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Comment Re:Not the same thing (Score 1) 771

I strongly suspect the real issue is there aren't enough people with taste similar to yours to make the types of movies you want to see financially viable.

Sadly, the other part of this issue is that it costs so much to produce these films that they have to get funding from major studios who care about demographics.

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OnLive Awarded Patent For Cloud-Based Gaming 87

donniebaseball23 writes "Cloud gaming provider OnLive has secured a patent for an 'apparatus and method for wireless video gaming.' The patent gives substantial leverage for OnLive over competing brands in the cloud-based gaming market. 'Hundreds of people have worked incredibly hard for more than eight years to bring OnLive technology from the lab to the mass market, not just overcoming technical and business challenges, but overcoming immense skepticism,' said OnLive CEO Steve Perlman. 'It is gratifying to not only see people throughout the world enjoying OnLive technology in the wake of so many doubters, but also receive recognition for such a key invention.'"

Comment Reducing delays? (Score 1) 83

Satalite based communications always had a decent delay.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_Internet_access

"Factoring in other normal delays from network sources gives a typical one-way connection latency of 500–700 ms from the user to the ISP, or about 1,000–1,400 milliseconds latency for the total Round Trip Time (RTT) back to the user. "

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