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Soundmanred

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There's nothing wrong with optimism, but optimism without a trace of scepticism will lead often to disappointment.
Like we've all said, it seems too good to be true. The technology isn't magical, it must work with current infrastructure, or not at all.
 

mutz

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http://spectrum.ieee.org/compu...a-radical-new-router/1

read this Soundmanred,
read it!

if OnLive is to be slightly artifacted, let it be, for it's 1st few years,
technology, science and initiators shall over come it.
the only thing that does stay in mind, is the bandwidth requierments from the ISP's.
cables are corrently being built,
if Lawrence G. Roberts idea is going to change that, if it is going to rearange the net, +Akamai's going,
things will look much different.
look,
this guy is saying the same thing,
That market, however, proved hard to crack?the carriers seem satisfied with overprovisioning, as well as techniques like traffic caching and compression, which ameliorate congestion without addressing the roots of the problem.
even though there are problems,
even though the are idea's which are capable of solving these problems,
people are not that willing to listen..
but they eventually will.
 

Soundmanred

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I'm not sure you realize how large North America is and the real problems we have with internet service (old equipment, throttling, cost to upgrade systems, time to upgrade systems, and many more). It takes more than idealism to change an entire country as large as North America over to an internet that is fast, consistent, and affordable. Trust me I know alot about the current infrastructure and could talk all day about how bad it is, that's why I don't see this service working in the near future.
They are talking about rolling it out in Q4 '09, but haven't even started beta yet.
The original video was a sales pitch, nothing more. We still don't know how much the service would cost, or any financial details whatsoever for that matter. Even the presenter basically said "we might as well see if it works, if not, oh well..." That's not a product I would even consider buying.

If OnLive is to be slightly artifacted, let it be, for it's 1st few years...

If I bought a video card that exhibited artifacts, it would be going back to the retailer. If the experience isn't like playing a console, or playing on a local PC, it's not worth it at any cost and doesn't live up to the hype they have created. People don't like to be guinea pigs.

I'm not an early adopter of hype-based products/services for a reason - I've seen too many of them fail, and fail miserably.
If it's a product/service I believe will work, and work as advertised, I'll give it my backing.
This is not one of those services.
Still waiting for more emails about the beta...
 

mutz

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Trust me I know alot about the current infrastructure and could talk all day about how bad it is,
i don't think we should argue anymore,
one has to have a terribly large amount of knowledge to be able to estimate how it'll work,
without the specs release, without the pricing,
it's quite lost.
i think realyscrued has said i'm not being realistic, maybe i still don't know that much about it, i have taken it too perfectly (as there wasn't any remark against it),
though it was you who said, that there are people who percieve technology in a wider way, and that's why they are doubting, and being sceptical.
i can't come to these people and tell them "look, i know better", i simply can't have the capacity they have, even if i go read every computer related page on the internet,
the difference is that they have passed through it,
i only read about it...
but i don't want to believe, to take other people's word,
i'd like to check out myself.

u'r talking here to people that are working and are indulged in the "technological scope" for years over years,
they work in companies, deal with complexed sofwares & equipment,
people that basically swim in this world.
and some of them do manage to understand it quite well..

thats why i don't want to go further with OnLive, i think it'll have a bright future,
but there seems to be no necessity argueing about it any longer,
i think some of the guys here just get pissed off.. :laugh:
definetlly there are many things to count into that equation,
things that are very difficult to see corrently,
whether u'r an expert or you'r not,
things that change as life does,
so, we probably just have to sit aside, and watch how it goes :).
generaly, u can see where it leads,
i think people don't take all aspects of changes that accure into thought.
there seems to be no way of argueing them into seeing it,
they just either disregard it, or ignore it.
there are so many things i'd like to discuss about,
regarding the new flow control router, regarding internet infrastructure growth,
through eastern asia, australia, africa and so on,
i think many points could be brightened, lighteneted up,
i think it becomes more HT though.
there's also the new MAPPER tech for maskless photolythography, photon transportation and who knows what else.
many things,
it's a shame it's being (like that) turned off...


