OnLive games service 'will work'
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Date posted: 05/04/2009
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The founder of online streaming games firm OnLive has defended the technology underpinning the
service after accusations it was unworkable.

Steve Perlman said critics had not even used the system.

OnLive turns games into video data sent across the net to a hardware add-on, or software plug-in,
which decompresses the data back into video.

The firm says a revolutionary video compression algorithm and custom silicon makes it possible.

OnLive has been in development for the last seven years and has signed up content partners, including
EA, Ubisoft, Take2, Eidos, Atari, Codemasters, Epic and THQ.

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