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BiggA
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So much wrong with this article

The latency numbers just aren't right. OnLive gets under 150ms with existing technology.

Also, the assumption of 30mbps is ridiculous. Currently, OnLive uses around 8mbps for 720p, so 12-15mbps for 1080p isn't unreasonable. For casual gaming, or as a supplement for traditional locally rendered games for a single user, it wouldn't blow a 250GB cap, but if you have multiple heavy users, you'd sail through the cap in a matter of a week or two.

Also, most TVs scale at some level as well, so rendering at 1080p isn't going to help you in this regard, it just gives you more resolution, as long as your hardware can handle it.
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said by BiggA:

Also, the assumption of 30mbps is ridiculous. Currently, OnLive uses around 8mbps for 720p, so 12-15mbps for 1080p isn't unreasonable.

If 720p uses 8 Mbps then 1080p would need 18 Mbps. And of course you need overhead. If you need 18 and you only have 18 guess what you're not going to get 18. You should count on needing a connection at least 25% faster than whatever speed is needed. So for 18 that would be at least 22.5 Mbps.

For casual gaming, or as a supplement for traditional locally rendered games for a single user, it wouldn't blow a 250GB cap, but if you have multiple heavy users, you'd sail through the cap in a matter of a week or two.

At 8 Mbps 1 hour a day is 105 GB a month.
BiggA
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No, it's about 2:1 for the same compression level. 1080i and 720 are nearly exactly the same. However, when you go to 1080p, you can compress more and do some other tricks in areas of the video that don't have a lot of detail, so in reality it's not double. More like 1.5:1 or 1.75:1.

That's right. Hence why it's not going to work for multiple users or heavy gamers. Multiple heavy gamers using OnLive on FIOS could easily hit the 500+GB range.