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Comcast opens up Super-speedy Internet

New York (NY) - Comcast this week began offering a new tier of Internet speed, allowing users a 50 mbps connection, which is quick enough to download a full HD movie in 10 minutes.

decapitator5882d ago

Damn.,...thats pretty fast. Will look into this and see if it's for me.

sonarus5882d ago (Edited 5882d ago )

Woohoo $150 a month nice. I can't wait to pay through my nose just to download movies in 10mins.

PS3n3605882d ago

There gonna start using these speads to advertise digital downloads as the new media. Unfortunately these turbo connections are pretty damn pricey. If you factor in the cost per month for the connection plus the cost to rent a movie it will be a tough sell for Joe WalMart. But damn for the porn enthusiast this is great.

gta_cb5882d ago

in time the price will go down. i have a 20MB connection on cable broadband and for this this is great, i personally dont mind having to wait 20mins to download a HD movie as it would take that amount of time to go and rent it, also fuel money etc. but then i prefer to have the disc to keep... anyway yeah the price will go down =)

Kyur4ThePain5882d ago (Edited 5882d ago )

Mmm, yeah.
I could buy 5 Blu-Rays per month for that price.
No thanks.

*EDIT*
But I will add, though, that this is cool in general.

Close_Second5882d ago (Edited 5882d ago )

...give it a few years and the price will have come drown dramatically. Soon it will become more cost effective to download HD movies directly to your central media HDD. Mind you, solid state memory prices are falling you you may be downloading to muli-terrabyte flash drives or something...who knows.

A 50mb connection will download 20Gb in about an hour. Won't be long and you'll be able to access a media site using your cellphone to download the latest blockbuster release to your media centre at home. By the time you get home its done and waiting for you to watch.

Faster internet speeds and the cost on the environment of manufacturing and shipping discs around the world will mean that digital distribution will be the primary means of buying media in the years to come. Its only the current generation of people buying discs who are finding this so hard to accept. Hell, my kids are never going to go into a store and buy music on disc just like I never pruchased music on LPs or Tape.

I own a PS3 but to date do not own one blu-ray movie. Why? well, regardless if its on disc or downloaded I just don't see the point of buying movies anymore. I use to own over 300 DVDs but sold them all off when I came to the realisation that:

a. When the hell do you ever get the time to watch them all.
b. I would only watch most them once or twice anyway (very few movies are actually worth or need repeat viewings)
c. When they're on TV you find yourself watching them again anyway, even if they are littered with commercials...strange but true.
d. My house was looking more like a Blockbuster video store than it was a home.

So, when people say I'd rather pay $30-$50 for a movie on Blu-Ray, I say I could rent it more times than I would ever watch it for the same amount of money.

RealityCheck5882d ago

I wonder what the monthly limit is in total download?

Also, it probably has a "user agreement" about them being allowed to "manage traffic".

At that price, is the bandwidth guaranteed or on best effort basis?

Does it require a FiOS-like install or is it using the same coax as TV?

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RTX 50 series cooling tested up to 600W, but users want Nvidia to fix the adapter first

Nvidia is allegedly testing GPU coolers to handle up to 600W for the 50 series, reigniting discussion of melting 16-pin connectors.

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Former Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider pours scorn on EA's AI dreams.

"They want you to believe the devs under them are super stoked to work generative AI into their processes," continued Gaider, "but I assure you what they took as excitement was really a veiled wail of despair not unlike the time that team was informed of their new 'really cool' live service mandate.".

LordoftheCritics2d ago

Publishers see gaming as another stock market.

isarai2d ago

I think anyone with some common sense knew this, im glad i don't support their games anymore, what a sh!t company.

Psychonaut851d 9h ago

Friends don’t let friends buy EA or Ubisoft.

Chocoburger1d 8h ago

I said this yesterday. AI isn't what we want when it comes to crafting artistry. Alas, these soulless corporate morons don't care about their work, only about cutting corners as much as possible.

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Phil Spencer and the Battle for Xbox’s Soul

Has the rapid growth of Xbox made the ship too heavy? Following the closures of Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin, and Roundhouse, we explore what the future of Xbox could look like.

LG_Fox_Brazil2d ago

This ship was never meant to sail, this ship was made from the get go to sink as fast as possible. It almost feels that they want to lower the standards of quality in the industry so that they can fit in

rlow11d 11h ago

I disagree, Xbox from the get go innovated and changed the industry. They did a lot of firsts and standardized a lot of others. It wasn’t till the beginning of the Xbox1 era that things started to go south.

Stevonidas1d 7h ago

Yep, although I’d argue it started going to shit when they tried to hock Kinect on their audience instead of continuing to invest in their studios and IPs. 2001-2010 Xbox was peak gaming, though.

rlow11d 6h ago

@Stevonidas
I agree they never should have focused on it after the 360 era. But you do have to remember they were faked out by the huge volumes of Kinects sold. To quote info on Wikipedia, “Project Natal, It was first released on November 4, 2010, and would go on to sell eight million units in its first 60 days of availability.” So if your Xbox and see these huge sales on a peripheral where are you going to put some money? Criticism in hindsight is worthless…..if only we could all see our future. In other wards they had no way of knowing. Plus they had engagement numbers and a lot of signs pointed to people wanting it.

Their biggest mistake wasn’t the Kinect, but unlike Sony after the PS3 debacle. They didn’t double on down on exclusive good games. The other huge mistake was letting Call of Duty go to Sony.

Hedstrom1d 14h ago

Phil wants Xbox to be as soulless as him!

Tacoboto1d 14h ago (Edited 1d 14h ago )

Xbox has no soul and Phil has no confidence, and it's impossible to say either do when they killed Tango and Arkane Austin.

Everything they've said since has only made them look worse to a point that they're actually less competent than Embracer.

Markdn1d 14h ago (Edited 1d 14h ago )

Whe you release something like the series S and expect it not to hurt your business model, and developers have to have parity with games. Then you know Microsoft don't care. Series s is the final nail that broke developers,

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