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FoxEye said:
BT: "Copper is still fine for everyone. Nobody needs fibre all the way to their premises. We have the best network in Europe (yeah right, haha, these suckers will believe anything!)"

Unless the UK government pays them to do it, BT will stick with copper for the last mile forever. They will simply not take the hit to their profits to replace it, ever. Ever.
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BT only keep using copper because they want to be able to charge line rental. Replace it with all fibre and they can't charge line rental any more. They would have to restructure it and find a new way to charge a levy. Fibre rental lol but they can't really charge for this can they seen as the government put most of the money into open reach doing this?

BT must be mad if they dont think FTTP or FTTH isn't the way forward even with Gfast. Things are starting to become more online based, homes are starting to consume more bandwith than ever before and with 4k on the horizon with multitude of streaming services, more demanding online services etc BT and the UK are allays going to be one step behind with the whole internet network infrastructure. Anyway ramble over and this is just in general not aimed at anyone lol even you foxeye just quoted you because it was relevant. We are not in any state to start doing cloud gaming ATM even at 1080p. Online gaming requires low latency and when you start streaming gaming it ups the latency noticeably defeating the purpose.

At best we will still need a console but with other demanding stuff run via the cloud abit like how Microsoft was trying to take the Xbox. So it balances things out.
 
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r7slayer said:
BT only keep using copper because they want to be able to charge line rental. Replace it with all fibre and they can't charge line rental any more. They would have to restructure it and find a new way to charge a levy. Fibre rental lol but they can't really charge for this can they seen as the government put most of the money into open reach doing this?

BT must be mad if they dont think FTTP or FTTH isn't the way forward even with Gfast. Things are starting to become more online based, homes are starting to consume more bandwith than ever before and with 4k on the horizon with multitude of streaming services, more demanding online services etc BT and the UK are allays going to be one step behind with the whole internet network infrastructure. Anyway ramble over and this is just in general not aimed at anyone lol even you foxeye just quoted you because it was relevant. We are not in any state to start doing cloud gaming ATM even at 1080p. Online gaming requires low latency and when you start streaming gaming it ups the latency noticeably defeating the purpose.

At best we will still need a console but with other demanding stuff run via the cloud abit like how Microsoft was trying to take the Xbox. So it balances things out.
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When i moved into my house 2 years ago the open reach engineer said BT were trialling having fibre lines straight into the houses in his street and a few others in the area. At the time he said the speeds would be around 300mb. Even if BT do decide to go ahead with this i think it's going to be a lot of years before it's wide spread.
 
Just on my way home from an Nvidia event and they don't do things by halves. Very professional and impressive stuff.
 
Remember that it's not just Microsoft that charge to let you play console games online, Sony do it too. It seems a bit odd to get annoyed at Microsoft doing what the competition do. It's like being annoyed that Sky charge you to use their service even though Virgin and BT do the same, but you don't have to pay for terrestrial TV (except BBC). Tescos make me pay for food, so do all the other supermarkets, but let's say how bad Tesco are?

Why are we also assumign this is done to affect PC gamers? Could this not be for console gamers? Maybe a way Microsoft see to make the XBONE more capable than the PS4 by farming stuff out to the Cloud? Maybe Microsoft realise the AMD hardware in the consoles is pretty dire even by console standards and are thinking outside the box. Maybe the XBOX TWO will be much lighter on hardware and farm much more out to the cloud and can be upgraded meaning they could keep it more relevant than the PS5. Yeah, there'd likely be a month cost involved, but the initial hardware might be chaper. Sorta like how people used to rent TVs or do that scheme where they pay for their car in instalments and constantly get the newest model (while never really paying the car off).
 
Shield TV Euro launch/GeForce NOW cloud gaming service announcement?

PC games on your NVIDIA device for $8 per month

NVIDIA has taken the wraps of its new GeForce NOW cloud gaming service. With a library of over 50 games at launch, the service will cost $7.99 per month with the first three months free.
GeForce NOW is the first cloud-gaming service to stream at full high-definition 1080p quality and at 60 frames per second. Membership costs just $7.99 a month with the first three months free. GeForce NOW arrives on Oct. 1 in North America, the European Union and Japan with more than 50 popular games included. And it offers members the option to buy and play many more in an instant.
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At launch, around 50 games are available to play instantly via streaming to GeForce Now subscribers. Most are second-run, older titles that have been available for at least a year or two on consoles and PCs, names like Batman: Arkham Origins, Saints Row: The Third, Homefront, Lego Marvel Super Heroes, Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, Borderlands, Dirt 3 Complete Edition, Gas Guzzlers: Extreme and more. The company plans to add more games each week, but declined to mention any forthcoming titles.

