Just thought I’d share that I’ve tried Gears Reloaded since it’s release and while it’s missing many features it’s pretty great. The picture quality has improved significantly in the last year. I haven’t had a chance to watch any Sports yet where it’s noticeable to be 60fps, like baseball or football. However on Sunday I’ll be testing it out in the super bowl.
Does anyone know if it’s officially 60fps sport streams or not? I’m guessing I should probably keep Smooth Streams as a back up for Sports even though they flopped big time on the Cowboys and Rams game.
Gears doesn't have any 60fps streams. Beyond the owner's tendency to make a lot of promises he doesn't follow through on, usually made in the moment and because that is what a lot of the vocal minority are sitting there wanting to hear...I wouldn't expect them to actually add them either.
Bottomline being Gears' entire market strategy revolves around catering to people who for the most part tend to be fairly clueless when it comes to anything tech, and many of whom are are running very cheap/subpar setups. So ultimately putting 60fps links in that many of those countless of 10000's of people are going to then insist on using because "it's the best one listed", regardless how hard they may try to otherwise herd them back towards the lower bitrate ones they successfully use now, probably just results in opening a can of worms that ultimately isn't worth the potential gain outside that.
But to fully see and understand the grander scheme of the why in all that, go read target's youtube chat sometimes when close to a 1000 people jump in there when he goes live. Then read through all the comments. **THAT** is the people he needs to service and keep happy. For every one person that chimes in about wanting higher quality streams, there is another 100 running a gen 2 firestick on crappy wifi that doesn't even know there are better fps providers to found out there. Much less what fps even is.