketing-people told us so! *must do what those ads told me to do*
I'm sure there are some practical-uses for it as well as entertainment, I know some unnamed car-makers (or at least sub-contractors of car-makers) were looking into 3d-projections of maps on dashboards, and I'm sure it could be cool on a mobile-device (handheld, gps, mobile-phone).
Anyway, having 3d available on mobile-devices need'nt be a bad thing even if it's a power-consuming beast, it's a possibility and I'm sure as it will spread, people will find both cool and useful uses for it. Hopefully there will still be mobile-phones with less gloss available for those that want.
As for power-consumption, it's partly beeing addressed by developing spezialized hardware for 3d-graphics, where one of the design-goals are low power consumption. Having worked as a SA for Falanx Microsystems http://www.falanx.com/ which are designing an IP-core conforming to the OpenGL ES http://www.khronos.org/opengles standard/API, one of their chief design-goals are minimizing power-consumption. I'm sure NVidia, ATI and others designing 3d-hardware, are considering the constraints of their target-platforms. (If my memory serves me right, NVidia has some interests in the mobile-market, and I'm sure the other actors on in the 3d-market are looking at it as well).
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Right now, people can get unencrypted, DRM-free, commercial-free files, which (will always) work anywhere, any time, for free.
It's already ad-free, it's tax-funded. IIRC the mandate they're operating under prohibits them from including ads (although they've found a loophole, so some of sports broadcasts are preceeded by "this programme is presented by "). All in all by doing this, they're providing a better service for me, the tax-payer.
Agreed that the gaming-experience are much more fun and enjoyable on consoles or computers. Consoles are after all designed with a good gaming-experience in mind (at least to some extent). The regular cell-phone isn't designed to be a gaming-platform, it's mostly a phone. The exception may be nokias N-gage, tho I don't have any personal experience with it.
I am however guilty of playing some of my cell-phone-games, when I have nothing better to do, and nothing at all available to fiddle with. While i.e. forgetting to bring something to read while taking a dump or sitting on a bus.
I don't think mobile-phone-games will be a good "replacement" for console-gaming or pc-gaming anytime soon, but they serve their purposes.
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Kjetil Joergensen
Why people would want 3d on their phones: It looks and sounds cool, and the marketing-people told us so! *must do what those ads told me to do*
I'm sure there are some practical-uses for it as well as entertainment, I know some unnamed car-makers (or at least sub-contractors of car-makers) were looking into 3d-projections of maps on dashboards, and I'm sure it could be cool on a mobile-device (handheld, gps, mobile-phone).
Anyway, having 3d available on mobile-devices need'nt be a bad thing even if it's a power-consuming beast, it's a possibility and I'm sure as it will spread, people will find both cool and useful uses for it. Hopefully there will still be mobile-phones with less gloss available for those that want.
As for power-consumption, it's partly beeing addressed by developing spezialized hardware for 3d-graphics, where one of the design-goals are low power consumption. Having worked as a SA for Falanx Microsystems http://www.falanx.com/ which are designing an IP-core conforming to the OpenGL ES http://www.khronos.org/opengles standard/API, one of their chief design-goals are minimizing power-consumption. I'm sure NVidia, ATI and others designing 3d-hardware, are considering the constraints of their target-platforms. (If my memory serves me right, NVidia has some interests in the mobile-market, and I'm sure the other actors on in the 3d-market are looking at it as well).
-- Kjetil Joergensen