 

mutz

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just add something:
http://www.escapistmagazine.co...-OnLive-at-E3-It-Works
thats as for the Beta:
An OnLive executive went over some of the details with me: The apartment was located approximately 300 miles from the company's servers. The cable connection had a bandwidth of roughly 4 to 6 Mbps downstream. And, crucially, the service is currently accessible to 100 players in a closed beta that will soon expand to 1,000 participants.

Over the course of about a half hour, I played three games on the service: two popular first-person shooters on the Mac client and a racing game on the MicroConsole. The company asked me to refrain from naming specific titles, but the names aren't important anyway. What's important is this: It works.

No, it's not perfect. I noticed both some slight input lag and minor degradation of the image quality resulting from compression. (The service scales the image resolution according to your connection speed - the higher your bandwidth, the more crisp the graphics will look.) But these faults hardly detracted from the overall experience of playing what are normally incredibly hardware-intensive games with practically no hardware at all.

not perfect,
but it goes.
 

Soundmanred

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Originally posted by: gersson
Originally posted by: Soundmanred
We still have no idea what you're saying.
:confused:

Ok you can stop now. I'm going to recommend a lock.

Who are you, and why are you here? :confused:

Anyway, got an email this morning saying to "hold on a little longer" and saying they would contact me when the beta was ready.
I'm wondering if they are going to choose people by geographical location (in lareg cities near servers, etc), system specs, or a combination of things. I would assume they want a wide range of variables to do a true test, hopefully not just people with really high speed connections near servers to make it look good.
They haven't updated their blog or Twitter pages in a while...
 

reallyscrued

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Originally posted by: mutz

have you ever been enthusiast from something?

You are impossible. You can't be an enthusiast of a program that doesn't exist yet.


It's the other people here that are enthusiasts and experts on networking who keep telling you to dial down your enthusiasm yet you continue to collide headfirst into the wall of arrogance.

:beer: Your head must hurt.

 

Zap

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Originally posted by: reallyscrued
You can't be an enthusiast of a program that doesn't exist yet.

Dunno, when news of Larrabee broke, there were tons of people gleefully proclaiming NVIDIA/ATI dead (hmmm, mostly NVIDIA for some reason).

As for OnLine, it is a wait-see situation. As in, wait and see if they pull a Phantom console, LOL.

ISPs may not be too thrilled about OnLive. On the one hand they sell more broadband and higher speed packages. On the other hand, they'll have to support the constant bandwidth needs.
 

mutz

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Who are you, and why are you here?
i wonder why you ask this.

You are impossible. You can't be an enthusiast of a program that doesn't exist yet.
i was quite enthusiasted when first heard about the new MAPPER photolytoghraphy tool last week, though it's not fully understood corrently to open any thread about it.
also Anagran's new router yet again, you have to understand it better to disscus it.
there are other things, basically it's developement in general and where it all leads to..
i kind of let it go recently, as i'm starting to "get sick" out of computers in general.

It's the other people here that are enthusiasts and experts on networking who keep telling you to dial down your enthusiasm yet you continue to collide headfirst into the wall of arrogance.
ethusiast/experts, this has no relevance, if you'r interested in something and you had investigated it for a while,
you can come and talk about it,
enthusiast and experts usualy lay they're understanding on the past, on what has happened,
the computerized world cann'ot continue like this, as it is, it is very cumber, complexed, missorganized and suffers from a great deal of confusion.
computers will have to be attainable by everyone, so u got technolgy to do that,
WiMax, BPL and what shall further come.
new OS hopefully, new routing technolgies, new internet - or atleast the way internet is being organized and percieved,
i don't think all experts see that.
arrogance
i realy don't know what it means.
i try to be polite, generous, thats it.
if people think that arguing they're credentials is arrogancy - that one should be silent or lower he's head down because they claim to be experts, to accept they're authority,
i won't have it.
i can't accept anyone to be less than any other.
thiat is not a sentence comming out of an arrogant man.

