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Let's make it happen peeps! https://www.pcgamer.com/deadmau5-has-meltdown-after-twitch-suspension-for-homophobic-slur/

Like anything the desirability of this solution comes down to whether it's better than what you otherwise have access to. I can't see a point in the future when I will be able to afford a 1080 (let alone a 2080 though I guess they'll be going for $50 eventually). If this service was being offered within my region and I was close enough for the latency to be low I'd be interested. I have no doubt I'd be getting better performance than with my current FX8350/RX480 setup. And that's what I've recently upgraded to. I've been playing with lag and low frame rates on old games for years. I'm currently enjoying reasonable performance on ok settings in BF4. Typically people only look at these solutions in terms of their own context. 'It doesn't apply to me so it shouldn't exist'. I could get into some BF5 with a bit of latency for a monthly fee. I could also see running a design business from a shared workspace on a cheap laptop and almost no overhead. Definitely see a future for this sort of thing but as people have pointed out it's about infrastructure. I'm on unlimited fibre at the arse end of the world so I guess we're getting there.

I have wondered in the past if networks will be able to adapt quickly enough or if the likes of twitch will have already taken the whole market by the time it takes off. Once I have a twitch app on my TV, between that netflix and youtube, I won't ever watch broadcast TV again.

Not sure if this has been talked about before on here (the google site search has let me down before). https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2018/06/04/this-25-year-old-has-nas-and-the-49ers-investing-in-high-school-esports/amp/?__twitter_impression=true Basically this guy Delane Parnell has started a company called PlayVS that allows high schools to compete in eSports tournaments across the US. "PlayVS, a startup developing software to formalize high school gaming competitions. By integrating with a select number of games, PlayVS serves as an all-in-one online portal for students and administration. Matches are set and scheduled on the platform, player stats are tracked and collected and wins and losses are auto-reported to prevent cheating." This looks like another step towards eSports being adopted in a much more mainstream way. High school sports, and plenty of other extra-curricular activites, are hugh in the US. If this takes off might we see mainstream TV networks broadcasting the pro tournaments? Are there networks that do that already in the US or anywhere else? They don't here in NZ (unless you catch a Starcraft match on Arirang).

Cool. So it's not so much a performance measure (as in fps, etc) as an accuracy measure?

Can someone explain exactly what 'OpenGL Reference Match' means in Cinebench? My result is confusing and I'm struggling to fine a comprehensive explanation of what it's a measurement of exactly.

Vizio will pay $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit alleging it collected customers’ TV-watching habits without their permission. The lawsuit was filed by the Federal Trade Commission and the state of New Jersey. It alleged that, in 2014, Vizio began using software built into over 11 million smart TVs to capture “highly-specific, second-by-second information about television viewing.” Vizio was then said to have worked with another company to associate demographic information with each household, so that viewing habits could be paired with information like a viewer’s “sex, age, income, marital status,” and more. ... http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/6/14522582/vizio-ftc-lawsuit-tv-viewing-habits-tracking-privacy