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Onlive gets cash from BT
BRITISH TELECOM (BT) has stumped up some cash that will be used to fund the Onlive on-demand games service that is to be set up in Europe.
Onlive CEO Steve Perlman revealed that BT has committed to take a 2.6 per cent stake in OnLive. The Onlive service will set up shop in Blighty to BT's broadband customers, said Perlman.
BT will get an exclusive right to bundle the Onlive game service together with its broadband service offerings in the UK. Gamers will also be able to order the OnLive Game Service directly from OnLive to run over any UK Internet service provider.
Onlive has been trying to get into western Europe since 2009. It has set up a data centre in Wales and has performed testing everywhere from the UK to Italy, Scandinavia and Spain. The cunning plan is to have different OnLive service in each country, due to regulatory differences.
Onlive uses cloud technology, which allows it to stream high-quality 3D video games to consumers. Servers in data centers to do the processing job and then compressed video is sent to subscribers. In some cases the service works better than in the US because broadband operators such as BT can guarantee a high minimum service level. µ
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Ok so they are investing in a service which hasn't even launched yet, no one has actually seen running in the wild since they've cancelled practically every public beta test they ever planned, has skipped the vast majority of major conferences since it's announcement cause they didn't have anything worth showing and most of the experts say is impossible to work anywhere nearly as well as they claim. What idiot working for BT decided to do this?
I'm sorry but Onlive is a joke and you think your isp gets annoyed with you now just streaming a couple gigs of tv a week, how do you think they are gonna react when you start streaming a couple hundred gigs of gaming a month? Seriously I ran the numbers myself and assuming normal gaming habits and a decent quality of visuals and audio you're looking at somewhere in the range of 180-250 gigs of data a month and this is assuming only 1 gamer per connection. If you have multiple gamers your transfer amounts will increase exponetially not to mention the quality of service is gonna decrease if they try to play at the same time. Then again the quality of service is gonna decrease anyway with family members or roommates even just browsing the web. The simple fact is having multiple devices along with a minimum of few kilometers of copper wire or even fiber between you and where your game is being played is never going to be as stable or good as playing it on a box right in front of you.
BT are so desperate, they're investing into tachyons... how pathetic