As for OnLine, it is a wait-see situation.
i don't think it should be laughed about, regardless of Mr.Perlman being the one that has invented the Web T.V and sold it over to microsoft for 500 million dollars..
Onlive is coming from a totaly different direction, it doesn't colide with anything, it's offering something else.

ISPs may not be too thrilled about OnLive. On the one hand they sell more broadband and higher speed packages. On the other hand, they'll have to support the constant bandwidth needs.
yeah, thats an issue, though, submarine cables are being built, it doesn't seem that OnLive will take that great deal of the market through it's first 2 years,
things will have to develop slowly, whether it's infrastructure, web organization, i wouldn't get too much into that at the moment.
you have to consider IPTV, VoIP etc., these things WILL happen whether OnLive will or won't,
and they take a lot of bandwidth too.
the world corrently takes up to 2.5-3 times more bandwidth that it deed in 2003, and it's only going up..
they'll have to do something about it,
regardless if OnLive goes through.
 

Ben90

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Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7100]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All right reserved.

C:\Users\Ben>tracert www.l.google.com

Tracing route to www.l.google.com [74.125.19.103]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 222.222.222.1
2 41 ms 41 ms 41 ms tcso-dsl-gw09-201.tcso.qwest.net [75.160.240.201]
3 48 ms 41 ms 40 ms tcso-agw1.inet.qwest.net [75.160.241.65]
4 54 ms 52 ms 54 ms lap-brdr-03.inet.qwest.net [67.14.22.74]
5 53 ms 53 ms 53 ms 192.205.35.49
6 76 ms 66 ms 66 ms cr1.la2ca.ip.att.net [12.122.128.70]
7 66 ms 66 ms 66 ms cr1.sffca.ip.att.net [12.122.3.121]
8 64 ms 64 ms 65 ms 12.122.114.45
9 64 ms 63 ms 64 ms 12.88.147.10
10 75 ms 64 ms 64 ms 216.239.46.194
11 100 ms 83 ms 71 ms 209.85.251.94
12 65 ms 64 ms 63 ms cf-in-f103.google.com [74.125.19.103]

Trace complete.


OnLive is gonna have to pull a metric-shitload of strings to turn off interleaving on EVERY SINGLE Qwest connection
 

bigboxes

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i think thats one of the best threads ever to come upon,
it was thrown out of HT forum eventually & unrightfully,
this guy that has penetrated it seems to have done it and just fled,
i guess, it's one of the forum members who didn't want to identify himself,
everybody seems to have jumped at it,
say, who is that guy that come here and start telling people about incoming revolution, we're all experts,
he doesn't even know how to program a decent algorithm.
well, it seems some of you got they're lesson or will get it in the end,
there are plenty of facts here which make it possible to work, to be viable,
and all you'r claims against it eventually has been thrown away.
it was foreseen that no one would concider this thread here, after people seen in the HT forum, maybe some of them even joke it,
others just seem to careless or afraid.
either thats they're pride that they are protecting, or they're lack of faith.
it is always strange, how people make mistakes and would turn the world over instead of lower them selfs, say an apology, show some brotherhood, be unic.
one cannot become an expert at anything, get a profound understanding of it, without being humble, without having a deep sense of humiliation, and strong respect,
that he will lower himself and say what he can't understand, ask, and be willing to go with it till the end.
the same has happened in other sites to,
pride..

there are people like that,
very few,
these people are the one to seek,
they are hard to be found,
but ones you won't be willing to leave.
some of you will become such, eventually,
fairwell,
Anandtech.

You confuse me.

We still have no idea what you're saying.
:confused:

You amuse me.
 

T2k

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Just noticed this topic...



