It's too early in the morning, oh wait it's 11.30, well I am way to hung over to read that essay of a post right now, scratch that have read it and I will reply to your "points.
It seems you think my opinion is biased, let me first tell you I am based in the UK
oh noes, but hey let me also tell you as you don't seem to have read the bloody thread, that my ping to the onlive game servers is 30ms, so your 1st argument is fail.
The fact is, that there is a lot of server side compression going on and because of that it A: adds latency totalling up to about 200ms which makes FPS unplayable and B: makes the quality sucky, you can tell from the screenshots that there is a lot of compression going on, if you like shit graphics and latency then hey good for you.
I have maesured the bloody bandwidth being used, again read the thread you idiot, it was using a constant 6.5mb/s I know the difference between mb/s and MB/s either way 6.5megabit is a lot of bandwidth. And I fail to see how the TV appliance uses less, either provide proof or gtfo.
Again referring to the video quality, it doesnt matter that it's 720p, the problem is compression, doing any kind of compression sacrifices quality, I wouldn't mind of it looked good and it was 720p, but it doesn't. Your arguments are fail.
I could care less about the cost, hence I didn't mention it, I wanted to review on the service and quality.
Also if your internet goes down, you won't be playing at all, PS3/Xbox 360 and PC you can play online or offline anytime you like, again your argument doesn't work.
Next gen consoles? the quality isn't on par with current consoles, so how are they going to be able to improve it that much in line with next gen? and if they do, I can see the bandwidth requirements also increasing at 6.5mb/s already.....
You keep mentioning $99, that is just the cost of the TV appliance, the subscription is $9.99 a month and you don't get to keep anything, the games you "buy" are only supported for 3 years so after that you have nothing, the cost is about right for what you are actually getting, lower quality games that you don't own, it's just a service.
And this "basic computer" you refer to is recommended to have a dual core and 2gb ram, all you need to do is pend $99.00 on a GPU and you will be able to play any games you want on a rig like that and at better quality...
My intention wasn't to slate Onlive or their service and I think I gave credit where credit was due, though trying to defend it whenit wasn't under attack suggests to me that my points have touched a nerve, sorry for that.