From: "Bill Prince" <part15...@gmail.com>
To: af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Nvidia Geforce Now
We had a repair guy out here the other day, and in the coarse of our conversation he mentioned that his cable bill is $200/month. These days, 5 months of your cable bill will pay for a decent computer to do whatever. 12 months will get you a premium gaming machine.
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On 3/27/2019 8:18 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:-- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.comYeah, everything is a subscription now. Because why settle for a one-time sale when you can get a perpetual revenue stream.
I guess they want to capture the mobile device market.
Plus make games more like videos, where you can just rent titles rather than make the decision to buy one.
Does this really make it possible to play a high end game on a phone? And if so, wouldn’t it run the battery down pretty fast?
From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Mathew Howard
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 9:59 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Nvidia Geforce Now
Well, I imagine, the longterm goal is that instead of needing to convince somebody to buy a $1000 PC, or even a $400 game console and $60 for every game, you can sell them a $50 box, that they might already have, and charge them a subscription fee.
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 9:38 AM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote:
I was just sitting here wondering what the reason is. Moving the graphics processing to the cloud means....what?
I suppose you can play good games on crummy hardware.
It's possible there's an energy savings in moving the computation to a data center where compute loads can be managed.
Are those reasons really compelling enough to push that much stuff onto the network? What am I not seeing?
-Adam
On 3/27/2019 10:04 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
> Playing games on it show about 40-50Mbps on my system.
Holy bandwidth, Batman!
It used to be the most important things to life as we know it were electricity and water, and we were encouraged to conserve both of them. Not just encouraged, mandated. Don’t get caught with an incandescent bulb or a 3 gallon toilet.
Now it seems everyone is telling us the Internet is the most important thing (and don’t forget 5G). It is a national emergency to get everyone faster and faster Internet. Yet we are encouraged to do the equivalent of leaving the lights on and the water running when we’re not home. If someone suggested ways to conserve Internet bandwidth, he would be laughed at. So don’t use a game console, use one somewhere else and stream 40-50 Mbps of video over the Internet to your screen. Maybe get your 3 kids to join the game, each with their own 40-50 Mbps stream. Just like all the people putting umpteen 1080p cameras around their house and then sitting in their living room watching them … over the Internet. Or streaming Fox News to every screen in the house so it’s always on as you walk from room to room … which was not wasteful when we used broadcast TV, but now each screen gets its own private stream over the Internet, even if it’s the same show.
I suspect this will never change, there will be no bandwidth conservation movement, we will just keep using more and more and more. That convinces me we need fiber not 5G, but apparently I’m wrong.
From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Sterling Jacobson
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 11:24 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
Subject: [AFMUG] Nvidia Geforce Now
Just got accepted to the general beta for the new Geforce Now system.
Playing games on it show about 40-50Mbps on my system.
Works ok, some games playable but not as good as gaming native.
This is the new era stuff, basically RDP/VM gaming remotely transmitting graphics to your local screen.
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