A few newer games are also available, which Nvidia classifies as "Buy and Play Instantly." You pay full price for the privilege of streaming these games, which include The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt ($59.99), MotoGP15 ($39.99) and Saints Row IV ($19.99). Nvidia says it's still in negotiations to add Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor.
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http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2015/09/30/geforce-now/

http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=pc-games-on-your-nvidia-device-for-8-per-month-40352#.VgyH_3pVhBc

Thanks but no thanks, game streaming is garbage imo, latency is way, way too high leaving games highly unplayable.
 
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tommybhoy said:
Shield TV Euro launch/GeForce NOW cloud gaming service announcement?



http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2015/09/30/geforce-now/

http://www.ggmania.com/?smsid=pc-games-on-your-nvidia-device-for-8-per-month-40352#.VgyH_3pVhBc

Thanks but no thanks, game streaming is garbage imo, latency is way, way too high leaving games highly unplayable.
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Have you tried it?
Its no worse than a console on a TV. Not sure I'll actually start paying for it, but as an alternative to console gaming and paying £40 a game, it is actually ok.
Its not a replacement for PC gaming though, no.
 
andybird123 said:
Have you tried it?
Its no worse than a console on a TV. Not sure I'll actually start paying for it, but as an alternative to console gaming and paying £40 a game, it is actually ok.
Its not a replacement for PC gaming though, no.
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Yes, tried it, console is like a high end gaming machine by comparison.
 
Gregster said:
Shield event. The Shield launches today for £150 and I am thinking of getting one. Pretty impressive and a very fair price.
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Already having a shield tablet (in fact two of them since nvidia managed to send me another one for free), I can't quite convince myself to get the TV one as well. Mind you I have no doubt that my kids will manage to wreck my tablets at some point so hopefully there'll be a Tablet2 out at some point as well.

But yeah, the pricing seems pretty fair, particularly when you consider that most of the games on Grid are included in the pricing.
I can see my boy nagging me for a subscription when they actually start charging here.

tommybhoy said:
Yes, tried it, console is like a high end gaming machine by comparison.
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I find that quite odd. I wouldn't want to play twitch shooters on it (which I wouldn't on a game pad anyway), but for "console" games its fine. Do you have a particularly low lag TV or something? Because most of the TV's I've played consoles on have like 50ms input lag anyway.
Oh, an were you playing over wifi? A cabled connection is a must for cloud gaming imo, and even for in home streaming.
 
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Already having a shield tablet (in fact two of them since nvidia managed to send me another one for free), I can't quite convince myself to get the TV one as well. Mind you I have no doubt that my kids will manage to wreck my tablets at some point so hopefully there'll be a Tablet2 out at some point as well.

But yeah, the pricing seems pretty fair, particularly when you consider that most of the games on Grid are included in the pricing.
I can see my boy nagging me for a subscription when they actually start charging here.
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Yer, the Grid games are included and the first 3 months are free. $8 a month subscription is something I would happily pay as well. No different to Netflix, except this is games.


Shameless selfie with Jason Bradbury :D
 
Lol cheers Neil :p

Cloud gaming is very much with us now and powered by the Tegra X1, the Shield is a powerful gaming and media machine. Here is some pics I took at the event and honoured in being asked to attend. It isn't a PC replacement at all and more of a Living room gaming tablet that allows you to game on your TV or on the device itself/ I had a quick play (Batman Origins) and it was very responsive and looked amazing.













Well worth a look if you are looking for something to game with other than your PC.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Shiny,so how can you sign up for one of those events - it would be awesome to go one!!
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Not sure bud. I got invited which was pretty cool and hopefully will get invited to others. I would have taken my video camera and did a bit for my Youtube channel but I thought I would just take my DSLR and see what is what this time. The whole thing was professional and highly organised and I was a little in awe with how well it was done. I have done a couple of OC events with TeamGB and know what goes into them and this blew me away.
 
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