Lately there has been a lot of talk in the media about disc formats for movies (i.e. Blu-ray) dying out soon in favor of downloadable/streaming content through the internet. There are even some claiming the same fates for our beloved game consoles and game software as well. With all this talk of such a convenient and magnificent near future, it's hard not to think back as late as the 70's and 80's when a lot of visionary people used to say that by the year 2000 we would all be driving fully automated or flying cars.
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EK Cooling allegedly has slipped itself into a hot soup of seemingly endless financial woes, where it has not paid its staff, suppliers, and contractors for many months as the company is facing liquidity problems and a surplus of inventory left unsold, stuck in the warehouse for a more extended period. Gamers Nexus investigated these claims made by former and current personnel, where he found trails of unpaid bills lasting as long as three to four months and unpaid raises that accumulated for almost a year.
EK Water Blocks has two entities—a Slovenian-based headquarters and a US-based subsidiary, EK Cooling Solutions. Steve narrated the series of events in detail, stating that the company was reportedly irresponsible and negligent regarding payment. Consequently, partners and employees are forced to share the burden of alleged mismanagement. It all begins with its extensive range of products, leading to a surplus of goods. EK has over 230 water blocks, 40 liquid cooling kits, 85 reservoirs, 40 pumps, 73 radiators, and 212 miscellaneous accessories.
Yes this is not about video games directly but indirectly this will impact the pc gaming/workstation space hard.
This company is massive one of two in the water cool space so if it goes poof then thousands out there have no spare parts or half built computers.
SO yeah i know not about a video game but think of it as amd leaving the pc space but this is ekwb that could be leaving water cooling in the pc space
Jayz2cents a supporter of there products also has issues
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As someone that has built a watercooling rig. EK is big, but there's so many numerous watercooling part companies out there. EK's stuff isn't exactly amazing quality for the price compared to others either, it's just ok. Much like Corsair. The impact would be negligible long term. For perspective the majority of my parts are XSPC, at most I use EK for my gpu waterblocks and fittings. Both easily replaceable.
And 100% of my PC games are on downloaded media via Steam..
Currently, there's still to many downsides to Downloading, it's fine for something's but is definitely not ready to become the norm. It will be a long time before the mass market to fully adopt Digital Downloads.
Flying cars? Everyone knows that if we had hydrogen or flying cars then we would be not be able to pay thos low and affordabke gas prices at the gas pump. (sarcasm ends)
Hmmmm. The flying cars analogy was a not a good one. If you asked people in the eary 90's would anything ever be better than CD or would ther be an alternate souc for a CD or would you be able to get music of of the internet. Remember at this time the internet was more like a bulletin and just starting to becomme the world wibe web as we know it. It ws not too long before the first signs of MP3's started to show up. It used to take 30 minutes or longer to download just one song off with 28kbps or 56kbps ISP, but then ISDN, then DSL and shortly after Cable, T1, T2 connections wer available. I can download 1GB movie in under a hour a few years ago.
Did this mean that MP3's make CD's obsolete? No, but it did provide a nice alternate for them. How many time have you brought a CD only to have it scratched or broken ot even lost? It sucks. So what do you do go buy the whole CD again. People used to say that no one would prefer a digital/electronic version of a CD and that bandwidth and infrastucture and even the lack of internet speed would be and incredible hurdle. Never the less here we are and MP3, MP4's, etc are very common. People still buy CD's, but how many people do you see walking around, working out in the gym, etc with a CD player, right they mostly have MP3 players. Digital music is becoming more common in cars and home, streaming anyone? Once again CD is not dead at all.
It will be a few years befor DVD fades away, some analyst say even longer. For one, most people have standard TVs and even when the upgrade for HDTV becomes mandatory (2008-2009 in the US) most people will pony up and buy a HDTV that has 1080i capability. 1080p TV will still be more expensive. Most people do not care for super high definition. Most consumer buy a DVD to watch a movie, nit to get eye splitting visuals and sound. I love it myself, but ost do not. Blu-ray is still more expensive than DVD $29 USD to $19 USD for DVD which is still $10 cheaper. Not to include the price of the player. No doubt it has dropped in price and will continue to be cheaper so the price will not be an issue for ever. I think that in a few years DVD prices will get to around $15 USD, this will happen before the end of DVD's era.
As far as high speed internet it iwll become cheaper nd cheaper, more and more people own computers becase you can get them for really cheap Cable providers will lower their ISP costs for consumers. People are looking at the now as far as internet speeds and bandwidth. Although this internet speed is a while off it shows you what companies are working t click the the link for the story.
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Look around every major movie studio is signing up for DD, streaming media etc. No matter how long it takes it will be a lot like the services for music; BMG online music, Napster, iTunes, and maybe even Sirus satelitte comm (way down the road). MS has already started this with DD on XBL marketplace, Netflix will begin soon and Sony is getting there IPTV like service ready too. There are manu other companies getting ready for it. Trust me, companies like Sony and MS is embracing this for a reason. Will this eventually replace DVD or Blu-ray, hell no, but it will provide an alternative just like MP3's for CD's.
People always have a a hard time accepting new tech, but people will warm up to DD just like most DVD owners will start to warm up to Blu-ray.
Physical media will never DIE!!!.
FAIL
people who want DD only obviously don't want to be able to sell anything on or even borrow to a 'friend'. DD is good and has its place but ill believe its here and physical is dead when I'm downloading MGS7 or something. Until then both WILL work in unison.
Lets not be in a rush to give up all our rights as consumers.