Questionable claims

[unixronin]

"OnLive, a service aiming to knock off the traditional video game console model by delivering streaming games at high frame rates regardless of the power of a user's computer, [...] explained that it was able to deliver high-performance streaming of games due to a series of patented and patent-pending compression technologies.  [...]  OnLive argues that, among other things, this infrastructure model future-proofs customers because they will never have to upgrade their equipment.  Rather, all the technology advances will happen on the back end."

So ... they claim to be able to deliver high-frame-rate, high-definition games over consumer internet connections by using proprietary compression systems, but it's independent of the ability of the user's computer to decompress the stream in real time and independent of its power to render the video?

.... RIGHT.  I'll believe that when I see it.  "I love the smell of vaporware in the morning."

Interest you in a nice historic bridge?  It's going cheap this week....

Comments

[skellington.livejournal.com]

We bought a $100 box with Wireless-G that can display a stream of 720p, and it seems to do fine. (Roku player streaming Netflix.)

Any $200 computer today can display compressed video, and most any network connection can handle streaming it.

Grabbing keyboard and mouse data and providing it to their servers is trivial.

Only question would be latency / lag.