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VentureBeat: OnLive video on demand service shakes loose a competitor

  • deja vu · 9 months ago
    I spent a lot of time researching OnLive's claims. You know the one that every single games industry outlet covered ad nauseum yesterday? Never before in my life have I been covered in so much crap. Thank you, Perlman, for filling the hype machine with that magic tonic you love to sell. What a hack.
  • dreamhunk · 9 months ago
    don't give up keep trying :) maybe you will come up withsomething better
  • H2 · 9 months ago
    Even fewer details than the OnLive.
  • Eddie · 9 months ago
    no download
    I would rather download a program for that honestly ...it just seems less gimicky.
  • Travis Adam Melton · 9 months ago
    This could get interesting...

    if either one of these does what they claim it can >_>
  • Miramon · 9 months ago
    If I understand OnLive, they are going to use an ultra-thin client, and all graphics and and game logic processing will occur on the servers. I just find it hard to believe that they can serve real-time HD that way, even with a magic compression algorithm. Even MMOs use pretty heavy-weight clients with most or all the textures locally available, and all graphics processing equally local. Intuitively I don't believe that the network will support it, and it also seems like they will be burning data center EUs like mad for all the processing.

    Still, it's just on the edge of plausibility, so I don't want to rule it out absolutely without actually evaluating the engineering details, which so far as I know have not been published.
  • Gamer241 · 8 months ago
    Poor washed-up David Perry. "OnLive forced my hand?" Nice quote. I'm sure whatever he's got will be as underwhelming as everything else he's done the past 10 years.
  • PaulVW · 8 months ago
    Apparently is all true, some people already played and they said it was really great...

    There is no reason to be skeptical; the only technologic barrier that exists is your on imagination…
  • bklnl;m · 8 months ago
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