Nvidia’s GeForce Now will be limited to 1080p on Samsung and LG TVs — for now

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Both brands of TV will not include the best quality streams from Nvidia for now, but they have embraced cloud gaming this winter. Phil Eisler, the boss of the cloud gaming division of the company, told The Verge that TVs will start at1080p, and that 4K HDR streams will be exclusive to the company's own Shield TV set-top through the first half of 2022.

Depending on your TV's processor, that may change.

The TVs use different levels of performance, so we are focused on decoding our streams at 60 frames per second. In the first half of 2022, we will increase the resolution of that with the introduction of the new models from the likes of LG and SAMSUNG, as we continue to improve for decoding applications.

Stadia will offer 4K streams on both of its partners, though it's probably good to note that Stadia's definition of "4K" has been a little bit suspect. The internal render resolution of its games is referred to as the resolution of Stadia's stream. The version of the game on Stadia is upsamplingd. I explained the weaknesses of GeForce Now in my hands-on with the tier.

During its press conference today, it was announced that AT&T 5G customers can get a free six-month membership of its GeForce Now tier, and that cloud gaming in general is expected to grow to 100 million subscribers by 2024. That is the cloud equivalent of the 3080 video cards.