Like tablets, like any of this stuff, it'll get there eventually. As g points out, a few years can make a big difference. Speaking of witchcraft, the shit you can do on a smart phone these days is pretty mental.

Still, I don't know that next gen is the place it properly takes off. Or rather, I don't know that you can put all, or even most of your eggs in that basket at launch. The idea of fipping toes with current gen seems a good one. Although there's a tipping point surely. It's all well and good to test run with an already there user base, but if the tech fails too hard, a lot of punters will try it and then swear off it for a good wee while.

As mentioned in other threads and on other forums, I'm pretty much streaming all my TV, all my movies and now all my music. All on subs. I could be talked into paying more for Live too, if there was more "free" content post sub. But still, at the end of the day, input lag and random drop outs are a much bigger deal for games than movies and music. (And like Elm, I have a pretty solid connection these days.)

Petey, are you still working for that mob that were doing that thing, which was awesome?

Aye, I regularly see people streaming films/tv on their tablets/phones while on the bus/subway here.

I can't wait to see where tech is in 10 years.

Haha, but where will the Koreans be by then?! USB points in their wrists and grafted-on mechanical fingers?

Precogs.

I might be wrong, but I think I've got one of them.

Trust you to take it too far.

Elmlea wrote:

adkm1979 wrote:

4G is coming.  I've heard tell that it's pretty fast.

It is, it's pretty ubiquitous over here.  A colleague with a Verizon phone happily gets 4Mbit/s downloads out in the sticks where we work, and closer to 8Mbit/s in the city.  Good enough to stream Netflix on the bus.

If that's the case the providers over here are going to have to reconsider their stance on data allowances. 0.5GB isn't gonna last long with people using services like netflix or iPlayer.

There'll be no mix left, all ejected in an Archimedean deluge from the vat.

I think Steam in either its digital sales or gaming network forms are out of the picture tbh. Too much of a culture/ego clash.

Out of the picture in so far as a hook up with Sony.

I'm sure Steambox will happen but if it's just a fairly low end reference design then it's a bit weak really and uncharacteristically for Valve not very bold.

Liveinadive wrote:

Elmlea wrote:

adkm1979 wrote:

4G is coming.  I've heard tell that it's pretty fast.

It is, it's pretty ubiquitous over here.  A colleague with a Verizon phone happily gets 4Mbit/s downloads out in the sticks where we work, and closer to 8Mbit/s in the city.  Good enough to stream Netflix on the bus.

If that's the case the providers over here are going to have to reconsider their stance on data allowances. 0.5GB isn't gonna last long with people using services like netflix or iPlayer.

My mate got hit with a hefty bill for watching a lot of Sky F1 on Sky Go while he was at work...

The data allowances currently on offer are no good for anything other than a bit of shopping and status updates, I'd especially love a decent allowance as I tether my iPad pretty much every time I have to take my missus to Tesco.

I still have unlimited data on my tariff.

I am win

g.man

Someone did do an actual unlimited one, but I can't remember who.

I have 15gig on 3 Ireland. They say it's unlimited even though it's not but it's still the best out there at the mo for me. Maybe they do the same over there?

Mod74 wrote:

...I've watched Netflix on a 3G signal and it's been fine.

I watched some football on Sky Go on 3G and it was fine though I'm not sure how much of my 1gb allowance it was using, I only had it on while I went outside the pub for a fag so I was well within my limit I guess!