OnLive, will it actually work?.

[DigitalSushi]

Search bar approved, last open topic from March 2009.

right for those of you Crazy Cats not in the know about OnLive here's the marketing blurb!.

OnLive connects you to the hottest games instantly on your TV, PC or Mac® through your broadband connection

http://www.onlive.com/

Basically if it works OnLive will make Sony and Co shit themselves as essentially it lets you play any games "remotely" from your TV or PC (or Mac if your that way inclined) bypassing current consoles but what makes me cynical about the whole thing is the rather slick way its been presented with all the usual vague soliloquis with regards to what it can do. Check out the learn more link on the OnLive website, all it states is the same as the front page.

Today DigitalFoundry published an article with regards to OnLive and they have some big hitters on there, have a read guys and girls, tis much fun.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-onlive-beta-article

From the mouth of Jason Garrett-Glaser, internet video codec extraordinaire scientist! (IVCES, pronounced Yvses)

"Their 'new idea' is splitting the stream into 16 rectangular slices, each of which gets its own encoder. This brilliant idea massively reduces compression on the edges between slices when the scene is in motion and lets them brag about latency 16 times lower than what they actually have."

Sounds a bit Phantom does it not?.