...he sure reads like a dadaist poem:

i wouldn't say that, there wasn't anything harmfull in the last letter to make it being said.

usualy it is so, one seems to lower he's expectations after seeing that people are quite like that,
i don't think anything that has been said was stupid, or without thought, put aside some minor technical mistakes, it happens.
maybe a lot of people here have a lot more background in technology, and there are some that does seem to know quite a bit about it,
but it doesn't say anything, as been said, it's hard foreseeing where this would go.
i doubt if there are a bunch of people who can say where it'll lead,
but i'll add, they don't have to know technology to the tiny bits.
it's either u get it, or you don't.
about the revolution, rambling i wouldn't say, one cannot persuate u with anything, it is very hard to show people that something such as this might work, especialy with what they already know about the "corrent" world.
there were some people who said it could work, but u seem to have ignored them, going on too with u'r thoughts,
maybe they don't understand as much as the guys who said it won't,
it's more popular saying so, you don't won't to give it a white flag - what if it'll fall? as it happened many times in the past,
etc. etc.
this is becoming unnecessary,
you cannot argue with such guys, either they'll come with an open mind and look at it anew, you cannot persuate them,
so would you just give up because they say so?
because they're experts?
be suprised, they make mistakes too.
i think every failing point have been cleared, i'll take out the two last posts from the original thread,
i don't need to persuade people with it, either they see it or they don't.
that's they're matter.

i don't recall not answering any of the posts, i've been taking very good care of that thread and exept from 1 guy, everybody there have been answered,
if u talk about the last guy,
i think he either wanted to harm this thread, or he just didn't understand what he's dealing with,
some of he's claims were not even redicilous, not to mention he could not understand the sarcasm, i think he took it terribly wrong,
after reading some of he's post, u felt just horrible, like u'r being cynical about him, like u'r dealing with all kind of petty insults,
i don't think this has anything to do with HT forum here , i don't think he even understood basic things about onlive, and the way things go, and u felt u were arguing with a little boy, he couldn't notice that, and went on and on.
then it happens u just freak out and lose control.
u were talking at two different levels, both of tech understanding,basic maturity but awareness overall.
i can go on a bit, basically it's a good site, but people are people wherever you go.
they got pride, envy, greed, disrespect, arogancy, lack of self humiliation, fear and so on.., u see it between the words, not of everyone, there are some very bright people here,
but generlaly u see it, in this amount or the other,
it's either u understand it or you don't.

just don't realy want to argue anymore,
there seems to be no meaning to that,
you argue with someone and u get eventually to his point or you'rs, right?
people seems not to take what u say, even if they are wrong,
they almost never say- yeah that's right, they only say "thats wrong" :laugh:.
they don't come back to the thread afterwards, they don't say i think he got some point (rarely).
they don't share..
so eventually u can never know what these people think.
u try PMing them and they rarely respond,
i opened this thread in order for people to learn about it toghether, as friends - for everybody,
but people seems to be just each one on he's own.

you'r great realyscrued,
told you you'll like it? and you said, no no, it wouldn't go, you just being influenced here :laugh: ;),
sorry for the english though guys, everyone,
not speaking native ;).
regards.

appreciate your post, Keysplayr,
just terribly sorry and greatly apologies for the broken english,
never thought it's that severe,
again, greatly apologies.

as for onlive,
it seems so much more than what people think/thought it is, and as one that have seen the potential in it,
it was burning to share it with others and discuss,
you'r concern and points are very well understood.
as from where this guy is from,
is all over, i never felt attached to any country or specific society,
nor to any system or goverment.
just as one person from the whole world the whole of mankind.
i tried to hide it, as to not raise some suspicious questions, but when you get at such forum, especially HT forum here at anandtech,
where there are very strong members with maybe the most comprehensive technological knowledge you can find,
without speaking it natively, it probably cannot be done,
they seem to have very penetrative minds, and notice every small sign,
english becomes much more diffcult as the converstaion goes deeper,
and so, you tend to stumble..
i think people were quit patient, and did an effort,
and i thank them for that.
i'd like, who havn't saw it yet, to take another look at the Akamai's site, (well this indeed sounds like a presentation),though,
they have a very nice tool there which can show some global internet usage stats,
pinging and traceroute through regular servers and they're's and even some graphical presentation on broadband spread throughout different continents, coming from they're 25,000 claimed dedicated servers from almost all around.
i think it might give people a stronger believe in these claims.

