Are we really argue the media player potential lol. PI is fine if you dont stream HD / Blue ray then it struggles like hell. Same with apple tv 2 tbh. I just run a hdmi cable to a 50inch tv in the room the pc sits in job done how much more simples can you get.
I did the long hdm cable thing - then bought a cheap PS3 , wifi media streaming through tversity and it plays blu ray - all for £50 oh and apparently it does games as well
Pretty much. Or as someone else said. A long HDMI cable. I was just using that as a comparison. Slowly the new consoles are looking like bad investments if only because I've set everything up to work from my PC. It doesn't help that most games now shouldn't be exclusives... well I don't think so anyhow.
Nope the pi is fine to stream HD I do it. Do you not get loss of quality over such a long hdmi cable? After using the pi for a media streamer for past year or so, I really want to upgrade to a amd apu setup. The pi doesn't have enough grunt to unlock the full potential of xmbc/xbian. Lots of things I would love to do with plug ins etc. Plus that would open up for some light gaming on the machine as well. Sent from my GT-I9300 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
It does kinda seem to me that, with all the Media Center functionality, Microsoft are answering a question that nobody has been asking. Everyone I know with a flatscreen TV already has the ability to do all that Media Center jazz, one way or another. There's been remarkably little attention paid to the hardware so far. Are we actually getting concrete specs at some point? My inner nerd wants to know how it compares to the PC hardware market for value.
WTF is all this nonsense about? http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Xbox-One-Cloud-Jeff-Henshaw-Matt-Booty-Adam-Pollington,news-44160.html Sounds pretty exclusionary if you ask me.
It would put it out of reach of most americans and most uk buyers as the internet connection most have in those countrys is below whats required for hd streaming ( around 4mb/down) let alone downloading gbs of data on the fly. Last survey i saw had most of the uk between 0.5mb and 2mb per second, USA was between 1mb and 3mb per second. Are Microsoft really dumb enough to withdraw the consoles abilitys from more than half there potential buyers. Sounds like business suicide to me.
Just going to drop this in here. And this will only get faster. What do you think the state of broadband will be in 12 months - 2 years? With FTTC being adoped more and more people will have access to these services.
It smells quite distinct doesn't it? But to be honest, why say that to anyone in an interview at this point? Surely, the guy isn't that spasticated to think that average means everyone. And that all those everyones wants to sit there burning more bandwidth on lighting for trees... ???
Also, even on a 12Mb connection, a couple of moderate users on their computers at once will render the whole thing unusable. If two people in the house are streaming iPlayer or youtube HD content, the Xbox One is going to be hard pushed to download a banner advert in the remaining bandwidth, let alone stream cloud computing. I suppose it's the same deal as with Windows 8: they're pushing for changes that the current infrastructure isn't ready for. Bold, but still premature. Cloud-assisted computing will be great in like 8 years, when the country is actually up to speed and fiber is the norm.
8 years time there will still be largish communities in rural areas that don't have fiber. Especially if BT have anything to do with it. Let alone rural USA or Canada and any country not considered in the same breath as the modern western world or eastern technology hubs, no matter how prejudice that statement may be. I'm aware that their key demographic is 20 to 30 year old men living in cities, but their's is a brazenness about the abandonment of some. The only positive about the whole cloud and DRM issues is that the video games industry may start becoming more profitable. It all makes me wonder if we'll see pirate RADIUS servers in this generation. Maybe a little far fetched... but hey?
I have to say if i was still at my old house with 4mb down, then i would struggle, but now i'm on 120mb Fibre, i should be good to go. Sam
Think I'll wait for E3 for a bit more info, The fact it needs to phone home daily leaves a sour taste. I'd hate to think my games are held hostage to an active 'Net connection.
It's getting better FTTC is rolling out now to more rural areas like mine ... 41mb. Games don't have to use the tech straight away but it's there for when the console starts to show it's age.
Not long ago one of the arguments for consoles was that you get same experience as everyone else. With xbone, it seems, you experience will differ based on: * You internet connection * You geographic location (You might have the fastest internet connection in the world, but that wont help if the nearest server is 2k miles away). * What other people are doing (was there a single always online type game release where servers did not melt down during first days after release?) * Long term support from microsoft (what's keeping them from discontinuing/limiting cloud support for older games?)
