Vizio Co-Star

[ohioankev]

Arggg....

One of the big reasons I ordered to Co-Star was because it is the first affordable OnLive player!

I just heard via TheVerge that OnLive is going out of business today.

One of my friends Brian works / worked there, so I am really sad to hear the news.


OnLive reportedly hit with mass layoffs, company denies it's closing (update) | The Verge

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Now I am not sure if I should accept delivery of the Co-Star or not. Hopefully some people get theirs and post reviews before mine comes in, as I just dont want another GoogleTV box.

This is why I would never do cloud gaming unless the company was a super mega conglomerate like Apple, Sony, or Microsoft. So what happens to your game collection when OnLive goes out of business? Well you never really owned the game, just a license so if you really enjoyed that game you would have to purchase it again on another console or service. This OnLive mess just confirms how I felt from the beginning.

From what i read a couple days after you posted Scott about OnLive going out of business that OnLive did go out of business, then all assets were transferred to OnLive owned by someone else. They are being hushed about who the buyer is though even though they are saying it's an individual who was impressed on how it worked. *L* They are saying even though that they let most of their workforce go that the OnLive service would continue to run uninterrupted. That story seems odd to me but you never know. A couple months ago Sony purchased a cloud gaming company, maybe Microsoft picked up OnLive. Steve Perlman has sold another company to Microsoft in the past... WebTV.

Back to the topic though in the end I decided not to pick up the Co-Star yet. Other than a web browser and netflix application GoogleTV serves no other purpose to me. It sounded cool but over the last five or so months I have truly become dissatisfied with GoogleTV. I have Netflix and a half dozen other applications on my game consoles and I can easily connect my PC to my TV via HDMI.

[DustoMan]

That single investor in Onlive is Lauder Partners:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasoneva...-quell-rumors/

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Ifixit did a teardown of the Co-Star today:

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Vizio...ardown/10187/1




Confirms that it has the same processor as the Sony unit.

[concord]

FYI: You will be able to order again...


http://blog.streamingmedia.com/the_b...-sept-9th.html

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[dendavis]

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Got mine today from Amazon, since Vizio online store was out-of-stock. Easy setup. Have two units, replacing the former LogiTech ones. The one with direct line-of-sight to the 722K box and the telly works very well, the other unit has to deal with all the components in the media closet behind the wall from where the viewer sits. That remote is a bit balky, but, with practice, is manageable. Do notice just a bit of a time lag. The QWERTY keyboard on the backside of the remote is much easier to use than the mini-controller that LogiTech had, and much less cumbersome than their first full-size keyboard.