Mugabetown - Whoretownin' At It's Worst.

[boiracer]

wow! Whoretown went computer geek.

hi all, PS4 wtf!!

[RandomHero83]

Sony learnt their lesson with the PS3 and its poor performance stacked up against the 360. Nearly all of their DRM that isn't around copy protection is gone. They have openly and unambiguously stated as such in many different forums.

As for majority of people, that needs to be clarified. A Majority of people in the US perhaps, but licensing restrictions, poor content delivery options and the lack of widely available high-speed internet outside of major western cities still leaves a majority of the world with physical media as their primary source. I doubt China or India have the infrastructure in place to support digital only distribution and china's middle class is bigger than the entire US market.

This is because they no longer support MP3's CD's and DLNA on the new hardware.

A majority or people who are their primary user base as in US, UK, Oceania. This is not all people in that space just what has been recorded by various ISP's and is reported on every few years as an industry growth index. I am nearly a 100% digital consumer both purchases and downloads, The big thing it comes down to is continuity of purchases and quallity of connection, If everyone had a constant 25-50MBPS connection their would only be the content continuity issues relating to digital rights that would really stand in the way of pure digital content. we have issues here with connection speed parity with other first world countries as well as issues with online content distribution out of the US but these are all things that will be resolved as our digital market grows locally.

[RandomHero83]

wow! Whoretown went computer geek.

hi all, PS4 wtf!!

Solid conversation with someone who is up to date with it. Been sorely needing someone to discuss this with

[Matty95]

I know this is sort off topic but Microsoft and Sony are 2 completely different companies and have complete different visions to each other, but if they had the wits they would combine to make one mega console have great games and software and hardware they would make so much money... But they wouldn't want that because everything is about the money and someone will want more than the other and will cause a massive uproar.

Hense saying this it would be pretty cool if they could make an inbetween of playstation and xbox

[-Boz-]

For gaming perhaps that argument holds true, but not for other media.

Again, China's middle class alone is bigger than the entire US population and their internet is a shadow of western standards. Hell, they have government mandated, ISP level filtering on content. Digital distribution of movies, music, tv etc in China at least (and there are more english speakers in China then the US, UK and Oceania combined so language isn't an issue) isn't a real option. For this reason alone physical media will be here for years to come. It may be harder to access in bricks and mortar stores in Australia, but it's not going anywhere from a global market point of view.

[Matty95]

That's all i use really I'm

Barely ever on a computer I only have consoles for when I'm bored hense I'm a gamer if you'd wish to say not a full on hectic gamer but a casual gamer that enjoys playing....

[-Boz-]

Also, we only have another 10-15 years left where the US is the dominant economic player in any global market. The sheer size of the markets in India and China combined with rapidly developing standards of living will make the US rate 3rd at best by the middle of this century. And that's not far off. 2050 is closer to today than 1970...

[RandomHero83]

For gaming perhaps that argument holds true, but not for other media.

Again, China's middle class alone is bigger than the entire US population and their internet is a shadow of western standards. Hell, they have government mandated, ISP level filtering on content. Digital distribution of movies, music, tv etc in China at least (and there are more english speakers in China then the US, UK and Oceania combined so language isn't an issue) isn't a real option. For this reason alone physical media will be here for years to come. It may be harder to access in bricks and mortar stores in Australia, but it's not going anywhere from a global market point of view.

Aye,

I agree with this statement, Due to the Chinese demand on the market there will be physical media but it will not restrict the West from moving in that direction and focusing it's western markets towards that method of delivery.

[RandomHero83]

Also, we only have another 10-15 years left where the US is the dominant economic player in any global market. The sheer size of the markets in India and China combined with rapidly developing standards of living will make the US rate 3rd at best by the middle of this century. And that's not far off. 2050 is closer to today than 1970...

This is also true. Be back soon going to mid night launch of game.

[-Boz-]

Fun fact for alcohol buffs. China now consumes nearly 60% of high end Italian and French wine produced. This is expected to go as high as 80% in the next 10 years. You reckon a good French wine is exxy now? Wait until demand goes through the roof shortly. I actually know two massive wine buffs who are buying up good Burgundy and Bordeaux by the case ($150-$200 a bottle stuff) to store in multiple thousand wine bottle cellars. They figure they have a win win scenario. Either the speculation pays off and they make a mint, or it doesn't and they have cellars full of brilliant wine to last them decades.

[Ants]

Well that was an interesting read.

I will save my thoughts re all the above for a later rainy day.

[R33 Eddy]

Boz is right, everything ends with wine :lol:

[SCR48]

Few things on today

Working till 11am

Few bets on the horses

Really really hope we get some rain as up where i live we need it badly

Oh and btw Morning Guys!!!!!!!!!

[Matty95]

Morning Scott, morning all

[SCR48]

Matty, hows the engine project going?

[dubchick95]

Morning all

[Ants]

Morning all.

Melbourne Cup Day - only half working day FTW

[dubchick95]

Full TAFE day

[sneakey pete]

As for physical media dieing... 4K video anyone (although I dislike that for a whole stack of other reasons)? Even with the best compression codecs in development 4K video is like 100GB an hour. Very few people have either the bandwidth or the allocation to be able to deal with that more than once or twice a month. Physical media will be around for a LONG time to come.

Who even streams 1080p movies as it is? but we've had 1080p screens almost everywhere for the last 3-4 years

which sandboxes are you playing in?

ARMA2/ARMA3 at the moment for my first person shooting action, Kerbal space program for my orbital mechanics action, Jagged Alliance 2 for my tactical RPG action and Sim City 4 for my city building action.

I just picked up Might and Magic 7 aswell, so that could be interesting.

[RandomHero83]

Who even streams 1080p movies as it is? but we've had 1080p screens almost everywhere for the last 3-4 years

ARMA2/ARMA3 at the moment for my first person shooting action, Kerbal space program for my orbital mechanics action, Jagged Alliance 2 for my tactical RPG action and Sim City 4 for my city building action.

I just picked up Might and Magic 7 aswell, so that could be interesting.

Sweet.