{"id":273,"date":"2009-03-30T11:22:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T15:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=273"},"modified":"2009-03-30T11:22:08","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T15:22:08","slug":"new-service-to-begin-offering-streaming-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/30\/new-service-to-begin-offering-streaming-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"New Service To Begin Offering Streaming Video Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look how far we&#8217;ve come.\u00a0 A year ago, HD video was largely unavailable on the Web.\u00a0 Adobe Flash (the most widely used web video format) didn&#8217;t even officially support HD video.<\/p>\n<p>Today, nearly every major video sharing site offers HD video, Amazon has become focused on offering HD video downloads and Major League Baseball (<a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>mlb.com<\/strong><\/a>) has started <strong><em>streaming<\/em><\/strong> live games in HD.<\/p>\n<p>Now comes the next wave in high-quality, on-demand, video-based content; <strong>video games<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A startup in Palo Alto, California, <strong>OnLive, inc<\/strong>., recently announced that by winter of 2009, they will offer streaming video games over the web.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why is this significant? <\/strong> It&#8217;s because right now if you want to play video games, you have to drive to a store, buy a $300-$400 console and then fork out another $50-$60 per video game.\u00a0 And if it turns out you don&#8217;t like a video game&#8230;well you&#8217;re pretty much stuck with it&#8230;there is no &#8220;try before you buy&#8221; option with video games.<\/p>\n<p>But the service from OnLive will skip all of this.\u00a0 There is no console to buy.\u00a0 There are no games to buy.\u00a0 In fact there are no games to download&#8230;everything is <em><strong>streaming in real-time<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Want to browse and play the most popular Xbox 360 and PS3 games from your TV, Mac or PC?\u00a0 No problem, you just plug in a small box a go.<\/p>\n<p>And while it seems there would be some glitches (after all, video games are often huge and complex animals), reports from early tester&#8217;s say the service is largely flawless.\u00a0 Of course, Internet service providers won&#8217;t likely be happy about the potential bandwidth consumption.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to learn more about OnLive (and view a demo video), you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>visit OnLive&#8217;s web site here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look how far we&#8217;ve come.\u00a0 A year ago, HD video was largely unavailable on the Web.\u00a0 Adobe Flash (the most widely used web video format) didn&#8217;t even officially support HD video. Today, nearly every major video sharing site offers HD video, Amazon has become focused on offering HD video downloads and Major League Baseball (mlb.com) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[202,180,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}