There will always be room for tinkers working on their gaming pcs; the age however of everyone having to shell money on them is going to give way to cloud streaming games.
I have talked about Nvidia’s GeForce Now many times on here. I think that the service is great for those who have great internet connections and lots of bandwidth. With an internet connection, you do not have worry about the system requirements only the strength of your internet connection and to a lesser extent, the location of your router and bandwidth usage. Such requirements are easier to deal with than the arcane internal structure of computers.
The Strength of Nvidia GeForce Now
The main strength is the ability to play any device you have. This is a major change which will bring more opportunities for different kinds of gamers. One of the issues we have with our gaming industry right now is that there is genre orthodoxy. You simply cannot be syncretic like in the past; your game has to be certain way or have a certain style.
This is where the RTS genre began to stumble after the release of Empire Earth. There was no sense of how the genre could move on with Starcraft breathing down its neck. Starcraft II, while a great game, would ossify the genre and prevent it from growing here. There were many experiments and crossovers such as Activision’s Battlezone series. Such experimentation is rare now.
This is what Nvidia GeForce Now can bring to the table.
What we need in the gaming space is an opening up of the player base. Sometimes we are too arcane in the way we talk about our games. Sometimes we need new perspectives to help innovate. This isn’t to say that our traditions are not important, but we need to take our time to invite newcomers.
This is the only way that the industry can truly start being healthy again. New perspectives will beget risk but no great artform was able to change without someone taking the first step in an uneven river.
Fox corporation has launched Fox One, a new streaming service which puts all of the corporation’s entertainment properties. It includes the news, entertainment and sports channels under one streaming service. The price is $`19.99 and it is probably one of the best places for cord cutters or cord nevers because those two groups are growing and have more influence on the culture now.
The Cord Nevers in particular are of great interest to Fox One. Unlike the Cord Cutters, the Cord Nevers have no experience with using Cable TV. Such a group generally involves people who are in the younger generations. They maybe be aware of Fox News but have spent time on the website or even seen clips on YouTube. However, having this app will help to solidify Fox News’ ability to get more of the younger generations as the old TV stations have been ossified for so long and are hemorrhaging their audiences. Fox One has launched at the right time for getting into streaming media. One of their rivals has been around for some time in streaming but it has been stagnant as their brand is seen as stuck in the model of the big three era. While some people may want to return to that, it was always skewed by competent reporters before they began declining into decadence and incompetence.
News Streaming Services
Fox News is Right-Wing or Conservative, but it is among one of the best sites representing the United States’ ideology based in 18th Century ideals. Unlike most news sites, it is not obsessed with baiting its audience about everything just to make a quick buck. Most of their articles and news focuses on stories that the decay media system is unable to report on.
As such they have a news app which will appeal to many types of people in the United States.
Unlike CNN, which is just basically a rage bait channel at this point for siloing people into certain political ideologies, Fox News seems to be angling for a lean but not totally taking that position that is most dominant among its viewers.
Most news streaming services have been not very good in quality. CNN+ was horrible and CBSN and other services have been add-ons to largely stagnant brands that had their best times in the past.
Fox One is going to change that and help Fox News get even more popular.
Who should get Fox One?
Anyone is interested in Fox’s catalog. The entertainment side is sparser so it should be more the people who are interested in the news and the sports.
On the news side, this is very useful streaming service which allows for people to subscribe to Fox News and other local channels without having to pay Cable TV prices. This means that people will saving hundreds of dollars every year and be able to spend it on something else.
The news that is available is basically what one gets in their cable tv news packages.
Every program on Fox News is there. Fox Business is there as well as the local stations other Fox channels.
One advantage this has over YouTube is that you can look at clips of particular sections of a show without having to watch the whole thing. This curation by Fox is one of the best parts of the app, allowing for viewers to not have to focus on endlessly scrolling as one sees on sites such as Netflix.
