Question about OnLive service

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#1 rockdude11
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I read about how to run games at 720p on OnLive you must have a 5meg internet connection, but if you have a 12meg connection how high resolution will you be able to run games?

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#2 c_rakestraw  Moderator
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I don't know, they haven't said anything about that. Though it's definitely possible that you could then run game at 1080p, or something like that with a connection that fast. But for the time being, all it means it that there won't be any latency while using the service. Hopefully this question will receive a proper answer sometime soon.

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#3 Vexx88
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I hate the way OnLive's service does things I just got Fiber optics and I got 1 mb per second and I thought that was good....
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whats this "on-line" service? something to do with a internet service in town?
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#5 XaosII
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720 will still likely be the max regardless of the speed on your end. It costs them more money in bandwidth to send you beyond 720. So they aren't likely to do it.

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#6 masterpinky2000
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Maybe most of their games run max-720p? The data difference should be calculable, though. For instance, 1080p is 1.5X 720p. That's the vertical screen dimension, so the horizontal also changes by that much. So 1.5^2 = 2.25. You'd need 2.25X as much data to play 1080p smoothly, assuming there aren't more efficient compression techniques (i.e. that images 2.25X as big will be 2.25X the data). So 12Mbps sounds about right.