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OnLive Integration Coming to Vizio TV Sets, Blu-Ray Players, Tablets and Phones
by Alice O'Connor, Jan 04, 2011 9:00am PSTOnLive has joined hands with electronics company Vizio to integrate support for its cloud gaming service into a new line of televisions as well as a range of VIA Blu-ray players, Android tablets and smartphones, it was announced today.
Should you purchase one of the new Vizio VIA Plus television sets, you'll be able to play OnLive's library of PC games, it says, "with the click of a remote control." On plain old boring televisions, you need to cough up $99 for a MicroConsole box to access OnLive, or hook up your PC, or whatever other clever solution you've cobbled together.
As with OnLive on other platforms, the games will be rendered remotely then streamed back to your gadget over the Internet. There's no word yet on what kind of price premium the OnLive-enabled televisions and other doohickeys will command.
It was also announced today that OnLive is set to gain support for SRS 5.1 Surround Sound "in early 2011," which works with both SRS-enabled and non-SRS decoders.
To celebrate all the news, and the Consumer Electronics Show kicking off this week, the MicroConsole will be discounted by 33% to $66 until 11:59pm PST on January 9.
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This is like some kind of disease that threatens the sanctity of our digital lifestyle. I know, I'm being dramatic, but I'm trying to make a point.
I wouldn't mind this being a type of try-before-you-buy demo service, but I don't think it will make it that far. I think they're pumping investors' money into this in order to sell the technology and make a lot of money, laugh at the expense of gamers all the way to the bank, pay off their investors, then move on to the next money-making scheme.
I imagine someone, somewhere will make a lot of money off of their investment, but in the end I don't think the gaming public isn't going to be the big winner here.
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Are there really modern games that will run 1080p at 60 fps on 4 year old PC hardware? Yes it is perfectly possible to run those games at lower settings on older hardware, but the point is then that you're negating one of the big advantages of the PC (graphic fidelity) and putting yourself no further ahead than the experience offered by OnLive or consoles. Playing games on older hardware effectively undermines what today's gaming revolution is all about: faster hardware and better graphics according to the OP.
Nobody here is debating the utility of the PC to do other tasks. Again, I don't think OnLive is meant to replace a PC in the home in the same way modern consoles aren't meant to replace a PC. The benefit is to be able to use a service like this to be able to play modern games at acceptable settings without having a relatively current PC in the house.
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