Their mobile app is also attempting to utilize the Tik-Tok style shorts system. While I have reservations about this, it is important to reach the younger generation with this. Long-form reading, while desirable amongst our populace is not going to be enough to reach everyone. We need to have a platform that make the news enjoyable to people. This is what a lot of the people who scream about news deserts seem to forget about; newspapers in the traditional form, whether they be in print or the old style internet sites are outdated and simply ineffective at reporting the news.
The site is also very smooth and seamless. When I click on an icon on the site, the video loads up correctly without annoying ads slowing everything. The app’s categorization of its news is much better than that of YouTube or any other news app out there. This is of great use to anyone who wants to get Fox entertainment properties without paying for cable or watching broadcast television.
This means that Fox is available in a seamless way for anyone using a mobile app or on their computer.
This may be the most popular news app that is “paid” not free. Unlike CNN’s app, Fox One has something to appeal to consumers.
Fox One is the best News Streaming service right now.
News sites have struggled to get onto streaming services. Much of this is due to the arrogance of many of the people who were in charge of those companies. They had been at the top for so long that they did not believe that they could be touched by those upstart companies on the internet. YouTube began to change this process but there was still much inertia in the entertainment system in the United States. This inertia has been taking time to be changed in our culture.
Fox One is still in its early stages. However, Fox News is making the right investment here in getting Fox News onto a streaming platform. Instead of it being on YouTube and having to deal with constant ads and annoying recommendations, you can get the content on there without any distractions.
In my opinion, this is one of the best News App you can pay for right now on the internet. You will be saving tons of money by using this app instead of paying for cable. This is what cord cutters and nevers should be focusing on, saving money with reliable and affordable services.
So getting the service will help save you money on a whole as well getting reliable even if at times biased news coverage. Such a deal is superior to wasting it on Netflix or any other streaming service
Google is a company that has been controlling the search market in its grip for well over 20 years at this point. While the company offers many convenient services, it has also become a monopoly. Some people would disagree with that but the company is one and also is also dominating in mobile phones with the android operating system. There is a need for the internet to untangle from this monopolistic system that Google has made. Just for the interests of keeping the internet interesting and useful for many types of people, that is important. However, one of the main reasons why I am focusing on this issue is because of paywalls on news sites.
Paywalls used to be rarer in the past. Only really the WSJ (Wall Street Journal) had them in a significant way. However, as time has gone on and the internet went from a place for bragging rights to a necessity for someone to be able to have a journalism career, paywalls have been going up across cyberspace. The building of walls across the internet feels like an admission of failure of the internet’s ability to reduce the cost of producing news. I have seen it in real-time here; this is not a change that one sees through generations but it happened after 2008 and we have seen more and more paywalls.
Google’s inability to categorize paywalls is huge issue. Their unwillingness to categorize websites to make it more useful to the public shows their institutional inertia. The company makes billions upon billions of dollars on advertising, yet it is unable to even pay attention to its search engine that made it popular in the 2000s.
Why is Google so unwilling to change?
It’s because they are comfortable in taking ad revenue from sites. Changing that revenue stream would make them take a hit and they can only tolerate having more and more revenue streaming into it.
If Google was to take its search engine seriously, it would take a hit to its reputation. It would have to respond to all the calls about it having a monopoly on the internet and manipulating people’s minds. They would have to make the legacy outlets which seek to maintain their power have to play by the rules rather just allowing them to regurgitate what the ruling parties want to see.
Paywalled sites do need to not show up in the search results. Many of these sites are business sites that often hide their arcane language away from public view. The internet should be divided up into small kingdoms where you have to pay entry fees to get into the castle.
Google’s unwillingness to categorize such things show that monopolies that hold onto power for so long have a way of shaping the whole culture around them. The internet, once free and vibrant, is becoming yet another shopping mall where everything has a price.
Having free access to information on the internet isn’t a right but essential aspect to cyberspace.
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