Playstation 4 partnering with Virgin Media and 200mbit speeds this year?
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Playstation 4 partnering with Virgin Media and 200mbit speeds this year?
Just heard this on the PS4 Gamescon announcement.
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20-08-2013, 18:17
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Re: Playstation 4 partnering with Virgin Media and 200mbit speeds this year?
I missed that one
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Re: Playstation 4 partnering with Virgin Media and 200mbit speeds this year?
So what does this mean for someone buying a PS4?
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20-08-2013, 18:20
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Re: Playstation 4 partnering with Virgin Media and 200mbit speeds this year?
Any link on this?.
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Re: Playstation 4 partnering with Virgin Media and 200mbit speeds this year?
No ps4 release date!
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20-08-2013, 18:23
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Re: Playstation 4 partnering with Virgin Media and 200mbit speeds this year?
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Any link on this?.
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Only just been announced, so no links yet! Mind you considering how much the love stream is buffering I don't think 200mbit is enough lol!
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20-08-2013, 18:23
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Re: Playstation 4 partnering with Virgin Media and 200mbit speeds this year?
Stupid me! I just wasted an hour watching the EA conference that was on earlier!
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20-08-2013, 18:25
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Re: Playstation 4 partnering with Virgin Media and 200mbit speeds this year?
Can we move this to the existing PS4 thread?
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20-08-2013, 18:26
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Re: Playstation 4 partnering with Virgin Media and 200mbit speeds this year?
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Can we move this to the existing PS4 thread?
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This is about 200mbit, just so happened it was confirmed in the PS4 live stream so no, it should not be moved!
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20-08-2013, 19:17
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Re: Playstation 4 partnering with Virgin Media and 200mbit speeds this year?
Sony is partnering with VM in some way, but the Virgin press release makes no mention of 200Mbit:
http://about.virginmedia.com/blog-po...h-virgin-media
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Aha! Found a link mentioning 200Mbit:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...uk-isp-partner
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So, it's struck deals for PS4 friendly internet access with the likes of Orange and T-Mobile so gamers could be in-line for connections of up to 200mbps. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe boss Jim Ryan said there would be "bits of the pipe are left open to gamers".
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Although it's out of context a bit, I'd really like to see the announcement myself when the stream goes up as I get the feeling "up to 200Mbps" was referencing all of the ISPs and not something specific to Virgin.
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20-08-2013, 19:27
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Re: Playstation 4 partnering with Virgin Media and 200mbit speeds this year?
Since 120Mb is still not finished rolling out, hell not even 100/10 has finished rolling out, chances are 200Mbit won't be available to any significant number of people "this year"
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20-08-2013, 19:28
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Re: Playstation 4 partnering with Virgin Media and 200mbit speeds this year?
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Originally Posted by Kushan
Sony is partnering with VM in some way, but the Virgin press release makes no mention of 200Mbit:
http://about.virginmedia.com/blog-po...h-virgin-media
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Aha! Found a link mentioning 200Mbit:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...uk-isp-partner
Although it's out of context a bit, I'd really like to see the announcement myself when the stream goes up as I get the feeling "up to 200Mbps" was referencing all of the ISPs and not something specific to Virgin. |
None of the other mentioned ISP are capable of delivering those speeds. Virgin have already test @ 200mbps, it does not take a genius to work out that Virgin are the ones they are talking about.
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20-08-2013, 19:29
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Re: Playstation 4 partnering with Virgin Media and 200mbit speeds this year?
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Originally Posted by Kushan
Aha! Found a link mentioning 200Mbit:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...uk-isp-partner
Although it's out of context a bit, I'd really like to see the announcement myself when the stream goes up as I get the feeling "up to 200Mbps" was referencing all of the ISPs and not something specific to Virgin. |
Indeed, looks more like they're just "partnering" to provide QoS:
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Sony Computer Entertainment Europe boss Jim Ryan said there would be "bits of the pipe are left open to gamers".
What this means, exactly, is unclear. In a note sent to Eurogamer Virgin Media executive director of broadband and digital entertainment Jon James said the broadband provider was "hard at work" with Sony to "make this the best entertainment experience for gamers across the country".
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20-08-2013, 19:33
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Re: Playstation 4 partnering with Virgin Media and 200mbit speeds this year?
Awesome! so 200 throttled after x mins of use or just throttled whenever they feel like it.
YouTube broke - Twitch Broke - Anything you want to stream that is not Netflix broke Iplayer broke
No incentive again - oh and what price rises 4-6 times a year rather than the 3 this year?
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20-08-2013, 19:35
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Re: Playstation 4 partnering with Virgin Media and 200mbit speeds this year?
It wouldn't surpise me if this 'exciting benefits' are that the PS4 can be used to watch VM channels, much in the same way you can use the Xbox to watch Sky
..but really, VM should just stop barking on about faster download speeds when they can't even keep their promises of 'double upload speeds' that they said we'd be getting
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