as an add, i'd like to show here another article, regarding a project that is aiming at changing the whole way that routers work,
in reference to some of the posters here,
with new routing tables which let you stream a video strait to the client, without the need to register every packet of it.
it's on the IEEE, and seems very interesting (havn't had yet the time to read it all through),
they claim it'll have much less errors, packet droppings etc.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/compu...s/a-radical-new-router
:)
wholeheartly,
regards.

can't get you'r point soundmarned.

as a note,
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29961804/
i just read this,
it seems to give some view about OnLive,
it seems not to be as perfect as it was thought,
and they say it's going to take some time for it to take it's grip.
i don't know what exactly is causing it to be a bit blocky pixeled as it was writen,
but maybe they'll be able to fix it with time.
i'm quite sorry,
didn't mean to burst here and not listen,
maybe technology is more complexed to understand then just figuring out some of it's small details.
i guess, now,
we should wait for the results.
i wouldn't like to go any further with idea's, canceling all other people thoughts,
maybe i'm too optimistic, maybe it's all true and i'm not,
things which happen are much bigger than just technology itself,
and i can't see yet,
how it's all being effected by it.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/compu...a-radical-new-router/1

read this Soundmanred,
read it!

if OnLive is to be slightly artifacted, let it be, for it's 1st few years,
technology, science and initiators shall over come it.
the only thing that does stay in mind, is the bandwidth requierments from the ISP's.
cables are corrently being built,
if Lawrence G. Roberts idea is going to change that, if it is going to rearange the net, +Akamai's going,
things will look much different.
look,
this guy is saying the same thing,

even though there are problems,
even though the are idea's which are capable of solving these problems,
people are not that willing to listen..
but they eventually will.

i don't think we should argue anymore,
one has to have a terribly large amount of knowledge to be able to estimate how it'll work,
without the specs release, without the pricing,
it's quite lost.
i think realyscrued has said i'm not being realistic, maybe i still don't know that much about it, i have taken it too perfectly (as there wasn't any remark against it),
though it was you who said, that there are people who percieve technology in a wider way, and that's why they are doubting, and being sceptical.
i can't come to these people and tell them "look, i know better", i simply can't have the capacity they have, even if i go read every computer related page on the internet,
the difference is that they have passed through it,
i only read about it...
but i don't want to believe, to take other people's word,
i'd like to check out myself.

u'r talking here to people that are working and are indulged in the "technological scope" for years over years,
they work in companies, deal with complexed sofwares & equipment,
people that basically swim in this world.
and some of them do manage to understand it quite well..

thats why i don't want to go further with OnLive, i think it'll have a bright future,
but there seems to be no necessity argueing about it any longer,
i think some of the guys here just get pissed off.. :laugh:
definetlly there are many things to count into that equation,
things that are very difficult to see corrently,
whether u'r an expert or you'r not,
things that change as life does,
so, we probably just have to sit aside, and watch how it goes :).
generaly, u can see where it leads,
i think people don't take all aspects of changes that accure into thought.
there seems to be no way of argueing them into seeing it,
they just either disregard it, or ignore it.
there are so many things i'd like to discuss about,
regarding the new flow control router, regarding internet infrastructure growth,
through eastern asia, australia, africa and so on,
i think many points could be brightened, lighteneted up,
i think it becomes more HT though.
there's also the new MAPPER tech for maskless photolythography, photon transportation and who knows what else.
many things,
it's a shame it's being (like that) turned off...

o.k, this comes as an addition to the OnLive thread at HT,
i'd like to show here some stats an Internet company called Akamai,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamai_Technologies
one of it's founders was Daniel M. Lewin, a guy originaly from israel, i'd like you to read he's page, he died at the september 11th attacks on the world trade centers while being onboard one of the planes,
Lewin was an officer in Sayeret Matkal preior to he's studies, maybe the most elite IDF unit, one you hear many powerfull and heroic stories about,
i'd like to bid him with a bit of respect and pay a moment for he's memorial.

Akamai seems to be a leading internet analysis company, they're purpose is to create a much orginized web, by analaysing packets paths combined with it being mirrored by they're servers, they present a much faster interconnected internet.
i'd like to show some details at they're site,
http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz2.html
you got here a presentation of pinging between Chicago&Dallas,
some 800 miles away, giving only 24ms,
there was an intense arguement over the HT forum of whether OnLive will be able to broadcast over such distances as they have claimed,
this seems to show that it is possible and attainable, even with the corrent infrastructure,
if you orginize things, u can get a much better effect..;).
it seems promising,
seems great.

i think thats one of the best threads ever to come upon,
it was thrown out of HT forum eventually & unrightfully,
this guy that has penetrated it seems to have done it and just fled,
i guess, it's one of the forum members who didn't want to identify himself,
everybody seems to have jumped at it,
say, who is that guy that come here and start telling people about incoming revolution, we're all experts,
he doesn't even know how to program a decent algorithm.
well, it seems some of you got they're lesson or will get it in the end,
there are plenty of facts here which make it possible to work, to be viable,
and all you'r claims against it eventually has been thrown away.
it was foreseen that no one would concider this thread here, after people seen in the HT forum, maybe some of them even joke it,
others just seem to careless or afraid.
either thats they're pride that they are protecting, or they're lack of faith.
it is always strange, how people make mistakes and would turn the world over instead of lower them selfs, say an apology, show some brotherhood, be unic.
one cannot become an expert at anything, get a profound understanding of it, without being humble, without having a deep sense of humiliation, and strong respect,
that he will lower himself and say what he can't understand, ask, and be willing to go with it till the end.
the same has happened in other sites to,
pride..

there are people like that,
very few,
these people are the one to seek,
they are hard to be found,
but ones you won't be willing to leave.
some of you will become such, eventually,
fairwell,
Anandtech.

whatever,
u try to aproaching people but they just don't let you in.
as for being realistic,
i dpn't think i'm being unrealistic here, i think basically many people will go for it,
i think that many people don't mind paying a lot of money for new HW, internet, cable T.V, mobiles etc.
and OnLive wouldn't make any real difference.
the majority will sign in probably,
u got a lot of people throughout europe, the states, England,Japan & east Asia, big cities etc etc.
it seems to be taking off a lot of unnecessary headache.

it doesn't mean, all of the people will stop buying hardware, though i think it will become main stream in some 2-3 years.
i'm not going to argue about it any further, everything that could be said, i think, has already been said,
i think we proved that it is quite possible and they're claims are truthfull.

u can go through the original thread,
it has a lot of details,
you just have to pay attention to what is being said,
to get the feeling of it, which means to listen to it,
even above the words.

i'm not trying to persuade anyone, it seems as if it is just starting to go in circles.

i think basically, there is a great difference in the perception, and it comes into being in the structure of the language,
the way u talk in one language, the way one expresses him/herself is different, also the structure of the sentence which is again,
the structure of the language.
as for the grammer, you learn better when you go through things by you'rself, not doing it by any tool or any sided aid.


but u do say, u signed up for the Beta?
and that curiousity took u ;)..
if it was that bad as you did barely wanted to even view the presentation,
i'm not sure you would've gone for it,
i think eventually the thread has made some sense to you, i think basically u'r a good person, kind of crazy, with good ideas in mind,:l)
and you'r indeed not that hardened as you make u'r self look, or as u seem,
so you basically said, "why not, what can we lose?
we'll try it".
told u,
u'r kind of crazy :),
so it seems,
thats good.

"Adventures of a crazy mind"
 

Ben90

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Oh jesus not this thread again...

Mutz clearly has no idea how bad the network infrastructure is. Torrents in some places are almost classified as DOS for OC-12 connections. No ISP is going to want to run OC-192s to every little corner of the United States so kids can play video games.
 

Soundmanred

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We've been over the "mutz is a strange poster" bit already, my update was to simply state that nothing seems to be happening on the OnLive front. They have sent me some updates, but nothing concrete.
All talk so far...